Dai Kaiju Archives

It is everything you could hope for in a dai kaiju ("giant monster") story, the type you find in the Godzilla movies and their ilk Perhaps a discussion of the context of the story might give you something you might not otherwise find from just reading the story. Cover art: Manga Mavericks Great Metal God isn't just[...]

8 is about fighting Kaiju – or to be more accurate, dai Kaiju, since "dai" means "big" or "giant" in Japanese. Kaiju No 8 key graphic courtesy of Crunchyroll "In a world plagued by threatening creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in the Japan Defense Force to defeat them."Let's wipe out the Kaiju together."[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes: For the fans and pop culture watchers who like to watch these things, the new Godzilla movie is eagerly-awaited, and the studios are taking advantage of this interest by releasing the older movies on remastered Blu-Ray, including the darker, more series movies from the 1990's. There is, however, another Dai Kaiju series that deserves[...]