Talk:Robot Daughter/@comment-1030114-20150313234156/@comment-26357212-20150430085139

I don't think it's odd for a 1950's children's tie-in comic from before Godzilla was a recognized franchise to feature a cartoonish character consistent with the stylistic slant given to such a thing in that time (although I admit it is extremely creepy how much it anticipates the psychedelic art style of something like "The Yellow Submarine" of the late 60's/early 70's).

The weirdest Tohoverse monster of all time, I think, has got to be either Lilin or Gamony/Gamora. The circumstances for Lilin's birth are, frankly, insane, and contradict Minilla so starkly that I have to assume that Rozan isn't even the Showa Godzilla at all, but rather JUST an alien who happens to resemble Godzilla by coincidence, sort of like "Planet of the Dinosaurs" or "Space Kong." Without being able to read the story there's no way to be sure, though. There's something about the image of a live-birth, probably pre-mature, infant Godzilla (or Godzillian, if you prefer) wearing a child's par of red boots in what is presented as a straight science fiction story and supposedly a pitch for a Godzilla film that's just... yikes. By comparison, if you removed the context Gamony/Gamora would only appear as weird as some of the odder Ultra monsters.

As far as "unreleased" (this is an extremely relative term, since obviously information on Bride of Godzilla WAS released in a published book, and it's why we're talking about it today) monsters go... I think Barbaroi or some of the designs for the Zilla cartoon might take the cake. I don't know if Shinichiro Kobayashi's original Godzilla vs. Biollante story counts, because the context of it being published (it WAS published, but not on it's own, and I don't know if it was published as "look at this thing from development we didn't use" or "here is the story finally seeing the light of day," which is important as "unreleased" here is very imprecise) isn't really documented in a form I could find. If it DOES count, then absolutely the weirdest "unreleased" monster has to be the beta-Biollante with a human face. No question.

Another monster that is totally bizarre but, like Osoros, makes sense in context, is Godzilla's girlfriend Godzillin from Godzilland and the Japanese GB port of Gojira-Kun (which of course was originally going to be called "Godzilland"). Interestingly, both Godzillin and Osoros feature "heart" shapes are design elements.