A Critique of the Godzilla Earth Trilogy 

“Hey, Godzilla fans! Do you like watching monsters beat the crap out of each other?” “Yeah!” “Great! So, do you like watching one or maybe two monsters sitting in place and not doing anything?” “Ummmm...” “GREAT! Here ya go!”

Just a reminder, the director of the movie, just weeks before release of the final film, stated he was not a Godzilla fan and actually preferred to make a series that was more focused on the human characters, he only put Godzilla in it because he was hire by Toho to make a movie with Godzilla.

The coolest part of this series was the backstory. Apparently, before Godzilla arrives on the scene, MANY of the other Kaiju terrorized earth and a massive war between humans and monsters raged on.

I was so excited that we were gonna see mothra, then found out mothra was gone. They promised mechagodzilla, we got mechagodzilla city. Then they said we were going to see super epic Ghidorah vs Godzilla battle. We got Godzilla vs a pink Floyd laser show. I kept expecting to see something cool, but it never happened.

Godzilla Earth 1: tiny humans try to kill a Big Boi plant and then they get bodied by a Bigger Boi Godzilla Earth 2: tiny humans and bug waifus use a city and some turkey mechs to fight the Bigger Boi.... And fail.... Again. Godzilla Earth 3: *MAIN PROTAGONIST CHAN BANGS A BUG WAIFU AND HAS TO STOP A CULT FOM SUMMONING THREE BIG NOODLES THAT ARE TRYING TO KILL BIGGER BOI.... AND THEN HE AND THE SERGEANT FIGHT BIGGER BOI AND DIE!* *the end*

my main problem was with gidorah...instead of an awesome space dragon we got 3 noodles

If Haruo just waited like 20 more minutes before destroying that bead, Godzilla would have been killed, then he could have went and punched Mr. Koolaid Cult Leader in the eye or something. Two birds, one stone.

They should’ve just brought Giant Condor back as the true main villain

The ending is about Japan moving on as a new civilization after the bombs dropped in wwii In fact I think many parts of these 3 movies are allegories for the events of wwii. Even the little gojira and big gojira being littleboy and fatman I think Ghidora is meant to represent an actual invasion and how Japan would've been even worse off had that happened rather than the bombs dropping since the bomb (gojira) while leaving them crippled and rethinking life saves them from the invasion.

Me after ep 1: wow this really good, I really like most of the things about it. Me after ep 2: okay, we got even more hype. I'm ready for ep 3. Me after ep 3: WaS I oN FUcKinG aCid

Godzilla the animated series 98 was and still is a true animated winner

I remember being really excited for this trilogy when it was announced Then I watched them. G:POTM: showed that humanity could've fought and won against Godzilla before they left earth if they'd had Haruoe's plan. Then Godzilla Earth rises and that all becomes pointless cause he can wipe out an army with a tail swing and shoot explanet things with his breath. G:COTEOB: Mecha-godzilla city had an interesting concept, and probably the smoothest planning (mostly because it didn't need to plan much), The billasiludo switching from protagonist to another antagonist while fighting Godzilla was a bit annoying. If Haruo had stuck with his 'destroy Godzilla at any cost' mentality they would've won. but he welshed out at the end. G:TPE: I liked Ghidoras interpretation as a next-dimensional being that Godzilla couldn't fight directly immediately. It was new. I didn't like the 'fight' he had with Godzilla though. 98% of it was him biting Godzilla, Godzilla not being able to touch him and the Humans expositing that though they can see Gidorah they can't detect him. Repeat the entire fight until Haruo breaks an eye and Godzilla straight Yeet blasts Gidorah back into his hole. Its was an interesting conceptional battle but it was shown very badly Then Haruo gives up after some bull about Gidorah watching him and Humanity, grabs his comatose ex-girlfriend and goes to Godzilla to die...The end. After all the struggles and battles, he gives up. It was a very depressing ending. Some of the themes were interesting and would've been cool to expand upon. Humanity fights a losing battle because they had no other place to go but win with a sliver of a chance for victory; Is it worth sacrificing your Humanity/ individuality for an assured victory against an overwhelming foe? Cults that summon inter-dimensional noodle dragons that will destroy everything are bad. The first movie was to set up the universe, so I wasn't expecting them to win. They did win against a foe similar to the Godzilla that chased them from earth but then they didn't against the true one. The 2nd had an almost victory, which was wasted because they welshed out at the end. He chose to retain his Humanity/ individuality instead of win at any cost. The third should've been either victory against Godzilla (but had left them with Gidorah) or at least learning to live 'with' the force of nature that was Godzilla earth. I endured the first movie, found the 2nd decent, and did not like the 3rd all that much.

