I personally don’t like the Anime Godzilla Trilogy. It’s not Godzilla 1998 levels of disrespectful. Or Godzilla’s Revenge levels of lazy. But in terms of wasted potential I think this takes the cake. It’s not the best and will be overshadowed by what came before it, Shin and 2014. And what will come after KOTM and GvK.
At least Godzilla 1998's monster was a nuclear mutation like the 1954 version. Anime Godzilla is supposed to be some metal-based, hyper-evolved, electromagnetic plant or something.
@@jurassickaiju14 I mean I don't really care about the origin GMK Godzilla was the resurrected souls of soilders from WW2 taking control of the spirit of Godzilla and GMK is easily one of everyone's favorite Godzilla's, if anything I like the change in origin however they failed horribly in the execution of the entire trilogy
Whatever you might say, the first movie had a *masterful* opening. You've got this moment of raw humanity of a man trying to keep a bunch of people from being killed, only to find out that these old people agreed to it. They want to die, so that the resources can go to the younger generations. And they want to die with a sky over their heads. And in the end... they are denied *even that.* It was heartwrenching and it was instantly captivating to me. Doubly so since I'm not really a Godzilla fan. It made me like and sympathize with Haruo in a way that nothing else in all three films did. The interest created by that scene pushed me on through the endless, confusing scenes of tedious exposition as they decide to go back to Earth. Between that and the ending, the first movie was far better than the other two. The first film ended with Haruo standing in the ashes of his own failure. Haruo's quest for revenge ended in the death of everyone in the ground team, the rising of a Godzilla far more powerful than they ever dreamed of, and no real hope. Haruo's revenge quest was a resounding failure. Only no, we're going to try that whole revenge thing again. Only this time, it's going to involve a bunch of technobabble nonsense instead of Mech-on-Godzilla action. The second film was just a retread of the first, only dumber and without any character development. And the third one... that was just stupid.
Well it's good to see someone who's not a godzilla fan acknowledge the flaws of this trilogy, which is ironic cause this trilogy was literally made for people like you, people who aren't fans and in the end the trilogy couldn't even attract non fans correctly
I honestly hated this trilogy here are my final thought on it POTM: It’s honestly my favorite mostly do to the climax being incredibly fun and that great reveal and its good set up Haruo might’ve been a bad character but he had a chance to change and you can kinda feel for them the lack of advertising was annoying but to be fair it was just a leak and those are rarely accurate COTEOB: F#ck this movie and it killing the dream and hype for me I hate it was a burning passion everything I found out about behind the scene made me hate it more it’s a rehash of the first movie the teasing of Mechagodzilla really was just a scummy business move because they put him on the poster made molds and toys and a new design for them that was ultimately pointless and some details that were never explained why didn’t there plan this time if it worked in the other movies though I gave it credit that it seemed to move Harouo toward changing his ways and not being hate filled and so I was going to give it one more chance Then the infamous interview where one of the Directors told everyone that all these werid unnecessary changes and false advertising not only intentional but they were done to piss off quote on quote Traditionalists And Planet Eater was just a failed werid film about Philosophy which doesn’t make any sense and honestly pretends to be deeper then it actually was then Harouo kills him self because f#ck character change and development just having him pointlessly die leaving his new family behind and being weirdly hateful to humanity and technology as a whole which honestly doesn’t work it’s like Startrek Inccuractions messages and all the worst ways
To be fair, he said he KNEW their decisions would piss off traditionalists, not that he INTENDED to. I don’t think it’s fair to compare him to that shit stain Rian Johnson like some people are doing. He’s not exactly good at his job, but he’s not as big an asshole as Johnson is to fans that hate his work. Plus, at least the trilogy was watchable. I can’t even watch The Last Jedi from beginning to end. But I digress. In any case, I agree with all of your other points. The idea behind the trilogy and it’s story had the potential to be something great, but they blew it big time. In the end, the trilogy was a disappointment because of the wasted potential.
