History Kaiju / AnimeAndManga

* When ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' gets particularly irritated (or, presumably, watches too much ''Evangelion'', [[MindScrew both of which might go hand-in-hand]]), she manifests Kaiju-like monsters in a PhantomZone. Fortunately, she also dreamt up some people to fight the things.

* Queen Taratects in ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' are massive and extremely powerful. A single Queen was able to wipe out a fully-manned fort ''and the army attacking it''. Also noted is Fenrir, a wolf capable of taking bites out of similar forts.

** The largest summoned animals fit the bill in terms of size. The giant serpent is even named Manda after the Godzilla beast. There's also the Bijuu: 9 giant monsters, at least one of which was once referred to as a natural disaster, which is far more in theme with the iconic Kaiju. Lampshaded by Guy, when [[spoiler:Kurama and Gyuki fight the five other Bijuus Matatabi, Isobu, Kokuoh, Saiken and Chomei.]]

** Bijuu combine into the juubi with the help of a statue, this beasts power is so great that when Naruto tried to measure its power, he got sensory overload instead.

* There’s a character in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' whose quirk is “kaiju” and lets him turn into a kaiju.

** Cell’s successor Cell Max from ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' definitely qualifies being the size of a building by the FinalBattle and in a ShoutOut to ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' can BeamSpam out of his body not just his out of his mouth. Piccolo in his Orange Form goes giant himself leading to a kaiju-sized slug fest between the two. However since size never matters in ''Dragon Ball'', the average-sized Gohan was able to take down Cell Max pretty easily upon awakening his NextTierPowerUp “Beast Gohan” with only Piccolo helping [[CallBack by holding Cell Max in place for Gohan’s Special Beam cannon]].

** The first Hokage, Hashirama Senju was so powerful, he could summon gigantic wood golems and wood dragons to fight. Cranked UpToEleven, during his fateful battle with Madara. Hashirama summoned a wooden statue of Avlokiteshvara so huge, all Kaijus look like dwarves in comparison. Even a full sized Kurama looks like a normal mouse compared to a six foot tall human.

* ''Anime/SSSSGridman'', being set in the ''Franchise/UltraMan'' universe, has kaijus being fought by Gridman and the Neon Genesis Junior High Students.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', the Sacred Beast of the Hellas Empire recently started attacking a gigantic shadow monster, causing Haruna to start squeeing about kaiju battles. And [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraft]].

* The Mimetic Beasts from ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'' definitely qualify as Kaiju.

** The Sea Kings are perhaps the most prolific Kaiju in the franchise, all four oceans are crawling with them and ones in the Calm Belt ''[[ParanoiaFuel are even bigger in size and number]]''. Defeating just one Sea King is the mark of a superhuman in One Piece. [[spoiler: In Fishman Island it’s revealed Princess Shirahoshi can control Sea Kings which means she’s one of the Ancient Weapons: Poseidon.]]
** Special mention to the [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Bananawani]], (gigantic crocodiles with bananas growing out of their heads) big enough to chomp stone and they even prey on the aforementioned Sea Kings being their only known natural predator to this date. However they’re hit with TheWorfEffect pretty badly.
** ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' (the one written by Oda) has loads of Kaiju as the BigBad Shiki injected animals with [[SuperSerum IQ]] turning them into superbeasts, such as: the land dwelling octopus, a massive long armed bear who suplexes its foes and a six-legged tiger. While the Straw Hats (especially the Monster Trio) can handle them, Shiki threatens to unleash the creatures across world, starting with East Blue the home sea of the original five crewmates.
** Nola the 200 year old humongous snake from Skypeia even among the many monsters in the series deserves recognition, being big enough to wrap itself around a massive forest, NoSell attacks from Zoro and Wyper and even swallowed Luffy and several others and kept them in its belly. Subverted however as Nola is actually [[GentleGiant quite friendly and good natured]].

* The Angels in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. There's also [[spoiler:the Evas themselves, having been cloned from Angels. Their armor just makes them ''look'' like HumongousMecha]].

** Funnily enough famous Kaiju such as Godzilla (on tv), King Ghidorah and Gamera cameo in the franchise though they’re quite smaller than their usual sizes.

* In the Creator/{{CLAMP}} series ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', Touya's pet name for his sister is "Kaiju" (or "Dinosaur" in Nelvana's English dub), which is usually followed by Sakura shouting about how much she isn't one, complete with monstrous stomping about the house. Which naturally only adds to Touya's argument that she is a noisy kaiju.
* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' had a massive human-like Kaiju that came from the sea and seemed intent on attacking an island town. [[spoiler:Turns out that it's just a girl whose wish of living with the whales was granted by [[MadScientist Professor Madaraki]]. She's just there to find her mom so she could give her the great news that she's now pregnant. [[EverybodyLives Happy end!]]]]