You called out Yuko's jiggle physics. You, sir, have earned my respect.

If I could change the script of this movie, it'd probably go something like this: Leaving the opening act in space alone, I would have it so that, upon returning from deep space to the solar system, humanity would begin to colonize the moon. A very interesting strategy one of the officers came up with was setting up a stationary base in space (can't remember if he said the moon, so I will) while taking resources from earth. Honestly, this could've worked. If you're a group of refugees who can survive out in space on a ship for several decades with your only main problems being the lack of food/fuel, room for population growth, and the resources to fix these problems you can probably turn the moon into a thriving home provided you know a place to find said resources-oh hey, earth. Back to the point, the humanoids decide to come back to earth in hopes that godzilla is dead. Upon finding out that this isn't the likely case, they immediately switch to plan b which is to turn the moon into a Mini Earth. Simple process: send a small fleet down to the planet to inspect the lifeforms that've grown since humanity's eviction, find plants which are edible and can synergize with humans the way modern plants do today in the oxygen to carbon dioxide trade, then find the animals that feed on them and can possibly be used as food themselves if not another form of resource. Bring these back for domestication and the building of natural ecosystems on the moon (in the form of dome cities, of course) that could mostly run themselves with a guiding hand. Grow a civilization on the moon and eventually, when your population has regrained some standing, rechallenge godzilla. Simple, ye? Of course, Haru is NOT invited and locked away on the moon with everyone else as the scouting fleet begins to land on earth. However, phillius is discovered-in a place where they did not expect him-and pretty much gives everyone that came a hard time. Catching wind of this, Haru starts another rebellion which actually manages to split moonbase in half with a civil war. This break forces the leaders to negotiate with Haru in order to maintain overall unity of humanity. Of course, it's not difficult convincing the one track character to leave. Haru will go to earth with another fleet to handle Godzilla, in return of being let off and given command of earth's forces. Upon landing on Earth the battle ensues and eventually won. Although, the biggest change is that the people from the fleet that joined Haru consider making themselves not just a separate colony from moonbase, but, an entirely soveriegnt nation that has no wish to be a part of such cowards who lacked the faith they had in Haru. Of course, however, the OG makes his appearance. No explanation needed for how that goes. I would mostly leave the second movie alone...if it weren't for the fact that they blue balled me with the idea of mechagodzilla being apart of the movie. It's not that I don't belive that this version of mechagodzilla could build an entire city out of itself while eating godzilla like material, but it could've at least made a giant version of its original self that could fight its intended target. Speaking of which, that's exactly what I'm suggesting here. After finding out about MechaGodzilla City and what the nanomachines can do both in general and to Godzilla, Haru gets a grand idea along with the bizuls (can't remember their name) to take the carcus of phillius and use it as a base to reconstruct another mechagodzilla. And of course, our protagonist is fused with it along with a small team in order to pilot the mechanical behemoth. Even though this MG is smaller than godzilla, at first, it becomes to the godzilla based environment what godzilla originally was to the human based environment thousands of years ago. Wherever it goes, the nanomachines apart of its body devour the life all around it-growing the main body bigger and stronger. This can give us an even more so interesting perspective: what if we were godzilla? Haru gets a 'little' high off of the power, seeing the creations of his most hated enemy destroyed in ways similar to his people gives him a euphoria that nothing except setting foot on earth and defeating phillius comes close to. In fact, he even comes across more miniature godzilla like monsters which he can now destroy with far greater ease compared to all the planning put in to just down Phillius. Of course, this is where the whole fighting monsters and becoming becoming monsters comea into play. And I for one think that this is a stronger way of showing it than what was given as aside from all the action (which I'm guilty of wanting) it bring up the idea for Haru that maybe being a monster like Godzilla isn't so bad. The battle, of course, takes place back at the city where they give it all they got (imagine the greatest godzilla vs mechagodzilla fight in cgi) and end up in a stalemate. A plan is conceived that Haru should absorb Godzilla with Mechagodzilla but its now that Haru is discovering the machine he's fused with is more beast than in just it's looks. As always, for some reason, MechaGodzilla loses control-this time its argued that Phillius soul might be acting out from beyond the grave. As in the original, the Bizuls decide to upload more people in an attempt to control MG better while sacrificing more and more people to appease the monster that is now the city. Haru breaks free of their control and goes on a rampage while Godzilla is overheating and they both end up destroying the city to stop the Bizuls. Haru, after getting an incredibly horrific view of what it's like to destroy humans as a godzilla, is finally disgusted by the idea of being Godzilla in any form fashionable way, whether to exact revenge or even to stop his former allies from killing all of his friends. He ejects from MG as it is destroyed by OG. Final movie, whew, lots of symbolism-I know. For starters, the main thing is turning that chicken ramen noodle trio into the actual King Ghidorah. It's fine fore it start off the way that it did, but it eventually needs to become the true Golden Kaiju. This is the part where moon is brought back in, only to be destroyed. What's left of humanity's fleet tries to get away but is mostly also destroyed. Visually it'll look as if a giant tentacle monster erupted from the moon to attack earth. Mephis tries to recruit Haru as the sacrice, Haru turns on him, Mephis sacrifices himself with the medallion to become the Avatar of the triple yellow swirly straws and gives rise to King Ghidorah. Now that he has a physical form for Godzilla to fight, they fight. Haru helps Godzilla to fight Ghidorah, hates himself for having to do so. I realize there's not much to this plot change outside of fighting; I'm not apologizing for the improvements, your welcome. Movie ends the way it did so originally, but humanity still has a chance to rebuild spaceships.

