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Shigeru Kayama's Godzilla Novels Official English Release!

Postby lhb412 » Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:38 am

The sci-fi author who was hired to develop the plots of Godzilla and several other Toho genre flicks also wrote tie-in novellas for Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, both published in 1955. Now, we're getting both books bundled together in an official English language translation!

https://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Raids-Again-Shigeru-Kayama-ebook/dp/B0BYR59YB4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1EAV2H5GAXYZL&keywords=godzilla+shigeru+kayama&qid=1679183994&sprefix=godzilla+shigeru+kayam%2Caps%2C278&sr=8-2

Love that we're finally getting Japanese print stuff that's toku related (Godzilla artbooks, original Kamen Rider manga and the like). I hope it continues with biographies, behind the scenes and making ofs, and more artbooks!
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Re: Shigeru Kayama's Godzilla Novels Official English Releas

Postby Benjamin Haines » Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:49 pm

Now this is exciting! I've never heard of the translator Jeffrey Angles before but if this description from the Amazon page is true then it seems like this is in good hands:

"Jeffrey Angles is professor of Japanese at Western Michigan University. He is author of Writing the Love of Boys (Minnesota, 2011) and award-winning translator of Orikuchi Shinobu’s The Book of the Dead (Minnesota, 2017) and Hiromi Ito’s The Thorn Puller."


And it's being published as an actual paperback book, not just a digital Kindle release!
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