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[–] [email protected] 109 points 9 months ago

Unless it's from the Kaijuu region of Japan, it's only sparkling beast.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Paul Bunyan? No. Not a monster. Just a man.

Babe, his giant blue ox, however: totally a Kaiju.

The literal translation/definition of "Kaiju" is "strange beast." Which is why giant humans don't qualify.

[–] Decoy321 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's counter evidence that humans can actually achieve a Beast Mode, though.

Source 1

Source 2

[–] TropicalDingdong 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some say their only weakness is a pass play on the 1 yard line..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Altered Beast, Sonic and then this Zombies are my neighbors or something game are the first games I remember at all.

Maybe around ‘96?

Anyways, yeah that’s hard soli evidence right there you can’t deny it

[–] VindictiveJudge 11 points 9 months ago

Are mostly bald apes with manes that are oddly good at throwing things not strange beasts?

[–] Sanctus 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying Paul Bunyan is not a beast? And a strangely large one at that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's a strangely large normal fellow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's just a normal human who ate all his vegetables when he was a growing boy.

[–] Sanctus 3 points 9 months ago

This is now my head-cannon

[–] Wogi 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone get Arin Hanson on the line we need an official verdict.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been watching so much Game Grumps recently, there's a good chance that's where I subliminally obtained this knowledge.

[–] Wogi 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I stopped watching for a while, but then Zelda came out and they're a steady habit again

[–] maythebananabewithyo 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are they back in decent form at all? Me and my partner stopped watching a long time ago due to the downward spiral of their content quality and editing. It just became more of “how many times can we roll our eyes over the course of a video” than anything else.

Which sucks because our mutual enjoyment of them (among other things) was one of the things that brought us together.

(For reference, I started watching around 2012, her around 2016, and we stopped watching somewhere in 2019)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kaiju stand user?

B U L L S O N P A R A D E

[–] creditCrazy 3 points 9 months ago

Maybe Bunyan was a stand user with his stand being babe blue

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago

If it’s not from the Tokyo prefecture it’s just sparkling King Kong.

[–] ChicoSuave 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Little known fact that America has one of the first Kaiju. And if Paul Bunyan doesn't count, Babe does.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I’d argue that babe better fits the bill of kaiju being a giant blue ox (animal/creature)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, he's just a French Canadian logger.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bunyan doesn't sound like a French name to me. Also, didn't it start as a Midwestern U.S. folktale? Like Wisconsin and Minnesota? That's what I thought.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've heard that he was the continuation of Joseph "Jos" Montferrand, a French Canadian logger and legend born in Montreal, who worked in the Gatineau and Outaouais region, known also as big John Mufferaw. He then moved south of the border to continue working as a logger where he became known as Paul Bunyan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bunyan sounds the same as some old French Canadian swear word, but is written differently. I think the real spelling would be something like "bon yenne", and also resembles a French Canadian folklore named "Bon Jean".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes!!!! Absolutely!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I heard that Big Joe Mufferaw paddled down the Mattawa

[–] qarbone 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

...where'd he chop a tree that big? did that bastard take down all the cool, fantasy trees??

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure I remember that being part of his story, he chopped all the big trees down or smth.

[–] Cryophilia 4 points 9 months ago

Best lumberjack in the Sahara Forest

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 4 points 9 months ago

Well now we know where all the Entwives went.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

They must've been everywhere before he arrived.

[–] FlashZordon 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Godzilla X Paul Bunyan would do NUMBERS

[–] bruhduh 5 points 9 months ago

Can't wait till someone make film about it with ai

[–] creditCrazy 5 points 9 months ago

I'd watch that

[–] Sanctus 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, Godzilla is best when he is the problem.

[–] shadmere 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are the "good guys" still kaiju? I mean, I know the good monsters are still kaiju. But is, like, Ultraman a kaiju?

[–] FlyingSquid 14 points 9 months ago

Gamera is a Kaiju and he's a friend to children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Can you really call Paul Bunyan a “good guy”? The canopy over North America was once monumental, but after he chopped it all down, it is mere legend, fading from memory with the death of each passing generation

[–] Etterra 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think there's a different word for when it's a giant person instead of giant monster. In English he'd just be a giant.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s a Japanese word, in English we just say giant

Like Isekai, in English we just say fantasy

[–] NikkiDimes 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Isekai means different world and is specific a subgenre of fantasy. For literal fantasy, it's just ファンタジー or fantoji, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

In English it’s not popular enough to differentiate

Other examples of words without direct translations

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/untranslatable-01

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

By definition, yes. An abnormally large creature capable of destroying a building without the use of any big weapons. Mr Bunyan could easily topple a building in NYC with just his hands.

[–] LaunchesKayaks 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

here's a vid about this whole thing

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 4 points 9 months ago

That's a big log

[–] Toneswirly 4 points 9 months ago

Way to fuck up my whole Sunday

[–] SPRUNT 2 points 9 months ago

Jolly Green Giant must be kaiju also.

Sprout is a baby kaiju.

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