2014 Godzilla cartoon series discussion

My story for an animated Godzilla series: Cities across the globe are demolished. The setting is pure apocalypse. At this point monsters like Ghidorah, Gigan, Orga, etc. have already attacked and battled on Earth. Our main plot centers around 3 stories. Our first story is about a group of survivors attempting to travel from the far side of the world (mainly Asia) attempting to reach the center of the USA, where it is rumored no monsters are present and civilization is rich. We see the group try their best to avoid monsters and survive the other dangers of this world. Like the militias that have committed war on each other and the military on their beliefs on how to end this war/ they try to recruit survivors to believe in what they believe in “or else”. There are militias who believe Godzilla is the way to win the war being an Earth monster, other militia see Anguirus as their savior, there's another militia who believes in the ancient “god” King Caesar to be the victor and saving grace, etc. The 2nd story we follow is a group of military soldiers as they battle the militias and monsters. Coming up with new methods to try and destroy the kaiju (Earth kaiju included): like Mechagodzilla, Mogeura, Jet Jaguar etc. But there is a sort of hopelessness among the military as some wonder what the point is in continuing to fight and that they should spend the remainder of their life with their families. The final story we follow is Godzilla. A monster who doesn’t want a war and just wants to live peacefully on Earth without any enemies to bother him. We explore Godzilla’s adventure as he finds moments where he feels sorrow for the human beings and their suffering, but also anger and frustration since humans are the cause for all of this. Their meddling with nuclear weapons, their mission for discovery, and their need to contact extraterrestrial life is the cause of everything. We see Godzilla on his journey to destroy all monsters and better understand the human race: whether he ends up understanding them or hating them. The whole series switches between the 3 stories and often goes into flashback mode before the apocalypse to show events that helped create this unholy future.

No. How do you make a cartoon series about a destructive creature that killed millions of people in the biggest disaster to ever occur? The answer is sadly; You dont. It will probably end up being as crappy as the 98 series. I can forgive the hanna-barbera series, because well its hanna-barbera. How would Legendary be able to make this into a cartoon without it being sillyed down.

You can't really do a cartoon Godzilla series without following those 2's basic story. I mean you could go outside that but then it'd be a cartoon more aimed towards adults and sadly if those aren't comedies they don't do well. That and this is supposed to be realistic and dark so cartoon follow up wouldn't be able to be done without wildly changing the tones. But if the cartoon for Godzilla 98 worked, and in my opinion was a pretty good watch, then I guess it could happen

I love how no one read my comment, but then again it does sound a lot like a shitty fanfic in a lot of parts; and boy do I hate fanfics. A perfect representation of an animated Godzilla is to embrace the dark tones. It's shameful how everyone thinks that an animated project can't be mature and enjoyable at the same time for all ages. And to think I put a lot of effort into my version. TL: DR is the word. XD

sadly I don't think they will this films sombre tone and dark out look wont translate to a cartoon may be an ova about a reporter who's gathering story's from survivors of the attack than might be interesting but is still un likely

INSTINCTIVEGIGAN not that it wasn't read, it just reflects a more mature toned cartoon and sadly, as I said, if the cartoons go for any type of adult or mature audience they have to be comedies or the don't do well, at least not in the US.

@DURP004 Now I don't believe that. Is it more mature then your average monster show? Yes. But Land Before Time was a pretty damn mature movie about Dinosaurs for kids. If you make a cartoon with the hopes of impressing kids and adults at the same time you'll do just that. Now that idea was from the top of my head but I do believe if professional writers did a story like this, it would be a masterpiece kids everywhere can enjoy, especially in the nowadays generation

I don't see that, sure there are the rare gems that manage to get both crowds, but for the most part the 2 go for different things; very different things and while some shows are able to encompass them together I don't see a Godzilla show being 1 of them. Having a movie that is mature is 1 thing as adults will take their children to see it once, enjoy it themselves and be done for the most part, but a show requires repeated viewing, and I doubt you'd see any adults or even people in their later teens tuning in for a show if not because their children or younger siblings ask them to. Just like you wouldn't, for the most part, see an adult sit down to watch a disney movie alone if it didn't have a form of nostalgia related to it. If they do a show It'd have to have a different tone than the movie or chances are they'd lose both crowds from spending too much time trying to please both instead of going for 1 and being happy with it. Doing a mature show that would still have the same tone would have to try to grab the adult crowd and that's just something that can't be done as action/adventure cartoons go.

