#Gamera vs Zigra

[whoatherebigguy]

unfathomably stupid comic starring the Virian Boss, featuring an alien shark that isn't as cool as he thinks he is.

my lukewarm Gamera take is that Viras and Zigra would be a great[or at least amusingly incompetent] villain duo and maybe even better primary antagonists than the Gyaos. [no disrespect to my fav triangle bat ofc]

[kingyo7273]

so, @whoatherebigguy just made me thing about this tuna thing, so i watched the movie (but i told him to watch sherk...IN SPANISH!!!)

gamera vs zigra was such...a experience

but i loved zigra so much that i actually have fun when i draw him

another thing i did and for whoa is this sketch of his design

mmm, fashionista

and now, a comic of Zigra...BUT WITH MY FAVE UGLY GOOSE, GIGAN

[nightlycomet]

hits you with a rock picks up my toy and leaves

[fluffyyutyrannus]

Zigra Commission for @/_Grasshopper_2, don't expect my own Zigra redesign to look like this lel

[verthrogic]

Gamera!

[vermilllionsands]

Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)

[thedakku]

Happy 58th Anniversary to the Guardian of the Universe and friend of all children Gamera! 🐢

[eclecticpjf]

Now watching:

[pancakesr4theweak]

AH HE'S DONE! Absolutely loved this lil comfort project! I haven't drawn Gamera in YEARS, so this was refreshing! Hoping we get more of our big turtle! He's super stylized and I wanted him to be old Japanese yokai inspired! SO SILENCE KAIJU COMMUNITY. Also I listened to sooo much Wagakki Band while drawing this guy and I forgot how much I loveeee them 💚

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[schlock-luster-video]

On December 31, 1988, Gamera VS Zigra was riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Here's some new Zigra art to celebrate!

[whoatherebigguy]

underrated character !!!

i aspire to be the number 1 fan of Chikako Sugawara aka Lora Lee aka X1[?]. I love her evil woman slay and i think she has untapped comedy potential with the awful space shark. i also think its hilarious that she argues with him in the film, i support her and her nefarious scooby-doo crimes.

[kingyo7273]

Sketch page Commision for @whoatherebigguy!!!

SHARKMAN FROM GAMERA! THE COOLEST AND UNIQUE, ZIGRA THE ZIGRA FROM ZIGRAAAAAAAAAAA

[splatteronmywalls]

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

On this day...

- November 27, 1965 -

Happy Gamera Day to our Earth Defender, the Guardian and Friend to All Children!

[eternal-gromnommer]

GAMERA IS BACK, BABY!

Netflix has really been serving the kaiju content, first with Godzilla Singular Point and then Kong: Skull Island and now this. It's great to see the big turtle boy finally getting his much deserved revival after Gamera The Brave kind of fell flat (which was a shame, since I personally loved the idea of him being a child's pet that grew into a giant, which would explain his benevolence and affection to humans much in the way that Zilla Jr. from Godzilla: The Series became a heroic kaiju after imprinting on Nick Tatoupolos as a human surrogate parent.) He does seem to retain his two defining traits in Rebirth, his gentleness to humans--and his sheer merciless brutality to the evil monsters who would seek them harm.

The villains here too are back! They all look like faithful yet more-serious reimaginings of the entire Showa roster. Though one in particular kinda bothers me...Zigra.

He looks like an aquatic Gyaos now.

So I tried experimenting on a concept for a more Showa-faithful Zigra, going for the more goblin shark-esque look. Rebirth's sort of pterosaur-like appearance was kind of interesting so I tried preserving some of those features, along with legs inspired by early tetrapods and lobefin fish as a reference to his randomly growing legs in the original Gamera vs. Zigra and gave him an upright, somewhat penguin-like stance since he was quite cumbersome on land in the original, though not helplessly so.

And of course, Rebirth's rogues gallery is conspicuously missing one particular kaiju...

None other than Gamera's first-ever foe, Barugon!

He seems to be based on a Jackson's chameleon (or perhaps a horned agama), so giving him more explicitly chameleon-like traits is a pretty obvious choice, most notably the eyes (Showa Barugon had weird eyes that blink sideways) and giving him the fixed skin-covered telescope-like eyes of a chameleon fits him quite well. Then of course are his dorsal spines: here I've made them glassy and transparent to act as prisms, with each row of spines producing a different color that then is focused into a single point that then explodes into a firework-like meteor shower of destruction.

[vermilllionsands]

Gamera bubblegum wrappers, 1970s