' Gamera: Stomper..!!'

The friend to children and gaurdian of the universe has been stomping the earth scince 1965 !!

Gamera has been my Kaiju hero for a long time..i love his goofy 1960s and 1970s movies.. the Gamera trilogy from the late 1990s blew my f7cking mind !! The original Gamera the Invincible..is extremly eire and fun. Gamera is the original Mutant Turtle is prolly a very close relative to tOkKa. His human connection was there in each and every film.. and especially when silly and cool when he helped little kids. There was alot of charm in every single film.

The sweet as hell fansite that further imbeaded Gammie into my phyche : Shrine of Gamera & the excellent curator ,Kyle's synopsis for Gamera the Invincible::

.. the first of the Japanese monster movies to feature a child in the lead role, and the last of the genre to be filmed in black and white. Gamera was also the only movie in the series to be released to theatres in the United States, unlike the following installments of the series which were only shown on American television, with new footage featuring Brian Donlevy and Albert Dekker added.
It is a period of war, and an aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons is shot down in the Arctic. The plane crashes and causes a nuclear blast, awakening the giant prehistoric turtle, Gamera. Gamera attacks a nearby ship, then heads to Japan, where he destroys a geothermal power plant. A plan to temporarily freeze the creature and turn it on its back using explosives proves unable to stop it, and Gamera heads for Tokyo and wreaks havoc on the bustling metropolis. A new plan to use a trail of fire to lure the giant turtle into a rocket that will be shot into space is put into effect, but just as Gamera begins to follow the trail, rain begins to fall and extinguishes the trail.

..Gamera has been a difficult character for me to illustrate.. and for years now,every drawing i did of him i tossed away in disgust. I think i finally got it tho'(..i think) ..with this illustration. I tryed to 'relax' Gammie just a bit ,lean him on his tail and let him do a ninja kick ( ^_^ ) ..perhaps he's kicking one of the many villian monsters in the collage. Some of the pix i stole.. and some i took myself from screen caps from Gamera 3: Incomplete Struggle and Gamera vs. Guiron and one of my Gamra figures..look close..in some form or another all of Gamera's enemies are there : Barugon, Gyaos, Viras, Guiron, Zigra, Jiger, Legion Mother, the strange & twisted vampire creature;Irys, and even the Garasharp & Makkarappa..villians from a Gamera movie that was never made.

..Gamera, Gamera
(Gamera, Gamera)
Ikasuzo, Gamera! Ikasuzo, Gamera! Ikasuzo, Gamera!
(So cool, Gamera! So cool, Gamera! So cool, Gamera!)
Nichi, Getsu, Ka, Sui, Nichi, Getsu, Ka, Sui
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
Nikkoh saegiru, Akuma no niji da
(Shadow the Sun, Evil's Rainbow)
Reitoh Kaiju, Kurunara koi!
(Frozen monster, Dare to march!)
Haneta-zo, Tonda-zo. Go! Go! Go!
(Jumped, Flew. Go! Go! Go!)
Kaen Funsha de Yattsukero
(Destroy with Jet Flame. Here goes Gamera!)
Ikasuzo, Gamera! Ikasuzo, Gamera! Ikasuzo, Gamera!
(So cool, Gamera! So cool, Gamera! So cool, Gamera!) .. ..

..and it goes on like that..

"Gamera is really sweet,
He is filled with turtle meat.. We all
love you Gamera!! ..
Now we have Commercial Sign!"

- Tom,Crow and Joel ;Mystery Science Theater 3000
Eh.. it was summin' like that !!

.. ink,crayons,colour pencils,P.shop.. - 27 May 2004