Whale God

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Whale God Alternate names Kujiragami, Kujira Gami, Killer Whale, Demon Whale Species North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) Length 30 meters[citation needed] Enemies Humans Modeled by Fuminori Ohashi, Ryosaku Takayama First appearance The Whale God Roar(s)

The Whale God (鯨神,   Kujira Gami) is a whale kaiju who appears in Koichiro Uno's 1961 novel The Whale God and its 1962 Daiei film adaptation of the same name.

Design

The Whale God is an unusually-large North Pacific right whale.

History

• The Whale God (1962)

The Whale God

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Abilities

Adept swimmer

Being a whale, the Whale God is a skilled swimmer.

Durability

The Whale God is extremely durable, to the point that local whalers believed it could be immortal. It withstood many harpoon throws and knife stabs before finally succumbing.

Physical abilities

The Whale God managed to break multiple wooden boats via its sheer size by ramming into them.

Weaknesses

The Whale God finally met its doom after multiple harpoons and knife stabs from a team of whalers, after which they decapitated it.

Books

• The Whale God (1961)
• Be Strong, Gamera (1995)

Be Strong, Gamera

When the Zigrans and Virians unite for conquest of the Earth, Gamera joins forces with several other monsters to repel them, including the Whale God God Gein (鯨神 ゴッドゲイン,   Geishin Goddo Gein). The giant whale is physically powerful and proves immune to W's Cell Activity Suspension Beam due to its sheer size; it later battles a Zigran in New York City.

Trivia

• The Whale God, along with the novel and film featuring it, is inspired by the American novel Moby-Dick.^{[citation needed]}
• A possible reference to the Whale God was planned for the 1999 film Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, with Gamera briefly interacting with a pair of North Pacific right whales near the ruins of Atlantis.
• The name Kujira Gami has also been used by the giant whale-like yokai Dai-Kaijū, being redeveloped from Raban, from the manga series GeGeGe no Kitarō and its various adaptations. Shigeru Mizuki made the actual Kujira Gami to appear in his non-Kitarō manga Kaidan Kaeri Bune; both Dai-Kaijū and Kaidan Kaeri Bune were published in 1964, two years after the release of Daiei's The Whale God.
  • The name Kujira Gami has also been used for other productions including ones depicting right whale-based characters.

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