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Kaiju Defeat COVID! (カプセル怪獣計画 Kapuseru Kaijū Keikaku, lit. Project Capsule Kaiju)[a] is a Japanese web series organized by tokusatsu directors Shinji Higuchi, Katsuro Onoue, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Takanori Tsujimoto and Kazuhiro Nakagawa in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. It ran from April 28 to May 13, 2020 on Higuchi's personal YouTube channel. Inspired by the Capsule Kaiju from Ultraseven, each episode consists of a compilation of submitted recordings from genre actors, staff and other special guests, depicting them imbuing a kaiju figure with the power to defeat COVID and passing it on to the next participant. Though Higuchi initially planned to edit them into one continuous film, it never materialized, and a film adaptation of the sister series The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 was produced instead.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Guests | Release date |
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| 1 | "Commence Operation Capsule Kaiju: "Fight the Invisible Enemy COVID-19 at Home!"" (カプセル怪獣作戦開始「お家で戦え、見えざる敵コロナ！」) |
Takumi Saito, Katsuro Onoue, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Kazuhiro Nakagawa, Kakusei Fujiwara, Shinichi Wakasa, Shinji Higuchi |
04/28/20 |
| 2 | "The Warriors Who Started Running" (走り出した兵たち) | Takaya Aoyagi, Pierre Taki, Shinsuke Kasai, Satori Ito,[b] Hiroko Sakurai | 04/28/20 |
| 3 | "Those Who Fight On" (更に闘う者達) | Koji Yamamoto, Jun Hashimoto, Koichi Sakamoto, Yuriko Hishimi | 04/29/20 |
| 4 | "Let's Go! With Newfound Friends" (行こう！新たな仲間と共に) |
Satoru Matsuo, Akihisa Muramoto,[c] Yuki Kaji, @fkigatahakaze, Tomokazu Seki |
04/29/20 |
| 5 | "Those Who Know No Fatigue" (疲れを知らぬ者たち) | Shu Watanabe,[d] Makoto Inoue, U_ich_fujinuma, Kenichi Suzumura, Masayoshi Takesue |
05/07/20 |
| 6 | "Never Falter" (どうにも止まらない) | Shusuke Kaneko, @MondoMasa, @ultra_machida, Shuichi Miyakawa, Akira Ohashi,[e] Haruma-kun |
04/30/20 |
| 7 | "Go, Go; Press On, Players" (先へ、先へ、突き進めPlayer) |
Hiroyuki Watanabe, @jinon4218, Taku Miyamoto, Isshin Inudo, Shota Taniguchi, Ryusuke Hikawa |
05/01/20 |
| 8 | "Gather! Brave Heroes!" (集え！勇者達よ！) | Toshio Miike, @uramac, Daichi Takagi, @gappy0330, Ayumi Shirasaki, @kanaeee1011, Matt Frank |
05/01/20 |
| 9 | "Everyone is Different, But Everyone is Good" (みんあちがって みんないい) |
Non, Rokusuke Shima, Toshinao Aoki & Misaki Kuno, Kaijucast, Minoru Kawasaki, @hikazarolove, Bunko Yoshimura |
05/02/20 |
| 10 | "Surely It's Love" (きっと愛なんだ) | Ryo Katsuji, Taiga-kun, Yuji Kaida, Renge Ishiyama, Shingo Sekine, @torimega_lab |
05/03/20 |
| 11 | "Is It Useless?! It's Clear!! Isn't It Fine?!)" (ムリムリ？！ありあり！！INじゃぁな～い？！) |
Yakan Nabe, Hinako Saeki, Chibi Ghidorah¥_Cure Cosmo, Minoru Ashina, Yuji Nishimura |
05/04/20 |
| 12 | "But Someday We Will Be, Because We Have Already Begun" (でも、いつかは私達にも もう、はじまっているから) |
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Aya-chan, Yoko Higuchi, Kazuhiko Hachiya, Koyu-chan, Takashi Itsuka[f] |
05/05/20 |
| 13 | "There Are No Kaiju in the House!" (おうちにかいじゅうがいないなんて！) |
Keiya Yamauchi, Shinya Nakashima, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ennosuke Ichikawa IV[g] |
05/05/20 |
| 14 | "Thrum the Passionate Heartbeat!" (熱い鼓動を掻き鳴らせ！) |
Kensuke Takahashi, Ryuichi Ichino, Michihiro Amano, Mamoru Tanaka, Kenji Ohtsuki |
05/05/20 |
| 15 | "Come On, Everybody" (どんと来いエヴリバディ) |
Mina Fujii, Takashi Oda, Oshiro Maeda, Kazuya Shiraishi, Shinya Tsukamoto |
05/05/20 |
| 16 | "" (のぼれ、すべての山へ) |
05/06/20 | |
| 17 | "" |
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Notes
- ↑ The English title Kaiju Defeat COVID! is also notated in Japanese as "Kaiju Defeat Corona!" (カイジュウ ディフィート コロナ！ Kaijū Difīto Korona).
- ↑ Written onscreen as "Stori Ito."
- ↑ Written onscreen as "Akihisa Muramto."
- ↑ Written onscreen as "Syu Watanabe."
- ↑ Written onscreen as "Akira Ohhashi."
- ↑ Written onscreen as "Takashi Iitsuka."
- ↑ Written onscreen as "EnNosuke Ichikawa."
