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Who’s the biggest, baddest kaiju of them all? This week we dip our toes into the massive Godzilla franchise, and collectively develop a crush on the skyscraper-sized metaphor for nuclear disaster.
Highlights include our love for the original film, a salt fest for the 1998 schlockbuster, and a deep analysis of 2016’s Shin Godzilla with its modern take on the mythos. We also talk lizard genitalia and the preciousness that is our big ugly “ketchup fish” Kamata-kun.
READING
- Godzilla (Franchise)
- Daigo Fukuryū Maru (Lucky Dragon 5) fishing boat incident
- Castle Bravo nuclear test footage (YouTube)
- Rosie the Riveter
- Sadako Sasaki
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
- Fukushima Accident
- Kamata-kun
- Firebombing of Tokyo
- Raze, rebuild, repeat: why Japan knocks down its houses after 30 years — Nate Berg, The Guardian
- Japan Self-Defense Forces
- Japan: Legal Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 — Library of Congress
- The heroes of Fukushima Dai-ichi, but don’t call them that — Miles O’Brien, PBS
RECS
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- MST3K 312 – Gamera vs Guiron (1991)
- MST3K 1101: The Return: Reptilicus (2017)
CLOSING SOUNDS
- Monster Roar 2.wav by quadraslayer
- DEEP BOMB SHELTER BANGS.wav by metrostock99
- siren.wav by IFartInUrGeneralDirection
LINKS
Nat/AshesforFoxes
Erin/Holocroning
Shi/Ohtze
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