Talk:Negadon: The Monster from Mars

Covering Planzet

Watched Planzet using the Dailymotion upload that Zillaman98 found. There are quite a few Negadon references:

• Negadon is the enemy in an electronic game the main character is seen playing before the aliens invade.
• As in Negadon, there's a military character named Seiji Yoshizawa; they even look the same, age aside.
• The retro space station from Negadon is shown destroyed.
• Here's the most eyebrow-raising one: A worn poster for Negadon appears on the side of a shuttered movie theater.
• Humanity's Mt. Fuji-sized mecha superweapon (Kyros?) is a dead ringer for Negadon.

There's also a Martian colony (construction of which began in 2030, five years after Negadon takes place), and F-104 Starfighters are still being flown in 2047, among other retro touches. Yet despite all this, I can find no official confirmation that it's a sequel to Negadon; it's just billed as being made by the same people. This is the case in both English and Japanese publicity materials. Next step is getting the Blu-ray, as it includes an audio commentary by the director. But if he doesn't call it a sequel there, I'm afraid it's going to be a "no" on a Planzet page from me. It would merit a lengthy trivia entry though.--Astounding Beyond Belief (talk) 15:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Wasn't the events of Negadon alluded too in Yūra Yoshizawa's speech though?, i heard name's wasn't used but if you saw Negadon you would know what she was talking about, but im going off of the Omniviewer video i saw, as for no official confirmation of it being a sequel anywhere, maybe it was meant to be a suprise and that the viewer was supposed to draw the connection. https://youtu.be/fGcOtSoAdh4?si=rRKkrJRD01P90CG7

---Zillaman98 (talk)

Ah, I missed that implications of that line; thought she was referring to the energy shield built around Earth. In the dub, the line is "The man who 28 years ago brought the sudden alien attack to a close...", which lines up with the year Negadon is set but doesn't describe Yoshizawa's role in that film at all. He actually tried to talk Narasaki out of fighting Negadon!

Not advertising it as a sequel was marketing malpractice; it's been largely forgotten, but Negadon was very well-received by kaiju fans at the time.--Astounding Beyond Belief (talk) 17:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

--IDK if the dialogue is diffrent in the subbed version of the film. Zillaman98 (talk)