{"id":209,"date":"2019-10-30T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:48:08","slug":"jimmys-notes-on-episode-3-the-godzilla-anime-trilogy-mini-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/jimmys-notes-on-episode-3-the-godzilla-anime-trilogy-mini-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy&#8217;s Notes on &#8216;Episode 3: The Godzilla Anime Trilogy (Mini-Analysis)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=783%2C327\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?w=783 783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=300%2C125 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=768%2C321 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of this blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/23\/episode-3-the-godzilla-anime-trilogy-mini-analysis\/\">Nathan\u2019s overlong, contract-breaking \u201cminisode&#8221; on the Godzilla anime trilogy<\/a> will be notes he took while bingeing it in the screening room while I was monitoring Godzilla Earth on the beta site. (Nathan still owes me for helping him on the air with the board of directors). I\u2019ll also be sharing some messages from listener <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyoeiToshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyoei Toshi<\/a> (who\u2019s as good at nitpicking as I am), concerning some Japanese language and culture items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Notes: <em>Godzilla:\nPlanet of the Monsters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Opens with a\ndesperate, almost nihilistic scene. Sending old people to a planet to die to\nconserve resources. They accept it. Ship explodes. Haruo is against it. Relates\nto Exifs\u2019 nihilistic religion. Essentially euthanasia. <\/li><li>Alien Refugees.\nTies into current events?<\/li><li>Metphies offers\nconfession (catholic priest). Will take false confession too. Foreshadows his\nfalsity.<\/li><li>Meant to be a\nNetflix miniseries; theatrical releases just warm-up; placeholder while\nLegendary makes films; meant to help them, brand maintenance.<\/li><li>Return to Earth is\nhopeful, wonder-filled. Respite.<\/li><li>Admittedly, the\naliens don\u2019t look too different from humans, even by Star Trek standards. Exif\nhave pointy ears (elves). Bilusaludo are dwarves (Klingons?) (beards and\nslicked back hair and dark skin).<\/li><li>\u201cAs you all\nknow\u2026.\u201d x3 Ugh! (A bad writing mistake).<\/li><li>The animation does\nlook like a cel-shaded video game. Weird given its made by same studio as <em>Clone Wars<\/em>, which is more dynamic.\nMoney? (Polygon Studios).<\/li><li>Other Exif priest\nprays over soldiers. Are they followers? Or is it just comfort?<\/li><li>Metphies: \u201cAs long\nas we have the hero to guide them.\u201d Haruo. \u201cThe one true path to glory can only\nbe opened by devotion.\u201d True?<\/li><li>Metphies\nmanipulates Leland\u2019s retreat plan so he gives up after attack and goes with\nHaruo\u2019s plan.<\/li><li>This trilogy (at\nleast in part 1) tries to have some pretty hardcore science. Gets crazier as it\ngoes.<\/li><li>Metphies says the\nExif have seen countless civilizations fall in their wanderings; says it was by\nsimilar creatures to Godzilla (lie?). \u201cHe is the vengeful hammer for the\narrogant. Those species who pronounce themselves as lords of creation will be\nstruck down by his divine fury.\u201d<\/li><li>The vehicles in\nthis trilogy are pretty cool. The flying speeder bikes and flying mech suits\nare my faves. Spider-tanks.<\/li><li>Yuko calls Hauro\n\u201csenpei\u201d in Japanese.<\/li><li>Most of the last\nthird of part 1 is action. Why did people complain?<\/li><li>\u201cLife is a process\nof change. Even decay and ruin.\u201d Godzilla continued to evolve.<\/li><li>Godzilla Earth\ndesigned to look like an aged tree. Ancient. Powerful. Long-living. (Plantlike)<\/li><li>In true Marvel\nfashion, each film has a stinger. This one sets up part 2 nicely. New\ncharacter, new mystery.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Notes: <em>Godzilla:\nCity on the Edge of Battle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Exif opposed to\nabandoning survivors. Irony.<\/li><li>\u201cPowder-like\nsubstance on their skin.\u201d Mothra reference. Keeps them safe.<\/li><li>Bilusaludo want to\nexterminate Houtua because they see them as degenerates. <\/li><li>The twins speak in\nbroken words but articulately in telepathy. Not used to speaking. Use odd\nnaturalistic metaphors.