Just a little correction, your description of the Hotua villagers was inverted. They're the descendants of humanity that gained bug-like traits over time to survive, thanks to Mothra, hence the the moth antennae. They're not bugs that turned into humans.

The only thing I loved about these movies was the style of Godzilla and his powers.

They promised: Godzilla ruling the planet with the rest of the monsters We got: Godzilla "rules" with plants and dragons made from him (the latter of which never returns in the later films) They promised: Mothra appearing. We got: ...as a cave painting, a cameo and an egg. They promised: Godzilla fighting a cool (abit stupid-looking) redesign of MechaGodzilla. We got: Godzilla taking a bath in molten metal and being harassed by bug mechs and turrets (no transforming city) They promised: Godzilla vs King Gheidorah We got: The flying spaghetti monster attacking a barely-moving Godzilla They promised: To make a better Godzilla anime We achieved: Success with Singular Point!

When king of the monsters comes out: *GO GHIDORAH* *GO GHIDORAH* *GO GHIDORAH* *C’MON GHIDORAH* *GOJIRA* *GOJIRA*

Despite its flaws I really enjoyed this... especially the designs. It avoided to be like any kind of past Godzilla movie and bring a totally different experience and feeling, something truly fresh... I definetly see why many people wouldn't like it for that same reason though. Tastes I guess... what is done is done; glad for who enjoyed it, those who didn't probably would be satisfied by KOTM so no true big deal in the end. The trilogy would probably become niche movies in the future... similar to what already happened with some past Godzilla movies.

Its strange how this trilogy sees almost all of humanity wiped out and all I can think is "So is Gen Urobuchi trying to one up his reputation of being a butcher of characters?" Oh well, I enjoyed the Ultraman Netflix Anime at least.

