Kaiju Anatomy

Kaiju Anatomy

Through analyzing 70s kaiju anatomy cutaways, the kaiju most likely to secretly be aliens are Varan, King Caesar, and Megalon

Varan: What the hell is up with your limbs?!! (On second thought those may be something covering the skeletal bones…)

King Caesar has an alien-looking energy sac in place of a stomach, leg bones are incredibly weird, and runs on geothermal energy.

And well, Megalon is Megalon and I don’t feel I even need to post their anatomy for them.

Godzilla’s “final” opponent, Destoroyah is one of the few brand new kaiju of the Heisei series, and one of my all time favorite kaiju. The idea for a kaiju born of the very weapon that killed the first Godzilla is a great idea, an naturally the concept was played around a bit when design Destoroyah.

These two designs were most likely made very early in production with only a basic concept of a kaiju born of the Oxygen Destroyer to work with. These are very reminiscent of the Showa era with designs that are not to busy with spikes and shells. The first one looks as if the Oxygen Destroyer itself is melded to its back!

Much of the Destoroyah concept art on Rodan’s Roost is from the unmade Godzilla Vs. Barubaroi, so I don’t reknow if these pieces are related to that project or not. Either way, they are certainly unique.two bizarre kaiju that attach themselves together to become more powerful. One is a lizard/spider thing with wings and the other resemble a grotesque caterpillar.

These last two are my favorites, especially the second one. These are just super cool to look at. The first one seems to have features that would later be incorporated into Dagarah from Rebirth of Mothra 2, the shoulder cannons and wings in particular. The second one has a very cool look with giant limbs sticking out of its back. I imagine those limbs would have not been very mobile on screen except when needed

More Destoroyah concept art on Rodan’s Roost.

It seems clear they designed the suit with how it lived in its unmutated, man-sized state rather than how it would work as a kaiju.

In place of normal mantid limbs, Kamacuras has a sickle-like claw for cutting through foliage and a spear for skewering smaller prey.

That’s very interesting and I feel no redesign has ever looked at their design with that in mind.

I think a redesign that gives forelimbs convergent with those of a mantis shrimp but like upside down for the spear arm, could be interesting.