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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.

KoldWarKid62,
I agree. Screentime isn't exactly a factor. Although, I will admit, the movies with longer screentime I tend to find more exhausting to get through than others. Invasion of Astro-Monster is usually cited as my favorite Godzilla movie, but his time onscreen is used expertly and, frankly, the story and characters are engrossing enough that I don't notice his short appearance.

 But TriStar and Monsterverse are 1) not connected, before you start bringing up the millenium series, it was unconnected by design.

2) the long haitus between TriStar and its animated series vs Monsterverse and its continuity.

I think its because its not japanese, Toho didn;t want to bother and grouping the two seperately while America bends over backwards to align the japanese films to their official era families.

Thanks for taking the time to do that, GMan. That’s an exhaustive study! I remember this topic from several years ago.

For me, it’s never been how much time Godzilla is onscreen. I don’t care if it’s 5 minutes or twenty five minutes. However long it is, make it count, make it impactful. What is he doing when he’s onscreen? Does it scratch that “Godzilla itch” for you? Some have done it much better than others.

Xenotaris,
Likely because there's only one TriStar film and there's nowhere else to put it.

I wonder why Toho just lumps all the American Godzillas into one era? TriStar and Monsterverse are distinct enough from each other to be warrant their own Era.

12/11/2023:

The 6th weekend of Godzilla Minus One sees a solid hold in Japan. Though dropping under #2, it surpassed 4 Billion Yen with 4.15 Billion (~$28 Million). Its attendance is now at 2.70 Million, tied with Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. Many still seem to believe it will finish with 5 Billion which should, estimate a higher attendance than The Return of Godzilla. It's well on its way to surpassing Shin Ultraman's final gross and attendance. (Toho, Eiga Ranking)

Here are comparisons to where other movies were at in their sixth weekend.

6th Weekend Comparisons:
Shin Godzilla - 6.02 Billion Yen/$58.4 Million/3.74M Attendance
Godzilla Minus One - 4.15 Billion Yen/$28.5 Million/2.70M Attendance
Shin Ultraman - 3.84 Billion Yen/$29.7 Million/2.57M Attendance
Godzilla 2014 - 2.99 Billion Yen/$29.3 Million/2.09M Attendance
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - 2.70 Billion Yen/$25.6 Million/1.91M Attendance
Godzilla vs. Kong - 1.81 Billion Yen/$16.5 Million/1.20M Attendance

In America, it has the smallest weekend drop of the year (28%), ac***ulating a total of $25.3 Million for a worldwide total of 7.8 Billion Yen (~$53.5 Million). (Box Office Mojo)

Charts Updated!

"Monsterverse is best"

It's really not. 

updated ver.

Why was it amazing? I’m completely blown away.

@SasquaDash Excellent news! Hope you like it!

probably the second last one

monsterverse is best

this releases on my birthday :)

this releases on my birthday :)

nice

I just found out the theater near where I live is going to be playing it! I don't have to wait for the Blu Ray!

can yall just vote already?!

Officially, Toho splits up the Eras as:

Showa Era - 1954-1975
Heisei Era - 1984-1995
Millennium Era - 1999-2004
Reiwa Era - 2016-Present
Hollywood Era or American - TriStar & Legendary Pictures

Sources: SDCC & Godzilla: The Official Guide to the King of the Monsters:

maybe shimo for my guess

(credits to deviantart for letting me use this)

i consider some parts of an era they're own era like reiwa has godzilla earth so i guess godzilla anime could have its own era

I'm pretty sure 1954-1956 is considered part of the Showa era.

I watched my first Godzilla movies growing up near Detroit in the 1960s. I think I fell in love because at my young age I loved the action and excitement of the movies, but also loved they gave him a personality in some of the movies, as in he could be a protector too. I even enjoyed the silliness of some of the movies like “Son of Godzilla.”

It deserves it

12/05/2023:
Godzilla Minus One finished its 5th weekend with 3.82 Billion Yen (~$25.9 Million). Its attendance as of the weekend sits at 2.48 Million--tied with Son of Godzilla. It has now officially beaten the attendance totals of every Champion Festival Showa movie, and every Millennium Series and Monsterverse movie.

It's expected to surpass 4 Billion Yen this coming weekend.

It opened in the U.S. to $11 Million (roughly 1.6 Billion Yen). It broke U.S. records, becoming the second-biggest opening for a foreign film and the #1 highest opening for a Japanese film in the U.S. Its worldwide gross after the weekend sits at 5.42 Billion Yen (~$36.8 Million.) (Godzilla Minus One Official Twitter, Collider)

Charts updated.

12/4/2023:
Late report covering weekend #4: It dropped to #2 for the first time with 3.458 Billion Yen. (~$23.5 Million) I estimated attendance was 2.23 Million. With that it tied the total attendance of the 2014 movie, surpassing the rest of the Monsterverse movies, the Champion Festival Showa movies and all of the Millennium movies--save for GMK.

Its gross after 24 days make it the 3rd h giant monster/kaiju-tokusatsu-related film of the last 11 years and climbing.

GUYS THIS MOVIE IS STELLAR!!
LIKE ACTUALLY THE BEST THING EVER LIKE WTF?!?

maybe this is blasphemy but I think this is better than the og

Any chance you know where in Japan this is from?

I'm disappointed they showed SO much in the trailer. Comparing the marketing for GxK to 10 years ago with Godzilla (2014), I honestly prefer the trailers for G14. After watching Godzilla Minus One last night as well, I much prefer the gritty / dark atmosphere of those movies to the CGI-fest Monster Mash of the recent Monsterverse installments. I'm still stoked for GxK but I have a feeling I'll still prefer G14 and Minus One to it when it finally comes out.