Gamera is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films.
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Gamera is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films.
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Since then, Gamera has become a Japanese icon in his own right, appearing in a total of 12 films produced by Daiei Film and later Kadokawa Daiei Studio, and various media.
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Gamera is depicted as a giant, fire-breathing, prehistoric turtle monster, mutated by exposure to nuclear weapons.
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Original idea for Gamera was developed by Yonejiro Saito, Masaichi Nagata, Hidemasa Nagata, and Noriaki Yuasa.
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Name Gamera derives from the Japanese kame, and the suffix -ra, a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla and Mothra.
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Gamera's name was spelled Gammera in the title of Gammera the Invincible, the re-titled American release of the first film in the franchise, Gamera, the Giant Monster.
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Gamera resembles an enormous prehistoric turtle, and is capable of both bipedal movement and flight.
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The jets allow Gamera to rise into the air and spin, propelling him forward.
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Gamera's shell is presented as being incredibly resilient and strong, and can deflect missiles and other projectiles.
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Gamera'splastron is more vulnerable than his carapace and he has been wounded in his plastron to the point of bleeding.
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Gamera has been portrayed as being able to absorb mana from the Earth, to fire a plasma beam from his chest, and to regenerate lost limbs.
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Human researchers find Gamera floating in the Pacific Ocean, encased in rock, and mistake him for an atoll.
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The opening scene of the film, set in 1973, depicts the original Gamera sacrificing himself by means of self-destruction to save a coastal village from three Gyaos.
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In 1985, the American distribution rights to the Gamera films were bought by producer Sandy Frank, who distributed five of the eight films with new English dubbing.
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Gamera was parodied in the South Park episode "Mecha-Streisand", and was featured in the Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo".
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In 1997, Gamera 2000 was released exclusively in Japan for the PlayStation.
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In 2017, Gamera appeared in the video game City Shrouded in Shadow, released for the PlayStation 4, alongside such characters as Legion, Godzilla, Ultraman, and Evangelion Unit-01.
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Gamera was ranked eighth on Rick Mele of Sharp's list of "Greatest Giant Monsters in Movie History".
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Chris Coffel of Film School Rejects wrote that "I would argue that the Gamera franchise is better than the Godzilla franchise", complimenting Gamera's turtle-like design and his affinity for children.
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In July 2011, Washington State University veterinarians successfully fixed a prosthetic caster onto an African spurred tortoise named Gamera, who was a single amputee.
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