126-675: Gamera ( Japanese : ガメラ , Hepburn : Gamera ) is a fictional monster, or kaiju , originating from a series of Japanese films. Debuting in the 1965 film Gamera, the Giant Monster , the character and the first film were intended to compete with the success of Toho 's Godzilla film series . Since then, Gamera has become a Japanese icon in his own right, appearing in a total of 12 films produced by Daiei Film and later by Tokuma Shoten and Kadokawa Daiei Studio ( Kadokawa Corporation ) respectively, and various other media such as novelizations, manga , video games, and so on. Gamera
252-573: A rip-off of Godzilla by some authors, Godzilla films including later Showa films, later Heisei continuity, "Millennium" films including Godzilla 2000 (1999), Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (GMK) (2001), Shin Godzilla (2016), Godzilla Minus One (2023), and MonsterVerse series by Legendary Pictures have been pointed out to be influenced by Showa Gamera films and Shusuke Kaneko 's Heisei Gamera Trilogy and GMK . Gamera
378-401: A "Capsule Monster", presumably based on characters of the same title from Ultra Seven which later inspired Pokémon . Noriaki Yuasa directed a related 1996 video Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knight , and Hurricane Ryu , who was also working for the 1994 manga Giant Monster Gamera , played Gamera for it. In the 2015 short film for the 50th anniversary of the franchise, Gamera saved a boy from
504-693: A "giant, monstrous turtle which flies by emitting flames from its retracted limbs" for STOP Series , a cancelled tokusatsu television program series in 1962. Gamera's turtle-like design may have been inspired by the Black Tortoise , one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations in East Asian mythology . The Black Tortoise is known as Genbu in Japanese , and is usually depicted as
630-637: A benefit from the in-group to the out-group) means "[I/we] explained [it] to [him/her/them]". Such beneficiary auxiliary verbs thus serve a function comparable to that of pronouns and prepositions in Indo-European languages to indicate the actor and the recipient of an action. Japanese "pronouns" also function differently from most modern Indo-European pronouns (and more like nouns) in that they can take modifiers as any other noun may. For instance, one does not say in English: The amazed he ran down
756-444: A bond with the boy and develops the ability to breathe fire and fly. After consuming the glowing rock found with his egg, Toto fully transforms into the next incarnation of Gamera, gaining the power to defeat a lizard-like monster known as Zedus, which was once a normal reptile turned into a kaiju by feeding on Gyaos' corpse, and was presumably controlled by the vengeful spirits of the villainous flying creatures. Gamera Rebirth ,
882-684: A child-friendly son of Godzilla, was also possibly influenced by the Gamera franchise while Toto in the 2006 film Gamera the Brave in return bears physical and conceptual similarities to Minilla and Godzilla Junior in the 1994 film Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla . While Gamera the Brave re-used the original script of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe , its plot was also influenced by the Heisei Mothra trilogy. Ishiro Honda highly praised
1008-414: A distinct language of its own that has absorbed various aspects from neighboring languages. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron ) in rōmaji , a repeated vowel character in hiragana , or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in katakana . /u/ ( listen )
1134-419: A glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant ( っ / ッ , represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda ( ん / ン , represented as N). The nasal is sensitive to its phonetic environment and assimilates to the following phoneme, with pronunciations including [ɴ, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɰ̃] . Onset-glide clusters only occur at the start of syllables but clusters across syllables are allowed as long as
1260-510: A large number of requests from players of the mobile game Godzilla Battle Line , and an official collaboration between the Netflix series and the mobile game was made where Seshita's incarnation of Godzilla was chosen for the key art, and Gamera and Gyaos and Guiron appeared in the game as playable characters, followed by Showa incarnations of Gamera and Gyaos. Additionally, Masaaki Tezuka once suggested using Gamera instead of Kamoebas for
1386-484: A listener depending on the listener's relative social position and the degree of familiarity between the speaker and the listener. When used in different social relationships, the same word may have positive (intimate or respectful) or negative (distant or disrespectful) connotations. Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it
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#17327760267551512-757: A number of staffs involved in Gamera productions, later participated in Godzilla and Ultraman productions. Due to the Six-Company Agreement , other companies, including Daiei Film itself, could not "openly" use tokusatsu techniques and staffs and actors of Toho . However, according to Keizō Murase , Eiji Tsuburaya 's teams were secretly appointed for Gappa: The Triphibian Monster by Nikkatsu (1967), The X from Outer Space by Shochiku (1967), and other subsequent productions, and Toho's techniques were secretly used in these films. For Gamera,
1638-404: A power to sense presences of other kaiju on certain children, and his name itself contains a power to somehow encourages a specific children and makes humans to feel that the name "Gamera" is the correct one. Gamera appeared to protect protagonist children from other monsters trying to feed on the children and other civilians. Through battles, Gamera was severely damaged and almost died, and during
1764-408: A sentence need not be stated and pronouns may be omitted if they can be inferred from context. In the example above, hana ga nagai would mean "[their] noses are long", while nagai by itself would mean "[they] are long." A single verb can be a complete sentence: Yatta! ( やった! ) "[I / we / they / etc] did [it]!". In addition, since adjectives can form the predicate in a Japanese sentence (below),
1890-428: A single adjective can be a complete sentence: Urayamashii! ( 羨ましい! ) "[I'm] jealous [about it]!". While the language has some words that are typically translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies on special verb forms and auxiliary verbs to indicate the direction of benefit of an action: "down" to indicate
2016-616: A swarm of Gyaos attacking Tokyo and incinerated them with a powerful fire blast. A decade later, another monster appeared to cause a havoc, and the boy again witnessed Gamera to return to fight against it. Both Gamera and Godzilla franchises have played significant roles in expanding modern cultures in Japan, and influenced various other productions, and the two franchises have also influenced each other on various occasions. Both along with other tokusatsu productions most notably Daimajin and Ultra Q and Ultraman franchises, formed
