So : While reading the fantastic book “Krautrock Sampler” by Julian Cope, I began a google search for images of Can’s first album Monster Movie. (A 1969 brilliant psychedlic freakout that paved the way for the German Krautrock scene) Anyways, in this short search I stumbled upon a fantastic Flickr set of old Japanese Kaiju (or Monster) drawings.
Have a look at these very educational anatomical breakdowns:
Anguirus
This anatomical diagram of Anguirus shows eyes that can detect infrared light, a pair of sub-brains that control the forelegs and rear legs, highly developed rear leg muscles, and a heavily spiked rear carapace.
Godzilla
This anatomical sketch of Godzilla reveals a relatively small brain, giant lungs that allow underwater breathing, leg muscles that can support 20,000 tons of body weight, and a “uranium sack” and “nuclear reaction sack” that produce radioactive fire-breath and energize the body.
Mothra larva
This anatomical sketch of Mothra in larval form shows a robust jaw, an enormous stomach, an elongated silk-producing organ, a row of breathing orifices on either side of the body, countless cilia on the bottom surface, and a rudimentary nervous system consisting of a cerebral ganglion and a network of nerve ganglia distributed across the body.
(captions via pink tenticle, flickr set via ‘modern fred‘)
posted by stin splinters
