Ranking All Gamera Kaiju from the Showa Era

Kaiju Ranking from the First Seven Gamera Movies

S Tier

• Gamera — The narrator’s favorite kaiju and an easy top pick: a fire-breathing turtle who can fly.

A Tier

• Barugon — Praised for his unusual ice breath and rainbow-shooting back.
• Gyaos — An A-tier kaiju, though ranked below Barugon because multiple Gyaos appear in the series.

B Tier

• Jiger — A solid middle-tier pick, with a nod to her distinctive abilities.

C Tier

• Zigra — The narrator has little to say about him, but credits him as a more convincing alien conqueror than Viras and an early aquatic kaiju.

D Tier

• Viras — Dismissed as one of the most underwhelming kaiju ever.
• Guiron — Has a unique design, but his head-mounted shuriken attacks feel awkward. The narrator also notes that he spends much of the movie under someone else’s control.

The ranking is delivered with playful bluntness, especially in its contrast between Gamera’s spectacular turtle-and-flight concept and the less impressive villains.

Personality appearing: The narrator.