2142-523: A turtle entwined together with a snake . Each of the Four Symbols are said to act as guardians over each of the four cardinal directions , with the dragon Seiryu in the east ; the tiger Byakko in the west ; the bird Suzaku in the south ; and the tortoise Genbu in the north . In Gamera, the Giant Monster , the first film in the franchise, Gamera is depicted as awakening in the Arctic ,
2268-680: Is compressed rather than protruded , or simply unrounded. Some Japanese consonants have several allophones , which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi] , approximately chi ( listen ) ; however, now [ti] and [tɕi] are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī [tiː] "Western-style tea" and chii [tɕii] "social status". The "r" of
2394-421: Is topic–comment . Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender , and there are no articles . Verbs are conjugated , primarily for tense and voice , but not person . Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics , with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of
2520-448: Is also seen in o-medetō "congratulations", from medetaku ). Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan ("bread") and tabako ("tobacco", now "cigarette"), both from Portuguese . Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese,
2646-527: Is also used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms) in Japanese writing. The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals , but also traditional Chinese numerals . Proto-Japonic , the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages , is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period ), replacing
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#17327760267552772-440: Is appropriate to use sensei ( 先生 , "teacher"), but inappropriate to use anata . This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status. Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect. The noun hon ( 本 ) may refer to a single book or several books; hito ( 人 ) can mean "person" or "people", and ki ( 木 ) can be "tree" or "trees". Where number
2898-701: Is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ). Dialects of Tōhoku and North Kantō are associated with typical farmers. The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands (administratively part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages. However, in contrast to linguists, many ordinary Japanese people tend to consider
3024-466: Is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms (for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ). Among other sound changes, the sequence /au/ merges to /ɔː/ , in contrast with /oː/ ; /p/ is reintroduced from Chinese; and /we/ merges with /je/ . Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending - te begins to reduce onto
3150-509: Is correlated with the sex of the speaker and the social situation in which they are spoken: men and women alike in a formal situation generally refer to themselves as watashi ( 私 , literally "private") or watakushi (also 私 , hyper-polite form), while men in rougher or intimate conversation are much more likely to use the word ore ( 俺 "oneself", "myself") or boku . Similarly, different words such as anata , kimi , and omae ( お前 , more formally 御前 "the one before me") may refer to
3276-626: Is depicted as a giant, flying, fire-breathing , prehistoric turtle . In the first film, Gamera is portrayed as aggressive and destructive, though he also saves a child. As the films progressed, Gamera took on a more benevolent role, becoming a protector of humanity especially children, nature, and the Earth from extraterrestrial races and other giant monsters. Despite its popularity and extensive social influences such as references in numerous media globally and naming of two species of prehistoric turtles, Sinemys gamera and Gamerabaena , expansion of
3402-417: Is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word ) or (rarely) by adding a suffix, or sometimes by duplication (e.g. 人人 , hitobito , usually written with an iteration mark as 人々 ). Words for people are usually understood as singular. Thus Tanaka-san usually means Mx Tanaka . Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through
3528-755: Is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility , a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tōhoku dialects ) to students from Greater Tokyo were the Kiso dialect (in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture ), the Himi dialect (in Toyama Prefecture ), the Kagoshima dialect and the Maniwa dialect (in Okayama Prefecture ). The survey
3654-420: Is often called a topic-prominent language , which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the subject, and that the two do not always coincide. The sentence Zō wa hana ga nagai ( 象は鼻が長い ) literally means, "As for elephant(s), (the) nose(s) (is/are) long". The topic is zō "elephant", and the subject is hana "nose". Japanese grammar tends toward brevity; the subject or object of
3780-498: Is preserved in words such as matsuge ("eyelash", lit. "hair of the eye"); modern mieru ("to be visible") and kikoeru ("to be audible") retain a mediopassive suffix - yu(ru) ( kikoyu → kikoyuru (the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period) → kikoeru (all verbs with the shimo-nidan conjugation pattern underwent this same shift in Early Modern Japanese )); and
3906-470: Is shown, suggesting that Gamera was not the only one of his kind. One character in the film refers to these fossils as "beta versions" of Gamera, possibly failures in Atlantis' attempts to create the final version. This Gamera has retractable claws protruding from his elbows, and is shown to be able to shoot plasma fireballs from his mouth. Gamera has also been portrayed as being able to absorb mana from
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4032-610: Is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people . It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan , the only country where it is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language . There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as
4158-402: Is the version of Japanese discussed in this article. Formerly, standard Japanese in writing ( 文語 , bungo , "literary language") was different from colloquial language ( 口語 , kōgo ) . The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary. Bungo was the main method of writing Japanese until about 1900; since then kōgo gradually extended its influence and
