Gamera (GAMERA -Rebirth-)

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Gamera GameraBabyOriginal Alternate names Gamera (2023), Turtle Height 60 meters Weight 800 metric tons Enemies Gyaos, Jiger, Zigra, Guiron, Viras, S-Gyaos Designed by Kan Takahama First appearance GAMERA -Rebirth- Roar(s)

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Junichi: “He's protecting us.”

Joe: “No way.”

― Junichi and Joe observing Gamera's protection against Guiron.

Gamera (ガメラ) is a giant, flying, turtle-like gaurdian kaiju who stars in the 2023 anime series GAMERA -Rebirth-. Despite being created for the purification 100,000 years ago, he was stolen away from the Foundation and now fights the other kaiju to protect Boco, Joe, Junichi, and Brody, so that the children will not fall into the hands of the Foundation and be used to destroy most of humanity.

Development

For GAMERA -Rebirth-, Gamera was designed by Kan Takahama, who previously designed and modeled Toto in Gamera the Brave and designed Gamera for Katsuhito Ishii's 2015 short film. A guiding principle of this Gamera's design was to make him akin to a "moving mountain," an intention which was also expressed by Ishii for the 2015 Gamera.

Design

Gamera's appearence is heavily reminicent of the design from the short film GAMERA, specifically in the monster's posture, carapace shape, and head shape. However, this Gamera is a dark greenish-blue in color, with bright blue-green accents on his spiked plastron. He has large, bright green eyes and a pointed snout, a longer tail, as well as large hands. Similar to the Heisei incarnation of the character, this Gamera's front limbs transform into flipper-like wings when flying, with bright blue jets of flame blasting out from the leg holes of his shell.

Origin

100,000 years prior to the main events of GAMERA -Rebirth- in 1989, Gamera was used by an ancient civilization to assist in the purification of the world, but was stolen away from the Foundation and turned against them, ruining their plan of human population control.

Personality

Gamera is a fearless and heroic monster, who protects Boco and his friends no matter his pain. He is shown to be willing to both sustain heavy injuries and sacrifice himself for the saftey of the children. He is a very brutal and fierce combatant, utilizing his abilities and overall physical strength to overpower, throw, dismember, and maim his opponents. Gamera is also very intelligent, showing that he knew not only exactly where the Foundation's Moon base was located, but also that it was the root of the kaiju plauging humanity and needed to be destroyed.

History

• GAMERA -Rebirth- (TV 2023)

Reiwa era

GAMERA -Rebirth-

"Over Tokyo"

In the summer of 1989, after Tokyo was struck by Gyaos, Gamera saved elementary school students Boco, Joe, Junichi, and Brody from the creatures when landing from the sky and firing a flame bullet at them. He crushed the small Gyaos and grabbed them out of the air, sustaining minimal damage from their Supersonic Scalpels. After the small creatures had been finished off, the largest Gyaos blasted Gamera with its own beam before Gamera returned fire with three shots, the third hitting Gyaos's wing. The flying monster swooped down, dodging another blast and having to circle back towards Gamera, charging its beam. It was interrupted by yet another fireball which incinerated its leg. Gyaos finally reached Gamera, sinking its claws into his shoulder while pulling him around and firing its Supersonic Scalpel at point-blank range. Gamera smacked Gyaos to the ground, stepped on its neck, and grabbed its intact wing and leg with each arm, pulling with extreme force. Gyaos was able to break free of its adversary, beginning to fly away, but Gamera yanked it back again before leaping and stomping on Gyaos's back. Gyaos attempted to counterattack with its energy weapon, but Gamera seized its head, piercing its eye with his thumb-claw. He slammed its head into the ground before grabbing it by the neck and hurling it over his shoulder. Gamera finished off Gyaos with a single direct hit from a flame bullet, killing Gyaos. Several U.S. fighter jets then arrived and began firing missiles at him, forcing Gamera to fly away into the sky.

"Under Current"

As the U.S. military began searching for the Jiger specimens in the sewers, Gamera flew from the ocean near several warships, where they launched over twenty SM2 missiles at him. Gamera evaded many of the missiles, then utilized his electrical shockwave to destroy the final wave and disappear from radar.

