There's a great animation on googles search page today ! https://www.google.com/doodles/eiji-tsu ... h-birthday
Fantastic! That is actually incredibly long (and interactive too, for slow people like me). I wonder why a company like Google though couldn't even get licenses from Tsuburaya to show actual characters. It was still very enjoyable, but give Tsuburaya-san the credit he really deserves, seems like I would fight to include kaiju he created - and which people would recognise. I dunno, maybe they didn't even try. Would have been that much more nice to bring attention to such a great man. Happy Birthday to the forever king. We owe so much to your genius, and your contributions will live on and grow in the future. Many, many, thanks. お誕生日おめでとうございます 円谷さん!
I thought about maybe posting about this in the Ultraman thread, but Tsuburaya-san was so much more than just the Ultra series (in itself a lifetime accomplishment). Happy Birthday to the man, the legend. I don't think it is much exaggeration to say that likely most of us would not be here on the board today if not for his work and the influence it had in the genre and all the things it spawned (e.g. toys). And certainly we would all be the worse off for not having ever been graced to experience his many marvelous creations. Not just a SFX master and visual genius, but someone who really breathed life and character into these stories and monsters we all have come to love. Otanjōbiomedetōgozaimasu // お誕生日おめでとうございます!!
