Monster of the Day #3437

It’s weirdly difficult to find a picture from the recently dropped Skull Island anime (or anime-influenced cartoon) on Netflix. That doesn’t seem like a good sign. I watched like half of it, and it was fine. That was a while ago, though, so it’s not like I was inspired to finish the show immediately. Not sure if I’ll get back to it, but it is worth a look, and gets better, I thought, after the first episode.

More exciting for most of us, I think, is the upcoming Gamera anime coming to Netflix. Not sure when it’s due, but they’ve been advertising it for a while now. Let’s hope this is finally the one that Netflix completely nails, although frankly their general attempts at anime have been pretty mediocre on the main. So I’m hoping it’s at least as good as Godzilla Singular Point.

Watch Party tonight. Hope to see you there!

  • By the trailers it looks like everything the Godzilla animes were not. Really looking forward to this.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    5 Kaiju but what we really want to know is how many spunky kids?

  • At least 4 by the trailer.

  • NathanShumate

    Ken, apropos of nothing in your post, can you give me Sandy Petersen’s current contact info? I owe the man money.

  • Rock Baker

    I’ve learned of a real life monster. Evidently in Africa there’s a 20-foot crocodile confirmed to’ve killed 200 men over several decades. And it may still be alive…

  • Eric Hinkle

    It’s not Gustave, is it? I remember reading about him years ago, but I thought he was up in the Congo.

  • Rock Baker

    Yeah, Gustave. The one who eats hippos…

  • They have a new trailer up. 9/7 start date. This looks very good.

  • Gamera977

    Oh WOW, THANKS!!! That looks incredible!!!

  • Ken_Begg

    Nathan! Good to hear from you, old bean. Email me at ken@jabootu.com and I’ll send you Sandy’s info.