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Title |
| Godzilla vs. Mothra:
Great Study |
| Author(s) |
| Kazuki Omori |
| Pencils:
- |
Inks:
- |
| Language:
Japanese |
Release:
1992 |
| Publisher: Rippu
Shobo |
Pages:
80 |
| Colors:
- |
Cover:
- |
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| Monster
Appearances: |
Aliens,
SDF, & Misc Appearances: |
| Godzilla, Mothra, Battra |
Cosmos, MBT-92, MBAW-93,
Type 74 Tank, F15-J
Jets |
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| Comments |
 |
Anthony
Romero |
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This publication,
produced by Rippu Shobo, is almost a swiss army knife
of coverage based around the 1992 movie Godzilla
vs. Mothra. First off, this book contains a manga
adaptation of the live action film. This section, which
has limited color as it's done in black and white with
various shades of orange added in, is arguably faithful
to the film, at least to a point. It doesn't add any
elements to the story by Kazuki Omori, but does cut a
lot, such as all of the human characters except the two
leads. So most of the human story has been sacrificed,
although the scenes related to the monsters are
intact. As for the art, it's pretty good. The detail
on Battra, especially the larva, is fantastic while both
Mothra and the Cosmos are rendered well. Godzilla
is the only one who suffers, as he looks a little cartoonish
at times thanks to him sporting overly large eyes in
this publication.
The manga portion ends up only being a fourth of the
book, though. The rest is a fairly varied array of content,
that includes: production stills and stats for the monsters
and SDF, a behind the scenes look at the movie, a brief
segment on Mothra (1961)
and finally some toys released for the 1992 movie. All
of these are in color too. The book then ends with a
little encyclopedia on the human characters from the
Heisei films, making particular note of
Miki Saegusa, and the Showa movies. These two are in
black and white, and sometimes with shades of orange
mixed in like the manga.
Overall, despite a chaotic impression, it's a jack of
all trades that's actually a fairly interesting read.
The manga is nothing special, but the rest of the content
included helps to make this worth picking up if one
has a heightened interest for this particular movie
in the series.
As a side
note, I have seen various sources indicate that this
was reprinted in 1994, but have never come across
a book with this date listed and therefore wouldn't know
if anything was altered. |
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