4284-599: Is their first encounter with her. She in spirit-like form appeared from the Mount Ooe and surrounding mountains in north of the Heian-kyō , a presumed reference to the 1960 yokai film The Demon of Mount Oe by Daiei Film, and manifested a physical form and battled Nue , a gigantic yokai being empowered by vengeful Abe no Seimei , to save the world from antagonistic humans and yokais . Gamera overwhelmed and severely weakened Nue with her fireballs and spinning jet, and left
4410-407: Is unclear, and governmental officials and scientists try to use him as a weapon against villainous kaiju while protagonists try to save him. Gamera and Gyaos were designed to be much smaller yet heavier than previous incarnations, corresponding with the original scripts of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe which became the basis for the 2006 film. The opening scene of the film, set in 1973, depicts
4536-471: Is used for the present and the future. For verbs that represent an ongoing process, the -te iru form indicates a continuous (or progressive) aspect , similar to the suffix ing in English. For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. For example, kite iru means "They have come (and are still here)", but tabete iru means "They are eating". Questions (both with an interrogative pronoun and yes/no questions) have
4662-405: Is why some linguists do not classify Japanese "pronouns" as pronouns, but rather as referential nouns, much like Spanish usted (contracted from vuestra merced , "your ( majestic plural ) grace") or Portuguese você (from vossa mercê ). Japanese personal pronouns are generally used only in situations requiring special emphasis as to who is doing what to whom. The choice of words used as pronouns
4788-563: The Ainu , Austronesian , Koreanic , and the now-discredited Altaic , but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered
4914-462: The Japonic language family, which also includes the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands . As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate . According to Martine Irma Robbeets , Japanese has been subject to more attempts to show its relation to other languages than any other language in
5040-514: The Philippines , and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. As a result, many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil , with 1.4 million to 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than
5166-738: The United States (notably in Hawaii , where 16.7% of the population has Japanese ancestry, and California ), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao Region and the Province of Laguna ). Japanese has no official status in Japan, but is the de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard : hyōjungo ( 標準語 ) , meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo ( 共通語 ) , "common language", or even "Tokyo dialect" at times. The meanings of
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5292-806: The de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect , especially that of Kyoto . However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages—such as German, Portuguese and English. Many English loan words especially relate to technology—for example, pasokon (short for "personal computer"), intānetto ("internet"), and kamera ("camera"). Due to
5418-532: The " First Kaiju Boom ", which became the basis for the " Second Kaiju Boom " and the " Yōkai Boom". Daiei Film 's objective was not to surpass the Godzilla franchise, but to coexist with it, and the Gamera franchise achieved to differentiate from the Toho productions to appeal to its audiences, and gained popularity notably among children and rivaled the Toho productions. While Gamera has been described as being
5544-414: The "Vanishing Fist". The continuity of the franchise was rebooted a second time with the 2006 film Gamera the Brave , the 12th entry in the series. This incarnation was designed after African spurred tortoise , and also possesses supernatural traits such as instant growth, telepathy , comprehending human speeches, sensing and foreseeing emergences of evil monsters from afar, and so on. Gamera's origin
5670-729: The "jet-flying turtle appeared on Fukuoka " and the "80 meters tall, fire-breathing, bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur-like lizard appeared on the port of Tokyo Bay ", clearly referencing Gamera in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Godzilla in The Return of Godzilla where several casts from the Heisei Gamera Trilogy such as Hirotarō Honda and Tomorowo Taguchi appeared in the film. Daiei Film produced and distributed films that played major roles in forming tokusatsu and kaiju genre. The company produced
5796-527: The 1.2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 12% of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12.6% of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008. Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru , Argentina , Australia (especially in the eastern states), Canada (especially in Vancouver , where 1.4% of the population has Japanese ancestry),
5922-741: The 1948 purge due to his involvements in war propagandas , and Arikawa and Araki's voluntary resignations after Toho strikes . However, Tsuburaya was rather dissatisfied with the tokusatsu production (or effects) in The Invisible Man Appears (or their attempts to join the company didn't materialize), and eventually didn't join Daiei Film. Tsuburaya and Arikawa and Araki later participated in Godzilla and various other Toho tokusatsu productions. Daiei Film, along with its own productions of various tokusatsu films, also distributed
6048-874: The 1958 Daiei film Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion . In this novelization, Barugon and Jiger directly appeared as the Azure Dragon and the White Tiger respectively. Each monsters are spiritual and sacred entities, being regarded as actual deities with supernatural powers such as telepathy , weaponizing weathers, destructive energy beam, levitation , and time manipulation. These monsters choose specific humans as summoners and forms supernatural links with them through magatamas , and bestow them superhuman prowess. The chosen ones can summon materialized monsters to perform tremendous feats, however, if summoners use monsters for destructive deeds,
6174-450: The 1962 demo reel, which he believed as the original idea of Daiei's Gamera, to both Daiei Film and Eiji Tsuburaya (and Toho), while Yonesaburo Tsukiji , Tsuburaya's student and participated in both Nezura and Gamera , didn't agree with Sagisu's claim. Later, Tsuburaya's coworkers and students, who had participated in Godzilla and various other Toho productions, participated in Gamera and Daimajin and other Daiei productions, and