I do agree with a lot of your points. The anime trilogy is very flawed and I can completely understand why it would leave some people dissatisfied or disappointed. I, for one, think the pacing would have been a lot better if the first film was condensed to the first thirty minutes, while the plot of City comprised the rest of the runtime. A duology, yes, but one that wouldn't feel like a drag in the beginning. Though, there are some points I think you missed. For example, the Bilusaludo didn't exactly decide to just and up become bad guys. In the opening of the Planet of the Monsters, Galu-gu and Metphies are discussing their plans for Earth, in which Metphies asks, "Had your Mechagodzilla worked, who would it have turned its fangs on after Godzilla?" This implies the Bilusaludo always intended to take over earth, but Godzilla happened to be the bigger threat. Working with humanity was a deal of survival and necessity. The fact that Galu-gu doesn't try to refute this adds more weight to the idea that the Bilusaludo always had sinister intentions. So when they discovered Mechagodzilla was not only alive, but had evolved far beyond their expectations, they figured they could kill Godzilla and pick up where they left off. As for Haruo's suicide, I was mixed at first, but there are certain details as to why he took his life. For one, Metphies had been grooming him for the entire trilogy to become the sacrifice needed to permanently summon Ghidorah. Haruo's no stranger to vengeance clouding his mind, and he's easily manipulated by both Metphies and the Bilusaludo. Even with Ghidorah defeated, so long as Haruo lives, there's always the chance he'll return. In order to stop Ghidorah once and for all, Haruo has to remove himself. I do still agree that there are several plots points that either could have been cut entirely or been reworked to have more significance in the plot, like Godzilla possibly destroying the Aratrum, the Bilusaludo's coup, or the fact that Earth could be crawling with Godzillas. For me, I would have liked to have had at least one Bilusaludo character (Belu-be) coming to respect humanity and siding with them against his own kind.

One thing you also forgot to mention was Sargent lady and bug girl were jealous of each other and wanted that sweet protagonist love.

To be honest... I only like these films purely for Godzilla Earth

I thought the human characters were one dimensional. I feel it could've been better if Toho made a better screenplay. Also I thought it was gonna be 2d but boy was I disappointed. Now I'm looking forward to a better looking Godzilla coming in May 😳😄

Coolest thing about this series to me was that take on Ghidorah. It looks really unique.

my main problem with this trilogy (besides everything else) is nothing mattered There was no lasting effect. all the main character did was get everyone but like 9 people killed

I still say they should have made the anime based on the prologue and the novel that followed.

I find the way Adam figures out Ghidorah’s weakness to be strange. He suddenly jumps to the conclusion that he comes from another dimension with minimal visual evidence.

Very well said, sir.

The only good thing to come out of this trilogy was the merchandise (with the exception of the banana Ghidorah Bandai Vinyl)

I feel like the theme of Godzilla being an actual god incarnate would have fit better. Going deeper into the roots of humanism and the belief that we as a species are above everything else. Godzilla should stand to show how small we are. His size should serve to demonstrate that in the most basic of visual ways. That as long as humans believe that they are the owners of the planet, that they have conquered mother nature herself, Godzilla will exist to put humanity back in its place. Which would lead as to why surrending to something greater was the only way to defeat Godzilla, be it giving up being human and become nanometal or give up individuality and allow Ghidorah to consume us. Earth, Technology or a foreign divinity. Sadly the trilogy never ponders into the deeper themes that it could portray, the themes and ideas were there, but never were they implemented properly into what could have been.

Godzilla 1: they fight a 300 m Godzilla! Wait, it's just 50... oh, the real one comes out in the ending... Godzilla 2: there are Mothra and Mechagodzilla! Well... no they aren't... Godzilla 3: this time it's serious, here comes Ghidorah! As an otherdimensional one-way intangible spaghetti monster who just bites Godzilla and lift him somewhat in the air...

They should take all 3 movies, chop em up, and edit it into a single movie. That is the only way to redeem the anime.

Unpopular opinion but i enjoyed the trilogy. Once I saw the first I knew what I was in for, a philosophical battle and not a monster slaughter. I absolutely loved mechagodzilla, the theme of nature vs humans was amazing. The climax on the mechas (which I loved) was amazing, surrender to either mecha Godzilla or Godzilla was a lose lose and the storytelling that conveyed it was amazing. The third one gave ghidorah a lovecraftian vibe which was a cool take on the character. Overall I just disliked the first entry but when i see the bigger picture I can safely say I enjoyed the trilogy.

