Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Maybe for the 50th next year? Anyway, it'll be neat to see where this goes.

UGH. SUCH A GOOD TIME TO BE A KAIJU FAN.

I'm game. i'll be interested to see the tone they choose

I would bet more straightforward or even dark, a-la the Kaneko films, if only because Gamera the Brave bombed and it will probably be assumed that kids' kaiju movie = poor ticket sales.

...Never mind the fact that kaiju movies period in Japan right now = low ticket sales. :\ Which makes me wonder if this is anything more than an ad for an anniversary campaign, sans-movie. Unless Kadokawa is banking on the Legendary Godzilla creating a huge buzz and want for similar stuff.

I like how the typography is pretty much mimicking the new Godzilla logo, silver English font over red katakana and all.

Obviously they'll get Kaneko back to make G4.

Seriously though, very intriguing, I hope it turns out to be true. Exciting times to be a kaiju fan indeed.

Hell yeah!

Very cool, if true. I do hope it's closer to Kaneko's approach than the Showa films...

Apparently Kadakowa owns the maker of this magazine so this is about as real as it gets. Gamera is coming back and it would seem that we'll get a new look at him in May at the latest. Can't wait.


As for tone....yeah like it or hate it I'd expect the new series to be more in line with Kaneko's films considering how much GTB bombed.

If anything, I would expect them to try to emulate the tone of the new Godzilla.

Dark or light, adult or kiddie, as long as they keep Gamera as heroic.

Remember the script for the Gamera remake? Maybe Snow had a script for one that was pitched to an American company and never got approved os it's going back into Japanese hands..or a guy can dream eh?

Eh, I'm not a Gamera purist. Most of the Showa Gamera films are absolutely terrible. Even the worst Toho Godzilla film is usually better. I did like Gyaos and Barugon, but Viras, Jiger and Zigra can jump off a cliff. They're *fun* but nothing about them makes me want to watch ever again. Somehow I do enjoy Guiron.

That being said, I think Kaneko's Gamera films took the character to a much better level and the Gamera Trilogy is easily the best set of kaiju films since Biollante.

This is surprising! But good news indeed. ~ BTW, I‘ve been surpressing the urge to rewatch (again) the Gamera Trilogy movies the past couple of days, coincidence?

I wouldn't get too excited yet. We could end up getting something extremely stupid like Death Kappa or the new Guilala movie. You never know.

If this new film promises to use traditional tokusatsu special effects work, it'll already be infinitely more interesting to me than the new Godzilla movie.

It will certainly be interesting to see what sort of direction they go with this.

On the one hand, GTB bombed and so they will probably want to steer clear of that type of approach. On the other hand, something more in-tone with Legendary's Godzilla could be seen as a hollow, shameless ripoff. I know the creators of Gamera always intended him to be very child-friendly, but given that both approaches have been proven to work, I'm fine with any avenue they choose to take.