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LockNLoad · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

(Spec)Explosion in manga same type as beginning of movie???

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:24 am

adriansd1986 · Boot Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 62

Please excuse this comment if somebody has already suggested it.

I have been wondering, as the story of Kishin has unfolded, whether or not the whole world of Kishin is meant to be a Japanese interpretation of what went on in America.

In the same way that American film makers took the Godzilla story and orchestrated an attack on New York, with an American spin - What if Kishin is designed to be (i.e. MEANT to represent) a Japanese retelling of the story we were introduced to on 1-18-08.

I think this might explain the parallels between what we saw in the photos on http://www.1-18-08.com and in the movie, Cloverfield with the images we see in the Kishin comic.

Tell me what you think.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:08 am

Headman

Not sure if he can generate an explosion. It looks to me like his arms are crossed in the first picture preparing to swip away all the things around him. The end result is the final picture with his arms wide open and everything around him destroyed and exploding.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:33 am

cgjohnson79 · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Florida

Explosion

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:18 am

LockNLoad · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

Yep, I also thought about that, but 'if' this is some special attribute of Clovers, how does it work? I don't know how this could be done physically by just waving it arms or doing something else with its body, so if it's not a physical power (and I'm not ruling that out, this is a giant monster movie/manga after all). Another possibility is that it's some kind of psychic ability something like telekinesis, or pyrokinesis or a combination of both, there is the suggested psychic link between Kishin and Clover <-- that sound funny.

Greg

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:33 am

Some Thing

It's kinda hard to tell exactly what's going on in that manga pic...but I don't think that Clover is generating an explosion.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:55 am

Chris a Clef · Veteran Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 136

Re: (Spec)Explosion in manga same type as beginning of movie

**Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:04 pm

Animaniac · Unfettered Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 389

Re: (Spec)Explosion in manga same type as beginning of movie???

**Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:21 am

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Headman

Look at the perfect circle under him and the circular swirl around his head. Looks like he spun pretty quick. It looks to me like he generated the explosions by spinning and creating some kind of massive air pressure or vortex or something like that. If something that big spun around could it create enough wind and pressure to destroy things? Maybe just brute strength from flinging his long arms destroyed everything?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:45 am

paranigma · Greenhorn Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:09 pm

SlushomakesMEhappy · Decorated Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 164

He seems to be taking in all the bullets/firing and then somehow releasing it from his body!

**Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:46 pm

DanielLocktm · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Remember the Chuai Station, with the bits of the station flying upwards, like an explosion?
Between that page and the explosion in the movie/news report, it seems the monster can reflect objects. Bit like a baseball bat.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:24 am

Animaniac · Unfettered Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 389

**Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:58 am

_________________
It is by Slusho alone I set my zoom in motion.
It is by the katei no mitsu that thoughts acquire happiness,
the tongue acquires flavor. The flavor becomes more than 6.
It is by Slusho alone I set my zoom in motion.

LockNLoad · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

<Quote> Animaniac: Except that it only shows that if you read it left to right.. Manga is read right to left.... </Quote>

Doh! Forgot about that, but I don't think it matters in regards to the theory.

<Quote> Animanic: Honestly though, with how awkwardly this artist renders action sequences, I can't rule out he generated some explosion or something, only that the pause came first. </Quote>

I agree.

<Quote> Headman: Look at the perfect circle under him and the circular swirl around his head. Looks like he spun pretty quick. It looks to me like he generated the explosions by spinning and creating some kind of massive air pressure or vortex or something like that. If something that big spun around could it create enough wind and pressure to destroy things? Maybe just brute strength from flinging his long arms destroyed everything? </Quote>

Ya I noticed the "spinning" marks also, but if Clover is spinning to create this effect, then you would think that in the Chuai videos we would see some kind of vortex in the water before the pieces of the station go flying into the air. I did go back a look at the videos and I did not see any vortex forming in the water, so I don't know about the spinning action <shrug>

<Quote> DanielLocktm: Remember the Chuai Station, with the bits of the station flying upwards, like an explosion? Between that page and the explosion in the movie/news report, it seems the monster can reflect objects. Bit like a baseball bat.</Quote>

That is kinda what I was saying, something like telekinesis 'seems' to be at work.

Greg

**Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:03 am

l_Will_l · Veteran Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 90

Re: (Spec)Explosion in manga same type as beginning of movie???

**Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:10 am