![]() Y’see there’s a bomb that causes an earthquake in the Middle East that awakens Yongary. He kind of looks like if Gamera and Anguilas went on a drunken bender and their subsequent visit to Kaiju Planned Parenthood didn’t end well. South Korea produced their own kaiju legend with Yongary, a sort of horned-dragon looking thingamabeast. The Japanese don’t have a monopoly on rubber-suited bringers of fiery oblivion. Sounds good? Make no mistake, Gappa possesses a special kind of suck that made it a staple of late-night syndication for over two decades.įirst Appearance: Great Monster Yongary (1967) a.k.a Yongary: Monster From the Deep Some memorable moments include Mama Gappa feeding Baby Gappa a giant squid and Gappa wrecking a kabuki theatre mid-performance. Turns out, there is a Mama and a Papa Gappa (Papa Gappa, Papa Gappa, man, that’s fun to say) that want their baby back…so they wreck Tokyo looking for junior. Read more: A Weird History of Marvel’s Godzilla Comics Gappa is the story of a prehistoric bird/fish/lizard thing found by Japanese scientists and brought to the mainland. Awesomely, the parody did not survive the translation into English, and the American version plays it pretty straight. Gappa was originally intended to be a parody of the kaiju genre, and if one watches the film in its native language, the light-hearted approach is evident.
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