How to pronounce“kaiju”in English
Godzilla and the genre of movies it spawned notwithstanding, there seems to be an upper limit to how big an animal can possibly get.
Kaiju-scale sizes seem to be just plain off limits for land animals, and even marine animals are limited by how much food they can find.
For a long time, scientists believed the blue whale was the largest animal to have ever lived on Planet Earth.
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Definitions of “kaiju”
A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films and other media, like Godzilla, King Kong or Gamera.
“The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.”