A kaiju typhoon, a monster emperor on live TV, and Kitaro's hair acting as its own weapon system.
Kitaro's worries about a typhoon that came during the unseasonable winter turn out to be true. A typhoon known as a mysterious weather event that occurs once every 1000 years has landed in Tokyo. At that time, a monster emperor appears on TV and decides to support Japan...
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn typhoon destruction hits different than digital weather
Direction
Shibata squeezing feature ambition into 48-minute TV special bones
Sound
That specific 1986 anime scream library, you know the one
Director
Hiroki Shibata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during the peak 1980s Japanese economic bubble, making the monster emperor's 'support' weirdly prescient about corporate nationalist rhetoric. The manga's anti-pollution themes hit harder when Tokyo was literally drowning in wealth.
Director Hiroki Shibata would later helm Sailor Moon S: The Movie, proving his specialty was 'catastrophic weather events featuring small powerful children.' The typhoon here reuses animation cycles from his earlier Doraemon TV episodes.
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