@@megalodon7916 That really shouldn't excuse anything. If you're making a Godzilla film, you cant stray too far or else you become Zilla. The fact he knew some decisions would piss off the older fanbase, which is probably the majority, then why even fucking do it? That's shooting yourself in the foot and purposefully screwing yourself over
You can really tell where your anger raised during the writing of this comment, because you start becoming incoherent in spots. When your anger had your mind working faster than your thumbs... or fingers.
They put ALL the exciting stuff in the books. The movies were all f*cking boring. (Except that one scene with Godzilla Earth at the end of the first movie. That scene was f*cking awesome.)
Shoving anti-tech hippie, religious, environmentalism overtones, doesn't fit overall. The director admits he didn't watch any of the past Godzilla movies, and his filmography consist of *SEVEN* Detective Conan movies. That's low, TOHO
I think it is an ok trilogy but interesting concept but the execution was let's not say the best. Personally I liked the spiritual concept in the third one but I think the prequil novels are much more interesting. And I do hope that someone adapts the novels some day.
Technically, the trilogy isn't the first time Godzilla was portrayed in anime form. That honor goes to the OVA series "Get Going! Godzilland!" It was an animated educational series geared towards younger children and taught Hirigana, counting, addition, and subtraction. Yes, that's an odd premise for a Godzilla anime but it's also oddly adorable and endering. And, somehow, much better than the current Anime Trilogy. After all, Planet Eater didn't have King Ghidorah rapping about counting past 10.
Well here's hoping for a 2D Godzilla anime, hopefully with a better script! If I was Toho, maybe let studio bones go crazy with it because if they have passion in a project it really shows in their work with My Hero and Mob Psycho 100.
When you think about it, this trilogy heavily rips off 3 other films: Interstellar, Alien Covenant, and After Earth. Godzilla feels like an afterthought in there. Really think about it: the minute out there= a century on earth (as well as just ripping off entire space scenes); Everything on earth evolved to be hostile to humans; and a non-human character who wants to use "the perfect being" to destroy humanity (as well as said character being the only good thing about the series). Clearly this trilogy owes a lot more to those films than it did to Godzilla.
Things I liked about the anime trilogy. 1. Interesting concepts 2. I personally like the designs for Godzilla, Mechagodzilla (for the few seconds they do show it it definitely looked interesting) and king ghidorah and I appreciate the new takes on them. 3. Very nice animations Things I don't like 1. Fails to deliver on the interesting concepts 2. The fascinating monster designs are wasted for the most part especially Mechagodzilla. 3. The main character is a dick
I believe that was some of the fans who said that, and not Toho. From what I’ve read of the interviews and reactions, Toho seems to like Legendary’s Godzilla films.
Only dumb fans said Godzilla was fat when Legendary Godzilla is actually one of the slimmest and natural looking. Toho actually applauded Legendary's Godzilla when they got a first look
I think the whole trilogy was one massive spit in the face to the Godzilla franchise and fandom to make themselves feel smarter than they're actually being.
3 things about your video Alexthehunted . 1. I completely agree with you about this anime trilogy, it's just a complete mess. 2. I extremely dought Godzilla: King of the Monsters will be a bad movie. 3. I think this will be the only time a America Godzilla will be better than a Japanese Godzilla.
I like Godzilla 2014 and king of the monsters a million times better than the Godzilla anime and I really never thought I would say that about Godzilla. I mean I like Godzilla earth's design but that's about it
This trilogy is such a waste of time. They should have done a adaptation to the novels they look way better then these movies. Hell godzilla's revenge and the 98 movie is way better then these movies. King of the monsters can't come any sooner
Dude... the books were made a bit more “separate” from the movies production... Also the anime movies aren’t that bad. It’s the expectations they put for themselves.
