Tag Archives: Kong count

King Kong has been parodied by famous cartoon characters numerous times, but, evidence of its immediate cultural cache, there were animated parody shorts playing theatrically in the very year of its release: the 12th Pooch the Pup short, “King Klunk” … Continue reading →

Apparently King Kong fought King Ghidorah once, in sonorama form. I don’t know much about that particular sonorama, but I do know the art was by Takashi Minamimura, one of the most iconic of all kaiju illustrators. He did a lot … Continue reading →

Netflix has done some amazing work with their myriad original series projects, and currently stands as the greatest remaining outlet for action-based animation produced by the occident. Because of that, expectations were quite high for their Kong: King of the … Continue reading →

Godzilla cells appear to be plenty good for splicing, and if you don’t believe me, just ask Biollante, Space Godzilla, Orga, Bagan, King Godzilla, Raban, Barugaron… you get the gist. So, even if it’s non-canon, of course there’s a Godzilla-Kong … Continue reading →

I think this is what we mean by “Fiction vs. Reality”: I’m busy today, so I’m reposting a previous review of 1948’s Unknown Island: Color film was still a relatively hefty expenditure in the 1940s, so I guess Unknown Island … Continue reading →

Want to talk about that creature-on-the-loose TV movie that Tsugunoba “Tom” Kotani directed? The Tsuburaya/Rankin-Bass co-production. The one filmed in Bermuda (but isn’t The Bermuda Depths), and has an aging big-game hunter with an existential crisis tracking a dangerous, super-rare animal … Continue reading →

Back when I was first discovering the chronology of Toho’s science fiction canon, it always seemed odd that the Godzilla flick succeeding an interplanetary war was limited to a remote Pacific island, and a three-headed,world-destroying space dragon was followed by … Continue reading →

Nostalgia time: when I was growing up, the local arcade was *the place* for birthday parties, and just across a mall food court from the only major cinema, so just about every other weekend I’d find myself in there for … Continue reading →

As hype builds for the upcoming Kong: Skull Island movie, there’s an awful lot of talk about the creatures in the film, particularly the “Skull Crawlers”. Without fail, it seems, my contributions to these conversations comes to a screeching halt, … Continue reading →

Back in fall of 2015, when it was first announced that the upcoming Kong: Skull Island would be produced by Warner Bros. instead of Universal, a lot of the fandom was ecstatic, musing over what a Kong flick from the same … Continue reading →

One of the most underrated entries in the entire Godzilla catalog is the 1998 animated series, which makes up in spades for the dubious movie from which it spun off. While 1998’s Godzilla film is rather acrimonious about the source material, with … Continue reading →

Let’s go for something obscure, shall we? This mangaka has no Japanese wikipedia page, and nothing documented in English, as far as I can tell, and while I assume I’m reading the name correctly, I’m not 100% sure (Japanese can be … Continue reading →

While English-speakers haven’t gotten a lot of exposure to the game-changing superhero Moonlight Mask, AKA Gekko Kamen (seriously, his sexy parody series Kekko Kamen gets way more play stateside), he’s a pretty big deal in Japan. As the nation’s first … Continue reading →

I spent literal weeks as a child assembling the complete line of Kenner’s Technozoids plastic robot kits. Some of them were more memorable than others (I still have my Battlesaurus), but one that always stood out was the Iron Kong. Iron … Continue reading →

Godzilla’s been known to tango with an oversized simian or two over the course of his career, as King Kong is arguably one of the King of the Monsters’ most formative adversaries. Unfortunately, Kong’s rights are not controlled by Toho, so even … Continue reading →

Invariably, when discussions of lost films starts, there’s a staple of titles that come up right away: London After Midnight, The Mountain Eagle, a certain spider pit sequence in a movie that we might get back to later. The giant … Continue reading →

Officially, Toho made two films with King Kong in them, and, barring the continued existence of Gorosaurus and Mechani-Kong, that was the end of it. There was one more screen appearance, however, that’s a little more ambiguous. In the 1970’s … Continue reading →

It’s no stretch to say that the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka, really liked movies. Being of the generation to first encounter the original King Kong during his childhood, it’s unsurprising that his body of works occasionally makes nods to … Continue reading →

It’s now 2017, and and this year we have both a King Kong movie and Godzilla movie hitting theaters – for the first time in exactly five decades! Compared to Godzilla, Kong as a franchise can be quite frustrating; while … Continue reading →