Tag: Mothra

On His Chaotic Majesty, King Ghidorah

Happy Year of the Dragon, everyone! The Year of the Dragon only comes once every 12 years and I have let it slip by before without writing about my favorite dragon, well, favorite space dragon, His Chaotic Majesty, King Ghidorah. As the Year of the Dragon commences, and […]

“An Ode to Mothra”

Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey writes an ode to Mothra at Balder & Dash at RogerEbert.com. “The giant moth’s introduction to audiences came in 1961’s “Mothra,” and for all it owed to the conventions of the Kaiju formula it offered plenty that was unique. Instead of a […]

RIP, Emi Ito

Singer and actress Emi Ito has died. Ito was a member of the singing duo, The Peanuts, with her twin sister, Yumi.  And both were probably most famous as the Shobijin/twin fairies who were mystically connected to Mothra in the Mothra and Godzilla films of the 1960s and […]