Breaking the Language Barrier: Map of Toho's Kaiju Sites

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[Benjamin Haines]

Wow, Toho's sites suck.

Nobody can become the next Ed, August, Steve, Keith, etc. these days because there's no niche of that sort to be filled. Books like Japan's Favorite Mon-Star and magazines like Japanese Giants and Markalite broke new ground in the western world because they made knowledge and information regarding Godzilla and related properties widely available for the first time. Now we live in the digital age, and as Evan so kindly demonstrates, anybody can look up and spread information of this sort on the internet nowadays. Ed, August, Steve, Keith and the other fandom bigwigs achieved the statuses they hold in the fandom today because of the work they've accomplished in the past and still continue to build upon. Their pioneer work has made its mark; anybody who tries to emulate them today is just trotting down a dead end street. It'd be like trekking across America for the purpose of gleaning knowledge of the country's geography and sharing it with other people, despite the fact that Lewis and Clark did that well over a century ago.

Bill Tsutsui has been trying to become the next Ed or August within the fandom for years now, and he's a joke.

[armandv]

Instead of denigrating someone's efforts, maybe some assistance is in order? Where's the "the more, the merrier" spirit?

Not everyone can shuffle off to Japan to do research or talk to movie makers who are no longer with us.

If someone can dig up some interesting tidbits, no matter who the person is who's doing the digging, it would be well worth the effort.

Think positive, lads!

[Mac]

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[Mac]

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[Legion]

[G2KMaster]

Mac is right. I am not that obsessed. I wish to meet the man! If he dies, I would cry my eyes out. Plus, if anyone is going to write any obituary to him when he dies, I rather have people who may know some information which is unpublished do it, not me. I am not good enough.

"Nobody can become the next Ed, August, Steve, Keith, etc. these days because there's no niche of that sort to be filled. Books like Japan's Favorite Mon-Star and magazines like Japanese Giants and Markalite broke new ground in the western world because they made knowledge and information regarding Godzilla and related properties widely available for the first time. Now we live in the digital age, and as Evan so kindly demonstrates, anybody can look up and spread information of this sort on the internet nowadays. Ed, August, Steve, Keith and the other fandom bigwigs achieved the statuses they hold in the fandom today because of the work they've accomplished in the past and still continue to build upon. Their pioneer work has made its mark; anybody who tries to emulate them today is just trotting down a dead end street. It'd be like trekking across America for the purpose of gleaning knowledge of the country's geography and sharing it with other people, despite the fact that Lewis and Clark did that well over a century ago. "

I actualy explained this over at Atari. I cannot break ground. Now, unless my voice gets deeper, speaking skills get better, and I got the budget to do like hire accouple of people to have a "Larry King" like show with kaiju, I won't break any ground except for being the new guy to go over to Japan to get news on the latest kaiju films. It is really sad, that is for those who wanted to be the next Godzilla scholar. Well, that's gone. Just now to continue the news feed.

The only reason why I wrote the thing which is linked above is because:

1.)Half of the American fandom have not been to some of those sites
2.)I think it would have been interesting
3.)If you have gone to the aforementioned sites, some may have gotten lost.

[Mac]

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[Legion]

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[Mac]

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[G2KMaster]

Ok. I am fine with that.

[Mac]