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Fukuda Marin of Hello! Project’s Tsubaki Factory, well known as a kaiju buff, has been quoted again — this time in a Weekly Jitsuwa article — for a long-held view from her blog: “Kaiju movies don’t need human drama. I’m not looking for scenes of people confronting the monster — I’d rather see the city get destroyed.” The resurfaced quote stirred up 5ch’s Hello! Project board. The thread split largely over how to judge the human-drama portions of “Godzilla Minus One,” with some arguing the drama is “setup that builds tension for the destruction scenes,” while others simply agreed that “destruction alone is enough.”
And along with that, attention turned to an idol’s past remarks.
That idol is Fukuda Marin, a member of Hello! Project group “Tsubaki Factory.”
“Fukuda is known as one of the biggest kaiju fans in the idol world, and on her blog she openly declared her love of Godzilla, writing, ‘I especially love the Godzilla and King Kong movies.’
Source: weekly-jitsuwa.jp / Original article here
What people said
but I don't need all those Ryunosuke Kamiki scenes.
If that's the price of admission, Wallaby's take (apparently a nickname fans use for Fukuda) actually makes more sense.
If it's nothing but terrifying scenes the whole way through you'd wear the audience out — you need some give and take.
It's airing right now but it's boring,
so I was just watching the news instead.
Kids don't care about the drama parts of kaiju movies either, so maybe that's where she's coming from.
just let Ryotsu run wild and cause chaos.
It's precisely because you show the human drama and build up the audience's feeling of "I don't want this character to die" that Godzilla's destruction scenes hit so much harder.
It's basically the setup before the payoff.
Have the military show up and get wiped out?
Fight-scene compilations too.
Just watch those lol
and laughs while smashing the Lego buildings other kids built?
He's the most psychedelic, unhinged kaiju in Godzilla history.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Fukuda Marin’s remarks extend a broader debate about kaiju movies that has followed 2024’s smash hit “Godzilla Minus One.” The film was praised for its careful handling of human drama, but criticism that “the drama sections drag” has also persisted, and the split in the thread runs along that same fault line. The Weekly Jitsuwa article dug up an old blog post — Fukuda herself hasn’t recently repeated these comments. The timing gap here is easy for readers to miss; the article itself notes that this is a resurfaced personal opinion rather than a “new statement.” What divided the thread comes down to a single point: whether to view human drama as “setup that makes the monster’s destruction scenes hit harder,” or to take the purely entertainment-focused stance that “a kaiju movie just needs the kaiju to rampage.” Both sides are arguing from the position of kaiju-movie fans, and the posts aren’t maliciously targeting Fukuda’s personal taste itself.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Fukuda Marin: \”Kaiju movies don’t need human drama. I’m not looking for scenes of people confronting the monster — I want the city destroyed.\”“
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