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And when Fukasaku’s adaptation came out, it was every bit as outlandish to the general public as the book.

Would you like there to be? 

Let me rephrase that. “A very unusual ‘he’!” chirps co-star Matthew Broderick, transphobically. (This is Godzilla’s American franchise; in Japan, Godzilla works with Toho Studios.) “Godzilla is ‘evolving’ into a pink, slim-waisted, big-booby version, and I’ll bet they are transitioning him,” wrote one deeply confused, and perhaps horny, internet commenter.

In the Roland Emmerich movie, for instance, he is pretty clearly implied to be an iguana that had an atomic bomb dropped on him (a process historically less known for producing Godzillas than it is for producing really, really dead iguanas). 

Thus, Black notes, the ever-shifting canon of the Godzilla universe makes species classification hard.

Now that’s something to celebrate! Áine points me to a famous quote by Godzilla’s original creator, Ishirō Honda: “Monsters are tragic beings. But looking at it now with fresh, older eyes, the characters are evergreen in what they represent.

These images were indelibly etched into his mind, and then his art. I’m on a few Facebook groups for MonsterVerse fans, and some people were really angry about the same-sex love story briefly explored between Cate and Dani. While Kong may have found peace in chosen family, it’s clear Goji hasn’t done enough therapy to move on. Nothing says ‘drama’ like repeatedly showing up to your ex’s ocean cruise and hometown (er…home-hollow?) to start some shit, only to turn away in cool disinterest when said ex finally roars back at you.

And the only ones who really pay that debt of blood and soul are its people, not its leaders, who decided the cost for them.

From Yakuza Cinema to Youth Violence Commentary

This trend would continue into his much more popular films, the aforementioned BattleWithout series and its New Battle continuations.

“Those frogs don’t change sex the way the movie says they do,” Black tells me. One on par with most young viewers, watching for the sheer high impact ultraviolence the film became infamous for.

A Cast and Director Working in Unison

On a technical level, the film has incredibly tight editing and special effects that shouldn’t be ignored.

The fight with Tiamat awakens something in Godzilla, who soon retreats into a massive iceberg, from whence—after presumably revisiting some childhood memories, streaming I Saw the TV Glow, and crying a little—she emerges with glowing pink spines. The premise was simple, but dark: a fascist Japanese government has stagnated due to harsh recession and unemployment rates.

Much the way that so many of us trans and queer people have been doing and are doing right now, saying, ‘No, we are part of this world.’” 

After all, where Godzilla walks, the world changes—even if Godzilla does have to stomp through a city-size obstacle or two to get where it’s going.

They pit a class of teenagers against each other in a death game involving explosive collars and random weapons, a game that can only have one winner.

You also get to see Godzilla in reading glasses, which is an itch I didn’t know needed scratching until just now. 

Áine made the film as a tribute to her own father, who had died of dementia not long before.

A Perfect Social Satire That Still Works Today

Many years later, the concepts popularized by Battle Royale, including a whole subgenre of fiction and games with its namesake, are old hat. They’ve lost the trust of and trust in the adults in their life, a reflection of the aimlessness and fear that much of the younger generations still carry with them today.

A Timeless Fable of Hope

In my younger days, I had a very surface level appreciation of Battle Royale.

There’s a quiet sadness, a pathetic nature that is just under the surface of the deaths here that reminds you these aren’t action movie heroes. He was effectively on the front lines due to his perilous job in a munitions factory in Japan when he was 15.