Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Great Encyclopedia
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- Nao Kato
- Shinji Nishikawa (manga)
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- Manami Kawamura
- Taichi Fukui
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Hand Made Paddock
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December 25, 1995
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The Godzilla vs. Destoroyah Great Encyclopedia (ゴジラVSデストロイア大百科, Gojira tai Desutoroia Daihyakka) is a 1995 informational book focused on Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. It was published by Rippu Shobo on December 25, 1995, a little over two weeks after the film's release. Among its contents is a short manga adaptation of the film by Shinji Nishikawa, simply titled Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (ゴジラVSデストロイア, Gojira tai Desutoroia).
Contents
- Contents もくじ (p. 2)
- Battle Highlights 決戦ハイライト (p. 4)
- Godzilla (p. 10)
- Thorough Analysis of Godzilla ゴジラ徹底解剖 (p. 12)
- Godzilla Junior (p. 14)
- Destoroyah (p. 16)
- Thorough Analysis of Destoroyah デストロイア徹底解剖 (p. 18)
- (p. 18) Flying Form
- (p. 19) Aggregate Form
- (p. 20) Perfect Form
- Super X3 (p. 22)
- CLT-95 (p. 24)
- Special Effects Report: How Special Effects Scenes are Made! 特撮レポート 特撮場面はこうして作られる! (p. 25)
- Godzilla Merchandise Catalog ゴジラ・グッズカタログ (p. 32)
- Manga: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah まんが『ゴジラVSデストロイア』 (p. 33)
- The People Involved with Godzilla ゴジラにかかわった人たち (p. 52)
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: Monster Battles Map ゴジラVSデストロイア 怪獣対決マップ (p. 54)
- Oxygen Destroyer and Micro-Oxygen Comparative Study オキシジェンデストロイヤー・ミクロオキシゲン比較大研究 (p. 56)
- Watching Junior Grow Up, by His Guardian Godzilla ジュニアの成長を見つめて 保護者 ゴジラ (p. 58)
- '89-'95 Replay: G Psychic Miki Saegusa Won't Lose to Godzilla! プレイバック’89～’95 Gエスパー三枝未希のゴジラに負けないぞ! (p. 60)
- Godzilla Research Files Part 1: The JSDF & G-Force's Man-made Anti-Godzilla Weapons ゴジラ研究ファイル その1 自衛隊&Gフォース 人類が作り出した対ゴジラ兵器 (p. 65)
- Godzilla Research Files Part 2: The Scientists Who Study Godzilla ゴジラ研究ファイル その2 ゴジラを研究した科学者たち (p. 74)
- Godzilla Research Files Part 3: Monster Data Reports ゴジラ研究ファイル その3 怪獣データ報告 (p. 78)
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah manga
Differences from the film
The included manga adaptation of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah is referred to as a "digest version", and accordingly streamlines much of the plot, while also making other changes.
- Meru Ozawa, Daisuke Serizawa, Kensaku Ijuin (first name not uttered), and Miki Saegusa (surname not uttered) are the only characters to be identified by name. However, a young man presumed to be Kenkichi Yamane, a portly military man presumed to be Takaaki Aso, and a bespectacled man presumed to be Mitsuru Kunitomo all make appearances.
- Numerous characters—most prominently Yukari Yamane, Sho Kuroki, and Emiko Yamane—are completely absent. Kyohei and Shinkichi Yamane are also not mentioned, and the Super X3 only appears in a single panel.
- The Boeing 747 which Godzilla fires on in Hong Kong is identified as KA1079 instead of KN1079, and is coming in for a landing instead of departing. The copilot identifies the monster as a "red Godzilla" in Japanese instead of a "red dragon" in Chinese.
- The members of the Godzilla Summit Meeting (G-Summit) watch a recording of Godzilla's attack on Hong Kong on a single, large, wall-mounted monitor rather than each of them watching from their own small screens.
- Ijuin, Kenkichi, Miki, and Aso are all in attendance at the G-Summit. Meru introduces the concept of Godzilla's meltdown rather than the character Marvin (who is cut from the story), and the idea is never attributed to Kenkichi, though he opines that the meltdown will cause a nuclear explosion. Meru goes on to detail Dr. Serizawa's use of the Oxygen Destroyer, accompanied by a flashback of the doctor in his diving suit and the first Godzilla disintegrating, before mentioning that the weapon roused something else on the seafloor. This is immediately corroborated when a technician mentions to Ijuin that signs of life were discovered in the sea's soil.
- The Special Unit of Metropolitan Police (SUMP)'s deployment is placed immediately after the G-Summit, and the unit only encounters a single Juvenile Form Destoroyah that never escapes to outside the Telecom Center. One SUMP member is killed by the Destoroyah's Micro-Oxygen ray, which splits him in half at the midsection, revealing his skeleton. As in the film, the SUMP burns the Destoroyah with flamethrowers; however, uniquely, Ijuin runs up to them and demands that they stop, reasoning that the creature's body being carbonized may cause it to undergo untold changes.
- During the JGSDF's battle with the Juvenile Destoroyahs, the creatures are engaged by only one CLT-95, two MBT-MB92s (which appear to lack the missile launchers they possess in the film), and no MBAW-93s. The Destoroyahs also assimilate into their Aggregate Form out in the open rather than inside the Clean Center, first piling on top of each other in a large mound.
- The Flying Form Destoroyah rains down a beam from his chest on the city below. His Perfect Form also twice uses a chest laser against Godzilla, the first time slicing off the end of Godzilla's tail.
- The Aggregate Destoroyah never pins Junior to the ground nor bites into his chest, and the two simply trade beams. Rather than Destoroyah switching into his Flying Form and soaring backwards into a building, Junior tail-whips him into the building while still in Aggregate Form. Junior then collapses to the ground and never reawakens, thus never participating in the battle against Destoroyah's Perfect Form.
- The final battle is significantly shortened, with Destoroyah never splitting back into Juveniles, and Godzilla's and Destoroyah's deaths are also completely changed. Masers are never used against Destoroyah's Perfect Form, nor is he frozen; rather, Godzilla grabs hold of him and melts him to death with his extreme body temperature. At the same time, the Super X3 makes its one and only appearance, unleashing all of its freezing weapons on Godzilla in one fell swoop. Furthermore, rather than safely melting, Godzilla's body erupts into a fiery explosion which sets Tokyo ablaze. Ijuin, watching from a helicopter, remarks that it has become a "city of death."
- An outro page shows Godzilla roaring on a black background, not unlike the final shot of Junior in the movie, but no connection is made to Junior and the text simply bids Godzilla farewell.
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Trivia
- The book's table of contents misprints the "Destoroyah" section as beginning on page 18 instead of 16, and the "Thorough Analysis of Destoroyah" section on page 20 instead of 18.
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