Gamera (GAMERA -Rebirth-)
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Gamera (ガメラ) is a giant, flying, turtle-like gaurdian kaiju who stars in the 2023 anime series GAMERA -Rebirth-.
Development
For GAMERA -Rebirth-, Gamera was designed by Kan Takahama,[2] who previously designed and modeled Toto[3] in Gamera the Brave and designed Gamera for Katsuhito Ishii's 2015 short film.[4] A guiding principle of this Gamera's design was to make him akin to a "moving mountain,"[5] an intention which was also expressed by Ishii for the 2015 Gamera.[6]
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 created 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.
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 the out of the air, sustaining minimal damage from their Supersonic Scalpels. After the small creatures ahd been finishined off, the large Gyaos blasted Gamera with its own beam before Gamera returned fire with three shots, the third hitting Gyaos's wing. The flying monster swoops down, dodging another blast and having to circle back towards Gamera, charging its beam. It is interrupted by yet another fire ball, having to dodge and getting its leg incinerated in the process. Gyaos finally reaches Gamera, sinking its claws into his shoulder while pulling him around and firing its Supersonic Scalpel at point blank range. Gamera smacks Gyaos to the gorund, steps on its neck, and grabs its intact wing and leg with each arm, pulling with extreme force. Gyaos is able to break free of its adversary, begining to fly away, but Gamera yanks it back again before leaping and stomping on Gyaos's back. Gyaos attempts to counterattack with its energy weapon, but Gamera grabs its head, piercing its eye with his thumb-claw. He slams its head into the ground before grabbing it by the neck and hurling it over his shoulder. Gamera finishes off Gyaos with a single direct hit from a flame bullet, killing Gyaos. Several military jets then arrived and began firing missiles at him, forcing Gamera to fly away into the sky.
Under Current
As the military began searching for the Jiger specimens in the sewers, Gamera flew from the ocean near several battle ships, where they launched over twenty SM2 missiles at him. Gamera utilized his electrical shockwave to destroy the weapons and dissapear from radar.
As the remaining Jiger, now gigantic, continued to destroy militray vehicles and head towards the group of kids, Emiko, and Tazaki, whom had crashed in their transport from debris, Gamera reappeared on radar and shot a balst 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 repeatedy with her tail spike, until Gamera fell, throwing her into the ground. As Jiger regained her footing and began eating soldiers, Gamera grabbed her by the tail, yanking her backwards into the air and slammed her into the ground before slashing his claws into her underbelly. Suddenly, Gamera is interrupted as the military began to bombard him with ammunitions and missiles, with Jiger stalking to his side and stabbing and slashing him in the chest with her tail, causing him to fall. Brody is 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. The gaurdian monster immediately turned around and headed towards the surface, spinning with Zigra has 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, begining 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 exploded ship, Gamera continued being followed by Zigra, turing around to face and gcharge at him. Gamera began charging his electricity as they charged at eachother, discharging it in a massive electrical shockwave. Gamera began sinking and Zigra was rendered disoriented for sometime 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 crackeled with electricity, and Zigra began to charge up his own energy attack while slowly extending his tail towards Gamera. Zigra suddenly lept 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 on Boco and Brody, the kaiju suddenly turned his head and leaped away just in time to dodge a fire ball. Suddenly a second fire ball 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 eachother, roaring. With another roar, the monsters charged eachother, with Gamera smacking away the balde only for Guiron to counterattack with a 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 inaffective 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 Broady. As Guiron slowly marches forward while firing the blades, Gamera continues protecting the children. Gamera fires another flame blast at Guiron, but he leaps into the air yet again and fires another blade, hitting Gamera in the eye. Yet again, Gamera fires a flame bullet only for Guiron to dodge, flipping toward him and slashing through Gamera's right arm, cutting it off. Blood sprays from the wound, and Boco yells in pain and grabs his right arm in the same spot. Gamera stumbles backwards into the building, and Guiron rushes foward with his nasal blade pointed straight ahead, peircing all the way through Gamera's body and out the back of his carapace. Gamera roars in pain, falling forwards as Guiron pulls his blade out of him. Gamera tucks his remaining limbs against his shell, the plates that make up his carapace stick out, and he starts his jets, spinning and hovering up from the ground. Guiron attempts to fire more blades as Gamera spins faster, but they bounce harmlessly off his shell. Gamera lifts of into the air and spins towards Guiron, with the quadruped leaping up to avoid the attack. Guiron lands and attampts to fire more blades, having to leap to avoid another oncoming attack. Gamera turns so that his spinning jets are pointed vertically and slows to halt before speeding upward and slicing Guiron in half length-wise. As Guiron's pieces fall into sea, so does Gamera, still tucked into his shell.
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
To be added.
Childhood's End
To be added.
Video games
- Godzilla Battle Line (2021; added in 2023) - Android, iOS, and PC
Gamera in Godzilla Battle Line
Abilities
Flight
Gamera is capable of flight at great speeds, seeming to propel himself using 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.
Fire-breathing
After charging up with electricity, Gamera is able to blast a fiery projectile called Flame Shot (火焔弾 Kaendan) from his mouth.[7]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.
Electrical Shockwave
When charging up the electricity on his chest, Gamera can discharge it in a massive shockwave of electricity. 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.
Flaming Fist
Gamera is able to direct the energy he needs for his Flame Shots into his hands and create a burning effect. He uses this against Jiger to burn her from the inside out.
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 sheild that was able to deflect multiple shots from S-Gyaos's powerful Super Sonic Scalpel and kill it.
Gravitational Control
While in space, Gamera showed off the ability to control gravity and redirect Viras's charged heavy particle beam.
Oryllium Cannon
As a final last ditch attack, Gamera is able to fire a beam of Oryllium based energy from his mouth capable of reaching into space. However, this comes at the cost of his life.
Reincarnation
Gamera, upon dying after using the Oryllium Cannon, Gamera leaves behind an egg which hatches into a new Gamera.
Gallery
- Main article: Gamera/Gallery.
Videos
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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.[8] This is also similar to the sequence of Godzilla's atomic breath by Higuchi in Shin Godzilla (2016). Moreover, Gamera's chest also glows,[5] 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.[9]:143:150
- 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.
References
This is a list of references for Gamera (GAMERA -Rebirth-). These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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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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