One day I’ll come across a RU-vid reviewer that will never apologize for their own opinions on something...one day.

*Hears NeoTokyo I see you are a man of culture as well.

Yeah, even Broly's 3D CGI was later drawn over by hand to make it as fluid, from 2D to 3D and back again, as possible.

You spoke my mind exactly from anticipation to disappointment. The entire critique that you gave is exactly what I thought

Fun thing I noticed. The main character “can’t spell his name” wanted to kill Godzilla because Godzilla killed his parents. But he kills Godzilla’s son thinking it’s Godzilla. Just a connection I found between the two.

It hurts. But it's all true and I think even die hard fans who are naturally inclined to see positives everywhere made peace with the fact that it's a failed experiment. One time Toho could make the movies as big as they wanted, they took risk instead and unfortunately wasted our time. Maybe because I watched them all at once but it's hard to find anything worthwile. Something to look forward to on the next franchise rewatch. At least All Monsters Attack is one movie.

Honestly I expected more out of Godzilla’s first dive into Anime. I expected something like Rulers of Earth or that cartoon from the 90s. Here the Anime felt like it was trying so hard to be like Attack on Titan or Evangelion. That it was deeper than it actually was. I Honestly believe this anime did the one thing that I didn’t think possible, or that hasn’t been done in a long time. It ripped out the Franchise’s heart. I know that’s gonna sound silly or ridiculous. But even at this franchises worst with stuff like Godzilla vs Hedorah or Godzilla vs Megagurius, I could still see some amount of passion and care put into it. I didn’t see that at all with the anime trilogy.

The prequel books actually seem pretty interesting, with basically every Toho kaiju driving the three humanoid species off the planet over a half-century. Not to mention Gigan of all things being the hero monster.

There's plenty of things about the anime trilogy which I really like I loved the existential thematic stuff and the overall premise of the anime, and characters like Metphese. I think many of the ideas in here are really cool and original as well as this new take on Godzilla himself. I really like the brave new direction they took this series in. as well as some of the darker elements in it. I like allot of the tone and atmosphere built in the series such as when the original Godzilla finally emerges after Fillius is killed at the end of the 1st episode, as well as the Mothra fairies and the whole tribe of people and this strange interpretation of King Ghidorah. I think the biggest issue aside from the series being lacking in the kaiju action department is honestly people judging it by what they were expecting it will be like and not taking a good look at it for what it is.. I think given time this series could have been great, all the ideas and concepts are there, they just need to be explored further.. in fact I really wanted this series to spend more time exploring more of this strange world, and the creatures within it and more about the native human population and their ties to Mothra, as well as actually bringing in more kaiju and not just teasing them with subtle references here and there. anyway there's my opinion on the series, in short far from perfect but it has so much potential and the did some really interesting things, I think it's honestly very underrated but most of the criticism towards it is fair...

The stuff in the novels should have been the trilogy.

I’m gonna be honest, the reason that I did actually enjoy these 3 films was because it felt more like psychological movies than action movies. And I’m all up for Godzilla movies taking a new turn. Sure the action scenes weren’t the best, but it’s the story behind them that made it great. Especially in the second film when for Haruo it was choosing to lose his humanity to fulfill his desire (his vengeance), or accepting defeat to stay human. It was more of a psychological warfare which kept me invested in the three films.

I honestly like the focus on substance for once. It kinda disappoints me that all Godzilla fans want is "big lizard make building go boom"

sounds like the good ol’ case of someone being more concerned or focused with pushing a message rather than telling a good story

Let's all just admit that Haruo was the real villain in this trilogy. Threw away plenty of perfectly good opportunities to kill Godzilla.

Godzilla as a plant/metal monster Mechagodzilla as a city Ghidorah as this strange planet eating snake heads And weak human/alien characters. This was extremely disappointing

My brother and I watched these movies when we were 13. We were bored, but heckled them the whole time which helped make the experience more memorable!