As the remaining Jiger, now gigantic, destroyed military vehicles and headed towards the group of kids, Emiko, and Tazaki, whom had crashed in their transport from debris, Gamera reappeared on radar and shot a blast of flame downwards, with Jiger dodging out of the way. Gamera landed and charged towards Jiger and lifted her into the air. She began to stab him in the side repeatedly with her tail spike, until Gamera fell, throwing her into the ground. As Jiger regained her footing and began eating soldiers and civilians, Gamera grabbed her by the tail. He yanked her backwards into the air and slammed her into the ground before slashing his claws into her underbelly. Suddenly, Gamera was interrupted as the U.S. military began to bombard him with bullets and missiles, with Jiger stalking to his side and stabbing and slashing him in the chest with her tail, causing him to fall. Brody was able to convince his father to switch focus to Jiger, giving Gamera time to get up and charge his flaming fist. He jammed his flaming fist into Jiger's mouth and lifted her up, severely scorching her insides. Jiger fell limp, and Gamera threw a great distance with his fist, charging up and firing a flame shot, killing her. He then lifted off into the air and flew away.

"Run Silent, Run Deep"

As Zigra raced towards the boat transporting the kids, Emiko, and Tazaki, Gamera intercepted him from below, grabbing him and biting into his neck before plunging back into the ocean. Gamera continued dragging Zigra into the depths, biting deeper into his neck and smashing him against the ocean floor. The guardian monster immediately turned around and headed towards the surface, spinning with Zigra as he kicked his plastron. Zigra utilized his elastic tail to wrap around Gamera's neck, pulling them apart. Gamera chased after Zigra as he fled, with Zigra circling around with supercavitation and turning the tables, beginning to pursue Gamera while firing his liquid shot repeatedly. These hit Gamera's shell, with no noticeable damage being dealt, and Gamera turned around with Zigra turning in conjunction to continue the chase. Gamera dodged several more liquid shots before finally being hit in the plastron, causing him to cry out in pain. As the humans escaped in a submarine attached to the now-destroyed ship, Gamera continued being followed by Zigra, turning around to face and charge at him. Gamera began charging his electricity as they charged at each other, discharging it in a massive electrical shockwave. Gamera began sinking and Zigra was rendered disoriented for som etime as it swam off to continue searching for the children.

As Zigra closed in on the electrical tower, Gamera erupted from the sea, roaring. The turtle monster crackled with electricity, and Zigra began to charge up his own energy attack while slowly extending his tail towards Gamera. Zigra suddenly leapt up, turned around, and fired his liquid shot while launching his tail at Gamera, stabbing him in the shoulder. Zigra glided towards him while firing another blast, but Gamera ducked into the water to counter it before rising back up and firing a flame shot, striking Zigra in the chest. Zigra screeched and flailed for a few seconds before dying and burning out. Gamera turned, roared in victory, and swam off into the ocean.

"KILL"

As Guiron looked into the building at Boco and Brody, the kaiju suddenly turned his head and leaped away just in time to dodge a fireball. Suddenly a second fireball blasted through the floating mine facility, striking Guiron in the blade and flipping him into the air as Gamera flew up from the ocean. Guiron landed on his feet has Gamera touched down on the ground, and the kaiju turned to face each other, roaring. With another roar, the monsters charged each other, with Gamera smacking away the blade only for Guiron to counterattack with a slice through his thigh. Gamera fired another flame shot, only for Guiron to dodge in a front flip, spinning twice to slice into Gamera's arm as the turtle monster blocked with it. Gamera charged again, hitting Gurion's blade with his claws and dodging each time as his opponent tried to bring it down on him. Gamera fired two more blasts, with Guiron jumping aside from the first and leaping over Gamera to avoid the second. Gamera finally landed a shot as Guiron touched down, but it seemed ineffective against the bladed kaiju's durable back. As Tazaki freed Emiko from rubble, Gamera continued to shoot flame bullets at Guiron, with these shots being dodged each time. Guiron leaped over Gamera again, and his back blades began to crackle with bright blue electricity. His middle row of back blades locked into position and he straightened his back and started launching electrically-charged blades at Gamera, causing small cuts where they bounced off and sliced into his body, almost hitting Boco and Brody. As Guiron slowly marched forward while firing the blades, Gamera continued protecting the children. Gamera fired another flame blast at Guiron, but he leapt into the air yet again and fires another blade, hitting Gamera in the eye. Yet again, Gamera fired a flame bullet only for Guiron to dodge, flipping toward him and slashing through Gamera's right arm, cutting it off. Blood sprayed from the wound, and Boco yelled in pain and grabbed his right arm in the same spot. Gamera stumbled backwards into the building, and Guiron rushes forward with his nasal blade pointed straight ahead, piercing all the way through Gamera's body and out the back of his carapace. Gamera roared in pain, falling forwards as Guiron pulled his blade out of him. Gamera tucked his remaining limbs against his shell, the plates that make up his carapace stuck out, and he started his jets, spinning and hovering up from the ground. Guiron attempted to fire more blades as Gamera spins faster, but they bounced harmlessly off his shell. Gamera lifted into the air and spinned towards Guiron, with the quadruped leaping up to avoid the attack. Guiron landed and attempted to fire more blades, having to leap to avoid another oncoming attack. Gamera turned so that his spinning jets were pointed vertically and slowed to a halt before speeding upward and slicing Guiron in half length-wise. As Guiron's pieces fell into the sea, so did Gamera, still tucked into his shell.

