Monster of the Day #3241

Updated on July 14, 2021 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Amazon Prime week continues. If Gamera isn’t your flavor, somehow, Amazon does offer a few non-Godzilla Toho films. Manda is a briefly seen sideshow in Atragon, rather like the giant walrus in Gorath (although Manda also got a brief appearance in Destroy All Monsters). Even so, it’s a fun addition in a neat movie about a flying submarine fighting an undersea civilization trying to take over the world.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    How’d they find a guy who could wear that suit!

  • Gamera977

    And there was a pretty neat CGI Manda in ‘Godzilla: Final Wars’.

  • Rock Baker

    That pic isn’t actually from ATRAGON. I believe it’s the version of Manda seen in FINAL WARS.

  • The Rev.

    I actually haven’t seen Atragon (although I can now rectify that post-haste) so I may be mistaken, but this seems way too well-lit to be a shot from his Final Wars appearance. It also doesn’t have that slick CGI look to it.

  • There’s a monster coming, Manda submarine!

  • Rock Baker

    Could be a production photo. I hadn’t watched FINAL WARS in so long I’d forgotten that the film’s Manda was animated. Still, it’s clearly a later version than the one used in ATRAGON.

    Speaking of, the film is a good example of how Toho hates it’s fans across the sea. Tokyo Shock was trying to get the AIP version onto DVD, but Toho pulled a George Lucas and mandated that only the inferior International dub be used for the DVD.

  • That seems to be the case with most of the Showa Godzilla’s these days. Man I miss the “original” English voices for Godzilla v. the Sea Monster.

  • Ken_Begg

    It was Calista Flockhart.

    (That’s still a relevant reference for the kids, right?)

  • Ken_Begg

    Toho never got over how American studios would cut up and manhandle their films. So they don’t like the dubs because they correspond to re-edited versions of their films. On the other hand, I have as much nostalgia for those as anyone–Hal Linden in Sea Monster!–and Rock Johnson is right, the Toho dubs are horrible.