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[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (June 18-24, 2023)

The big news of the week, of course, was Netflix finally releasing Skull Island, the first new Monsterverse story in over two years. It's a surprisingly standalone piece, with no Monarch and minimal references to Kong: Skull Island, and going off his Twitter, creator Brian Duffield largely prefers to let the work speak for itself. I have quibbles with some of the creature designs—not enough florafauna!—and the characters can be too flippant about their life-threatening circumstances, but overall I had a good time. Annie's a great character—think Saeko from Son of Godzilla as a bloodthirsty teenager—and the obligatory Titan nemesis is a cut above most of the Monsterverse's original creatures.

As for its future, Season 2 is already written and recorded, but won't happen unless Netflix sees big enough viewing numbers for Season 1. I'm frustrated by that, especially given how many loose ends the season finale had, but it's pretty typical stuff from the company.

Dismal news about the American Shin Ultraman Blu-ray/DVD from Cleopatra Entertainment: they didn't bother to include translations for the ample on-screen Japanese text. That was enough for me to cancel my preorder; I tend to be pretty tolerant of the various unforced errors by the companies releasing this stuff, but that level of laziness (the translations already exist!) just renders the discs pointless in my eyes.

Toho is crowdfunding another Showa suit replica for a character's 50th anniversary this year... Jet Jaguar! If successful (or semi-successful, like last year's Gigan campaign), it'll feature in a new short film to premiere on November 3, as has been tradition since 2020. Interesting that they went for Jet Jaguar over Megalon; I suppose he'd be cheaper to produce, and the largest film studio in Japan seems hellbent on hamstringing these wonderful little shorts.

Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons #1 is out. Hard to judge it so far as it's mostly setup.

In other news related to Godzilla vs. Megalon's 50th, Bandai will release a Movie Monster Series figure of the 1973 Godzilla (MegaroGoji) on July 28 as a Godzilla Store exclusive. Pretty big news, as they've only released figures of the tweaked '74 and '75 suits previously, and those were back in 2003 and 2004, respectively. NECA didn't get to this one either.

[endominator]

The Egg [3/3]

[kia-ko]

Doodle of these two because I love them

[supergirlytreiner]

The Royal Couple <3

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

“Godzilla usually cuddles her every time, inhaling her lovely scent.”

He’s so real for that

"You've got to be kidding me, aren't you Goji?" The Queen asked, her voice muffled by her fluffy fur.

Of course, why would it be? Thought Godzilla, his face squashed on her delicate fur, the loveliest scent of rare flowers are addicted, for a King to his Queen.

Both were tired dealing with almost a month of checking the humans and Titans. So much that the King of the Monsters yearned her scent. When the two finally met each other, they settled down on a huge cozy cave.

That didn't wipe his goofy smile upon landing his golden orange eyes at Mothra's lovely sapphire blue ones.

Something that he really, really meant to cuddle her for a long time.

The King bring his tongue out to lick her fur, nipping it tenderly. She squirmed a bit, almost feared if he squished the moth too much, but he was a gentle King.

"Feeling better?" Godzilla asked, earning a nod to Mothra.

Adjusting one more time of their position, the moth finally fall asleep.

He took one last inhale of her scent, feeling his mind become lightheaded, dreaming of their never ending love and loyatly to one another...

"Good night, My Queen."

[biohazard-inevitable]

Monster hunter be like:

Huh what? Yeah no i dont care about whatever plot you’re tryin to whip up here idk whats goin on just show me godzilla and let me poke him with a stick

[graspingremlinhands]

What type of foreplay is this??🧐🙄

[avinnypencilman]

The Tree of Life with Showa Godzilla Monsters

Did this for fun (except when Godzilla, Baragon and Maguma came, they were HARD to classify). Keep in mind this is strictly real and terrestrial Kaiju, so no Ghidorah or Gabara.

[canidanxe]

Ghidzilla Art ‼️‼️‼️‼️

[awkwarddork-0]

I've been staying up till 3am all easter break and now i'm back to waking up early for school I might die pray for me

Oh and have gay dragons as a treat :3

Drew this during my free period cuz our teacher had to do something else :P

[lilpuffyart]

Someee more traditional doodles c;

Feat. Shin, Legendary, Madison, Josh and King Ceasar (bc recently watched Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla)

[hellryme]

I love his disappointed glare right before he moves away.

"You woke me up and for what?"

[killsandthrills]

i know there's only like a dozen or so people watching monarch: legacy of monsters, but does anybody wanna hear my theories about wyatt's character (because i love him)?

theory one: i think lee has gone through some weird aging thing (something to do with radiation maybe?) that's made him look younger than he actually is. they've mentioned his age/looks 3 times so far for that not to be relevant, and those monarch people even mentioned lee being on ice for years. seems kinda sus, especially since he's supposed to be 91 freakin' years old and doesn't act or look it at all.

theory two: i feel the entire point of the 50's flashbacks is to reveal that lee was either in love with keiko but billy stole her away from him, and/or (and this is a long shot...) that lee is actually kentaro and cate's bio grandfather. because i'm sorry, but lee spends way too much time staring at keiko, semi flirting with her, and hating on billy (which old!billy even mentions in his goodbye video!) for him not to be in love with her. even old!lee still seems kinda in love with her... he looks longingly at her photo, seems taken aback that cate looks just like her grandmother, and even quotes her once (old!lee: "this is a secret, cate. not a lie" keiko: "a lie and a secret are two different things"). and he never got married! my biggest piece of evidence for this by the way is from the very first scene when old!billy is recording that goodbye video for lee. billy says he knows that lee may never forgive him, but he can't go back and fix the mistakes he's made. and i mean, just look at this:

lee was in love.

also this scene... am i the only one that thought this was an odd conversation for these two characters to be having?

like excuse me?! i almost want to think that lee and keiko had an affair or something, because my evidence for lee being kentaro and cate's bio grandfather gets stronger every episode tbh.

[lonelynpc]

everyone in my old neighbourhood: no, i don't think this neighbourhood is weird. lore accurate godzilla head:

[misterlazer]

70 YEARS OF GODZILLA

LONG LIVE THE KING

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE!!!

IT'S TRUE!!!

New Image from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

(2023, but they posted it today on the last leap year of February)

This time, it's a star that they named after our favorite Kaiju: Mothra!

One object stood out in this field: a monstrously bright star nicknamed “Mothra,” located in a galaxy that existed 3 billion years after the big bang. This star has been magnified by the gravity of the galaxy cluster — plus a mystery object — by a factor of at least 4,000 times! 

See the full image and description here!

And on Instagram!

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BONUS:

A FUN FACT W/ A LITTLE SURPRISE!!!