I think another issue was their marketing. Before Episode 2, they were heavily marketing a new design for Mechagodzilla, a giant living city that's also a monster in its own way, and perhaps at some point in development that's what they intended but that never panned out in release and a lot of fans felt burned by that. In Episode 3 something similar happened with King Ghidorah, where it was heavily implied to be a return of the classic monster of old but yet again, it was unrecognizable and if it wasn't named Ghidorah it could have been named literally anything else and people wouldn't have ascociated it with the classic monster. These were likely attempts to drive up interest, by appealing to fans but it also resulted in many people not seeing what they were expecting. The movies were also bad and poorly made for the reasons you discussed in the video but perhaps the reception would have been slightly better had Toho not attempted to manipulate the fanbase. And for me, while Haruo's suicide was probably meant to be symbolic or something like that, it ruined it for me, because even if somehow with him around Ghidorah might have returned or maybe he was afraid of history repeating itself, I felt that it was still a bad ending. As men can change, and if anything I think it would have been more fitting if he started to lead the people around him, to try and create a utopia or something as if in spite of the past.

I don't know why but now i want to see a fusion of Godzilla and Will Smith

I don't care how symbolic your movies are if I don't care about the characters or give me some action to balance it out. And I got none of it. We spent three movies with these characters and they suck.The characters are either bland or forgettable and the action we hardly got any. We got one monster fight and it was lame. King of the monsters can't come any sooner or heck why didn't they just do a straight adaptation to the prequel novels monster apocalypse and project mechagodzilla those would have been way better then mechagodzilla city and the flying spaghetti monster we got. My god those designs are so horrible

That fucking snake scene at 31:10 is hysterical, and exactly what the end of that movie felt like. Ghidorah comin' in like a big dick in a locker room only to get cut off in the bluntest way possible, with a sledgehammer.

A good example of great 3D animation in anime is the movie Steamboy,and the Godzilland OVAS are way better than the movies,at least in the OVAS Godzilla teaches math

Haruo just didn’t wanna pay bug waifu child support

When a movie canonically states that the main character had sex with one of Mothra's lineage, you should expect the series to be terrible. Dude basically fucked Mothra.

Planet of the Monsters: Godzilla *exists* City on the Edge: Godzilla fights a city! Planet Eater: Godzilla gets bullied by golden hentai tentacles, and then one shots them once they're corporeal.

The first one was very good, the 2nd and finally was lackluster. The premise was good but the execution was indeed boring.

I was really pissed that none of us got to see mechagodzilla in city on the edge of battle.

One if the biggest problems if have with the trilogy is Godzilla himself. He doesn’t feel like a living creature and he conveys little emotion throughout. We don’t even get to see him react to the fact that Harou killed off one of his offspring.

I think the trilogy is hated by a MAJORITY of fans. If they were polarizing it would mean that half the fans loved it and other half hated it. This film is not polarizing, it's mostly hated. Godzilla 98 was more fun and entertaining. The trilogy was 5 hours of dialogue and plot that ultimately built up to nothing.

I agree with all of the points you made. I was so underwhelmed by all 3 movies and just felt disappointed after each one. If there's one good thing I can say about these movies it's that they've set my bar pretty low for a new anime if Godzilla ever get's another shot at it.

First movie promise -human vs Godzilla What actually happened -human vs smaller Godzilla copycat Second movie promise -mecha Godzilla vs Godzilla What actually happened -weapon city vs Godzilla Third movie promise -Godzilla vs ghidorah What actually happened -Godzilla vs some 3 headed ghost from an other dimension posing has ghidorah

I'm gonna be honest, Godzilla Earth (and the novels) and the Soundtrack were the only good parts of the series

That's why the Monsterverse is way better than the entire Godzilla Earth anime trilogy. Honestly even Bryan Cranston's Joe Brody though I was disappointed that he got killed off at the end of First Act of the movie, was way better character than Haruo.

I think we can all agree in sonething, the last minutes are the best parts of these movies and they needed more time to elaborate the story. A Godzilla Earth series anyone?

