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12/31/2023:
The 9th weekend for Godzilla Minus One saw a boost in the box office due to winter break. The gross shot to 4.86 Billion Yen (~34.5 Million) crossing an estimated attendance of 3.16 Million. (Eiga Ranking) It should pass The Return of Godzilla to become the 14th most attended film in the series soon. Despite nearly falling out of the top 10 last week, it went from #9 to #6! (Eiga Ranking)
- 7th highest-grossing 2023 film in Japan.
- 5th highest-grossing domestic 2023 film in Japan.
- 15th most attended Godzilla movie in Japan.
- 2nd highest grossing/attended kaiju film in last 13 years.
(WorldofKJ)

Charts Updated.

Another artist I found, Matteo Sciarra makes some pretty remarkable Godzilla artwork!

Will be interesting to see how they explain her redesign & the twins' absence. 

I wonder when these will be released in the UK.

Late January maybe?

While it does look cool, I kind of hope that Gamma Goji is just a temporary power up instead of a permanent change to his design.

Interesting how Shimo's render makes him almost pearlescent, while all the toys are pure white. 

I feel mixed about how he looks. The newer designs - Mechagodzilla, Godzilla Evolved, Skar King, and now Shimo - are all imo too slim to be massive. One of the best design aspects of the 2014 Godzilla is how weighty and massive he looks - none of that sense of mass is present here. 

The way the limbs connect are unnatural and fragile looking; almost scansorial-like. I understand the structural references to lizards, but it really makes no sense for a massive Titan.

I'll wait for the final film to give a definitive judgement, but by the looks of known material, these designs aren't what I crave for.

Given they’re Playmates toys, I don’t really expect profound levels of detail and accuracy. The higher end manufacturers will surely produce more film-accurate figures.

IMO - The Kong figure is the only one that looks pretty decent.

Skar King looks nothing like trailer.  And that two-pack of Godzilla vs Shimo - the eyes on Godzilla are a horrible paint job.

Great accolades, but I'm dumbfounded none of the lead actors were nominated! The best characters I've ever seen in a G movie. They truly stayed with me long after seeing it.

I would say he is at least a few thousand years old, because his father was around during ancient japanese times

Monsterzero9

 ¡Yo También! Amo nuestra generación.

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Hes about as old as your mom lmfao gottem (I have clinical depression) 

well i cant see Monsterverse reusing the same names even if its reincarnation so it could be same speices as Mosura  just going by diff name 

Btw Godzilla awakening ain’t canon no more bruh. Legacy of monsters changed it.

Wait I’m stupid, I didn’t read the whole thing

DAYUM 

@GMan - :)

Yeah, I may have to go for round 6.

I’m seeing minus one a third time. Also don’t go to the crazy seats they just distract you.

@GMan - I didn't want to say it. Of course, it took Toho to get it right. I was hoping we could do something along those lines. I do like the MonsterVerse, but Minus One, another level, from everything entirely. Saw it again yesterday. Had to see it once more on a big screen.

KoldWarKid62,
It took awhile, but I feel like, in many aspects, Minus One was the movie that the 2012 trailer was trying to sell us.

I'd have to agree. That trailer was actually scary and intense. It's too bad the movie we got didn't live up to what the trailer promised/inferred. I recently rewatched the 2012 Comic Con proof of concept teaser that Edwards did ahead of the movie and even though it's not an "official" trailer, it blows all the others away! THAT gives me goosebumps. I wish that movie had been made.

:(  Warrior

KDM is a pretty reliable source, so I would definitely lean towards that being a possibility. I'm going to dig into this further and see what else I can find though. I would say the title of this topic suggests the opposite, however haha.

RIP :( 76 is too young. Interstitial Pneumonia is horrible.

Another look at Shimo spotted on Godzilla x Kong shirt graphics:

Ah yes - corrected the typo, originally I think the name was leaked as Shimu but merchandising confirms the spelling.

I just keep liking Reiwa More and More!! Ominous one was fire

mbikkyu

Thanks very much! I wrote this like a few years ago or something, glad you liked it.

Correction: Shim0 isn't a bad guy. Skar King is just controlling Shimo to help him kill Godzilla and Kong

Godzilla 2014

Those last two paragraphs were so chilling they changed my view of the film and I made an account on this site just to express that I love this interpretation. 

to show you really love those 2 vote for them

MekaGyakushuGoji (aka, MegaroGoji Type-C) and GhidoGoji (Hokkaido ver.).

G. H. (Gman)
I guess I'm not good at explaining my points very well what I am trying to say.
Oh whatever, I'll just stick to the Alien and Jurassic Park side of this website.

Staying on topic, I would say very early Showa would be my favorite, specifically in the first six. Apart from Godzilla Raids Again, all of the others were the first G movies I saw as a boy, so they've kinda stuck with me. Two are my favorites of all time.

As for Heisei, there are a couple that I really enjoy. I like most of the Millennium era, and for Reiwa, Minus One IMHO is one of the greatest G movies (possibly greatest) of all time.

The Monsterverse is fun. On the whole I’ve enjoyed them all. Always good to have the Big G any way we can get him.

Xenotaris,
Yes, but Godzilla isn't America's. It's Toho's, which is Japanese.

I also don't understand how generalizing America's supposed love (?) for categorizing things and using reverse appropriation to describe things like anime has any relevance to the initial topic. So with the conversation going off topic, I'll just leave it that this is the way Toho's labeled things for consumption. The end.

You would be a singing a different tune if the American markets just lump all of the japanese films into a single era but we (Americans) don't do that because we love categories. Sincerely, don't take that as me being sarcastic which I am not. We Americans love dividing stuff into categories.

Take the word Mecha or Anime. To the Japanese Mecha means everything mechanical and anime means everything animation. To an american, Mecha means pilotable giant robot and anime is for japanese animations.

Xenotaris,
I mean it's possible that's one criteria, but remember, Toho has listed films for specific marketing purposes excluding certain movies and others.

The Godzilla Anime Trilogy isn't Toho either and they were once excluded on a Godzilla: King of the Monsters poster featuring only live action movies. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the Anime Trilogy is retroactively put in its own category in the future as the official website separates them into their own grouping.

It also just might look better from a marketing perspective to say that there are 4 Hollywood movies in the "Hollywood Era" instead of creating two distinct eras for TriStar and Legendary.

Maybe it's just because I don't care about the Monsterverse stuff, but frankly, I see no problem with it. There are plenty of eras with different continuities anyway, and keep in mind the Legendary Pictures releases are breaking up the release continuity of the Reiwa Series. It's not a big deal.