@DURP004 Nothing's impossible. I mean if this Godzilla film is everything Gareth says it will be, we'll be looking at a professional, well-told Godzilla film which I guarantee no one would've said after Final Wars years ago. If effort is put into, this could work somehow. Think of it this way, if Legendary came to YOU to write an animated series for this Godzilla film, would you not do so much research and try so hard to tell an age appropriate story for all ages about Godzilla that you'd go insane? I know I would. Yes, it's hard. Yes, it's practically impossible. But impossibility can go jump of a cliff for all I care. If you pretend you're in a world where impossibility doesn't exist, you will be in that very world. Shoot for the stars, and you might hit one; shoot for nothing, you'll always hit it. Effort, love, and dedication would make the perfect dark, Godzilla series.

Hmmn.....that's a tough one. On the one hand,it could allow an even wider audience to be reached in a format that's understandable, perhaps like the animated Godzilla universe version of Breaking Bad. On the other,securing such a tone in animated form is quite difficult, and only a few series have done it successfully. We'll really just have to wait and see. But,seeing as how Godzilla is making a comeback in international theatres and is actually possible in the real world with the knowledge we've compiled,I'll reserve judgment for the time being.

I had similar thoughts about the movie that would make the traditional version of a Godzilla cartoon hard, but then I got a new idea. 1: Godzilla is the main character (being a cartoon, we can hear his/her thoughts and her 'language' is kaiju to humans of the show but [insert your native language here] to the audience). 2: To have a human element, say this human teenager is the only one who can hear and talk to Godzilla (and the other kaiju). He not only provide the life lessons to children (some times it will be Godzilla who does this) but also tries to be a diplomat for us. If Godzilla believes we are harming nature in our attempts to control it (thus earning Godzilla's wrath), then he could teach how to better live in the world (progress without to much harm to the planet). 3: Naturally we'd have monster fights, but also have human enemies. You know the profile, power hunger, brilliant mind, and the forces to pull off his schemes. He wants to control Godzilla, and his/her human friend to gain the ability to talk to Kaiju (the only other human at start of the series who knows of his ability).

It could be done. But the real question is "should it be done". I think a serious "cartoon" could work to fill in the gaps between movies, if there will be another movie, introduce some characters, and kill some off. I've seen some pretty serious "cartoons" that have little to no comic relief, and turned out to be amazing. If, for whatever reason, they do make a cartoon series, I hope it's very serious, and relatively short. Also, the artwork would have to be pretty damn good so it could be taken more seriously. I wonder what station it would be broadcast on, maybe Syfy. I dunno, in my opinion, it'd have to be a mini series that bridges the gaps between movies, provided that there will be sequels, and be pretty serious in overall tone, with little to no comic relief. Something that still presents Godzilla as a threat and not an ally would, in my mind, be the only way to do it.

Okay, i know ive posted here already, but i have thought about the idea. If youre willing to look by the monstrous disaster Godzilla causes you COULD have a show. But there is stuff they should remember; No teens. Oh god, no teens. Kids are okay, but no teens. They find their way to ruin so much. Godzilla shouldnt be some idiots pet like a certain other giant monster cartoon did it. A team of people who simply follow and study him, like the team from Godzilla 2000 would be great. If they could follow these rules and look past what i stated above then a cartoon MIGHT work, its not certain. We have yet to see a good Godzilla animated series.