Cross-media picks for Ishirō Honda fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks orbit the same fears: civilizations dwarfed by forces they did not invite, ordinary people scrambling to survive or understand what they cannot stop. Colossal monsters, alien invasions, ancient powers resurfacing in industrial cities — the territory fans of Ishirō Honda will recognise immediately. Doomed Megalopolis, Gunbuster, Akira — different media, the same tremor underneath.
Film
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
A Francophone reassembly combining the Toho original and the American cut into something unique to that market.
Film
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Guardian monsters rise to defend Japan after a new Godzilla emerges and a journalist investigates ancient legends.
Film
Godzilla
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a city-wrecking giant — the classic premise transplanted to New York.
Film
King Kong vs. Godzilla
A pharmaceutical company steals King Kong for advertising; the plan goes wrong when Godzilla arrives too.
Film
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Time-travelers from the 23rd century erase Godzilla from history, but accidentally conjure something far worse.
Film
Godzilla Raids Again
A second Godzilla surfaces alongside a new rival monster; without the original weapon, authorities must improvise.
Film
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
A cyborg built from Godzilla's original bones turns out to harbour the restless soul of the first monster.
Film
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
Twenty thousand years after Godzilla claimed Earth, refugee survivors return seeking revenge in this bleak animated film.
Series
Argento Soma
Alien entities trample Earth while humanity scrambles to defend itself in this early-2000s anime series.
Series
Gunbuster
Humanity's first deep-space push runs into insectoid aliens bent on eradicating all human life.
Series
Godzilla: The Series
Picking up after the 1998 film, this animated series pits a new generation of giant monsters against humanity.
Series
Godzilla Singular Point
A mysterious song draws a grad student and an engineer into a fight against a force that may doom the world.
Series
Gatchaman
In 2066 a rogue UN member-state destabilises global security, forcing a covert team into action.
Series
Doomed Megalopolis
A spiritual battle unfolds in early-1900s Tokyo as Japan's industrial modernisation collides with ancient power.
Series
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
A catastrophic renewable-energy accident and a shadowy organisation called Big Fire push the world toward ruin.
Series
Xenosaga: The Animation
Four thousand years after humanity abandoned Earth, survivors battle the hostile alien Gnosis across the cosmos.
Game
Godzilla Save the Earth
Multi-monster battles across city-wrecking arenas, built around Godzilla's genetic code and G-Force science.
Game
Super Bomberman 5
A time-controlling villain frees criminal Bombers into warped space — chaotic multi-stage action across strange dimensions.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch. 5 Meakashi
A cursed Japanese village in 1983, cicadas at night, and a dread that tightens with every scene.
Game
The Thing
A military team investigating deaths in Antarctica meets a shape-shifting alien that mimics what it kills.
Game
Mitsume ga Tooru
Hosuke Sharaku, the last three-eyed man, pursues a prince who has kidnapped his friend and is levelling the city.
Game
GODZILLA
Play as Godzilla: level cities, breathe atomic fire, and fight legendary rival monsters in online brawls.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
The same cursed Hinamizawa village, a new chapter — layered dread unravels through a tight-knit community.
Game
Mega Man 2 (1988)
In Monsteropolis, robots built to serve civilisation become a threat that only one fighter can stop.
Book
Beast
After a couple vanishes near Bermuda, investigators discover a colossal octopus threatening the entire area.
Book
Universal Studios monsters
A history of Universal horror from the 1920s to 1950s — Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Book
Clockwork planet
Naoto and RyuZU strike a shaky alliance to repair Kyoto's failing Core Tower before the city is lost.
Book
ONE PIECE 78
Luffy and Doflamingo finally face off in a climactic battle that decides the fate of everyone on Dressrosa.
Book
Maske
Descendants of a colony crash on a water world build a stratified society over twelve generations of adaptation.
Book
Akira, Vol. 2
Tetsuo's unstable powers threaten Neo-Tokyo even as a group mobilises to stop him before Akira is released.
Book
Unit 731 Testimony
Documented testimony from Unit 731 — first-hand accounts of wartime medical atrocities in Japanese-occupied territory.
Book
Leviathan
A prince fleeing his enemies and a girl disguised as a soldier navigate a war between biological and mechanical powers.
Start with kaiju sequels like Godzilla Raids Again and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, then try the anime Godzilla Singular Point for a more cerebral spin, or Doomed Megalopolis for supernatural city-under-siege atmosphere.
Yes — Akira, Vol. 2 follows Tetsuo's unstable powers threatening Neo-Tokyo; Universal Studios Monsters charts the parallel Hollywood horror tradition from the 1920s through the 1950s; and Unit 731 Testimony documents the wartime atrocities that form part of kaiju cinema's historical backdrop.
GODZILLA (2014) lets you play as the King of the Monsters — levelling cities and fighting rival kaiju — while Godzilla: Save the Earth delivers multiplayer monster brawls, and The Thing (2002) channels paranoid creature-horror through an Antarctic survival game.