@@poochuno8822 no, they ARE WORSE THAN BAD. They are terribly written and executed by two idiots who specifically wanted/admitted to screw over actual fans. It can't GET much worse than that
Anthony Jordan movies and more well at least KOTM slightly rectified that but overall this trilogy sucked they strayed to much from source material and really when your first movies called monster planet you’d figure you know there’d be monsters
Thank you Alex for describing what fans who act and feel and think. Being a fan does not mean you should be dogmatic in the fandom. Thank you for pointing that out at the end. I'm sick of fans pulling the "you're not a true fan.." card when someone voices the opposing opinion or critique of a medium. I am a fan of the 2014 godzilla movie where many are not. I am not a fan of Shin gojira where many are. I am not a fan of 98 zilla where that is just.. well universally hated. It still makes me a fan of godzilla. And damn proud of it.
Godzilla was nicely animated but it was soooooo boring. To be honest at least the Hanna Barbera Godzilla better ...at least he always fought and had laser beam eyes as goofy as he was...
I want to imagine Alex spending about twenty minutes thinking of a title and then deciding 'screw it, I'll just describe the video' And thus the perfect title was born
Agreed, this trilogy sucked. The mode was depressing and there was no real monster fight. The humans and aliens were beyond worthless. As a Godzilla fan, I just wanted to see how humans could survive under these monsters. I wanted the monsters to be more evolved and sentiet. Shame, really. This series had a lot of potential, but was poorly executed.
I remember when I saw city on the edge of battle I spent the entire movie just making fun of it and got super borde i new never get like that when im watching a Godzilla This movie were nothing more of a catch grap
Ok, so the end cut scene was supposed to be them remembering Sakaki'a death and him destroying the last bit of nanotech. But first to understand the end scene you gotta understand why Sakaki killed himself and it was because the villagers knew nothing of Hatred, or really any negative emotions, nor did they have an ambition to create society like Sakaki and company did. So basically the end scene is them remembering to let go of Hatred and greedy ambitions that gave rise to Godzilla to begin with. Plus apparently Ghidora had his eye on Sakaki and could use him to come back somehow????
I heard somewhere that these movies are taken as more of a Human Drama, rather than an outright Godzilla movie, so I’ll take that. Though I will say that I hate Hate HATE how Yuko was basically killed off so that Hauro could plow some native chick. I HATED that! So stupid!!!
Dear god I hated this anime, it was just a depressing, plot-hole filled slog the whole way through. And what the hell did they do to Ghidorah!? That was just awful
to be fair, godizlla did have an animated series. Not Japanese and instead Hanna Barbera but it was good and if Godzookie grew up, it'd be frightening. oh and the 1998 Godzilla had an animated series too and that was waaaaaaaay better than the movie.
While I agree that technology vs nature and Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla is done a LOT, I wouldn't have cared if we'd at least gotten a cool fight between them.
Well, let's look at all the other godzilla reactions: 1954: Dark and Thought provoking 1955-1975: Goofy and Fun 1984-1995: Dark and Serious 1998: WTF 1999-2000: Basic but Faithful 2001: Nightmare Fuel 2002-2003: Great Design but Weak 2004: Ridiculously OP 2014: Finally, they got it right 2016: Visual Nightmare Fuel 2017-2019: ZZZZZZZZZZZ 2019: 2014 but much more 2021: We'll have to wait and see
Welcome back man, you where greatly missed; well by me at least. Confession I liked genuinely liked Planet Of Monsters/Monster Planet; that said your criticism of it is actually spot on. As well as the other two movies, good Lord those were horrible! Knowing how Japan works given the way they went with Street Fighter, they might hold off on doing another anime for at least a generation. When you review these bring booze! Wait did you get a translated copy of the prequel books? Please send me the link of where you got them!
Just agree with me and so many others Godzilla fans, this was a disaster of the biggest kind. The human characters let's face it most where forgettable assholes are the lack of monster was so sad.
To sum up the overall quality of the Godzilla anime trilogy, in my opinion. A disgustingly shameful, incredible waste of amazing potential. This could’ve been so much more than what it turned out to be. Toho and their creative team who worked on the production, royally fucked it up!
Im scratching my head here and wondering how is it that we the west. Ya know the americans can make godzilla more faithfully then his eastern brethern can as of today? Explain that to me! Toho is a shell of its former self either the guy in charge is a complete moron and knows nothing about his icon? Or he is just using the King for a quick cash flow and thats what shin and the anime trilogy felt like in all honesty. In other words the King is ruling the west right now but the east cant make a good dozilla movie to save thier asses today!
