

Jet Jaguar's concept art has him sporting pronounced, feather-like objects protruding from his head in addition to his antennae, which was actually carried over from Red Alone's suit design. However, he became inspired after deciding that rather than focusing on making Jet Jaguar's design attractive, he would aim for it to be deliberately unattractive and obnoxious. Nakano was initially reluctant in reinventing Red Alone as Jet Jaguar, due to feeling that there were already too many Ultraman-like heroes appearing at the time. Megalon whatsoever, leaving the true identity of the monsters' designer or designers a mystery. The concept drawings of Jet Jaguar and Megalon are often attributed to illustrator Akihiko Iguchi, however Iguchi has openly denied having any involvement in Godzilla vs. Godzilla: The Undersea Kingdom's Annihilation Strategy, in which he is described as having a "sharp figure." This version of the character was scrapped along with the script, however, and Teruyoshi Nakano was recruited to supervise a redesign of Red Alone, ultimately leading to Jet Jaguar. Megalon draft, Insect Monster Megalon vs. Red Alone was later changed into a robot and included in the 1972 Godzilla vs. Megalon, often incorrectly attributed to Akihiko Iguchi This suit would be used further for publicity appearances at events sponsored by Seiyu as well as on other television shows. The suit created for Red Alone bore only a slight resemblance to Sano's design with a red, yellow and blue color scheme, as opposed to his white design. アローン, Reddo Arōn), which also went through several other names including Red Aaron (レッドアーロン, Reddo Āron), Jet Alone (ジェット・アローン, Jetto Arōn), and Aceman (エースマン, Ēsuman).The winner of the contest, a boy named Masaaki Sano (佐野雅昭), had submitted a drawing of a monster called Red Alone (レッド On this show, it was also announced that the winner of the competition would have their design featured in Toho's next Godzilla film, which would ultimately become Godzilla vs. In March of 1972, a number of the kids who had submitted designs for the campaign were invited on to the Japanese television program Katsura Kokinji's Afternoon Show, where the winner was to be announced and a suit inspired by the winning design revealed. Jet Jaguar was the result of a monster design campaign held by Seiyu from the end of 1971 to January of the following year, called "Children Monster University" (ちびっこ怪獣大学, Chibikko Kaijū Daigaku), which was co-sponsored by Toho and Tsuburaya Productions. Jet Jaguar is also sometimes erroneously given the English name Jet-Jagger or the variant JetJagger, typically in Japanese media.Ī promotional badge for Seiyu's monster design campaign, featuring Red Alone artwork Examples using "Jet Jaguar" include the Atari and Pipeworks games Godzilla: Save the Earth and Godzilla: Unleashed, while instances of media using Jet-Jaguar ranges from the 1998 book The Official Godzilla Compendium and the 2014 Godzilla video game. Jet Jaguar is Toho's trademarked English name for the character, though a similar situation exists wherein English language media includes a hyphen ( Jet-Jaguar) in the robot's name. 8.4 Godzilla (PlayStation 3 / PlayStation 4)Īcross Japanese media, Jet Jaguar's name is variably spelled with (ジェット・ジャガー) and without (ジェットジャガー) an interpunct.Megalon, Gigan, Orga, Destoroyah, Trilopod, Magita, Rodan GSP, Anguirus GSP, Kumonga GSP, Kamanga, Hanenga, Zenbunga, Godzilla GSP Godzilla, Kiryu, GRoE MOGUERA, GRoE Zilla, GRoE King Caesar, GRoE Rodan, GRoE Anguirus, GRoE Kumonga, GRoE Gorosaurus, GRoE Baragon, GRoE Kamoebas, GRoE Varan, GRoE Sanda, GRoE Gaira, GRoE Kamacuras, GRoE Minilla, GZB Little GZB Goro Ibuki, Seatopians (temporarily), Goro Otaki (initial pilot) GSP, Yung GSP,

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