Its also interesting to note that one of the series from the Anime was called "King Kong". ![]() So the first TV Daikaiju was a King Kong knockoff called Mammoth Kong. One of the segments was called The King Kong Series that ran 12 episodes (episodes 14-26 of the Anime). And according to you Monster Kong was now human sized and this film was marketed overseas as The Monster Gorilla. *Then we got the movie adaptation, that was released April 1 1959, called Moonlight Mask - The Monster Kong (月光仮面 - 怪獣コング - Gekkō Kamen - Kaijū Kongu) This was directed Satoru Ainoda. And that it featured the first ever giant monster on Japanese Television called Mammoth Kong. *Mammoth Kong (マンモスコング - Manmosu Kongu) - Episodes 94-104, 11 episodes that aired from October 19 to December 26 1958. ![]() So it looks like (going by that Wikipedia link) that in the TV series we had
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