Flickr user modern_fred's Japanese movie monster scan collection includes a few vintage illustrations detailing the innards of Godzilla and other famous kaiju.
Godzilla
This anatomical sketch of Godzilla reveals a relatively small brain, giant lungs that allow underwater breathing, leg muscles that can support 20,000 tons of body weight, and a "uranium sack" and "nuclear reaction sack" that produce radioactive fire-breath and energize the body.
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Jiger reveals her inner self
According to this anatomical drawing, Jiger has a pair of horns that can shoot missiles made of hardened saliva and one that fires a deadly magnetium (?) beam.
Jiger (uploaded by Paulkaiju)
Other characteristics include extremely powerful suction cups covering the entire body, an organ that enables Jiger to spit jets of seawater at 300 kilometers per hour, a stomach that can melt iron ore, and a tail that functions as an ovipositor.
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Mothra larva
This anatomical sketch of Mothra in larval form shows a robust jaw, an enormous stomach, an elongated silk-producing organ, a row of breathing orifices on either side of the body, countless cilia on the bottom surface, and a rudimentary nervous system consisting of a cerebral ganglion and a network of nerve ganglia distributed across the body.
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Guiron -- a peek inside the belly of the beast
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Anguirus
This anatomical diagram of Anguirus shows eyes that can detect infrared light, a pair of sub-brains that control the forelegs and rear legs, highly developed rear leg muscles, and a heavily spiked rear carapace.
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This illustration of "Flaming Monster Gamera" (from An Anatomical Guide to Monsters) reveals eyes that can see in the dark, arms strong enough to lift and throw a 50-ton boat, and "fire sacks" that let Gamera shoot flames from his hands.
Gamera
The illustration also shows a series of sack-like organs for storing lava, oil, coal and uranium (like Godzilla), as well as balloon-like organs in the legs that can blast air through the bottoms of the feet.
[Link: modern_fred's kaiju eiga photoset]
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Apple Otaku
The art style reminds me of my 7th grade biology textbook.
[ ]meatbagwtfian
What?!?!? No Gigan?!?!? I would give my right arm just to get a peek at his mysterious inner workings. Any monster with a rotating circular saw blade instead of a sternum probably has a highly interesting anatomical configuration, complete with exotic aftermarket space monster engineering.
[ ]LoboOscuro
NOOOOOO!!! NO PODEEEEEESSSS!!! AAAARGHHH!! QUE GENTE AL PEDO POR DIOOOOOSS!! NOOOOOO!!!
Bueno, ahora que ya me calme voy a ver si puedo postear imagenes sobre la anatomia de PICACHUUU!!! O DE DORAEMOOOONN!! UFF!! HAY MUCHOOOSS!! ANATOMIA DE NECKO-BUUUS!! JAJAJAJAJA!!! XDDDDDDDD
[ ]Gustavo
LoboOscuro sos un forrazo, pendejo imbecil cerra el culo.
[ ]Ian
thia is fucking amasing
[ ]xkeranx95x
this i good but the lack of english bad shame there is none
[ ]takuu
lol shame that you lack english
[ ]TerdFerguson
is this concept art? or douche-baggery?
[ ]David ESP
Nice pics, very interesting, thanx for the translation :)
[ ]kaiju expert
they are very interesting shame there isn't more but godzilla has neare human intelegence in some movies so why is his brain so small?
[ ]Thoth
Because being as smart as a human would only require a tiny segment of that brain? Remember how big Godzilla is supposed to be...
[ ]Robert
What you're forgetting is that Godzilla also has a sencond brain in his thigh.
[ ]lol's
the godzilla anatomy mentions nothing about a second brain lol
[ ]Joseph
This piece of artwork probably predates that movie. The existence of a second brain wasn't established until 1993, but the Godzilla design depicted here is from 1962. I'm guessing this drawing is from the late 60s or early 70s.
[ ]Troycool
Nice anatomy. I would appreciate if you could stop by the well known Godzilla site, Godzilla.wikia.com and make pages about the anatomy of the monsters. It would be a nice addition to the site. Check it out
Thank You
[ ]sidhartha
What?!?!? No Gigan?!?!? I would give my right arm just to get a peek at his mysterious inner workings. Any monster with a rotating circular saw blade instead of a sternum probably has a highly interesting anatomical configuration, complete with exotic aftermarket space monster engineering.
Thank You
[ ]Julian Hendricks
i need a megalon anatomical drawing how the hell does a beetle rotate drills instead of having hands???
[ ]Dustin
Does anyone know the name of the artist who drew these?
[ ]Fantoboy
I totally have one of those books from my childhood!
http://i52.tinypic.com/k53i55.jpg
[ ]Fantoboy
ps- the Megalon page doesn't have an anatomical drawing
[ ]Oolee
Large lung capacity allows for underwater breathing? Someone slept through biology class.
[ ]ratana
like it
[ ]Julie
Anyone know where I can buy poster of these? or prints?
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