6300-515: The 1967 film Gamera vs. Gyaos , pleasing Niisan Takahashi greatly and freeing him from his feeling of inferiority towards the Godzilla franchise. There was a failed attempt to produce a Daimajin film involving Honda in 1980s, and Takahashi later sent his script for the cancelled 1994 film, which later became the basis of the novelization Gamera vs. Phoenix , to several tokusatsu film makers including Honda; however, despite Honda's encouragement, Takahashi's attempt failed to materialize. During
6426-877: The 2003 film Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. , and Gamera was at one point considered to appear in the 2007 video game Godzilla: Unleashed . The 1999 video game Gamera Dream Battle was able to connect to Mothra Dream Battle in which Mothra and King Ghidorah appeared as playable characters. Gamera and Godzilla and other monsters from respective franchises co-appeared in several exoteric productions and events such as stage shows, television show , Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball , The Simpsons , Daicon III and IV Opening Animations , MegaTokyo , City Shrouded in Shadow , The Slammie Brothers vs. Godzilla and Gamera , and USO MAKOTO Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari . Several franchises such as Dr. Slump , Detective Conan , Sailor Moon SuperS , and Jumbo Monster GOMERA have characters with
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#17327760267556552-552: The Atlanteans and inherited memories of their ancestors to mistake him as a threat. The incarnation of the character appeared in the 1980 film Gamera: Super Monster was depicted to be potentially a different individual from the previous films where a normal Pond slider was magically turned into a kaiju by the Spacewomen, a group of supernatural female aliens. In the end of the film, Gamera sacrificed himself to destroy
6678-451: The Earth, to fire a plasma beam from his chest, and to manipulate the energy to create a pseudo arm composed of fire to destroy a foe. Within the first and the third films of the trilogy, Gamera magically healed harmed humans including reviving temporary deceased or half-dead individuals although he was unable to revive nearby humans whose corpses were physically destroyed. In the 2003 comic, he
6804-521: The Giant Monster and Gamera vs. Barugon resulted in sudden increases of non-Toho kaiju productions. Film makers were suspicious of Tsuburaya's involvements to these non-Daiei productions{{refn|Aside from Tsuburaya, Fuminori Ohashi ( jp ) and Shinichi Sekizawa participated in Giant Phantom Monster Agon by Nippon Television , and Toho withdrew a complaint against the tv series regarding close resemblances of Godzilla and Agon
6930-476: The Giant Monster , some filmmakers who had previously participated in Godzilla and other Toho kaiju films joined its production despite the agreement. However, Daiei Film intentionally avoided receiving any technological assistances from Tsuburaya for the Gamera franchise to differentiate their productions from Toho, and produced Gamera and other tokusatsu films without Toho-based techniques, choices of materials, direction, and so on. Successes of Gamera,
7056-539: The Giant Monster and Gamera vs. Barugon , cold temperatures are shown to weaken Gamera although he is capable of acting in outer space and deep sea . Gamera is also presumably capable of performing supernatural feats such as telepathy and remote sensing. Additionally, he has a high intelligence to outsmart antagonists, to tactically utilize artificial objects, cautiously behave to secure humans, and to repair an alien spaceship. Gamera's intention behind bizarre displays including acrobatic and musical acts in later films
7182-779: The Heisei trilogy and its cancelled sequel(s). Eiji Tsuburaya depicted Godzilla to be more heroic and to bleed in later Showa films despite disliking bleeding kaiju , and having avoided this in previous Showa films due to his belief in Christianity . Later Showa films featured more child-friendly aspects, depicting kaiju as characters than monsters, increasing the number of scenes involving kaiju, and adding more fancifully designed kaiju. Yoshimitsu Banno , who later planned to direct Gamera 3D , made Godzilla to fly in his Godzilla vs. Hedorah . These later Showa Godzilla films were presumably influenced by Gamera. The creation of Minilla ,
7308-474: The Invincible , the re-titled American release of the first film in the franchise, Gamera, the Giant Monster . The original idea for Gamera was developed by Yonejiro Saito , Masaichi Nagata , Hidemasa Nagata , Niisan Takahashi , and Noriaki Yuasa . The character was created as a property of the production company Daiei Film , and was intended to compete with the Godzilla film series (which features
7434-486: The Japanese language is of particular interest, ranging between an apical central tap and a lateral approximant . The "g" is also notable; unless it starts a sentence, it may be pronounced [ ŋ ] , in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects. The phonotactics of Japanese are relatively simple. The syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), that is, a core vowel surrounded by an optional onset consonant,
7560-736: The Old Japanese sections are written in Man'yōgana , which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct morae . Texts written with Man'yōgana use two different sets of kanji for each of the morae now pronounced き (ki), ひ (hi), み (mi), け (ke), へ (he), め (me), こ (ko), そ (so), と (to), の (no), も (mo), よ (yo) and ろ (ro). (The Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87. The distinction between mo 1 and mo 2 apparently
7686-488: The Ryūkyūan languages as dialects of Japanese. The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time, most likely the spoken form of Classical Japanese , a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period , but began to decline during the late Meiji period . The Ryūkyūan languages are classified by UNESCO as 'endangered', as young people mostly use Japanese and cannot understand
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#17327760267557812-623: The Toho productions. Plots of Showa Gamera films intentionally avoided to focus on "standards" of kaiju films by Toho, such as the JSDF and other military forces, weapons, scientific explanations, and so on. Instead, subsequent films since Gamera vs. Viras featured simple, childish, and eccentric plots for young audiences. In the films, children play significant roles with the eccentric ideas presented, and children, unlike adults, always believe in Gamera, partially due to Noriaki Yuasa 's antithesis against war and political propagandas . This direction
7938-632: The Universe while the original script of the film focused more on ancient India . Gamera resembles an enormous prehistoric turtle , and is capable of both bipedal movement and flight . He occasionally walks on all four legs in Showa films and Gamera the Brave in 2006. He possesses a pronounced crest on his head, his mouth contains rows of teeth, and two tusks protrude upward from each side of his lower jaw. He can fly by means of "jets" which can be ignited out of his limb holes when he retracts his legs into his shell. The jets allow Gamera to rise into