I want gabara stand alone film were he fights kamacurus and weaker monsters and is hurt by guns etc. it would be a goofier film and it would be about gabara destroying a city while fighting monsters. He would spend a lot of the movie getting beaten up. I dunno why I commented this I just think it would be cool. (I like gabara)
I think I have better ideas for not only a trilogy but a cinematic universe with all the characters with new ones and bagan being the endgame. Also Alex what you said in this video is absolutely correct. My man!
Two problems. 1) there were almost no monsters. I was hoping to see some kaiju and be able to pose threats to both Godzilla and the humans, but there was just the Godzillas, King Ghidorah, and those dragon things. Such wasted potential. 2) Unnecessary. We have shin Godzilla and the shared universe that's gonna come, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: king of the monsters in here, there's no point in making 3 films when we're getting already what we need
I've got a couple ideas for a godzilla anime a shonen battle series where people inherited the spirits of kaiju, or something like a goofy comedy that brings it back to the goofy godzilla years, or something like monster museme because kaiju girls are the next step in athromorphising monsters. Anyone else have some idea I'd love to hear them
Bring bagan from the scrapped Godzilla monster section because Matt Frank was able bring back garasharp from scrapped Gamera monsters and made that thing the reason of gyaos creation in the heisei Gamera series
Just came here from watching the trailer for “Godzilla: Singular Point”. I’m cautiously optimistic because it looks like they might have actually been listening to the criticism levelled at the Anime trilogy.
I've watched Shin Godzilla I don't know how many times. I was so excited for this trilogy. The first movie was ok, got me looking forward to the next 2. They were not what I expected, lol.
I think that when Toho had this series in mind, I think they genuinely wanted to make the series they said they'd make. But the director came over and looked over everything Toho had related to they're kaiju and Godzilla and said "This is garbage. We're going to do this instead of what fans want. If they don't like it, they're just traditionalists".
It would have honestly been so much better if we got 2 or 3 anime films, one or two based around the prequel novels and then the final film being basically the first film that we actually got, showing Godzilla as an unstoppable force even after all these years. Can you imagine watching all these monsters destroy the world and then at the end of the film humanity flees the planet, and in the next film they come back 20,000 years later, think they've finally killed Godzilla and then the true king now 300+ meters tall rises up from the ground, destroys the whole army in one go and leaves the fate of the survivors ambiguous? That would have been incredible, hell, giving us mechagodzilla and king ghidorah would have been incredible too, but all we got was a city that did very little aside from kill more characters and a giant noodle that sucked Godzilla's energy for a bit before getting it's ass kicked in 3 seconds, 1 for each head
Here is my main thought: the first one was good and a great beginning, good characters and motivation the plot twist of godzilla being like an old man was nice. The second one was just there for me nothing really new and a bad plot twist but only because we saw it coming. The third one I hated, the only good thing I liked was what they did to king ghidorah because he is a god of destruction and that fits him but everything else... no. I hated the plot twist and it was just frustrating to me personally to see a decent character turn into "I'm evil now MWEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" To me it would have been better if he didn't know the full power of king ghidorah and paid the price for it. And just the fight sucked the first have godzilla gets his ass kicked (very much like final wars to a dot) and when godzilla gets the upper hand it can be summed up as the little kid pushing another kid going "ewww get away". The anime was just so... disappointing I saw potential of the first anime the second one made me realize that maybe it wasn't going to be good, the third confirmed it for me.
I know Toho was experimenting, but like Moffat, the writer(s) of this trilogy really didn't think things through. I mean, I like Godzilla Earth's design and power, but that Godzilla was limited by screentime and movement. What Toho could have done was make an actual anime SERIES about Godzilla. It can be the same one in the trilogy, but I'd prefer it to be the traditional Godzilla.
Everything good in the anime series has taken place in the prequel novels. Seriously someone give toho GOT budget and gets a live-action series of that story.
