This Anguirus (アンギラス Angirasu?) is the first Anguirus of the Singular Point continuity, and the second within the Reiwa era of the franchise. It made its debut in episode 4 of the 2021 Netflix-exclusive animated series, Godzilla Singular Point.
Name[]
Anguirus's Japanese name, Angirasu (アンギラス), comes from the Japanese spelling of the name of the dinosaur genus Ankylosaurus (アンキロサウルス Ankirosaurusu), upon which the monster's design is based. The name was chosen from several names proposed by employees of Toho during production of Godzilla Raids Again.
In the anime, Anguirus was named by Mayor Yao's grandson from Ankylosaurus after mistaking it for the actual dinosaur.
Design[]
Appearance[]
Anguirus, much like its previous iterations, exhibits a brown coloration with scaly plating covering its skin. Its back is shielded by a thick carapace adorned with sharp spikes that extend along its tail, culminating in a spikedtail like stegosaurus. The carapace hangs off the creature's body, providing an additional protective layer. This rendition of Anguirus displays a body structure resembling that of an Ankylosaurus, featuring a rounded form and robust, armored legs. The front legs are plantigrade, while the back legs are digitigrade. The creature's head retains its traditional design, characterized by a small crest of spikes reminiscent of a Triceratops, a short snout horn, and seahorse-like eyes. Notably, both hind legs boast a prominent spike at the knee joint. The carapace extending behind Anguirus's hind legs contributes to its overall defense, acting as an additional protective structure.
Roar[]
Anguirus retains his Showa roars. However, some of his lower broadcasts sound very similar to the Tyrannosaurus from Jurassic Park.
History[]
Godzilla Singular Point[]
Gadabout[]
Anguirus first stole and ate one of the Rodan carcasses, the remains being found by Kai, Yun, and Haberu who were tracking it by its footprints. It later encountered a minibus, which it overturned, causing the elderly passengers to run and take shelter within the woods. A JSDF patrol found the overturned vehicle, believing the culprit to have been a straggling Rodan. One soldier found the elderly couple in the forest, and ended up face to face with the armored Kaiju, firing upon it with his automatic rifle. The gunfire draws blood from Anguirus.
Theorist[]
Yun encounters the injured Anguirus after tracking it down, drinking from a stream. While at first curious about Yun, a pair of hunters and Haberu arrive, startling the Kaiju. Seeing one of the hunters shouldering his rifle, Anguirus generates its precognitive field, deflecting the rifle shot before disappearing without a trace. Following this, a plan to catch Anguirus is implemented by Goro Otaki as well as his friendly rival, Gen in an evacuated golf course; Goro in an improved Jet Jaguar and Gen with a harpoon cannon mounted on his truck. The plan is to capture the Kaiju alive by leading it into a metal cage. However, the plan is foiled when Anguirus arrives, having grown from its initial eight meters to a towering 20 meters, too big for the cage. Gen attempts to engage the armored Kaiju only to have the harpoon deflected by its shield. Enraged by this, Anguirus attacks Gen and overturns his truck. However, just as it is about to eat the old man, Goro and Jet Jaguar intervene and prepare to engage the Kaiju.
Enfatico[]
Anguirus fights Jet Jaguar, managing to overpower it before curiously pawing at the downed robot. A squad of JSDF jeeps fires at the kaiju, but Anguirus responds by deflecting the machine gun fire back at the soldiers, destroying one of the jeeps. Recovering from the beatdown, Goro borrows the harpoon cannon from Gen's truck, before rushing Anguirus. He finds an opening in the Kaiju's precognitive shield, and Goro fires at point-blank range, embedding a harpoon into Anguirus's torso, downing it. However, while the local mayor posed in front of its body, Anguirus recovered and continued its rampage through a parking lot. After decapitating Jet Jaguar and knocking out Goro, Yun inserted Jung as the robot's AI who proceeded to battle to rampant Kaiju. Yun, acting as its eyes, rides on JJ's shoulders as the robot's vision had been disabled. Provoking the beast to charge, Yun fires another harpoon into Anguirus's nape, finally killing the kaiju. The resulting explosion launches Jet Jaguar and Yun, knocking them both out.
Goro manages to acquire one of Anguirus's back spines, intending to weaponize it against other kaiju. He intends to shoot it as an arrow before being convinced to use it as a spearhead instead.
Abilities[]
Precognition Shield[]
Anguirus possesses the ability to momentarily glimpse into the future by causing its spikes to vibrate, generating an energy field. This energy field not only serves as a protective shield by absorbing kinetic energy but also grants Anguirus the power of foresight.
Size Growth[]
Anguirus is able to grow in size, the means of which are unknown. Although it is possibly by consuming other monsters and other living things as it ate Rodan and presumably the JSDF soldier who encountered it.
Strength[]
Anguirus is incredibly strong, such as when it was seemingly able to flip over a large van with minimal effort, presumably with a swipe of its paw. This strength grows in line with its size.
Speed and agility[]
Anguirus is fast enough to catch up to speedy cars despite it bulky structure. Judging by its body, it has shown to be able to swing its tail though it has yet to be shown.
Stealth[]
Anguirus is surprisingly stealthy such as when it was able to drag off a Rodan carcass without being seen or how it vanished without Yun, Haberu, Kai, or any of the hunters spotting it.
Tail[]
Anguirus' tail is incredibly powerful, causing Jet Jaguar to fall over in their first fight and completely knocking off its head in the second.
Trivia[]
- The carapace hanging off his body is akin to that of the pre-publishing design of the first incarnation of Anguirus that was altered just before the final filming, and this was also planned for Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.[1]
- This is the first incarnation of Anguirus to be a confirmed carnivore.
Appearances[]
References[]
- ↑ ゴジラvsデストロイア コンプリーション