Things the Godzilla Earth trillogy did RIGHT -Really good concepts for the movie -Good monsters/machines designs (at least for me) -The music -Visual effects (fire, Godzilla back sparks, etc) -The kaijus are pretty much in their ultimate evolutions/forms *--BUG WAIFUS-* Things the Godzilla Earth trillogy did WRONG -Execution -They fucked up with Ghidorah by turning it into Big ol Noodle Boi -Bigger Boi Godzilla doesn't even react to the death of its offspring Big Boi Godzilla Jr (yes I know its not the official name, but let me have this) -The protagonist is not likeble at all -Too many useless plot points -Bad storytelling If there's anything I forgot please comment and I'll put it in the list. Thank you.

I actually quite like the series it's not that bad

Godzilla 1998 🤝Anime Trilogy Hiring directors that don't even like Godzilla

This team didn't know how to use CG animation or anything of visual story telling in general. For a 3 movie production with one of the greatest ip in fiction, these projects reek of amateur.

I kind of see this Trilogy as a mixed bag. I just binged it in, more or less, a single sitting, so it's still fresh in my mind. I think that on paper, there is a very unique approach and interpretation of the Godzilla mythos. In concept it reminded me of Titan A.E., Battlestar Galactica, and James Cameron's Avatar. And in each of these cases, the driving forces of conflict are similar. But I think you accurately summed up where it failed; the execution. I wanted this to be good. I discovered from Kaiju size comparison videos that we would be seeing the largest, and potentially most powerful iterations of these monsters ever. Aside from the points you Illustrated, there was something I noticed in my reaction while watching the Trilogy, I began imagining epic scenarios to conclude these conflicts that didn't pay off. Like in the second film, I wanted Mecha Godzilla City to pull off a Metroplex (an Autobot in Transformers that literally Transforms into a city), and transform into a giant classic Mecha Godzilla. I wanted to see Godzilla die at the end of the second film (or die to Gidora) only for Mothra to somehow revive him to vanquish Gidora (predictable I know, but still faithful to these kaiju). And after those failed, I wanted the revival of the Valkyrie to be set up for Mecha Godzilla's rebirth in a future installment (like how Marvel's Ultron revives time and time again through technology). As for the protagonist, I was fine with him being unlikable at the Start. But I so desperately wanted to see him in a kind of Redemption arc. And maybe it could be interesting to watch Godzilla act as his parallel. With both hating the other's kind for the transgressions against them, and then both characters end up accepting and coexisting with the other. Humanity gets a second chance to live with nature and Godzilla accepting that humanity deserves a second chance. But that's just my opinion.

I would of been more interested in a film that had the actual backstories or a TV show anime instead.

I was soooo excited for the Anime Godzilla series before the first one came out. I think I'll just stick to the live action movies...

They should've made a Monster Apocalypse/Project MechaGodzilla anime series

Funny thing that Godzilla: The Animated Series is more Anime than Godzilla Earth anime trilogy.

I left the movie during the montage, so when you said he ran for Godzilla I just broke into laughter.

I feel like the trilogy could've been a banger TV show

best thing from the trilogy is XAI

You know what I would like to see instead? An on going hand drawn anime series taking place in Toho's godzilla universe set either in modern times or the "near" future. That fully uses all of Tohos classic characters. Instead of seeing a slow moving stiff CG Godzilla we get some epic hand drawn scenes of Godzilla fighting all his villains along with his allies, season after season complete with some good old classic anime drama. Toho has enough characters in their worlds to make it happen. It could be like a mix between Attack on Titan and Batman the Animated Series with Kaijus (what I mean with the latter one is that it would be exciting to see how they would reintroduce different Toho figures as recurring charaters in a action story driven show that carefully brings all the past incarnations of Godzillas worlds together in epic way that fans would love)

It's all because the trilogy's director isn't a kaiju or Godzilla fan. Well on the bright side, we'll get Godzilla: King of the Monsters next month and I'm positive that the Mike's vision of it will be far more faithful to the Godzillla mythos. #MJINNOCENT #ISTANDWITHVIC

After watching all three of those films and seeing the ending of the third film, I was like: “So… all the death, everything these characters have done was in vain and humanity will never reclaim the earth. So it was all for nothing? *sigh* What a waste.”

