Cultural References
Three variants of full-scale Matangos appeared in some of the Hyperspace locations in the video game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters, which produced smaller, floating mushroom creatures for Godzilla and Mothra to destroy. If enough damage is inflicted to the large Matangos, they stop producing these creatures.
Episode 236 b of the Keroro Gunsou anime parodies the title of the movie and its plot (albeit very loosely) in the episode Tamama eats some mushrooms he finds in the mountains which he later finds out were possibly a type of space poison mushroom that will turn a person into a mushroom person (however the mushrooms he really ate only make a person dance).
Matango is also the home village of the mushroom people in the video game Secret of Mana (US) / Seiken Densetsu 2 (JP)
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