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

As Viras powered up its charged heavy particle beam, preparing to fire at the kids, Tazaki, Dario as they esacped into space with the shuttle, a fire ball erupts from the ocean and hits Viras in the side, causing it to hit only a glancing blow on the shuttle and killing Dario in the cockpit and knocking out Tazaki. At the mine base, Gamera flies from the ocean, roaring and rapid firing flame shots at Viras. All of these are rendered ineffective due to Viras's electrmagnetic barrier, so Gamera rushes forward and slams into his opponents face, tackling it to the ground. Gamera begins to slash with his claws and arm stump - not yet fully healed from his battle with Guiron - but Viras grabs him with its tentacles and lifts him into the air before smahing him into the ground and whipping him with electrified tentacles. Viras garbs and lifts him into the air again, running electricity into Gamera's body and causing him to roar in pain then slamming him to the ground again, and Gamera goes limp as his eyes close.

As Viras uses its gravatational control to accelerate into the atmosphere after the now-falling shuttle, Gamera awakens and lefts himself off of the ground. Seeing the shapes of both Viras and the shuttle, Gamera uses his leg jets to rocket himself after them. Noticing this, Viras begins charging up its particle beam, firing at the approaching monster. Gamera uses his own gravitational control to redirect the beam in multiple directions, taking no damage. Viras fires again, but nothing happens, and Gamera continues forward, blasting straight through Viras's body, causing its two halfs to fall to the ground below. Gamera spots the falling escape pod containing Boco, Junichi, Brody, and Tazaki after Joe sacrificed himself to launch it from the shuttle. Inside the pod, the parachute malfunctions, but the kids notice a reptilian claw covering the window. Gamera had caught them with his remaining hand, and crashed into the ground, saving them while sustaining grevious injuries. The group got out of the escape pod and looked upon Gamera's body as oryllium shards fall around them.

"Childhood's End"

As Gamera lay dormant on the beach, the children plead with Tazaki to do something to help. After initially refusing, Tazaki is convinced when Junichi explains that Gamera was the best chance of survival against the Foundation and their kaiju, and he contacts the Prime Minister.

Later on, some of the best scientists and medical proffessionals in all of Japan arrive to help revitalize Gamera, who had now been moved into a large, warehouse-like building. After Tazaki tells them that oryllium heals the kaiju, they begin work on finding a solution. They are able to gather information on many of Gamera's internal functions, and that oryllium acts as both a generator and amplifier of energy that powers the kaiju. Suddenly, Gamera's pulse begins to weaken, causing alarms to go off. The children then remember their vision, and the contraption used to revive Gamera 100,000 years ago, and explain to the scientists. They come up with the cage that applified the frequency of the material, slowly healing Gamera's wounds and causing him to emit a slight blue glow. As this process is underway, S-Gyaos arrives off shore and enganges with the military, who try to defend Gamera until he is fully healed.

