Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero
by Travis Beachman
Summary
Assessment
My favorite part about the book occurred when Karloff makes it's appearance in pg.60. The battles between the Jaegers which follows the concept of giant robots fighting giant monsters. In my opinion, the book is great. Some reasons I liked the book include: I liked the book because it has a statue of a knight fighting a dragon. Also, the appearances of the Kaiju that appear in the book.
Overall, I would rate the book a 98 or 95/100 % because it's a book someone, who loves giant monsters and robots, would read but most kids would prefer reading other books. It would be recommended for anyone who have an interest in Science Fiction.
Kaiju references in Pacific Rim
Before Pacific Rim was released in theaters, Guillermo del Toro wanted his crew to not reference a work from other mecha or kaiju films. In the film, they were accidently a few that were. One of them was the scene when Otachi searching for Newt. That was a reminiscent to Gaira searching for a main character.
There were even other referennces to other kaiju or monster film. Like,Karoff, a kaiju, resembles Boris Karoff as Frankenstein's monster. In the opening of the film, there is costume of a kajiu which could a reference to the early suitmation used in kaiju movies. Also, Knifehead resembles a kaiju called" Guiron".
More references included Onibaba being similar to Ebirah from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. Also, similar to Ganimes from Spaca Ameoba. The Serizawa scale was reference to Dr. Serizawa from Gojira (1954).Newt mentions in the film that the kaiju have 2 brains referencing Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II.
The Mysterious roar in the very end of Pacific Rim
I believed that judging by the end of it's sound, it does sound like the 2014 godzilla even it's before it's before release. Some believe it's another kaiju sound.
It's unknown on where the sound came from. However, if you watch a godzilla for the 2014 film, and wait til it gets to 1:35. When you reach that point, pay close attention and you might find for yourself on where the roar came from.