These large cards detached from a manga magazine published by Kodansha in 1979, demonstrating once again the Japanese art of cross-section. The kaiju pictured are, from top to bottom, Mechagodzilla, Baragon, Hedorah, King Ghidorah, King Caesar, Mogera, Varan, and Gigan.
I think it’s pretty fascinating that, on the one hand, the kaiju genre is all about sustaining an atmosphere of childlike wonder and fantasy; but on the other hand, all of the monsters here are presented as objects of science, methodically dissected and classified.
It sort of reminds me of the analytic-creative duality of D&D.
See more of this set and others at the Bromide Store on eBay.
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Almost too much goodness to digest this morning. Ho-ly crap. What I would do to have posters made of these cards. Wow.
Have you seen those “Incredible Cross Section” books by Stephen Biesty? I used to geek out on those back in the ’90s.
I have seen some of his DK books. Very cool. I can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to dig these sorts of things.