Nobuhiko Obayashi's "A Space Godzilla"

Post by **borodan** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:37 pm

Long the subject of rumor and innuendo in the English-speaking community, a translation has been posted for the the first chapter of Nobuhiko Obayashi's insane Godzilla project from the 1970s. Enjoy!
https://maserpatrol.wordpress.com/2015/ ... ell-earth/
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Post by **TitanoGoji16** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:24 pm

Dr. Fukuda, the biologist, and Dr. Ohira, the pathologist, examined the rotting life form, and concluded that it was Godzilla. The cause of death was diabetes.

g2vd · Post by **g2vd** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:27 am

I'm confused, is this Rohzon actually Godzilla or a member of his species from Planet Godzilla, that crashed to the Earth? dead from the greatest weapon of all time against giant monsters Kaiju Diabetes.

seamus · Post by **seamus** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:05 am

Oh wow. I didn't realize this was a Nobuhiku Obayashi project. It would have been nuts. Anyone who's seen House (1977) knows what I mean. Really makes me wish they'd done it.

kamilleblu · Post by **kamilleblu** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:58 am

Interesting in hindsight. But it's probably a good thing it never saw the light of day. Godzilla needed the break.

Edit: On another note, it does raise some interesting questions. The events of the Showa Era timeline are mentioned, so what happened to the Godzilla of those films? I assume Destroy All Monsters is still canon. If ASG was meant to occur before said film, which Godzilla does DAM feature? It seems to be the same from the earlier films. If ASG takes place afterwards, people would have immediately noticed Godzilla was missing from Monster Island. Anyway, ASG's Godzilla is most likely a separate monster all together. She probably fell to Earth and was too injured to return home. So were Godzillas originally from another world to begin with?

Post by **borodan** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:00 pm

Chapter 2 is up, but don't expect it to make anything less confusing: https://maserpatrol.wordpress.com/2015/ ... he-planet/

Potential NSFW warning, fyi.

Post by **TitanoGoji16** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:03 pm

...I'm not even sure what I just read. The artwork of Godzilla (Kuunin, I think?) and General Gamoni (again, I think) fighting among the asteroids is pretty cool, though.

seamus · Post by **seamus** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 5:05 pm

I'm bumping this again because Japan Society in New York is doing an Obayashi retrospective program with a bunch of screenings and Q&As with him. (Cannot wait to see Hausu in a theater) ...makes me wish we lived in the alternate reality in which this film was made. It probably would've been my favorite Godzilla movie.

Showa Gyaos · Post by **Showa Gyaos** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:19 pm

After reading the second part, I have to say that I'm definitely glad this wasn't made into a movie. It's too insane, and feels nothing like a Godzilla film when I read it. It's an acid fantasy that's best left in the realm of fan fiction.

Post by **GigaBowserG** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:55 pm

Showa Gyaos wrote:After reading the second part, I have to say that I'm definitely glad this wasn't made into a movie. It's too insane, and feels nothing like a Godzilla film when I read it. It's an acid fantasy that's best left in the realm of fan fiction.

As an actual movie... it would've been such a huge insult to everything Godzilla stands for. But as is, it's amazing non-canon fanfiction.

Godzillian · Post by **Godzillian** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:02 pm

This story is more offensive to the Godzilla name then the 98 film. It completely destroys everything the character stands for. Interesting read though thanks for the link.

TyrantGojira · Post by **TyrantGojira** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:42 pm

Godzillian wrote:This story is more offensive to the Godzilla name then the 98 film. It completely destroys everything the character stands for. Interesting read though thanks for the link.

They literally retconned Godzilla's nuclear origin which was defining trait of the character. While we're at it, lets make Mothra's fairies the antichrist. The dude must of been high when he wrote it.

Godzillian · Post by **Godzillian** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:21 pm

TyrantGojira wrote:
Godzillian wrote:This story is more offensive to the Godzilla name then the 98 film. It completely destroys everything the character stands for. Interesting read though thanks for the link.
They literally retconned Godzilla's nuclear origin which was defining trait of the character. While we're at it, lets make Mothra's fairies the antichrist. The dude must of been high when he wrote it.

Godzillas are peaceful and practice nonviolence

This would've been like an lsd trip for godzilla fans.

TyrantGojira · Post by **TyrantGojira** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:34 pm

Godzillian wrote:
TyrantGojira wrote:
Godzillian wrote:This story is more offensive to the Godzilla name then the 98 film. It completely destroys everything the character stands for. Interesting read though thanks for the link.
They literally retconned Godzilla's nuclear origin which was defining trait of the character. While we're at it, lets make Mothra's fairies the antichrist. The dude must of been high when he wrote it.
Godzillas are peaceful and practice nonviolence This would've been like an lsd trip for godzilla fans.

DUUUDE I'm tripping right now. XD

Post by **Gallavant123** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:33 am

This has got to be one of the weirder things I've read. And by weird I mean this reads as if the writer had a plethora of really odd monster fetishes that time-warped back in time out of the dark depths of the internet.. >.> Ernest, did you have something to do with this?

darthzilla99 · Post by **darthzilla99** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:36 am

Which do you think wins the battle of "How much LSD did these people take to make this" contest: Bride of Godzilla or A Space Godzilla?

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:26 pm

darthzilla99 wrote:Which do you think wins the battle of "How much LSD did these people take to make this" contest: Bride of Godzilla or A Space Godzilla?

It's the weirdest thing I've read.

Rodan · Post by **Rodan** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:09 am

Obayashi directing this treatment might have made for the greatest Godzilla movie of all time.

Would've blown Hedorah out of the water in terms of psychedelic weirdness.

Dino-Mario · Post by **Dino-Mario** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:12 am

As drugged up as this sounds, you gotta admit that something similar to that Godzilla hatchling puppet could've been quite better for Son of Godzilla.

Cookson · Post by **Cookson** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:36 pm

What....the.....frick

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