8064-513: The Zanon, a gigantic spaceship of antagonists, while the 1994 manga Giant Monster Gamera depicted this Gamera's fate; Gamera was artificially resurrected by the descendants of Atlanteans with ancient technologies of the Atlantis , gaining characteristics of the Heisei trilogy Gamera, and was sent back to the ancient period to change the history to avoid a demise, to save and monitor humanity. In
8190-543: The addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi , but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company". A group described as Tanaka-san-tachi may include people not named Tanaka. Some Japanese nouns are effectively plural, such as hitobito "people" and wareware "we/us", while the word tomodachi "friend" is considered singular, although plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which
8316-486: The air and spin, propelling him forward. In later films, he is shown to be able to fly with only his rear legs drawn inside his shell, allowing his front limbs more freedom. Gamera's shell is presented as being incredibly resilient and strong (only ever being damaged by Guiron, Legion, Iris, and Zedus), and can deflect missiles and other projectiles. His plastron (lower shell) is more vulnerable than his carapace (upper shell), however, and he has been wounded in his plastron to
8442-474: The attack. Human researchers find Gamera floating in the Pacific Ocean , encased in rock, and mistake him for an atoll . Within the rock, they discover a large monolith explaining Gamera's origins, along with dozens of magatama made from orichalcum , which allow for a psychic link between Gamera and humans. In Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris , an undersea graveyard containing numerous Gamera-like fossils
8568-560: The battle against S-Gyaos, an enormous Gyaos mutant who fed on Viras' corpse, Gamera was injected with specific RNA viruses to reprogram him for the original usage. However, Gamera managed to regain his consciousness by willpower and a telepathic link with a boy. To prevent himself from being enslaved for carnage, Gamera sacrificed himself to destroy the Moonbase of final antagonists, the descendants of nobles of an ancient civilization who were using kaijus. Using all of his remaining power for
8694-570: The character possess several supernatural abilities most notably telepathy , and others such as healing humans, understanding human speeches, and potential reincarnation , and some of book-only incarnations have been depicted to be actual deities with further abilities. During the franchise's Shōwa period , Gamera is depicted as feeding on flammable substances, such as oil and fire. According to notes by frequent series director Noriaki Yuasa , Gamera's internal anatomy includes sacs which allow him to store oil, lava, coal, and uranium . In Gamera,
8820-578: The effect of changing Japanese into a mora-timed language. Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period , respectively. The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries; and thus there
8946-490: The entrapment by the Atlanteans, and Gamera's rampage against humanity was only to feed on thermal energy and electricity; he learned modern technologies of humanity through the atomic bomb explosion, and his attacks on cities was also to lure military operations so that he could feed more on thermal energy of weapons. The protagonist boy (Toshio) in the 1965 film kept claiming that Gamera is not villainous but has been misunderstood by humanity, and Gamera's uncontrollable appetite
9072-479: The first installation in the Reiwa era introduced monsters' characteristics to represent not only homages to previous films but also some of unused ideas of previous films and scrapped projects. All kaiju in this series are artificial life forms created by ancient civilizations for warfare and to control the overpopulation of humanity. This incarnation of Gamera was also originally created for mass-massacres, however he
9198-445: The first post-war science fiction tokusatsu films in Japan; Rainbow Man and The Invisible Man Appears in 1949 under Masaichi Nagata , one of creators of Gamera. Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa and Shuzaburo Araki participated in these and other Daiei productions before the signing of Six-Company Agreement in 1953, and they intended to join Daiei Film with the 1949 films after Tsuburaya's exile from Toho because of
9324-455: The flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, and words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative , mora -timed language with relatively simple phonotactics , a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent . Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure
9450-399: The franchise and public recognition of the character were severely hindered by financial obstacles. The name Gamera ( ガメラ ) derives from the Japanese kame ("turtle"), and the suffix -ra , a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla ( Gojira ) and Mothra . Gamera's name was spelled Gamela on a French newspaper in the 1965 film, and Gammera in the title of Gammera
9576-553: The franchise was also affected by the Godzilla franchise. Daiei Film avoided the market in the United States and instead focused more on European countries to decrease competition with Toho productions. Foreign cast members became increasingly well-represented due to requests from European buyers; however, these buyers also requested to avoid hiring black cast members. Daiei Film obliged, though some criticized Daiei Film for this decision. Japanese language Japanese ( 日本語 , Nihongo , [ɲihoŋɡo] )
9702-399: The franchise's Heisei period , which began with the 1995 reboot film Gamera: Guardian of the Universe , Gamera's in-universe origins were changed. In the Heisei films, Gamera is portrayed as an ancient, bio-engineered creature from Atlantis , created for the purpose of defending the people of Atlantis from Gyaos , a bat-like creature which breathes a destructive supersonic beam when on
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9954-609: The genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech. Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period , from 794 to 1185. It formed the basis for the literary standard of Classical Japanese , which remained in common use until the early 20th century. During this time, Japanese underwent numerous phonological developments, in many cases instigated by an influx of Chinese loanwords . These included phonemic length distinction for both consonants and vowels , palatal consonants (e.g. kya ) and labial consonant clusters (e.g. kwa ), and closed syllables . This had
