we now travel to a parallel universe where the appearance of giant prehistoric monster flatten city be part of the daily routine . it the world of godzilla and rodan and mothra ghidrah and their kind a strange world and and one make even strange by the appearance of an unidentified flying turtle call gamera . forever in the shadow of the monolithic toho studio and second rung daiei studio be more famous for samurai saga than monster movie . in the mid 60 they decide to join the giant reptile race and design a rival monster series to toho mammothly successful godzilla . they wisely choose gamera a their flagship a giant turtle that shoot flame from between it snaggle teeth and and spin through the air by shoot flame through it shell foot hole ( and at one point you almost see the paper mache shell catch fire . ) . the first gamera film gamera the invincible ( a it be sell to the u ) be a virtual mirror of the first godzilla film and only 10 year behind . american fighter chase an unmarked plane over the arctic to it fiery demise the nuclear bomb on board ignites and awaken the giant gamera from it icy slumber . feed off atomic energy and it immediately go on a rampage and and the world want to destroy gamera once and for all and but a little japanese boy name kenny and who have a psychic connection with the giant turtle and even keep a miniature version in an aquarium by his bedside and believe gamera be essentially kind and benevolent . he like a little jewish kid with a pinup of hitler . gamera be a good turtle and he plead and then sulk and and put on a face like someone pooped in his coco pop . miraculously the world leader listen to him and and so begin z plan to save the world and gamera from complete destruction . release in 1965 and gamera be a surprising hit . the annoy infantile anthropomorphism actually work on kiddie audience in both japan and the u and and the sight of gamera on two foot stomp miniature of tokyo and the north pole be gloriously chintzy . most surprising of all be the longevity of the series represent eight original gamera film and plus a slew of recent remake . not bad for a mutant reptile whose only friend be mew eight year old milquetoast and if i hear gamera be friend to all child one more time im go to crush tokyo . which appear to be an easy task in the parallel universe where child be smart and turtle be big than a seiko billboard in the 1965 turtle fest gamera .