Active Sites:
- AkiraIfukube.org – Official English site of the legendary composer.
- Club Tokyo – Kaiju toy database.
- The Good, The Bad, and Godzilla – Blog of genre historian August Ragone.
- Gormaru Island – Facebook page noted for its lightning-fast news reports, particularly when it comes to set photos.
- Greatest Mazinger Hobby Room – Japanese blog with a staggering number of behind-the-scenes images.
- Kaijucast – A standout kaiju podcast, focusing on monthly discussions of each kaiju film. Hosted by Kyle Yount.
- KaijuSamurai - deviantART page of artist Matt Frank.
- Kaijusaurus Podcast – A lifelong Godzilla fan and a neophyte review each film in the series. On its final episode.
- Maser Patrol – Weekly news roundups, manga translations, and some truly deep cuts of kaiju history.
- Monster Zero Forums – Actually SciFi Japan’s forums, retaining the site’s old name. Activity is fairly low, but with topics going back to 2004, it’s a valuable resource.
- Official Godzilla site... er, store
- Official Godzilla anime trilogy site
- Toho Kingdom – The last of the big Godzilla fansites still active. Focuses only on films released and distributed by Toho, though its exhaustive coverage of them is admirable. The forums should be approached with caution, though the Comprehensive Guide to Toho’s English Versions topic belongs in your bookmarks.
- SciFi Japan – Press releases, early reviews, and occasional in-depth analytical/historical articles.
- Vantage Point Interviews – Collection of interviews conducted by Brett Homenick, many of which pertain to kaiju and tokusatsu.
- Wikizilla – A wiki for Godzilla, Gamera, Kong, and any kaiju that falls outside the scope of other active wikis. Forget what you remember about it; it’s on the rebound in a big way. Oh, and feel free to make an account and help up out. (Full disclosure: I’m on the staff.)
- alt.movies.monster – Usenet group preserved through the dark sorcery of Google, providing an unfiltered look into the kaiju community at the dawn of the Internet age. Take breaks while reading it.
- Barry’s Temple of Godzilla – My gateway to the kaiju genre. Interviewed by a Wall Street Journal reporter (and personally lied to by Dean Devlin) after he published a leaked photo of TriStar’s Godzilla design.
- David Milner’s Kaiju Conversations – A treasure trove of interviews with some of the biggest creative forces in the kaiju genre, conducted from 1992 to 1996.
- Digital Monster Island – DVD reviews.
- Godzilla Tower – General giant monster information and home of the magnificent (when I was in third grade, at least) World Monster Wrestling fanfic series.
- GojiStomp – One of the great old kaiju fansites. The forum is inaccessible, sadly.
- Henshin! Online – Kaiju and tokusatsu news site that spun off from Monster Zero in 2002 and morphed into SciFi Japan in 2006. Has the most maddening post format I've ever seen; Ctrl + F is your friend here.
- Kaijuphile – A slickly designed place still notable for its fanfic collection, well-preserved forum (the archives date back to 2003), and galleries of concept art and trading cards.
- Monster Zero – Kaiju news site from 1997 to 2008.
- Neo-Monster Island – Home of Twisted Kaiju Theater, an early and long-running webcomic. Not for the faint of heart.
- Shrine of Gamera – Gamera fansite created by Kaijucast host Kyle Yount.
- Stomp Tokyo – Highly memorable reviews about kaiju and other genre films.
- Tokyo Monsters – Perhaps the greatest of the old kaiju fansites, focusing on image galleries, clips, and DVD reviews. As information about Japanese home video releases remain hard to find online, the reviews are still valuable.
- adventures-in-godzilland
- akaneskiryu
- almightyrayzilla
- arcanite-force
- astromonster
- atomic-crusader
- baltander
- biorante
- callie-the-kaiju-queen
- captainesc
- chernobog13
- citystompers1
- connorricks
- daikaiju-danielle
- destruction-mode
- diekaiju
- ganondilf / giantcondor
- gfantisfigureproject
- giantmonsterparty
- godzilla1998
- godzillahaiku
- godzillawiki
- hauntedmech
- herofestival
- herr-kroenen / cinemagoji
- highly-radioactive-nerd
- irlpigmon
- isanrido
- jimpluff
- kaijucast
- kaijufiction
- kenro199x
- klen7
- koroguchi
- kungfukaiju
- lazerwhale
- legendaryzilla
- mekagojira3k
- merchgoji
- miracleman340
- mooncalfe
- mr-x-the-psychotic-fanatic
- quackatomic
- raffleupagus / daikaiju-yuki
- redmenaceofficial / akane-yashiro
- riderenmascarado1971
- rodan-flyingmonster
- rugops
- rustybottlecap / godzillandmuseum
- seaguns
- servanov
- shyriadracnoir
- skookworks
- spacehunter-m / thereturnofgodzilla
- spankzilla85 / thelasthopedoujin
- stagbuster
- starestream
- stevenscrivello / kaijusaurus
- swiftgoji
- thatonegojimun
- todayinpacificrim
- tyrantisterror
- ultramanbelial
- vintagehenshin
- zandercannon
- Famous Monsters of Filmland – Created by Forest J. Ackerman and James Warren in 1958. “The world’s first monster magazine,” though not devoted exclusively to kaiju by a long shot, has nonetheless been a massive influence on the fandom.
- G-Fan – Created by J.D. Lees in 1993. At 118 issues and counting, it is by far the most prolific kaiju fanzine. The provides a list of articles in each issue, the ability to order select back issues, and information about G-Fest, the annual Chicago-area convention which started as a meetup of G-Fan contributors.
- Kaiju Fan Online – Direct G-Fan competitor created by John Rocco Roberto in 1996. Contains many articles originally published in the hard-to-find print magazine.
- For a complete list, see the page on Wikizilla.
- King Kong (1933) script, dated September '32
- Unmade Godzilla King of the Monsters in 3D script (Fred Dekker)
- Godzilla 1985 script, dated 7/18/85
- Unmade Godzilla script, dated 12/9/94 (Ted Elliot and Terry Russo)
- Godzilla (1998) script, dated 2/19/96
- King Kong (1996) script (Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson)
- Cloverfield script, dated 6/8/07
- Pacific Rim script, undated but before Guillermo del Toro’s involvement
- Godzilla (2014) script, dated 6/20/12
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