Paul Bunyan? No. Not a monster. Just a man.
Big Blue, however: totally a Kaiju.
Do you have to be Japanese to be a Kaiju?
Submitted 8 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Decoy321@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some say there only weakness is a pass play on the 1 yard line…
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 8 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
Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are you saying Paul Bunyan is not a beast? And a strangely large one at that?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are mostly bald apes with manes that are oddly good at throwing things not strange beasts?
Wogi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Someone get Arin Hanson on the line we need an official verdict.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
I’ve been watching so much Game Grumps recently, there’s a good chance that’s where I subliminally obtained this knowledge.
MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Kaiju stand user?
B U L L S O N P A R A D E
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe Bunyan was a stand user with his stand being babe blue
0ops@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Wahwah waka Wahwah wakawakawaka
Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 months ago
If it’s not from the Tokyo prefecture it’s just sparkling King Kong.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Little known fact that America has one of the first Kaiju. And if Paul Bunyan doesn’t count, Babe does.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’d argue that babe better fits the bill of kaiju being a giant blue ox (animal/creature)
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Nah, he’s just a French Canadian logger.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 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.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 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.
qarbone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
…where’d he chop a tree that big? did that bastard take down all the cool, fantasy trees??
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m pretty sure I remember that being part of his story, he chopped all the big trees down or smth.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well now we know where all the Entwives went.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Best lumberjack in the Sahara Forest
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Redwood National Park?
explodicle@local106.com 8 months ago
They must’ve been everywhere before he arrived.
FlashZordon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Godzilla X Paul Bunyan would do NUMBERS
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d watch that
bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can’t wait till someone make film about it with ai
Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, Godzilla is best when he is the problem.
shadmere@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are the “good guys” still kaiju? I mean, I know the good monsters are still kaiju. But is, like, Ultraman a kaiju?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gamera is a Kaiju and he’s a friend to children.
root_beer@midwest.social 8 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
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 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.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gewdzirra
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s a Japanese word, in English we just say giant
Like Isekai, in English we just say fantasy
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
In English it’s not popular enough to differentiate
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Way to fuck up my whole Sunday
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a big log
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jolly Green Giant must be kaiju also.
Sprout is a baby kaiju.
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Unless it's from the Kaijuu region of Japan, it's only sparkling beast.