10080-492: The giant monster character of the same name ), owned by rival studio Toho . Prior to the idea of the flying turtle monster, there existed preceding concepts of an octopus kaiju called Dagora ( Japanese : ダゴラ ) and Nezura ( Japanese : ネズラ ) the rat monsters. There had been contradicting testimonies regarding the original conceptor and models of Gamera. Noriaki Yuasa believed it was Niisan Takahashi 's idea, while Takahashi noted that he heard Masaichi Nagata came up with
10206-399: The ice. Meanwhile, a Japanese research team stumbles upon an Inuit tribe in possession of an ancient stone etching that depicts a giant turtle, which the tribe refers to as "Gamera". His incongruous ferocity in Gamera, the Giant Monster and the beginning of Gamera vs. Barugon was presumably due to an uncontrollable starvation and confusion after 8,000 years of hibernation caused by
10332-408: The idea of a "giant, flying turtle". There had also been rumors of "lewd turtles" as the model(s) of Gamera, either true stories or jokes, among Daiei staffs including Yonejiro Saito . On the other hand, Tomio Sagisu , the founder of P Productions who had previously participated in productions of Daiei works such as The Whale God and Buddha , claimed that Gamera originates in his demo reel of
10458-430: The language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese . Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords . The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo ) in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid 19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853,
10584-458: The languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language . Because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence, and anything that can be discerned about this period must be based on internal reconstruction from Old Japanese , or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects . The Chinese writing system
10710-449: The languages. Okinawan Japanese is a variant of Standard Japanese influenced by the Ryūkyūan languages, and is the primary dialect spoken among young people in the Ryukyu Islands . Modern Japanese has become prevalent nationwide (including the Ryūkyū islands) due to education , mass media , and an increase in mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration. Japanese is a member of
10836-427: The large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between [tɕi] and [ti] , and [dʑi] and [di] , with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has also been spoken outside of the country. Before and during World War II , through Japanese annexation of Taiwan and Korea , as well as partial occupation of China ,
10962-525: The main antagonist of the 2006 film was intentionally designed to resemble Toho monsters such as Varan and Gorosaurus , and it notably resembles Jirahs , the Godzilla-based kaiju from Ultraman . In 2023, the Netflix series Gamera Rebirth was directed by Hiroyuki Seshita who previously directed the anime Godzilla trilogy . This time, Toho instead proposed an offer for a crossover due to
11088-490: The names "Gamera" and "Godzilla". In 2005, Shusuke Kaneko directed the 11th episode on Ultraman Max , choosing to include a scene of children playing with toys of Gamera and Godzilla as a reference to the films he had directed in both franchises. Ayako Fujitani also made an appearance as a guest in the episode. The 1998 Shochiku film Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo represented off-screen appearances of two battling kaiju,
11214-477: The northernmost region on Earth. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris , the 11th film in the franchise, contains a scene featuring a book describing the Four Symbols, including Genbu . Before the character was officially referenced to the Black Tortoise in the 1999 film, designs and background stories of Gamera and Gyaos were also inspired by ancient Chinese aspects during the production of Gamera: Guardian of
11340-425: The only strict rule of word order is that the verb must be placed at the end of a sentence (possibly followed by sentence-end particles). This is because Japanese sentence elements are marked with particles that identify their grammatical functions. The basic sentence structure is topic–comment . For example, Kochira wa Tanaka-san desu ( こちらは田中さんです ). kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by
11466-450: The original Gamera, so called "Avant Gamera", sacrificing himself by means of self-destruction to save a coastal village from four Gyaos. 33 years later, a young boy named Toru Aizawa finds a glowing, heart-shaped rock near his home, with a small egg lying on top of it. A baby turtle hatches from the egg, and begins to grow in size at an alarming rate. The turtle, dubbed "Toto" by Toru after his own nickname by his deceased mother, quickly forms
11592-470: The out-group gives a benefit to the in-group, and "up" to indicate the in-group gives a benefit to the out-group. Here, the in-group includes the speaker and the out-group does not, and their boundary depends on context. For example, oshiete moratta ( 教えてもらった ) (literally, "explaining got" with a benefit from the out-group to the in-group) means "[he/she/they] explained [it] to [me/us]". Similarly, oshiete ageta ( 教えてあげた ) (literally, "explaining gave" with
11718-415: The particle wa . The verb desu is a copula , commonly translated as "to be" or "it is" (though there are other verbs that can be translated as "to be"), though technically it holds no meaning and is used to give a sentence 'politeness'. As a phrase, Tanaka-san desu is the comment. This sentence literally translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mx Tanaka." Thus Japanese, like many other Asian languages,
11844-466: The planet-penetrating Charged Baryon Cannon, the "Moon Buster", Gamera was literally dissolved into ashes, leaving behind an egg for the new incarnation of Gamera who strongly resembles Toto from the 2006 film. There have been multiple other incarnations of the character appeared in various other media from novelizations to manga and video games . The origin of the Gamera appeared in the 1995 novelization Gamera vs. Phoenix by Niisan Takahashi , which
11970-439: The plot of Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris and the planned plot of the scrapped sequel. In 2002, Kadokawa acquired the copyrights of Daiei Film properties from Tokuma Shoten and approached Toho to achieve a crossover between Gamera and Godzilla, however the latter turned down the offer and Kadokawa therefore produced Gamera the Brave instead as Toho temporary ceased Godzilla productions after Godzilla: Final Wars . Zedus,
12096-618: The point of bleeding. In canonical films, Gamera has never been depicted to feed on any faunal or plant organisms, and exclusively relies on thermal energy , electricity , radiation , and other energy sources. Using conventional weapons even including nuclear weapons against Gamera may also empower him instead. All incarnations of the character have an affinity for humans (especially children) and nature, and protect them at all costs even by sacrificing themselves. They may also save animals , wildlife , and innocent kaiju even if they are offspring of antagonists. All incarnations of
