“Oh No, There Goes Tokyo” may be the most interesting essay I read in this course. Since when I was a child, I like to watch monster films and animation such as Godzilla and Ultraman. Monster films are famous in Japan because it can show the citizen how to help each other and how to solve the problems. There are many nature disasters in Tokyo like earthquake, tsunami and typhoon. Buildings always destroyed and rebuild again in five-and-a-half centuries. This situation look like giant monsters appear and damage the buildings. Someone says that the monster in the film is related to the nuclear threat in real life. Maybe these films want people to think the consequence of war and hope our earth peace forever. Although monster is fantasy, it may allay the anxieties of some people as the fantasy beautifies the world.
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Glad that you enjoyed the reading by Tsuitsui. This is a good reading response in which you have clearly articulated the key ideas presented by Tsuitsui in his argument of the Japanese monster genre film.