Episode 46: Daniel DiManna vs. Gamera: Super Monster

Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 7 a.m.

b"Hello\\u2026kaiju\\u2026lovers\\u2026. The only reason this episode is long as it is because Nate\\u2019s guest, Daniel DiManna (creator/author of the Godzilla Novelization Project) is the most talkative introvert ever of all time. But even if \\u201cDanny Boy\\u201d was Superman with a Beta Capsule, he couldn\\u2019t save this week\\u2019s Year of Gamera movie, the infamous Gamera: Super Monster. This 1980 cash-grab from a barely-alive Daiei Film is easily the Guardian of the Universe\\u2019s lowest point. On paper, Nate should love this movie because it has three of his favorite things\\u2014spaceships, superheroes, and kaiju\\u2014but he doesn\\u2019t. From public access channel special effects to a nonsensical plot with everything but the kitchen sink to the truckloads of stock footage\\u2014this must\\u2019ve been a plot by the Board of Directors to break Nate. Meanwhile, Danny keeps MIFV's intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA, quiet by getting him to bet his Pteranodon-bot that he can't interrupt them during the broadcast. The Toku Topic, fittingly, is the rise and fall of Daiei Film, the studio that introduced the world to Akira Kurosawa and Gamera but dug itself into a financial hole it couldn\\u2019t escape. It\\u2019s a crazy story, to say the least.\\nBefore the broadcast, Nate and Jimmy are visited by the Board\\u2019s executive assistant, Ms. Perkins. She tells Nate that she made arrangements for him to interview Spacewoman Kilara from Gamera: Super Monster on MIFV, much to his chagrin, and then fangirls over her. But the more Nate asks Ms. Perkins questions about her past, the stranger she acts.\\nListen to Nate and Travis\\u2019s spinoff podcast, The Henshin Men Podcast, on Redcircle.\\nThis episode\\u2019s epilogue, \\u201cInterviewing a Superheroine,\\u201d was written by Nathan Marchand.\\xa0\\nGuest stars:\\nCeleste Mora as Ms. Perkins\\nAdditional music:\\n\\u201cMegaRanger Cover\\u201d by nypad5\\n\\u201cOpening the Way\\u201d by Pablo Coma\\n\\u201cChant My Name!\\u201d by Masaaki Endo\\nSound effects, including some by InspectorJ and klankbeeld, sourced from Freesound.org.\\nWe\\u2019d 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, and TofuFury! Thanks for your support!\\nYou, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!\\nBuy official MIFV merch on TeePublic!\\nThis episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.\\nTimestamps:\\nPrologue: 0:00-7:47\\nIntro: 7:47-19:26\\nEntertaining Info Dump: 19:26-26:43\\nToku Talk: 26:43-1:37:52\\nHenshin Men Promo: 1:37:52-1:41:08\\nToku Topic: 1:41:08-2:13:12\\nListener Feedback, Housekeeping & Outro: 2:13:12-end\\nPodcast Social Media:\\nTwitter\\nFacebook\\nInstagram\\nFollow Jimmy on Twitter: @NasaJimmy\\nFollow the Monster Island Board of Directors on Twitter: @MonsterIslaBOD\\nFollow the Raymund Martin and the MIFV Legal Team on Twitter: @MIFV_LegalTeam\\nFollow Crystal Lady Jessica on Twitter: @CystalLadyJes1\\nFollow The Henshin Men Podcast on Twitter: @HenshinMenPod\\nwww.MonsterIslandFilmVault.com\\n#JimmyFromNASALives \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 #MonsterIslandFilmVault\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 #GameraSuperMonster\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 #YearofGamera\\n\\xa9 2021 Moonlighting Ninjas Media\\nBibliography/Further Reading:\\n\\u201cDaiei Film.\\u201d (Wikipedia).\\nDanny\\u2019s brain.\\nFlower, James. \\u201cA Guide to English Language Gamera\\u201d (Arrow Video Gamera: The Complete Collection).\\nGalbraith IV, Stuart. Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films: A Critical Analysis and Filmography of 103 Features Released in the United States 1950-1992.\\nGamera: The Complete Collection, Disc Four Special Features.\\nGamera: Super Monster Commentary by Richard Pusateri (Arrow Video\\u2019s Gamera: The Complete Collection).\\nKaijuvision Radio, Episode 12: Ebirah - Horror of the Deep! (1966) (The Changing Kaiju Film Audience)\\nKalat, David. \\u201cChapter 19: Survival of the Silliest.\\u201d A Critical History and Filmography of Toho\\u2019s Godzilla Series, 2nd\\nLeMay, John. The Big Book of"