29:46 I wanted to wash my eyes whit soap

I watch EVERYTHING in its native language with subtitles no matter what and god damn, these were a chore to get through because the characters never shut up.

I actually liked it but yeah it has problems and its still worth watching no matter how much people don't like it Ps. I probably like it because I like bug waifus too much and I need more of them

The ideas presented in the third part had the potential to meta-contextually bring itself and all the previous films from over 60 years back, full circle to the 1954 original. AND THEY BLEW IT!

Behold! The ultimate example in film of wasted potential!

The ending of the third movie (about Haruo's suicide) should make sense. Haruo came to the conclusion that basically nothing can beat Godzilla (religion summons scary snakes and technology BAD) so the only path for humanity is to live with Godzilla. Haruo, as an embodiment of humanity's vengeance towards Godzilla decided to close those paths completely by ending everything (the last remanence of nano metal, and humanity's vengeance). Despite Metiphis' warning of humanity's end towards ultimate nothingness, Haruo was hopeful that at least something can change. There was no other way for humanity to move on.

This trilogy, especially with part 2, has soooo much exposition. Normally that's standard and not too much of a problem for a Godzilla movie, but it's so much worse here because of the technobabble and hard to follow jargon.

The one thing I think these did well was draw parallels of the individual humanoids races on the ship to their own movies and kaiju.

I feel like you blew over the ending a bit too quickly. Haruo realizes that war, hate, and greed is what spawned the monsters in the first place. He also recognizes that he is a war monger, full of hate, and he can't change that. This is layered on by the fact that the bug people don't have a word for hate. Realizing that his presense will only serve to corrupt his new family, he decides to do what he can to save them from the monster prophecy. If the monsters are born from hate and greed, he will destroy those that would bring that, which includes himself. He takes the remnants of the nanometal, and his own hateful self, and lets Godzilla destroy it all. The after credits scene shows that his bride has taken this sacrifice to heart. She leads a ritual, where the children offer up tokens representing their fears to an idol, called "The Great Vengeful One"(which resembles one of the Vulture units). By giving up their fears, the children will not grow to hate their fears, as Haruo did. In the end, humanity may have been mostly destroyed, but they managed to do what no others could, they broke the monstrous cycle.

Tbh, I really like what they did with Godzilla and portraying what he can do.

I would’ve probably preferred it if it had been an anime series instead of a movie

Been waiting for this

These movie were garbage. So boring and tedious. Hell there was no Ikufube theme. I hated them.

Liked your video and I really enjoyed the anime movies and the direction they took the monsters.

Every generation has those Godzilla movies that are either outright terrible or are so unique that most really don't care for them. Godzilla's Revenge, Godzilla vs Hedorah, Godzilla 98....and now the Anime Trilogy. They are the oddities of the franchise. We get them every couple of years. I hear this was pitched as a mini-series of 10 episodes or so and that after the success of Shin Godzilla, Toho told the folks pursuing this project to make it a trilogy of feature length films instead....hence the sense of padding and weird pacing. In time, we'll be able to look beyond all of the things this trilogy does wrong....and instead just appreciate some of the things they went for and pulled off. So...we've got these out of the way....and hopefully we won't get any more "missing the mark" Godzilla movies like these for a while.

"Visuals of Gidorah looks great" Uh, AT FIRST, they were fine. But when I realized they are just the head and neck coming into our realm, that REALLY began to suck major *ss. It, REALLY needs to let him at least visually appear in full form, not just some, necks snaking around.

This trilogy was an absolute mess and apparently a disaster behind the scenes from what I've heard. The first movie I thought started out interesting and wanted to see where it went. The second movie I feel like accomplished nothing. And was completely lied to by the marketing, no actual mechagodzilla! The third movie I think ended up being my favorite but that's not saying much. I love the idea of Ghidorah being this Eldritch Horror but it is sadly a wasted concept. And like the second movie barely anything actually happens. Ghidorah just grabs Godzilla for an hour, then loses. No actual epic fight. The ending was just awful. Like I was actually depressed when it ended. I was like, "well shit." The trilogy ended up turning into pure nihilism. Such a waste of potential.

Thank you for saving me a lot of boring watch time, appreciate it.