{"id":889,"date":"2008-05-27T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/27\/manda-vs-godzilla\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:12:31","slug":"manda-vs-godzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/27\/manda-vs-godzilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Manda vs Godzilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

1968’s Kaiju soshingeki<\/em> [trans. Parade of Monsters] (dir. Ishir\u00f4 Honda) — better known in the West as Destroy All Monsters<\/em> — was Toho’s anniversary celebration of the Godzilla franchise (as well as a last ditch effort to re-invigorate its box-office take). The film is famous for including eleven of Toho’s giant monster characters, namely Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Minya, Spiega (aka Kumonga), Baragon, Gorosaurus, Manda, and Varan!<\/p>\n

Naturally Godzilla gets to rumble with the others, who are under alien control — in a plot that was more-or-less replicated by 2004’s last-ditch effort to revive Godzilla’s box-office fortunes for the new millennium, Gojira: Fainaru uozu<\/em> [trans. Godzilla: Final Wars<\/em>] <\/em>(dir. Ryuhei Kitamura).<\/p>\n

In the original, the battles between Godzilla and assorted monsters were sometimes cursory to say the least, and in some cases more-or-less non-existent. One of these was his tussle with Manda, a serpent-like sea dragon that first appeared in Kaitei gunkan<\/em> [trans. Undersea Battleship] (1963; dir. Ishiro Honda) [aka Atragon<\/em> (US, 1965)], guarding the undersea realm of Mu.<\/p>\n

Here, however, for all those who felt cheated, is some footage of the battle between them that was excised before the film’s release:<\/p>\n

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For Destroy All Monsters<\/em> Manda was given a re-design — a shave to lessen the likelihood of his being confused with Ghidorah. As a comparison here is Manda as he appeared in the earlier Atragon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Mandaa<\/a><\/p>\n

And here he is in Godzilla Final Wars<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Manda<\/a><\/p>\n

Via Todd Tennant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1968’s Kaiju soshingeki [trans. Parade of Monsters] (dir. Ishir\u00f4 Honda) — better known in the West as Destroy All Monsters — was Toho’s anniversary celebration of the Godzilla franchise (as well as a last ditch effort to re-invigorate its box-office … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4,44,11,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}