Humanities, Volume 13, Issue 5
October 2024 - 32 articles
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Cover Story: In our book Japan’s Green Monsters (2018), we offered an ecocritical analysis of twentieth century kaijū eiga franchises like Godzilla, Mothra, and Gamera. This article serves as a follow-up, examining ongoing environmental issues in Japanese monster movie media of the twenty-first century. Japan’s Tōhō Studios has used their radioactive creation’s global success to breathe new life into their franchise with Shin Godzilla (2016), an animated trilogy, Godzilla Minus One (2023), and short-format media like Chibi Godzilla and Godziban. Similarly, Godzilla’s longtime competitor Gamera also returned in an animated series produced by Kadokawa Corporation, Gamera Rebirth (2023). Our analysis reveals that today’s productions remain steeped in environmental commentary, with these commentaries being fragmented and updated for new concerns of the twenty-first century. View this paper