Welcome back to the glorious world of Kaiju, a beautiful utopia in which the hills are alive with the sound of a bunny beating up a cardboard box, or a Swedish urchin pounding a sentient pile of garbage with a hammer, or perhaps a slug traveling through time. These things happen, and lord help you if you're in the danger zone.

The surrealist geniuses over at Kaiju Big Battel are once again bringing home the excitement of the Kaiju universe with their second DVD, 'The Shocking Truth', an hour long variety show complete with commercials, and featuring all of your favorite monsters and humans, venting pent up aggressions, running around topless, and oozing various toxic substances on one another, oft in the name of galactic peace, and sometimes just because they get excited and can't help it. (It's okay, baby). 'The Shocking Truth' is an expertly crafted, interesting exploration into some of the aspects and characters in the world of Kaiju. While most of it is a visual, live-action representation of the events and plot twists and explanations covered in the definitive Kaiju book, 'Kaiju Big Battel : A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters', Kaiju is a wildly visual event, torn from the nightmares of Asian children, stuffed with old Apple IIe parts, tenderized by multiple punches to vital ganglion, and basted in its own juices for eternity. The visual depictions these events, and of the mysteries behind the Kaiju Regulatory Commission, are essential to your safety and edification. Next time someone asks you how you feel about Silver Potato's rise to fame, you need not flee in humiliated ignorance.

Of course, you can't really expect things to go too smoothly with the nefarious Dr. Cube around. Someone will be kidnapped, and someone will die, and the world will mourn. The DVD case kinda smells like strawberries. One would expect no less than perfection from the creators behind one of the short stories that recently appeared in the 'Bizarro World' compilation from DC Comics. Not only have they crafted a fine-ass tale of Guy Gardner and the GL Corps, but they also gave Starro some proper respect (as well as a sly reference to Referee Jingi).

Prior to viewing this, and having never seen a live Kaiju event, I'd always perceived Dr. Cube as the strong, silent type. As it turns out, he's more of a wriggly, cackling type who revels in prolonged retellings of his victories and announcing his various schemes in a true comic-booky, supervillianous style. Much of the DVD is this narration, shot within the cave of Dino Kang Jr., (a steadfast ally of Cube), and featuring scenes from the various live Kaiju battles. Somewhere in here is an episode of the Neo Teppen Show, a hypothetical segment from the life of Neo Teppen presented in a beautiful lo-budget, impressively hi-tech morsel of DVD love. Neo Teppen's life seems to include epic battles in alleyways, a quest for treasure, and a fistful of evil Cube minions clamoring for his demise.

The DVD concludes with a battle of even more epicacity, far more epictacular that any previously filmed epicular Kaiju battle that came before it. Finally, we get to see Mung Wun's egg hatch, spilling out countless Team Space Bug warriors, at last determining the true parentage of said egg. Across the fields of Scotland, or at least North Scotlandville, NJ, Kaiju monsters from all walks of life clash in a bitter melee, and in the end, one of my favorite battelers meets his maker. No, not Synthtek Industrial Foam Products Ltd.... whatever god it is that Space Bugs pray to. And of course, like any good DVD, it's laden with bonus features!

A handful of the 'extras' are bios and fight snippets that occur within the commercials in the uninterrupted DVD, with 4 true bonus fights, presented in full (or near full), with hints of continuations of these battels on the future 'More Better Fighto!' DVD. The supply of ideas is endless, and for that, I consider myself blessed. I'm wondering when Kaiju will just release a large quantity of these live Battel events, which feature multiple fights, on a single DVD instead of chopping them up and losing the all-important chronology of them. Either way, I'll take what I can get, until I can make it to a real Battel. I poked around the DVD and didn't discover any Easter Eggs, except for the hilarity following the credits. Keep watching.

In gratitude to the Kaiju Gods, I've expressed myself in the truest, most honest dedication possible. No, not fan fic... fan fic is how to express how creepy you are. Fan art. Behold, Sky Deviler.

'The Shocking Truth' will be out during the second full week of April, and it serves as another excellent entry point into the world of Kaiju Big Battel. Like Gwar without the simulated semen, and pro wrestling without the homoerotic near-nudity, Kaiju is fun for the whole family.