Manda

### Aliases

Mand-Long, Mand-Lung, Manmosu Da, Wenda, Manta, Dragon Titan, Serpent Titan, Giant Marine Dragon, Monster Dragon, Sea Dragon, Mammoth Serpent, Monster Serpent, Sea Serpent, LordManda

## Production Information

### Creator

DinoMania (LordManda), Shinichi Sekizawa

**Manda** (マンダ *Manda*), also known as **Mand-Long** (マンドロング *Mandorongu*), is a sea serpentine Titan who appeared in *Godzilla: Lord of the Galaxy*.

Manda is a Titan who was worshipped by East Asian nations during ancient times. Known as the Goddess of Water, Manda was the main inspiration behind eastern dragons. This kaiju has the ability to control weather, and summon rain whenever she wants to. Usually she does it when there's a tough drought going on, so she can restore and support some lifeforms. Manda also can use use thunderstorm to absorb lightnings, gaining extra energy that she can use to fly or discharge a lightning pulse to attack other monsters.

## Name

Manda was originally conceptualized as a giant snake during production of Manda's debut; *Atragon* in 1963, and was given the name "Mammoth Snake" (マンモススネーク *Manmosu Sunēku*), which later became "Mammoth Serpent" (マンモス蛇 *Manmosu Da*). Because the next year, 1964, was the year of the dragon, Toho felt it would be appropriate to make the monster a dragon instead. Toho redesigned the creature as a sea dragon, and shortened "*Manmosu Da*" into "*Manda*," which became the monster's official name.

"Mand-Long", name given for this Titan by DinoMania, comes from the words "Long/Lung", which is a Chinese Dragon, and also from the shortened version of the word "Manda".

## Design

Manda has the serpentine body that Toho's official design retains. It primarily resembles the Final Wars incarnation, with a few differences. Manda has webbed fins on her limbs and her eyes are resemble more of snakes, with more round pupils. She also has as a finned tail and a Dragon nose-line.

## Origins

Manda was worshipped by Eastern Asia during ancient times. Known as the Goddess of Water, Manda was the main inspiration behind the eastern dragons.

## History

In 1989, South Korea, Manda appeared near several cities and later was used to test Maser Submarines, first EDF weapon that could fight Titans underwater. Tests resulted in a success; the Dragon Titan retreated, despite the fact that she probably had no intention of attacking any cities.

## Abilities

### Aquatic Capabilities

While being slow on land, Mand-Long is very fast in water, what can give her a great advantage. She can also breathe underwater, like Godzilla.

### Physical Strength

This Titan is also incredibly strong, as she can wrap her serpentine body around her victims, suffocating them or even crushing their bones, if they're small enough.

### Rain Manipulation

Manda can cause intense rainstorms, using the forces of her mind. Her eyes glow blue when she does that.

### Lightning Absorption

When a lightning storm or thunderstorm is active, Manda can draw her energy from lightning to power her up, heal her or grant her flight. She can even make her own thunderstorms, due to her weather manipulative powers.

### Lightning Pulse

After absorbing enough lightning, Manda can emit a Lighting Pulse, which works similar to Godzilla's Nuclear Pulse and Fake Godzilla's Electromagnetic Pulse. However, rather than a wave of destruction, the pulse emits electricity that is built for shocking, rather than vaporizing and destroying. Her horns and spikes also glow when she absorbs lightning or when she's about to use the lightning pulse.

### Flight

Also, from absorbing enough lightning, she is capable of fast flight.

### Weaknesses

Manda is not as fast in the land as she is in the water. Actually, she's very slow on land.

She also cannot absorb weaponized electricity (power lines, maser cannons, etc)

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* DinoMania came up with the idea for Manda flying, due to the fact that *"As you probably know, eastern Dragons are capable of flying, so I thought that it would be cool to give this ability to Manda, but she can use it only during thunderstorm."*