<\/li><li>Now people are\nquestioning Haruo\u2019s authority and plans and desire to fight Godzilla. His\nauthority is coming undone, his hubris showing. Yet he still insists on his\nway. But he\u2019s also questioning if he\u2019s doing the right thing. Thinks of\nMetphies. (I\u2019m seeing more depth even in part 1 than I did before).<\/li><li>\u201cAs you know\u2026.\u201d x1<\/li><li>\u201cEarth chose\nGodzilla as its lord of creation.\u201d Terminology comes back.<\/li><li>The controversial\nMechagodzilla City. Fans hated this because they wanted a \u201cproper\u201d MG. I can\nunderstand why. Misled by promotions and toys. But it makes sense. The AI would\nevolve like this, especially against a foe as huge as Godzilla. It would\u2019ve\nbeen cool to have it transform like Trypticon, but I went with it.<\/li><li>The Houtua call\nnanometal \u201cpoison.\u201d Appropriate.<\/li><li>41:50: Tron\/Daft\nPunk music. I love it!<\/li><li>MG\u2019s body\ndestroyed by Godzilla, but head kept fighting and evolving. Fits with\nBilusaludo idea of discarding inefficient body.<\/li><li>Some complain that\nthe climax of part 2 is the same as the first, only bigger. That makes sense,\nthough. They\u2019re trying to use a plan that worked before. But this one is\nspearheaded by the Bilusaludo.<\/li><li>Metphies\nmanipulates even the Bilusaludo to use their tech in his scheme.<\/li><li>\u201cThose who are\nlost possess intelligence. However, if you remain lost and arrive at God\u2019s\ngate, you shall not ever pass through.\u201d -Metphies<\/li><li>\u201cThey\u2019d make a\ncompetent unit.\u201d \u2013Galu-gu (or Belu-be?) Dehumanization.<\/li><li>Haruo and Yuko\nhave a scene where Yuko says the terrible beginning gave them hope, pushed them\nto go home. Tries to redeem the tragedy.<\/li><li>\u201cEverything is\ndestiny.\u201d The entropy they see coming. Metphies claims his race are\nmissionaries.<\/li><li>Bilusaludo\nthinking is too robotic. Logic. Metphies doesn\u2019t like it. Neither does Houtua.\nSays they want to become one with monsters. Ironic statement. Exif believe\nwords have tremendous power.<\/li><li>When Metphies\nwhispers in Haruo\u2019s ear, it looks like he\u2019s gonna kiss him. Interesting timing.\nYuko kisses him in the next scene. Shocks the twins. Jealousy?<\/li><li>\u201cMachines and\nhumans aren\u2019t the same.\u201d-Haruo.<\/li><li>Faith is\ndiscussed. Haruo and humans have to put faith in something. Part 1: themselves.\nPart 2: nanometal tech. Part 3: Exif cult.<\/li><li>Admittedly,\nthere\u2019s a lot of characters describing what\u2019s happening during action scenes.<\/li><li>Galu-gu: \u201cHaruo\u2026I\nwant to believe you\u2019re different.\u201d \u201cRelax and surrender yourself.\u201d \u201cAfter the\nfusion, we\u2019ll be brothers.\u201d<\/li><li>Metphies convinces\nHaruo to destroy MG City by speaking of dignity and warning against nanometal\npropagation. Competing interests.<\/li><li>The battle ends\nwith Burning Godzilla on steroids. <\/li><li>Now Haruo faces\nthe consequences of his actions. Just like Capt. Ahab. Unlike him, he\u2019s\nactually affected by them. He holds Yuko in a wat similar to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pieta<\/a>\u201d\nsculpture.<\/li><li>This post-credit\nis weird. Almost no new footage. Just shows previous scene from new perspective\nto namedrop Ghidorah.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Notes: <em>Godzilla:\nThe Planet Eater<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Opens with a\nspeech by Metphies. Says they\u2019ve been watching humans for centuries,\nintervening toward their goal. Confirms humanism. Says they wouldn\u2019t listen to\nthe words of a god but will listen to a human.&nbsp;\nHence why a human is needed to reveal a God\u2019s will. They desire heroes\nwho embody the thoughts of the era. <\/li><li>Martin\nnihilistically theorizes that humanity existed only to make Godzilla.<\/li><li>A soldier suggests\nthe Bilusaludo were punished by God, and Yuko with them. Haruo was saved to\nhelp them.<\/li><li>Metphies lets\nhumans think they survived nanometal because of a miracle, but it\u2019s actually\nbecause of the Houtua powder.<\/li><li>Metphies tells Haruo\nhis hate for Godzilla will overcome his doubt of God, and he will defeat\nGodzilla. Says he\u2019s more noble and proud than anyone. Again, imperial Japan. <\/li><li>Just as humans\nresist Bilusaludo after defeat and are undone, so they do the same with the\nExif.