I’ve loved the top 10 lists and the energy Godzilla movie list that you did, but would you rank Godzilla’s? I mean, like your favorite Godzilla’s themselves. Your favorite designs, and stories they were in. There were like 4vdifferent Iriginsl Godzilla monsters, 3 American, shin, and king of the monsters. The shoho era. Then all the reboots. How many of the millennium movies didn’t connect to each other or the shoho era, so each were their own distinct Godzilla. Zella from the cartoon. The animated Godzilla’s. There’s a lot of different incarnations of big G and maybe an interesting vid idea
Are we all REALLY going to forget the disrespect they did to Mothra?!?! "Oh shit we need Mothra? Just... put a 2D black cutout and use a sound clip and put her in for... hmmm.. she IS a fan favorite... oh I know! Put her in for 2 seconds and make it an extremely fast scene so you barely notice her!" Such a fucking dumpster fire of a well known icon in film
34.Godzilla City On The Edge Of Battle (2018-2018) 33.Godzilla Planet Eater (2018-2019) 32.Godzilla Planet Of Monsters (2017-2018) (All 36 Godzilla movies)
Alexthehunted, the real reason why the Godzilla anime failed was that Toho and Kobun Shizuno told Hiroyuki Seshita to have the trilogy lack any monster fights and other monsters because they wanted to appeal a new audience.
Second the first trailer surfaced, I knew this trilogy was going to be a disaster. That style of CG animation that is becoming so prevalent in anime is TERRIBLE, and it's always a sign that a very lazy and unskilled studio is at work.
I just came back from the mechagodzilla fan project vid he mentioned.... Holly gojira, watch it, its AMAZING. IT ACTUALLY HAS MECHAGODZILLA AND THEM FIGHTING! HELL YES
I wanted godzilla POTM had more monsters like an anguirus made of rock , rodan made of fire , king ghidorah ( not the king ghidorah from the third movie ) made out of lightning and etc.
Heres how i rank the trilogy, PoTM: Okay CotEoB: Disappointing Planet Eater (To quote Jontron): Well that was a load of sh*t At least the only good thing was, in my opinion, is Takayuki Hattori's music.
I look forward to your review. Yeah, everythihng you said I agre with. When it comes to Godzilla movies, there needs to be Godzilla. They can't do the Shin Godzilla thing or the Godzilla 1985 thing and have Godzilla be the focus because the destructive potential of Godzilla was already set up. He's destroyed everything and all the monsters and nothing can stop him.
Probably one of the more evil Godzilla’s instead of being a earth defender, but actually killed all the old human race. Just the handfull that will die off from age and basically mate and turn into the evolved humans but that basically it for the old human race. Dead
They told the audience how dangerous and evil godzilla is, but in the actual movies he was just standing around while a guy screams at him like a mad man.
singular point seems to be an apology for these films, jet jaguar seems to return which is a classic showa era monster and possibly we can see some old classics come back. These films came directly after shin godzilla and just before KOTM. comparing shin to these is 2 drastically different, one is a biding political commentary off of the fukushima nuclear disaster that still holds up to this day, and a film that has nothing that holds up.
I personally don’t like the Anime Godzilla Trilogy. It’s not Godzilla 1998 levels of disrespectful. Or Godzilla’s Revenge levels of lazy. But in terms of wasted potential I think this takes the cake. It’s not the best and will be overshadowed by what came before it, Shin and 2014. And what will come after KOTM and GvK.
Yup
At least Godzilla 1998's monster was a nuclear mutation like the 1954 version. Anime Godzilla is supposed to be some metal-based, hyper-evolved, electromagnetic plant or something.
@@jurassickaiju14 that sounds nasty
@@jurassickaiju14 I mean I don't really care about the origin
GMK Godzilla was the resurrected souls of soilders from WW2 taking control of the spirit of Godzilla and GMK is easily one of everyone's favorite Godzilla's, if anything I like the change in origin however they failed horribly in the execution of the entire trilogy
@@timothytrevino3380 body of Godzilla not spirit
They shouldn't have split it between the anime and the books. It should have been fully committed to the anime
I think that it was purely going to be an anime series, but Toho made the mistake of hiring Hiroyuki Seshita, Gen Urobuchi, and Kobun Shizano.