As Boco runs as far as he can to lure S-Gyaos away and buy Gamera time to regain his strength, the gaurdian monster detects that Boco is in danger. Boco is trapped on a cliff as S-Gyaos approaches, but Gamera, having gotten up before fully recovering, blasts S-Gyaos with a flame shot, knocking it over away from the child. Gamera roars as he rises over the hill, and continues firing rapid fire balls against hsi opponent's hide. The monsters roar to eachother and S-Gyaos charges, with Gamera hitting him away and grabbing its face and smashing it into the ground with his remaining arm. S-Gyaos backs up a little bit and fires its Super Sonic Scalpel several times, but Gamera blocked with his shell and armored forearm as he charges his electricity. Gamera discharges the power into an electrical shockwave, stunning S-Gyaos and cauing it to fall over backwards into the water. Gamera begins charging another large flame shot, but S-Gyaos interrupts the fire with his extendable tounge, plunging it down Gamera's throat. Gamera attempts to pull the tounge out of his mouth but fails when begins to weaken from S-Gyaos injecting RNA viruses into him. Suddenly, commander Muneatsu Sasaki begins firing at winged monster's face and open mouth, causing S-Gyaos to reel back but not retract its tounge. Several U.S. aircraft arrive and bombard the monster's back, with a final shot in the mouth from Sasaki causing it to release Gamera and pull back its tounge. Gamera roars and flies into the air, begining to spin in multiple diections, creating a barrier with his jets. As Gamera proceeded to lower towards it, S-Gyaos fired several Super Sonic Scalpels, but these all deflected off against the barrier, allowing Gamera to slice against S-Gyaos, killing it and landing on its body. As Gamera emerged from his shell and stood up, the Foundation leaders activated the RNA viruses S-Gyaos had injected into him, restructuring his genetic code as it was originally intended. This caused Gamera's skin to darken from a green to a black, and his turned from bright geen and blue to orange and red. Gamera roared and began to slowly walk towards Boco, who screamed to Gamera that he was different from the other kaiju, which causes him to hesitate before roaring and looking at Boco. Gamera's head suddenly lols, and his eyes change back to their green and blue coloring. Gamera looks back up as his chest begins to crackle with energy, and he slowly turns away from Boco, who begins screaming for him to stop. Gamera tilts his head back to look straight towards the sky and at the moon, and energy began to gather around him and in his mouth. The energy concentrates to a singuar point in Gamera's mouth before exploding out into a beam, firing the Oryllium Cannon, reaching space and completely evicerating the Foundation's Moon base and blasting through the back of the Moon. Gamera stood still in the same position for a few moments before his body started to disintegrate, leaving behind a bright-blue glowing egg.

Well after Gamera's death, Boco, Junichi, and Brody walk into a facility and look into a large glass tube, housing a baby Gamera surrounded by his eggshell. The baby gave a small, squeaking roar as he turned to look at the kids.

Video games

• Godzilla Battle Line (2021; added in 2023) - Android, iOS, and PC

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  Gamera in Godzilla Battle Line

Abilities

Flight

Gamera is capable of flight at great speeds, seeming to propel himself using plasma jets from his limbs. He was able to outmaneuver several missiles from a naval fleet in the air and utilized his jets underwater to dodge almost all of Zigra's liquid shots. He can use his jets to create a large fire boost, similar to that of a space shuttle.

Flame Shot

After charging up with electricity, Gamera is able to blast a fiery projectile called Flame Shot (火焔弾,   Kaendan) from his mouth.In Godzilla Battle Line, these projectiles are called Flame Bullets. Gamera tends to use these as a finsihing blow, and they are powerful enough to create very large explosions when they land, incinerate and vaporize entire body parts, and kill opponents in one direct hit. He can also rapid-fire these shots to much less devastating effect.

In the official novelization, it is described to be composed of a magma-like rotating core being covered with plasma energy and pulsed electricity. It can penetrate energy shields of other kaiju, and kill small kaiju in its vicinity without direct hitting with its extreme heat and pulsed electricity.

Electromagnetic Shockwave

When charging up the electricity on his chest, Gamera can discharge it in a massive shockwave of electricity called Electromagnetic Shockwave (電磁衝撃波,   Denji Shōgekiha). He used this to destroy oncoming missiles and disorient Zigra.

Physical abilities

Gamera appears to be a capable hand-to-hand combatant, using his claws to slash opponents, and was strong enough to lift and toss Jiger. Despite his size, Gamera is quite agile, being very fast in both water and in the sky, and can even leap at his enemies.

