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Description
Name: The Seaweed Monster
Television Series of Origin: "Godzilla" (Hanna-Barbera)
First Appearance: Episode 5 “ The Seaweed Monster”
Original Air Date: October 7, 1978 (10/07/'78)
Species: Mutated Seaweed / Algea
Height: Roughly Thirty-Stories Tall...?
Kaiju Portrait Order: #48

I'm cheating here by reusing and recycling a more elaborate illustration for the basis of the 48th Kaiju Portrait , this time featuring a Hanna-Barbera Godzilla foe, but the combined gradients and color work here is obscured by atmospheric effects from the aforementioned, so here's a clear look at the title subject.

True to its name, The Seaweed Monster is a mass of aquatic algae mutated by radiation into a hostile beast that goes after the crew of Calico and Godzilla when they first discover the aberration deep within the Sargasso Sea (a real-life region of the North Atlantic Ocean steep in legend including seaweed entrapment). The Seaweed Monster is simple but very serviceable as a creature and has a creepy enough design reminiscent of the far more famous G-foe Hedorah, even if The Breeder Beast from this same series is the true Hedorah analog.

Plus, The Seaweed Monster does have a surprisingly well executed death scene for a late 1970s adventure cartoon from The House That Fred Flintstone Built.

RELATED ARTWORK:

- earthbaragon.deviantart.com/ar…

- enshohma.deviantart.com/art/KM…

- enshohma.deviantart.com/art/Se…

NEXT KAIJU PORTRAIT: Shinagawa-kun

Description
Name: The Seaweed Monster
Television Series of Origin: "Godzilla" (Hanna-Barbera)
First Appearance: Episode 5 “ The Seaweed Monster”
Original Air Date: October 7, 1978 (10/07/'78)
Species: Mutated Seaweed / Algea
Height: Roughly Thirty-Stories Tall...?
Kaiju Portrait Order: #48

I'm cheating here by reusing and recycling a more elaborate illustration for the basis of the 48th Kaiju Portrait , this time featuring a Hanna-Barbera Godzilla foe, but the combined gradients and color work here is obscured by atmospheric effects from the aforementioned, so here's a clear look at the title subject.

True to its name, The Seaweed Monster is a mass of aquatic algae mutated by radiation into a hostile beast that goes after the crew of Calico and Godzilla when they first discover the aberration deep within the Sargasso Sea (a real-life region of the North Atlantic Ocean steep in legend including seaweed entrapment). The Seaweed Monster is simple but very serviceable as a creature and has a creepy enough design reminiscent of the far more famous G-foe Hedorah, even if The Breeder Beast from this same series is the true Hedorah analog.

Plus, The Seaweed Monster does have a surprisingly well executed death scene for a late 1970s adventure cartoon from The House That Fred Flintstone Built.

RELATED ARTWORK:

- earthbaragon.deviantart.com/ar…

- enshohma.deviantart.com/art/KM…

- enshohma.deviantart.com/art/Se…

NEXT KAIJU PORTRAIT: Shinagawa-kun