Four matches and tons of free Pocky followed. There was "Intern Promotion Match" between the Hero Intern, a Nintendo-controller-strapped Hero trainee (likely inspired by the fact that most Studio Kaiju for-credit interns inevitably end up in suits), and a chubby turtle-like creature called Vegetius. (Hero Intern got promoted.) There was the "Pocky Tomb of Doom" in which the cactus-like seamonster Unibouzu forced a human-sized bee creature called Dai Hachi Hachi into a giant Pocky box by pulling a gun — submission holds were barred, but weapons weren’t. (Huge, foam pink-coated Pocky sticks got thrown into the audience, where anime kids wielded them like torches in a lynch mob.) There was the debut of a poisonous fungul character, Shrooma Tango, and the inevitable announcement that Pablo Plantain was, in fact, dead.
And then there was the final Kaiju Big Battel Championship Match in which reigning champ Dr. Cube fought against the enormous good-willed canned-good Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle. A full-on monster-on-monster melee broke out, Soup beat Cube, the uber-tuber Hero Silver Potato emerged after years of reclusiveness inexpicably to beat up a grieving Pedro Plantain, and I got strange goo on my shirt. Yes, in the end, Danger Did Happen.
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