A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu. Origin Story: After vacationing on the Monsterland Resort, professional writer/raging nerd Nathan Marchand got a job as the curator of the Vault containing the films about Monster Island’s many kaiju residents. Now he and his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), record a bi-weekly podcast critically and academically examining each of the films in the prestigious Vault with one to four guest hosts chosen from Monster Island’s many tourists. Philosophy: Kaiju and/or tokusatsu fans will tell you these genres are undeniably fun. What’s often missed, though, are the deeper meanings below the sensational surface. Meanings entrenched in the story’s original historical and cultural context. That’s why this podcast believes in film appreciation. What’s that? It’s studying a movie’s script, direction, cinematography, and other aspects of filmmaking. It’s learning how and why it was created since movies aren’t made in a vacuum. This is especially true with foreign films. Non-native audiences are separated by both time and culture with them...
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Episode 48 – The Tourists vs. ‘Gamera: Guardian of the Universe’
Hello, kaiju lovers! Though still grieving the loss of Gary, Nate soldiers on—without his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA, as mandated by the Board—because he’s finally made it to the good part of “The Year of Gamera”! He’s joined by three of the original MIFV Tourists, Nick Hayden, Timothy Deal, and Joe Metter, to discuss Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, the first of the famed Heisei Trilogy directed by Shusuke Kaneko. While the Tourists have never seen it, they have a deep appreciation of storytelling, drama, and anime, so Nate was certain they would enjoy it. Did they? Listen to find out! The Toku Topic is the legend of Atlantis since it factors heavily into this film and the rest of the trilogy.
During the broadcast, Nate finally conducts his overdue interview with Spacewoman Kilara, who is much nicer about the whole thing than Nate expects. Unlike Miss Perkins, about whom Nate and Jimmy were messaged about by Jessica before the show with a bombshell revelation. Then after the broadcast, he visits the Board’s executive assistant at her office to confront her—with electrifying results.
Listen to Nate and Travis’s spinoff podcast, The Henshin Men Podcast, on Redcircle.
This episode’s prologue and epilogue, “Revelation of Power,” was written by Nathan Marchand. “An Interview with Spacewoman Kilara” was written by Nathan Marchand.
Guest stars:
- Amy Summers as Spacewoman Kilara
- Celeste Mora as Miss Perkins
Additional music:
- “Shrouded Reactor” by Wiesty
- “Opening the Way” by Pablo Coma
- “Let’s Rocket!” (Remix) by Johnnybeeog
Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.
We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, and Elijah Thomas! Thanks for your support!
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This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.
Timestamps:
- Prologue: 0:00-3:01
- Intro: 3:01-17:15
- (Kilara Interview: 4:37-9:29)
- Entertaining Info Dump: 17:15-26:07
- Toku Talk: 26:07-1:27:53
- Promo: 1:27:53-1:28:31
- Toku Topic: 1:28:31-1:49:29
- Listener Feedback, Housekeeping & Outro: 1:49:29-1:59:29
- Epilogue: 1:59:29-end
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
- “Atlantis” (Wikipedia).
- Ebert, Roger. “Gamera: Guardian of the Universe” (Review).
- England, Norman. “Inside the Heisei Trilogy: The Guardian of the Universe.” (Arrow Video Gamera: The Complete Collection; originally published in Fangoria #173, June 1998).
- Flower, James. “A Guide to English Language Gamera.” (Arrow Video Gamera: The Complete Collection).
- Forsyth, Phyllis Young. Atlantis: The Making of Myth. “Chapter 1: The Enigma of Atlantis.”
- Gamera: The Complete Collection, Disc Five Special Features.
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe Commentary by Matt Frank (Arrow Video’s Gamera: The Complete Collection).
- Gill, Christopher. “The Genre of the Atlantis Story.” Classical Philology, Oct., 1977, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct., 1977), pp. 287-304.
- Hackworth, R. “The Story of Atlantis: Its Purpose and Its Moral.” The Classical Review, May, 1944, Vol. 58, No. 1 (May, 1944), pp. 7-9.
- LeMay, John. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Volume 2: 1982-2017.
- LeMay, John. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films (Mutated Edition).
- LeMay, John. Writing Giant Monsters.
- Macias, Patrick. “A History of Gamera: Gamera the Guardian of the Universe” (Arrow Video’s Gamera: The Complete Collection).
- Milner, David. “Interview with Noriaki Yuasa” (Arrow Video’s Gamera: The Complete Collection).
- Morgan, Kathryn A. “Designer History: Plato's Atlantis Story and Fourth-Century Ideology.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1998, Vol. 118 (1998), pp. 101-118.
- Wiki Articles on Gamera: Guardian of the Universe:
- Gamera Wiki
- Gojipedia
- IMDB
- Toho Kingdom
- Wikipedia
- Wikizilla