* All members of the [[BloodKnight Heroic Tribe]] in ''Anime/HeroicAge'' are essentially GIANT SPACE MONSTERS. Which destroy planets on a regular basis.
* The main character of Manga/KiriwoTerrible transforms himself into a Kaiju to fight the Kaiju attacking his city.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' (thanks to Creator/EiichiroOda's love of drawing big creatures) has an overabundance of giant monsters ([[https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Species see here]]). While a good many are friendly, most are just building-sized terrors who can destroy ships and gobble up people like mints. The Monster Trio (Luffy, Zoro and Sanji) actually got their namesake from being able kill a giant Sandora Lizard in Alabasta.
** The Sea Kings are perhaps the most prolific Kaiju in the franchise, all four oceans are crawling with them and ones in the Calm Belt ''[[ParanoiaFuel are even bigger in size and number]]''. Defeating just one Sea King is the mark of a superhuman in One Piece. [[spoiler: In Fishman Island it’s revealed Princess Shirahoshi can control Sea Kings which means she’s one of the Ancient Weapons: Poseidon.]]
** Special mention to the [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Bananawani]], (gigantic crocodiles with bananas growing out of their heads) big enough to chomp stone and they even prey on the aforementioned Sea Kings being their only known natural predator to this date. However they’re hit with TheWorfEffect pretty badly.
** ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' (the one written by Oda) has loads of Kaiju as the BigBad Shiki injected animals with [[SuperSerum IQ]] turning them into superbeasts, such as: the land dwelling octopus, a massive long armed bear who suplexes its foes and a six-legged tiger. While the Straw Hats (especially the Monster Trio) can handle them, Shiki threatens to unleash the creatures across world, starting with East Blue the home sea of the original five crewmates.
** Nola the 200 year old humongous snake from Skypeia even among the many monsters in the series deserves recognition, being big enough to wrap itself around a massive forest, NoSell attacks from Zoro and Wyper and even swallowed Luffy and several others and kept them in its belly. Subverted however as Nola is actually [[GentleGiant quite friendly and good natured]].
* The eponymous HumongousMecha in ''Anime/DaiGuard'' ends up fighting a lot of kaiju.
* Cenco and the other monsters in ''Anime/{{Cencoroll}}''.
* Done hilariously in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' when Nagasumi is [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever turned into a giant]]. San's father summons a large octopus to attack him.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The largest summoned animals fit the bill in terms of size. The giant serpent is even named Manda after the Godzilla beast. There's also the Bijuu: 9 giant monsters, at least one of which was once referred to as a natural disaster, which is far more in theme with the iconic Kaiju. Lampshaded by Guy, when [[spoiler:Kurama and Gyuki fight the five other Bijuus Matatabi, Isobu, Kokuoh, Saiken and Chomei.]]
--> '''Guy''': "It looks like the battle of Kaijus!"
** Bijuu combine into the juubi with the help of a statue, this beasts power is so great that when Naruto tried to measure its power, he got sensory overload instead.
** The first Hokage, Hashirama Senju was so powerful, he could summon gigantic wood golems and wood dragons to fight. Cranked UpToEleven, during his fateful battle with Madara. Hashirama summoned a wooden statue of Avlokiteshvara so huge, all Kaijus look like dwarves in comparison. Even a full sized Kurama looks like a normal mouse compared to a six foot tall human.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', the Sacred Beast of the Hellas Empire recently started attacking a gigantic shadow monster, causing Haruna to start squeeing about kaiju battles. And [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraft]].
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' is about HumongousMecha, not kaiju, but the confused populace in the work can't tell the difference, [[DestructiveSavior for a good reason]].
* In the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' both Genma and Happosai have a secret Ki-technique that lets them grow to Kaiju-esque proportions. [[RuleOfFunny Then immediately collapse in exhaustion]].
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' features the people-eating humanoid giants called "Titans", which humanity has to fight either with highly specialized combat gear that allows them to maneuver in three dimensions and [[AchillesHeel slash the napes of their necks]], or with [[spoiler:a Titan of their own who can transform from a human]]. The Colossal Titan in particular, being 60 meters tall, definitely qualifies.
* Many of the larger Demon Beasts that the BigBad Nightmare creates in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''.
* Many larger Capture Beasts in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' fit the role. The Four Beasts [[spoiler: and their master beast]] fit this especially. More powerful beasts in the Gourmet World make '''Godzilla''' look small.

* Many of the gigantic monsters from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' count, especially the ones who are extremely powerful in-universe. For example, Exodia, the Egyptian Gods, the Great Leviathan, the Sacred Beasts, the Earthbound Immortals, etc.

* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'' tells the story of Kuroe Akaishi, a high school girl who turns into a Kaiju called Harugon whenever she gets particularly emotional, usually when it involves her crush Arata Minami. Whenever she gets emotional but is able to contain herself, she usually undergoes a PartialTransformation manifesting as a scaly hand, dorsal spikes, a tail, etc.
* Anime/SSSSGridman, being set in the Franchise/UltraMan universe, has kaijus being fought by Gridman and the Neon Genesis Junior High Students.

* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'' tells the story of Kuroe Akaishi, a high school girl who turns into a Kaiju called Harugon whenever she gets particularly emotional, usually when it involves her crush Arata Minami. Whenever she gets emotional but is able to contain herself, she usually undergoes a PartialTransformation manifesting as a scaly hand, dorsal spikes, a tail, etc.

* ''Anime/OnePiece'' (thanks to Oda’s love of drawing big creatures) has an overabundance of giant monsters ([[https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Animal_Species see here]]). While a good many are friendly, most are just building-sized terrors who can destroy ships and gobble up people like mints. The Monster Trio (Luffy, Zoro and Sanji) actually got their namesake from being able kill a giant Sandora Lizard in Alabasta.