12222-435: The production of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995, Yasuyoshi Tokuma , the founder of Tokuma Shoten , expressed his interest in producing Godzilla vs. Gamera and proposed a crossover to Toho, however this attempt failed to materialize, and Yasuyoshi's death in 2000 and financial situation of Tokuma Shoten eventually resulted in the disposal of Daiei Film properties, along with the cancellation of "Gamera 4" due to
12348-481: The proposed larger Altaic family, or to various Southeast Asian languages , especially Austronesian . None of these proposals have gained wide acceptance (and the Altaic family itself is now considered controversial). As it stands, only the link to Ryukyuan has wide support. Other theories view the Japanese language as an early creole language formed through inputs from at least two distinct language groups, or as
12474-492: The re-released edition of King Kong in 1952, making it the first post-war release of monster movies in Japan, and also distributed The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms in Japan in 1954, and these presumably influenced the productions of the 1954 film Godzilla by Toho and Daiei Film's own Gamera, the Giant Monster in 1965. The Six-Company Agreement led by the above-mentioned Masaichi Nagata , who later produced Gamera, prevented other companies from easily chasing after
12600-529: The rest to yokai and humans so that they can fulfill their destiny, and secretly disappeared (dematerialized). The presence of the " Black Tortoise " was also confirmed in the 2015 novelization Holy Beast War Chronicle: White Shadow ( 聖獣戦記 白い影 , Seijū Senki - Shiroi Kage ) , which was written by Shinichiro Inoue who was trying to reboot the franchise in early 2010s (and has also participated in Daimajin Kanon ), bears several plot similarities with
12726-456: The sake of the planet which was damaged by the humanity. The incarnation of the character, the " Black Tortoise ", appeared in the spin-off novelization of the 2021 film The Great Yokai War: Guardians was uniquely portrayed to be an actual goddess , being capable of various supernatural abilities such as materialization , speaking human speeches, and making yokai and humans to feel that they somehow know her since their childhoods even if it
12852-459: The same structure as affirmative sentences, but with intonation rising at the end. In the formal register, the question particle -ka is added. For example, ii desu ( いいです ) "It is OK" becomes ii desu-ka ( いいですか。 ) "Is it OK?". In a more informal tone sometimes the particle -no ( の ) is added instead to show a personal interest of the speaker: Dōshite konai-no? "Why aren't (you) coming?". Some simple queries are formed simply by mentioning
12978-439: The speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters , known as kanji ( 漢字 , ' Han characters') , with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters: hiragana ( ひらがな or 平仮名 , 'simple characters') and katakana ( カタカナ or 片仮名 , 'partial characters'). Latin script ( rōmaji ローマ字 )
13104-817: The state as at the time the constitution was written, many of the elders participating in the process had been educated in Japanese during the South Seas Mandate over the island shown by the 1958 census of the Trust Territory of the Pacific that found that 89% of Palauans born between 1914 and 1933 could speak and read Japanese, but as of the 2005 Palau census there were no residents of Angaur that spoke Japanese at home. Japanese dialects typically differ in terms of pitch accent , inflectional morphology , vocabulary , and particle usage. Some even differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although this
13230-481: The street. (grammatically incorrect insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte itta. (grammatically correct) This is partly because these words evolved from regular nouns, such as kimi "you" ( 君 "lord"), anata "you" ( あなた "that side, yonder"), and boku "I" ( 僕 "servant"). This
13356-582: The success of Toho, and the Godzilla franchise didn't have notable competitors until the Gamera franchise; the agreement ironically made Daiei Film's own Dagora and Nezura to fail by using live animals ( octopuses and rats ) to avoid the Toho-style, and Daiei Film changed the direction for Gamera, the Giant Monster . Tomio Sagisu , who had previously participated in Daiei productions including The Whale God and Buddha , claimed that he showed
13482-450: The titular monster, due to the involvements of the two.} despite the Six-Company Agreement because of sudden increases in non-Toho kaiju productions after Gamera films, despite the only non-Toho tokusatsu film of that time before the 1965 Gamera film to feature gigantic creature was Daiei Film 's The Whale God ( Killer Whale ) in 1962. Showa Gamera films, especially since Gamera vs. Gyaos , were intended to appeal to children. This
13608-557: The topic with an interrogative intonation to call for the hearer's attention: Kore wa? "(What about) this?"; O-namae wa? ( お名前は？ ) "(What's your) name?". Negatives are formed by inflecting the verb. For example, Pan o taberu ( パンを食べる。 ) "I will eat bread" or "I eat bread" becomes Pan o tabenai ( パンを食べない。 ) "I will not eat bread" or "I do not eat bread". Plain negative forms are i -adjectives (see below) and inflect as such, e.g. Pan o tabenakatta ( パンを食べなかった。 ) "I did not eat bread". East Asian mythology From Misplaced Pages,
13734-419: The two consonants are the moraic nasal followed by a homorganic consonant. Japanese also includes a pitch accent , which is not represented in moraic writing; for example [haꜜ.ɕi] ("chopsticks") and [ha.ɕiꜜ] ("bridge") are both spelled はし ( hashi ) , and are only differentiated by the tone contour. Japanese word order is classified as subject–object–verb . Unlike many Indo-European languages ,
13860-577: The two methods were both used in writing until the 1940s. Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers (many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo , although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language). Kōgo is the dominant method of both speaking and writing Japanese today, although bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect. The 1982 state constitution of Angaur , Palau , names Japanese along with Palauan and English as an official language of
13986-480: The two terms (''hyōjungo'' and ''kyōtsūgo'') are almost the same. Hyōjungo or kyōtsūgo is a conception that forms the counterpart of dialect. This normative language was born after the Meiji Restoration ( 明治維新 , meiji ishin , 1868) from the language spoken in the higher-class areas of Tokyo (see Yamanote ). Hyōjungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications. It