<\/li><li>Martin says this a\ngreat opportunity for a missionary to win converts after the destruction of MG\nCity. \u201cThey can only escape despair by clinging to God.\u201d A common atheist\nargument.<\/li><li>Metphies\u2019 blessing\ngesture looks like a karate chop to the neck. Symbolic?<\/li><li>\u201cWhat causes\nGodzilla to be Godzilla is your undying hatred.\u201d -Metphies in Haruo\u2019s dream<\/li><li>I hate that the\ndub changes \u201cgolden death\u201d to \u201cgolden demise.\u201d It sounds dumb.<\/li><li>Earth is a seed.\nHumanity a flower. Godzilla a fruit. Ghidorah\u2019s day of harvest. An offering to\nGhidorah. The Exif offered themselves to Ghidorah while a select few priests\nwere spared to spread his \u201cblessing\u201d around the universe. <\/li><li>Metphies holds\nHaruo in a manner like the \u201cPieta\u201d sculpture.&nbsp;\n<\/li><li>The end of this\nfilm becomes a battle of philosophies. Metphies makes him confront Leland and\nYuko, who died. Metphies says humanity crossed the threshold of their potential\nwhen they created monsters with atom bombs. Depicts the atomic bombings and is\non a flying fortress. This is the first and only Godzilla film to depict the\nbombings, which is bold. Death is a natural conclusion, and so all beings must\naccept the destruction of their worlds and the peace in their deaths. Godzilla\nwas punishment on mankind for arrogance and their desire for more. Haruo must\nend it to purify mankind\u2019s souls. \u201cA monster becomes a monster because of fear.\nA person becomes a hero because of hatred. Therefore, a god will become a god\nbecause of a hero\u2019s prayer\u201d (Metphies). Haruo can do this because he chose not\nto become a monster because of his hate. Now he must offer himself to Ghidorah\nto complete everything.<\/li><li>Metphies warns\n(curses?) Haruo will always have Ghidroah watching him because his hatred\n\u201cburns so bright, it\u2019s blinding.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nathan\u2019s Miscellaneous Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tony Davies\nacknowledges that, after the horrific experiences of the wars of the 20th\ncentury, \u201cit should no longer be possible to formulate phrases like &#8216;the\ndestiny of man&#8217; or the &#8216;triumph of human reason&#8217; without an instant\nconsciousness of the folly and brutality they drag behind them.\u201d For \u201cit is\nalmost impossible to think of a crime that has not been committed in the name\nof human reason.\u201d Yet, he continues, \u201cit would be unwise to simply abandon the\nground occupied by the historical humanisms. For one thing humanism remains on\nmany occasions the only available alternative to bigotry and persecution. The\nfreedom to speak and write, to organise and campaign in defence of individual\nor collective interests, to protest and disobey: all these can only be\narticulated in humanist terms\u201d (Wikipedia).<\/li><li>\u201cIf God did not\nexist, it would be necessary to invent him\u201d (Voltaire).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kyoei Toshi\u2019s Messages:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Message #1: <\/em>Hi,\nthe base word used is &#8216;Jii\/\u3058\u3044&#8217;. It&#8217;s used to denote men in their 60&#8217;s or beyond as\nopposed to men in the 40&#8217;s\/50&#8217;s &#8216;Ji\/\u3058\u2019. The simple &#8216;ji&#8217;\nbasically means &#8216;uncle&#8217; but in Japan it&#8217;s used to address any man in that age\ngroup that&#8217;s older than you are. &#8216;Jii&#8217; means &#8216;grandfather&#8217; and likewise is used\nto refer to any man in that age group (again, that&#8217;s older than you are). <em>Jii<\/em> would be someone you know well, with\n<em>Ojii<\/em>, <em>Ojiisan<\/em>, <em>Ojiichan<\/em> being\nused for someone you know but are not quite as close to. A real grandpa would\nbe usually be referred to as &#8216;Sofu\/Osofu&#8217; formally or &#8216;Jii\/Jiisan&#8217; informally.\nSofu is usually written in kanji as &#8216;\u7956\u7236&#8217; and Jii in kana &#8216;\u3058\u3044\u2019 although they are the same word (most Japanese\nkanji\/compounds have at least two different pronunciations, the <em>onyomi<\/em> (Chinese) and <em>kunyomi<\/em> (Japanese, can be more than a\ndozen of these).