Giant Robots take their responsibilities seriously.

“Whoa there, buddy!” Gaiking practices social distancing and wears a mask. So should you.

Shame on you, Mechagodzilla.

Moguera is darker than you thought.

“Every society has its outliers. The ones who are never satisfied with your normal, everyday existence. The ones who lead life to its fullest extreme, who literally become larger than life. People like Edgar Allen Poe, Jim Morrison, and Beat Takeshi Kitano. The outlaws. That’s what I am, you know—an outlaw.”

“The others don’t take that seriously. Most of them are rank amateurs, to be honest. They talk a great game, and once in a while, one of them will actually go and destroy a city or two…but those are rare now. It’s not like the old days, where you couldn’t find a major Japanese metropolis that hadn’t been flattened by a kaiju. Oh, how the people would run…”

“And we can’t blame it all on the Americans. A good deal, yes, but let’s face it—we had to expand into foreign markets, sooner or later. We had to compromise to do it. And therein lies the great trap that the others don’t understand. The trap that leads to the horror…the dubbing…”

“I know I’ve paid a price for that—for knowing. But, in the end, somebody has to be at the vanguard. Somebody needs to take the point. And that’s what I did. I took the point. And they dropped a bridge onto me for it.”*

“Somebody has to keep it real. And I’m the only one here who does.”

(* = see The Mysterians)

Silverlake #1

Ah, Silverlake! L.A.’s trendiest neighborhood is of course also home to some of the city’s trendiest restaurants and boutiques. With loads of resident actors, producers and publicists that make up the beating heart of Hollywood, it’s a place to be seen, so naturally Mechagodzilla and Moguera are out and about, getting overpriced cold-brewed coffee, and rubbing elbows with the ultra-hip locals taking their accessory dogs to the dog park by the reservoir. Unfortunately for these two, the tabloid press doesn’t consider shots of them to be money-makers.

(**TECH NOTES: this is not a composite, it is a single shot, based on old-school tokusatsu techniques involving subject placement and perspective. Care to guess how I did it?)