Ember Vanishing Hand

Gamera is able to direct the energy he needs for his Flame Shots into his hands and create a burning effect. This attack is called Ember Vanishing Hand (燼滅手,   Jinmetsushu). He uses this against Jiger to penetrate Jiger's energy shield and heat-resistant mucus and burned her from the inside out.

In the novelization, Gamera initially produced bolts of electricity from his chest which propagates to his arm, and produces a large amount of vapor.

Shell saw

By retracting all his limbs and head into his shell, Gamera can use his jets and become a giant buzzsaw.

Jet barrier

Gamera can create a deadly barrier by retracting his limbs into his shell and using his jets to spin very fast in many directions, resulting in a shield that was able to deflect multiple shots from S-Gyaos's powerful Supersonic Scalpel and kill it.

Gamera fires his Oryllium Cannon into the Foundation's Moon base

Gravitational control

While in space, Gamera showed off the ability to control gravity and redirect Viras's charged heavy particle beam.

Orylium Cannon

As a final last ditch attack, Gamera is able to fire a beam of Orylium-based energy from his mouth capable of reaching into space. However, this comes at the cost of his life, causing his body to disintegrate.

Reincarnation

Gamera, upon dying after using the Orylium Cannon, leaves behind an egg which hatches into a new Gamera.

Energy Shield

Along with other kaijus, Gamera's skin is coated with a thin layer of energy which weakens physical damages.

Other

Gamera can "contact" humans via consciousnesses and can interfere with "contacts" by other kaijus, and is also capable of showing memories of other humans in the past. The chosen contact child naturally knows Gamera's name, and his name somehow makes others feel convinced that it is correct. The name also somehow gives hope to the chosen child. The contacted children start to grow an ability to sense kaijus approaching.

Gallery

Main article: Gamera/Gallery.

Videos

Making of GAMERA -Rebirth-: Gamera

Trivia

• While this Gamera is equal in body height to Showa Gamera, his body weight increased tenfold from the Showa incarnation. This is somewhat consistent with the increase in body weight between Gamera in the Heisei Trilogy and Avant Gamera.
• The depiction of Gamera's neck glowing when he uses fireballs bears some resemblance to an unused idea of Shinji Higuchi's for Gamera the Guardian of the Universe (1995), where Gamera would split his mouth open and emit lights from his neck when using Plasma Fireballs. This is also similar to the sequence of Godzilla's atomic breath by Higuchi in Shin Godzilla (2016). Moreover, Gamera's chest also glows, similar to Toto when using the Toto Impact in Gamera the Brave.
• Gamera's glowing eyes somewhat resemble those of the Gamera from the Showa series and the scrapped idea for Toto's eyes to glow green.
• The depiction of Gamera discharging electricity when spitting fireballs is similar to Godzilla Earth and Godzilla Filius's atomic breath in the GODZILLA anime trilogy, which was co-directed by Hiroyuki Seshita.
• The description of Jinmetsushu bears remembrances both to the Vanishing Fist of Heisei Gamera and the Toto Impact by Toto where Toto glows red and emits extreme heat to incinerate Zedus’s tongue.
• Gamera’s Orylium cannon as the last resort is somewhat similar to that of Avant Gamera's self destruct and Toto's Toto Impact where these two attacks are described to use the same energy, and both Gameras gave births to their successors through self-destruct moves.
• The depiction of Gamera to emit additional jets from wings while flying somewhat resembles the concept of Gamera in the 2015 short film to emit Boosters (ブースター,   Būsutā) from his shell to support his flight.
• While previous incarnations of the character possess attributes regarding electricity, this is the first Gamera to visibly discharge electricity.
• The depiction of the spinning flight attack greatly resembles the Shell Cutter (シェル・カッター,   Sheru Kattā) used in Gamera vs. Phoenix and in Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris especially the former to share the action to alter edges of shells and cut opponents in half. The depiction of it also resembles a scrapped idea in G3 where jets become a ring due to increased rotation speed.

References

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Bibliography

• Nakamura, Satoshi; Shimazaki, Jun; Hazawa, Masato (21 August 2015). Heisei Gamera Perfection (reprint ed.). Kadokawa.
• Noguchi, Tomokazu, ed. (29 December 2015). Uchusen. No. 151. Hobby Japan.

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