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Casval 🪐
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casval/glam • 30s • any pronouns • butch lesbian • white • medievalist • writer • communist • horror, mecha, new wave sf, toku, yu-gi-oh!, yuri.

nsfw alt: @glamblaster.bsky.social
this dude showed up for 3 seconds in the preview for the next episode in overman king gainer and i thought 'oh he's going to be voiced by takehito koyasu' and he was, yeah
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
i love movies about art
October 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
1. GODZILLA (1954)

i mean you can see why they made a whole franchise around this it's a great movie! they never topped it! why do none of the other godzilla films use light like this? the human story is very 50s but idk it's just performed well, the characters are pretty likeable, it's GODZILLA!
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
2. GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971)

realized i might love this one basically instantly with that banger opening but the fun melting effects, animated segment, goofy godzilla shit? it is just a very fun movie, would have blown me away as a kid. feels like the middle point between the blob and fern gully
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
3. THE RETURN OF GODZILLA (1984)

it's pretty absurd at times like the sequence of events that launches that soviet nuke is a comedy, but it felt like an early go at more 'adult'-ish horror vibes that things like shin and minus one lean more into and it's the one i like the best as well. great suit!
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
4. GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK (2001)

still not sure how i feel about the human plot to this one but it barely matters compared to how cool the kaiju are in this one. i love this godzilla suit's eyes; mothra is looking stunning, she was right to kill those guys
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
5. GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE (1989)

i find miki and the psychic stuff charming here in a way that they really sideline in the rest of the heisei stuff. but let's be real the reason this is in my top 5 is because BIOLLANTE IS SICK AS FUCKING HELL she's a wet puppet plant monster godzilla FREAK she roxx
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
6. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023)

damn but godzilla looks pretty cool in this one, it's absolutely the best cgi godzilla. the plot kind of falls apart towards the end but there are some effective human scenes in the first half, and i really like the low tech plan to deal with godzilla to suit the period
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
IH1. RODAN (1956)

(perfectly lining up a blurry photo of a wing with paleoart of a pteranodon) no doubt about it that's a rodan

just really love this one, one of my favorite groups of human characters combined with one of my favorite kaiju. the meganulon are way more cool than megaguirus
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
7. GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1993)

baby godzilla is soooo cute! reminds me a bit of the yoshi from super mario bros from the same year. fantastic fight scenes. rodan is great in this one - between that and the 'kaiju brain in mechagodzilla' stuff, feels influential on the monsterverse too
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
8. DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968)

ghidorah's biggest l even my precious little horror minilla is dunking on the king in this one 😭 makes for a very fun movie though, shoutout to mandra from atragon he was very cool in this wrapped around the train tracks. anguirus, rodan, worm mothra, gang's all here
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
9. GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1992)

just really cool, the best it's ever looked having a flying kaiju prop interact with a guy in a suit. some very cool effects going on in this one, it is high on spectacle. battra is rad, and its story is simple but the switchup halfway through the fight is a lot of fun
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
MOTH1. REBIRTH OF MOTHRA (1996)

belvera is SUCH a good kids' film villain; she's goofy and she rides a tiny dragon and dresses like a goth freak, i love her and would die for her. mothra is looking phenomenal as always and she rebirths into a... green-ish almost a little buffer? design, i like it
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
10. INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER (1965)

evil aliens in old sci-fi come in many forms but the ones with thinly veiled schemes presented as benevolence are my fave kind of cheese (to serve man >>>), 'we'll give you the cure for cancer if you give us rodan + godzilla' but it's king ghidorah? classic bit
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
IH2. DOGORA (1964)

i can't really justify why i liked this one so much but i did. mark jackson is THE best token white dude in one of these, i think his actor might actually be speaking japanese? that probably helps. dogora is a very simple effect but i really love it, the diamond thieves are silly
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
MV1. GODZILLA (2014)

the military stuff was intensely boring but godzilla is great in this. bryan cranston is great in this too - easily, obviously best character in the mv and he dies halfway through the first entry. it's a pretty solid mid-10s american action film, i just don't like those as much
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
MOTH2. REBIRTH OF MOTHRA III (1998)

this film RULES mothra travels back to prehistoric times and king ghidorah tries to eat a t-rex and there's hyperbolic time chamber-ass shit and it's all great shit. belvera's dress is FANTASTIC. this would have changed me forever if i had seen it when i was 6
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
11. GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002)

akane is one of the best women in this franchise, even if i wish the film was itself a bit less interested in the gender of it all. she's a good mecha protagonist too! 'japan XENOMORPH self-defense force' funniest name for anti-kaiju military in toku tbh
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
12. GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973)

JET JAGUAR!!! he's basically just ultraman but i love ultraman so i love jet jaguar, simple as that. gigan is here again, not as great a suit (nor is godzilla's) but he's great in this tag team with megalon. just a very fun, campy kaiju fight at the end of this one
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
13. EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP (1966)

showa mothra at her finest in this one; it doesn't make up for the brownface but i appreciate that the infant islanders are a little closer to characters in this one. better than some of the monsterverse tbqh! ebirah is cool, too, some good goofy kaiju fights
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
14. GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH (1991)

one of the best ghidorahs of the franchise, the conceit of this one is very fun where they time travel to 'undo' godzilla but the soviets end up causing godzilla instead - one final w for the soviets from the film that released the same year they dissolved 🫡
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
15. GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH (1995)

not the best of the heisei films but a satisfying cap to the series, i really liked the rebirth cycle they give godzilla + junior in this one and it's very fun to bring back the consequences of oxygen destroyer in this way! destoroyah has a really fun design too
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
IH3. FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON (1965)

this one's very silly but i enjoyed it, baragon's a great lil guy! end of wwii, the nazis give these japanese scientists frankenstein's heart for research and the lab guys go "we need to keep this safe," hard cut to the sign revealing the lab is in hiroshima lol
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
16. SHIN GODZILLA (2016)

i came to shin godzilla not just having seen every godzilla film before it but also as a hater of the eva rebuild movies and that did it No Favors. the remixes of decisive battle slapped but got SO old, love worm godzilla but meh @ his final design. hate neoliberalism also
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
TV1. GODZILLA (1978)

godzooinkies scoob it's g-g-g-g-godzilla !! they gave him his own scrappy doo lmao and you know what? i don't hate him (<- doesn't hate scrappy either), it's not the kind of cartoon i'd usually go for but with the godzilla paint i was very charmed by the hanna barbera of it all
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM