Toho, Rodan Roar

An Image of Rodan from the Heisei Era.

An Image of Rodan from the Heisei Era.

The Rodan Roar is a sound effect from TV shows, movies, and others.

Rodan's roar sounds like a mix between bird screeches and jets. Rodan's roar starts off like a shrieking, similar to birds. The roar then gets much deeper, and more screechy. His roar then ends in a long exhale. Rodan's roar was reused for many of the kaiju, such as the Heisei King Ghidorah and Battra.

All these roar sounds were created by the sounds of sped up vocalizations of monkeys, as said in the description of the original unedited version of the sound, which can be found in the Freesound website.

It was also created by a contrabass, Sound technican Ichiro Minawa created Rodan's roar by recreating the contrabass technique that Akira Ifukube used to create Godzilla's roar. He then layered the recordings with a human voice and sped them up. Rodan's roar was reused for several other kaiju, such as the Heisei King Ghidorah, Battra, and the Ultra Series kaiju Antlar, Agira and Gasgegon, among others.

Similar Variations

Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect

Used In

TV Shows

  • Dinosaur Great War Izenborg (Used for Terrano's roars.)
  • Dinosaur Squadron Koseidon
  • Godzilla Island
  • Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. (Heard in "Lou-Ann Poovie Sings No More" only on a off-screen film in a local theather.)
  • Kamen Rider Wizard (Used for the Green Griffon in a high pitch.)
  • Redman
  • ThunderCats
  • Ultraman (High-pitched and used for Antlar.)
  • Ultraman Ace (Modified for Verokron and Gasgegon.)
  • Ultraman Blazar (Heavily slowed down for Mogusion.)
  • Ultraseven (Used for Agira's roars.)
  • Ultraman Tiga (Modified for the Zoiger.)

TV Specials

  • The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (TV Special)

Movies

Video Games

Arcade:

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Cut-short; Used for the Red Dragon boss when it's hitted by the player.)
  • Godzilla (Arcade, 1993) (Used correctly for Battra with his respective variant but used wrongly for Megalon.)
  • Metal Black
  • Pulstar
  • Sol Divide
  • Time Gal (1985)
  • Willow (1989) (Used for the Eborsisk boss and a golden dragon boss, mixed alongside with Gyaos Roar.)

GBA:

  • Godzilla Domination!

Mobile:

  • GODZILLA BATTLE LINE
  • Godzilla Defense Force

Nintendo DS:

  • Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash (2007) (Used correctly for Rodan but used wrongly for Ebirah.)

PC:

  • Godzilla Daikaiju Battle Royale (Used for Rodan, Battra and the 1991 version of King Ghidorah.)
  • Godzilla Movie Studio Tour (1996)

PlayStation:

PlayStation 2:

PlayStation 4:

  • Godzilla (2015)

Sega Pico:

  • Godzilla: Heart-Pounding Monster Island!! (1995)

SNES:

  • Super Godzilla (Used for Battra.)

Super Famicom:

  • Godzilla: Archipelago Shock (1995) (Used for Rodan and Battra.)
  • Godzilla: Monster War (1994) (Used for Battra.)

YouTube Videos

Website Series

  • Godziburst (2025)

Anime

Image Gallery

Audio Samples



Rodan's roar but it's slowed down, heard by Godzillasaurus' roars.
Heisei King Ghidorah variant.