Kaiju Unleashed offers a general introduction to the exciting film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories.
 

Shawn Pryor’s (he/him) work includes the middle-grade graphic novel Fast Break (FSG/Macmillan, 2025), the hi/lo reader series The Gamer (Capstone Publishing), the Cash and Carrie series (Action Lab Entertainment), and several books for Capstone’s Jake Maddox Sports and Adventure series, Graphic Library, and the Kids Sports series. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cooking, listening to streaming music playlists, and talking about why Zack from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is the greatest Black superhero of all time.

Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia.

Foreword 
Introduction 
STRANGE BEASTS
CHAPTER ONE | Beginnings 
CHAPTER TWO | Godzilla 
CHAPTER THREE | The Showa Era (1954–1975)
CHAPTER FOUR | The Heisei Era (1984–1995)
CHAPTER FIVE | A New Millennium 
CHAPTER SIX | King Kong 
CHAPTER SEVEN | Kong vs. Godzilla
CHAPTER EIGHT | Gamera 
CHAPTER NINE | Rodan 
CHAPTER TEN | Mothra 
CHAPTER ELEVEN | Daimajin 
CHAPTER TWELVE | Ultraman 
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | Other Japanese Kaiju 
GLOBAL DOMINATION
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | International Kaiju Films 
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | Animated Kaiju 
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | Comic Books, Manga, and Prose 
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | Kaiju in Pop Culture 
Conclusion 
Index 
Sources 
Image Credits 
Acknowledgments 
About the Author