…on the ecology of kaiju
…so I’m on my way to work this morning, and my son in the back seat asks me ‘Does Anguirus swim?’
Well, hell. I dunno. Does he? It’s not the kind of thing I spend a lot of time thinking about, but I’d imagine four-year-olds have a lot of time to spend pondering all sorts of wierd things, including what Anguirus does in his free time.
I also noticed that he was humming Akira Ifukube’s classic Godzilla theme to himself . Now that made me smile.
For some reason, I was a little bummed out when my son’s interest in Thomas the Tank Engine began to noticeably wane. Though Thomas is a particularly pernicious money-sink for unsuspecting parents (how many goddamn trains can there possibly be? And they want them all…), I’ll probably always associate that blue steam engine with my son’s early childhood, and watching him abandon Thomas was a little like watching Chistopher Robin leave the Hundred Acre Wood for the last time.
Of course, it was all my fault…I picked up a copy of Godzilla:2000 for him as an afterthought during a trip to Best Buy, thinking he might be vaguely interested in it. Man, did I underestimate his obsessiveness. Within a month he had the name of just about every Toho kaiju committed to memory, to the point that I decided to use them to help him learn his ABC’s (’K’ is for Kumonga, ‘G’ is for Godzilla - or is that Ghidorah?)
…and now here I am, fielding questions about whether or not Anguirus likes to swim.
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I would guess he can’t, just because of all the armor on his back and tail. What conclusion did your son come to?