YMMV / Dogora

• Awesome Music: Though not as renowned as his work on Godzilla (1954), Akira Ifukube still pulls through with some good cues such as the main title, which emphasizes the oncoming alien threat beautifully and terrifyingly.
• Broken Base: Though it’s agreed the film would’ve worked better if it didn’t have two separate plots clashing with itself, which one of the two plots would’ve worked better is hotly debated, the espionage style diamond heist, or the giant alien monster invading Japan?
• One Film Wonder: Dogora has only appeared in this one film. No other Toho movie has ever referenced it until Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, in which Dogora features in the intro, attacking London.
  • However, the show Godzilla Island does feature a small appearance by Dogora.
    • According to Word of God, Dogora's events occurred in the continuity of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S..
  • Dogora would later make an appearance in the first anime movie’s prequel novel, Monster Apocalypse.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Unlike most Toho monsters, Dogora isn’t portrayed through suitmation, but rather puppetry in an small, confined water tank, seamlessly masking its unnatural, alien-like movements when it’s seen destroying Fukuoka.

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