Episode 60 - Godzilla: Awakening
When the Hiroshima bomb went off it awakened something. Papa Serizawa sets off to investigate the strange creature he saw that day and ends up being one the founding members of the Monarch organization. Also Godzilla shows up…or at least we think that’s supposed to be Godzilla.
When the Hiroshima bomb went off it awakened something. Papa Serizawa sets off to investigate the strange creature he saw that day and ends up being one the founding members of the Monarch organization. Also Godzilla shows up…or at least we think that’s supposed to be Godzilla.
SHOWNOTES
Godzilla: King of the Monsters News Madness (4:14)
TV Spots, IMAX trailers, Poster, Trailer 3 incoming, and Japanese pop songs? We cover it all here!
Toho Moving Into Hollywood? (32:41)
Toho is moving a bunch of money over to Hollywood! What does that mean? Well we really don’t know but it can only be good news for Kaiju fans.
Raiga and Reigo geting a Us release! (37:03)
Two obscure kaiju films are getting an American release!
Fan mail! (39:51)
We read out some really awesome fan mail.
Godzilla: Awakening Comic Discussion! (42:56)
Time to talk about the prequel comic to Godzilla (2014) and all of it’s inconsistencies!
Credits
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Archive
Sorry for the late post! Julio and Kyle recorded a news broadcast to catch everyone up on 7/30/26!
Today we talk about the 2nd (technically 3rd) Ultra series by looking at the two-parter episode of Ultraseven that introduces King Joe!
Time to talk about some OG Ultraman! We take a look at the famous episodes where they reused some of the old Toho kaiju suits including a certain King of the Monsters. Nah it couldn’t be him…he clearly has a frill.
For the second episode of Trash Mountain month we take a look at another Kong rip-off! WARNING: This episode has discussion about animal abuse and SA topics.
Rob returns as we ask a question that has been haunting us for years. Does APE truly deserve to be King of Trash Mountain? Or shall a new king climb the mountain?!
Welcome to 2026! A group of kids film a zombie movie and get caught up in a massive government conspiracy!
NEWS:
Details about Monarch spinoff
Kaiju Girl Caramelise trailer
Godzilla Minus Zero release date
Monarch S2 full trailer
We finally jump back to one of our lost episodes from earlier this year and cover The Lake!
Does Troll 2 hold up against the surprisingly good first one? What’s with the mysterious second Troll? Find out today on Tokyo Lives!
Our first time we covered Godzilla Raids Again, we barely touched on the dub version of the movie! Why don’t we take a second look and also talk a bit about the unmade Volcano Monsters?!
Gamera fights his toughest foe yet…a triceratops with jets on its chin that hates whistling.