@@natek4488 or you know just look at singular point
Whatever you might say, the first movie had a *masterful* opening. You've got this moment of raw humanity of a man trying to keep a bunch of people from being killed, only to find out that these old people agreed to it. They want to die, so that the resources can go to the younger generations. And they want to die with a sky over their heads.
And in the end... they are denied *even that.*
It was heartwrenching and it was instantly captivating to me. Doubly so since I'm not really a Godzilla fan. It made me like and sympathize with Haruo in a way that nothing else in all three films did. The interest created by that scene pushed me on through the endless, confusing scenes of tedious exposition as they decide to go back to Earth.
Between that and the ending, the first movie was far better than the other two. The first film ended with Haruo standing in the ashes of his own failure. Haruo's quest for revenge ended in the death of everyone in the ground team, the rising of a Godzilla far more powerful than they ever dreamed of, and no real hope. Haruo's revenge quest was a resounding failure.
Only no, we're going to try that whole revenge thing again. Only this time, it's going to involve a bunch of technobabble nonsense instead of Mech-on-Godzilla action. The second film was just a retread of the first, only dumber and without any character development.
And the third one... that was just stupid.
Well it's good to see someone who's not a godzilla fan acknowledge the flaws of this trilogy, which is ironic cause this trilogy was literally made for people like you, people who aren't fans and in the end the trilogy couldn't even attract non fans correctly
It should’ve been an anime series rather than a movie
Agree. But.. What if it sucks
And it should have used the story of the books.
I'd rather want an anime
Agreed but not with this team
Anonymous Mouse denfinetly but it should not be this script because it sucks no matter what movie or show
I honestly hated this trilogy here are my final thought on it
POTM: It’s honestly my favorite mostly do to the climax being incredibly fun and that great reveal and its good set up Haruo might’ve been a bad character but he had a chance to change and you can kinda feel for them the lack of advertising was annoying but to be fair it was just a leak and those are rarely accurate
COTEOB: F#ck this movie and it killing the dream and hype for me I hate it was a burning passion everything I found out about behind the scene made me hate it more it’s a rehash of the first movie the teasing of Mechagodzilla really was just a scummy business move because they put him on the poster made molds and toys and a new design for them that was ultimately pointless and some details that were never explained why didn’t there plan this time if it worked in the other movies though I gave it credit that it seemed to move Harouo toward changing his ways and not being hate filled and so I was going to give it one more chance
Then the infamous interview where one of the Directors told everyone that all these werid unnecessary changes and false advertising not only intentional but they were done to piss off quote on quote Traditionalists
And Planet Eater was just a failed werid film about Philosophy which doesn’t make any sense and honestly pretends to be deeper then it actually was then Harouo kills him self because f#ck character change and development just having him pointlessly die leaving his new family behind and being weirdly hateful to humanity and technology as a whole which honestly doesn’t work it’s like Startrek Inccuractions messages and all the worst ways
To be fair, he said he KNEW their decisions would piss off traditionalists, not that he INTENDED to. I don’t think it’s fair to compare him to that shit stain Rian Johnson like some people are doing. He’s not exactly good at his job, but he’s not as big an asshole as Johnson is to fans that hate his work. Plus, at least the trilogy was watchable. I can’t even watch The Last Jedi from beginning to end. But I digress.
In any case, I agree with all of your other points. The idea behind the trilogy and it’s story had the potential to be something great, but they blew it big time. In the end, the trilogy was a disappointment because of the wasted potential.
Mecha Godzilla looks like a Michael Bay transformer mixed with a starfish nosed mole
@@megalodon7916 That really shouldn't excuse anything. If you're making a Godzilla film, you cant stray too far or else you become Zilla. The fact he knew some decisions would piss off the older fanbase, which is probably the majority, then why even fucking do it? That's shooting yourself in the foot and purposefully screwing yourself over
You can really tell where your anger raised during the writing of this comment, because you start becoming incoherent in spots. When your anger had your mind working faster than your thumbs... or fingers.
