Killer Whale
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The Killer Whale (鯨神 is a whale Kujira Gami, lit. Whale God)kaiju who appears in Koichiro Uno's 1961 novel The Whale God and its 1962 Daiei film adaptation, Killer Whale.
Design
The Killer Whale is an unusually large and seemingly immortal North Pacific right whale.
History
Killer Whale
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Trivia
- The Killer Whale, along with the novel and film featuring it, is inspired by the American novel Moby-Dick.
- A Japanese book about Daiei's giant monster films presents a scenario similar to Toho's Destroy All Monsters, featuring Gamera joining forces with several Earth monsters and former enemies of his against an alliance between the Zigrans and the Virasians. One of the Earth monsters that aids Gamera is a giant whale named Whale God God Gein (鯨神 ゴッドゲイン, a certain reference to the Killer Whale. Kujira Gami Goddo Gein)[1] This whale is physically powerful, immune to W's cell activity suspension beams, and later battles a Zigran in New York.[2]
- The title Kujira Gami (lit. Whale God) has also been used in several other franchises most notably in the GeGeGe no Kitarō series as an alias of Dai-Kaijū. Mizuki's Dai-Kaijū was presumably influenced by Daiei's Kujira Gami, as a scene in a comic closely resembles one of the visuals of Daiei's Kujira Gami.[3]
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