14112-407: The verb (e.g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the -k- in the final mora of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form (e.g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ , where modern Japanese just has hayaku , though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu "good morning"; this ending
14238-481: The world would be spiritually poisoned, only being cured by other chosen ones by the Four Symbols ; Nichiren , the current summoner of the Black Tortoise who was also bestowed abilities including time manipulation, tries to restore the world after the battle of Barugon and Jiger during the Mongol invasions of Japan . Gamera made several appearances in the tokusatsu program series Sailor Fight in 1995 and 1996 as
14364-548: The world. Since Japanese first gained the consideration of linguists in the late 19th century, attempts have been made to show its genealogical relation to languages or language families such as Ainu , Korean , Chinese , Tibeto-Burman , Uralic , Altaic (or Ural-Altaic ), Austroasiatic , Austronesian and Dravidian . At the fringe, some linguists have even suggested a link to Indo-European languages , including Greek , or to Sumerian . Main modern theories try to link Japanese either to northern Asian languages, like Korean or
14490-539: Was based on 12- to 20-second-long recordings of 135 to 244 phonemes , which 42 students listened to and translated word-for-word. The listeners were all Keio University students who grew up in the Kanto region . There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island , whose dialects are descended from Eastern Old Japanese . Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular
14616-449: Was depicted to be (supernaturally) capable of triggering eruptions among nearby lands and volcanoes . Within the comicalized adaptaion of the 1999 film by Kazunori Ito and Moo. Nenpei , who had also published another Gamera manga Gamera vs. Morphos in 1999, Gamera performed extreme regeneration to restore his head from mimicked Plasma Fireballs by Iris, and defeated the antagnoist with either an empowered fire blast or fireball instead of
14742-402: Was gradually satisfied, and he regained his natural calmness as the films progressed, and began to save humanity voluntary. His exact origin was not verified aside from his association with the ancient civilization of the Atlantis . Inuit 's fear of Gamera and his confinement in the Arctic , contrary to his heroic personality and favor of thermal energy, was presumably due to his entrapment by
14868-735: Was imported to Japan from Baekje around the start of the fifth century, alongside Buddhism. The earliest texts were written in Classical Chinese , although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text, the Kojiki , dates to the early eighth century, and was written entirely in Chinese characters, which are used to represent, at different times, Chinese, kanbun , and Old Japanese. As in other texts from this period,
14994-413: Was initially decided because a number of children watching Gamera vs. Barugon got bored with the plot and left their seats, and also to deal with drastically decreased budgets due to the financial situation of Daiei Film; the budget of Gamera vs. Viras was ¥24 million compared to budgets of Gamera vs. Barugon (¥80 million) and Gamera vs. Gyaos (¥60 million). Global distributions of videos of
15120-474: Was lost immediately following its composition.) This set of morae shrank to 67 in Early Middle Japanese , though some were added through Chinese influence. Man'yōgana also has a symbol for /je/ , which merges with /e/ before the end of the period. Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no )
15246-482: Was originally a script for a cancelled film in 1994, is unclear; Showa Gamera defeated villainous monsters like in the previous films while the "new" Gamera who emerged from underneath the Nazca Lines possessed characteristics of the 1995 film Gamera: Guardian of the Universe . This "new" Gamera initially attacked chemical plants all over the world, resulting in hostility from the humanity, however his intention
15372-491: Was presumably to calm and entertain onlooking children. The original 1965 film, Gamera, the Giant Monster , depicts Gamera's origins as being a result of United States military fighters launching an attack on enemy bombers (presumably belonging to the Soviet Union ), which causes the detonation of an atomic bomb on board one of the aircraft. The nuclear blast releases Gamera from a state of suspended animation in
15498-744: Was re-programmed by a rebellious figure to become the protector of civilians from other kaiju. During the downfalls of ancient civilizations, Gamera presumably stood against 24 different kaiju to protect the humanity. While previous incarnations of the character possessed affinities to elements most notably fire , electricity , and plasma energy , Gamera in Gamera Rebirth further expanded combat attributes to include electromagnetic pulse , jamming , gravitation , energy shield , and baryon . This incarnation also possesses several supernatural traits such as telepathy , psychic link with humans, interfering mental contacts by other kaiju on humans, bestowing
15624-685: Was represented within a concept art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters , and Kaneko himself acknowledges similarities between his films and MonsterVerse films where the scrapped 2011 project Gamera 3D by Yoshimitsu Banno served as one of predecessors of the 2014 film Godzilla . According to Jared Krichevsky, "Shimo" appeared in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was partially inspired by Barugon. Shusuke Kaneko utilized some aspects of Showa Gamera and his Heisei Gamera trilogy for GMK such as " submarine within kaiju's body" from Gamera vs. Jiger , and Kaneko reused ideas which he originally wanted for
15750-497: Was to deal with budgetary problems and the Six-Company Agreement to differentiate from the Godzilla franchise. Due to the agreement and the direction to differentiate from Toho, Gamera's characteristics such as to breathe traditional non-atomic fire , occasional quadrupedalism , his personality as both a friendly creature and a hero rather than Godzilla 's theme to represent a " god of destruction ", Material choices for suits and miniature models were devised to avoid duplicates with
15876-484: Was to prevent an oncoming catastrophe caused by environmental degradations and to warn the humanity. After sealing the Phoenix, an immortal but suicidal, fiery entity constantly suffering due to its immortality, the new Gamera sacrificed himself to save the Earth from further destruction caused by harmful sunlight triggered by air pollutions , following a similar fate with the Phoenix where both monsters cannot die for
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