Here Yuji Horii Day Dreaming About A RPG Game Where You Play As The Hero Wearing A Roto/Erdrick Armor

King Kong 90th Anniversary

90 years ago a icon was born in New York. He come from a world of unknown legion where he is god to his home. They worship him and defend his lover from prehistoric animal.

90 years ago the movie that gave birth to the giant monster genre may I present to 90 years of

KONG THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD

Happy Birthdays Go Nagai

Happy Birthday to the man that made demon tragic, super robots awesome, and made magical girl sexy

May his legacy be remembered.

Cover for Luxury Eilte World Class

Happy 40th Anniversary to of my favorite anime film.

This month on the podcast! March 11, 2024 will be the 40th anniversary of the release of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind! And to celebrate, I'm bringing back friend of the show and HUGE Nausicaa fan Rachel (aka @rachellovescomics) to do a deep dive all about this iconic movie.

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I would go with Mazinger Z. Since it was the first mecha series to having a cockpit,being pilot by humans and first female character to pilot a giant robot.

What IMO are the most importat/innovative series of the mecha genre:

* Tetsujin 28

* Mazinger Z

* Getter Robo

* Gundam

* Macross

* Evangelion

Godzilla Minus One Won the Oscars

I’m so Happy and Emotional that Godzilla Minus One won the Oscar’s

This is a milestone history for a 70 year old movie monsters that captivated fan and filmmaker

Congratulation to Takeshi Yamazaki and the VFX Team for winning the awards.

Happy Birthday Oh Great Manga Legends

Jan 25th - Happy birthday to 2 true greats of sci-fi manga, Shotaro Ishinomori and Leiji Matsumoto! Both born on January 25, 1938. While Ishinomori passed away in 1998, he would be 83 today alongside Matsumoto.

Mazinger Z 50th Anniversary

50 years ago A Super Robot of the Iron castle was born.

Inspired by Astro Boy and Tetsujin 28 and seeing a car bypass the traffic jam he wanted to create a giant robot that could drive like a car. Originally it was going to a controlled by a motorcycle but changed from the popularity of Kamen Rider. The name Mazinger Z is a combination of two word Ma meaning demon and Jin meaning God. His name means Demon God.

Mazinger Z inspired many giant robot to this day and his legacy lives on.

His iconic attack the Rocket Punch has homages in the form of jumbo machinder toy a.k.a Shogun Warrior in the west.

Happy 50th Anniversary God of Super Robot

Happy 30th Anniversary

Jurassic Park

30 Years ago today Steven Spielberg release a film that will change the movie industry forever.

Based on the novel by Michael Crichton about bring dinosaur using DNA with amber.

It was originally to use Go Motion by Phil Tippett however with the CGI test of the dinosaurs it change the special effects forever.

Thank You To Steven Spielberg,John Williams,Stan Winston,Micheal Crichton and the cast and crew of Jurassic Film past and present.

Happy 70th Birthday ゴジラ

70 year ago Tomoyuki Tanaka first thought a giant monster rise from the sea when he on a plane after failed to make a war film called shadow of glory with a Indonesian. With the news of Lucky Dragon no.5 exposed by radiation fallout he combined the monster on the loose from The Beast from 20,000 Fathom with the horror of atomic bomb they create a monster that spawned the Kaiju Genre. Thank you Tomoyuki Takana,Ishirō Honda,Eiji Tsuburaya, and Akira Ifukube and the past and future of Godzilla crews for giving us the greatest movie monster of all time.