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, in the first film\nHaruo uses &#8216;Jisan&#8217; which would imply a very close relationship since it lacks\nan &#8216;O&#8217; at the beginning. It&#8217;s vaguely possible that it&#8217;s not even his real\ngrandfather, since he doesn&#8217;t use &#8216;sofu&#8217;. But given he was surprised when he\nused it and they were shown together in the preface when Godzilla attacked the\nairport, it&#8217;s almost certain he is. Yuko on the other hand uses &#8216;Ojiichan&#8217;\nwhich is the polite way of referring to SOMEONE ELSE&#8217;S grandfather. This holds\ntrue with mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc. When you refer to yours,\nyou just use the base word. When you refer to someone else&#8217;s parents, you add\non an &#8216;O&#8217; at the beginning and &#8216;san&#8217; at the end as an honorific. For sisters\nand brothers, just add the &#8216;san&#8217; at the end. And even though they use the same\nbase word they will be pronounced differently (like father is chichi for real\nfather, <em>otousan<\/em> for someone else&#8217;s\nfather). So by Haruo using &#8216;Jii&#8217; and Yuko using &#8216;Ojiichan&#8217; it shows that\nthey&#8217;re not almost certainly not cousins and that &#8216;grandpa&#8217; is just used as a\nterm of respect\/endearment by Yuko. Hope I didn&#8217;t lose you there, the correct\nform of address\/correct level of respect is much more complex in Japan than in\nthe USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Her second message\nregards something I would\u2019ve pointed out, too. Nice work!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Message #2: <\/em>Hi,\nI think you might have gotten the Mothra twins a bit mixed up in Planet Eater.\nHere\u2019s a message I sent someone a few months back&#8211;it\u2019s really easy to get\nconfused, the movie doesn&#8217;t make things clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Planet Eater<\/em>, it&#8217;s Miana (the extroverted twin with the better\nJapanese language skills) that is turned down by Haruo. She leaves and notices\nsomething is wrong, and goes off to investigate (eventually confronting and\nbeing captured by Metphies). It&#8217;s Maina (the introverted one with the poor\nJapanese skills&#8230;Haruo called her &#8216;mean eyes&#8217; in the last movie) that connects\nwith Haruo (that&#8217;s the point of him mentioning which twin would know how to\nunlock his space suit-that it was Maina who gave him medical treatment at the\nend of the first film). So both of the twins made a play for Haruo, they did so\nbecause they could tell he was suicidal and wanted him to &#8216;connect with life&#8217;\nagain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow, this \u201cJimmy Notes\u201d\nis as overlong as the episode. Thankfully, there isn\u2019t a clause in the contract\nregarding the length of my blogs (which is weird, honestly). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t have much to say\nmyself on this episode. It\u2019s easier for Nathan to script his research for solo\nepisodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Son of Kong<\/em> episode will be a different story. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow me on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NasaJimmy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#JimmyFromNASALives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#WeShallOvercome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of this blog on Nathan\u2019s overlong, contract-breaking \u201cminisode&#8221; on the Godzilla anime trilogy will be notes he took while bingeing it in the screening&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/jimmys-notes-on-episode-3-the-godzilla-anime-trilogy-mini-analysis\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jimmy&#8217;s Notes on &#8216;Episode 3: The Godzilla Anime Trilogy (Mini-Analysis)&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":41,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,114],"tags":[115,135,134,136,139,19,66,133,137,132,138,126],"series":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-jimmys-notes","tag-godzilla-anime-trilogy","tag-godzilla-city-on-the-edge-of-battle","tag-godzilla-planet-of-the-monsters","tag-godzilla-the-planet-eater","tag-japanese-language","tag-jimmy-from-nasa","tag-jimmys-notes","tag-kyoei-toshi","tag-maina","tag-metphies","tag-miana","tag-philosophy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}