Do you have to be Japanese to be a Kaiju?

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• amio@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless it's from the Kaijuu region of Japan, it's only sparkling beast.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paul Bunyan? No. Not a monster. Just a man.

  Big Blue, however: totally a Kaiju.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s counter evidence that humans can actually achieve a Beast Mode, though.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some say there only weakness is a pass play on the 1 yard line…

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    • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Altered Beast, Sonic and then this Zombies are my neighbors or something game are the first games I remember at all.

      Maybe around ‘96?

      Anyways, yeah that’s hard soli evidence right there you can’t deny it

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you saying Paul Bunyan is not a beast? And a strangely large one at that?

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    • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s a strangely large normal fellow.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are mostly bald apes with manes that are oddly good at throwing things not strange beasts?

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone get Arin Hanson on the line we need an official verdict.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been watching so much Game Grumps recently, there’s a good chance that’s where I subliminally obtained this knowledge.

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  • MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kaiju stand user?

    B U L L S O N P A R A D E

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    • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe Bunyan was a stand user with his stand being babe blue

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wahwah waka Wahwah wakawakawaka

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s not from the Tokyo prefecture it’s just sparkling King Kong.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Little known fact that America has one of the first Kaiju. And if Paul Bunyan doesn’t count, Babe does.

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  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d argue that babe better fits the bill of kaiju being a giant blue ox (animal/creature)

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, he’s just a French Canadian logger.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bunyan doesn’t sound like a French name to me. Also, didn’t it start as a Midwestern U.S. folktale? Like Wisconsin and Minnesota? That’s what I thought.

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    • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve heard that he was the continuation of Joseph “Jos” Montferrand, a French Canadian logger and legend born in Montreal, who worked in the Gatineau and Outaouais region, known also as big John Mufferaw. He then moved south of the border to continue working as a logger where he became known as Paul Bunyan.

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …where’d he chop a tree that big? did that bastard take down all the cool, fantasy trees??

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure I remember that being part of his story, he chopped all the big trees down or smth.

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    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well now we know where all the Entwives went.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Best lumberjack in the Sahara Forest

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Redwood National Park?

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    • explodicle@local106.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They must’ve been everywhere before he arrived.

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• FlashZordon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Godzilla X Paul Bunyan would do NUMBERS

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  • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d watch that

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  • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t wait till someone make film about it with ai

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, Godzilla is best when he is the problem.

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• shadmere@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are the “good guys” still kaiju? I mean, I know the good monsters are still kaiju. But is, like, Ultraman a kaiju?

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gamera is a Kaiju and he’s a friend to children.

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you really call Paul Bunyan a “good guy”? The canopy over North America was once monumental, but after he chopped it all down, it is mere legend, fading from memory with the death of each passing generation

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think there’s a different word for when it’s a giant person instead of giant monster. In English he’d just be a giant.

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gewdzirra

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a Japanese word, in English we just say giant

  Like Isekai, in English we just say fantasy

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isekai means other world and is a subgenre of fantasy. For literal fantasy, it’s just ファンタジー or fantoji, lol.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In English it’s not popular enough to differentiate

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By definition, yes. An abnormally large creature capable of destroying a building without the use of any big weapons. Mr Bunyan could easily topple a building in NYC with just his hands.

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• Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way to fuck up my whole Sunday

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  here’s a vid about this whole thing

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a big log

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• SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jolly Green Giant must be kaiju also.

  Sprout is a baby kaiju.

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