Prophein X your not wrong
I liked it, but there was so much missed potential. What's the point of putting half the exciting stuff in the fucking book?
Half!?
Nah, nah...
You mean all of it?
Because it's easy to write what happened then animating it and it's less time consuming.
They put ALL the exciting stuff in the books. The movies were all f*cking boring.
(Except that one scene with Godzilla Earth at the end of the first movie. That scene was f*cking awesome.)
@@Sci-FiActionMovieReviews they could’ve at least made it into a manga then
I agree this anime trilogy was so disappointing and plus none of the humans were really interesting but boring.
Shoving anti-tech hippie, religious, environmentalism overtones, doesn't fit overall. The director admits he didn't watch any of the past Godzilla movies, and his filmography consist of *SEVEN* Detective Conan movies. That's low, TOHO
That's just sad
Where can I read this article you learned this from
It's melancholic.
So like Roland emmerich with the 98 movie, yet despite a failure at the box office for both companies, it was more successful than this trilogy
Well maybe people should learn from it before doing it
I think it is an ok trilogy but interesting concept but the execution was let's not say the best. Personally I liked the spiritual concept in the third one but I think the prequil novels are much more interesting. And I do hope that someone adapts the novels some day.
Neeeever gonna happen after these abortions of a Godzilla films that BOMBED HARD in Japan and was viewed with much regret by Fans....
This whole trilogy was wasted potential, we should have gotten another Evangelion type series but with Godzilla, instead we got this dump
Yeah that’s what I actually expected from "Godzilla: Resurgence"!
Technically, the trilogy isn't the first time Godzilla was portrayed in anime form. That honor goes to the OVA series "Get Going! Godzilland!" It was an animated educational series geared towards younger children and taught Hirigana, counting, addition, and subtraction. Yes, that's an odd premise for a Godzilla anime but it's also oddly adorable and endering. And, somehow, much better than the current Anime Trilogy. After all, Planet Eater didn't have King Ghidorah rapping about counting past 10.
And even Chibi Godzilla and Godziban had better executions than the Anime Trilogy.
Hell chibi Godzilla is better than Godzilla Earth by a mile.
Well here's hoping for a 2D Godzilla anime, hopefully with a better script! If I was Toho, maybe let studio bones go crazy with it because if they have passion in a project it really shows in their work with My Hero and Mob Psycho 100.
They did
I mean more than Godzillo.
@@GreyshotProductions Godzillo
Godzillo is a cameo of a Godzilla-like Hero in the movie My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. Used the classic showa design and it looked great!
I want the guys from Devilman Crybaby
When you think about it, this trilogy heavily rips off 3 other films: Interstellar, Alien Covenant, and After Earth. Godzilla feels like an afterthought in there. Really think about it: the minute out there= a century on earth (as well as just ripping off entire space scenes); Everything on earth evolved to be hostile to humans; and a non-human character who wants to use "the perfect being" to destroy humanity (as well as said character being the only good thing about the series). Clearly this trilogy owes a lot more to those films than it did to Godzilla.
Yeah I doubt that this trilogy wanted anything to do with Godzilla
Things I liked about the anime trilogy.
1. Interesting concepts
2. I personally like the designs for Godzilla, Mechagodzilla (for the few seconds they do show it it definitely looked interesting) and king ghidorah and I appreciate the new takes on them.
3. Very nice animations
Things I don't like
1. Fails to deliver on the interesting concepts
2. The fascinating monster designs are wasted for the most part especially Mechagodzilla.
3. The main character is a dick
The main character is a dick; I agree.
You are my favorite Godzilla youtuber
MY PERSONAL RANT ON GODZILLA ANIME TRILOGY:
-Monster Planet: Just meh
-City at the Edge of Battle: Just meh
-Planet Eater: Just Ok
Alex: We've never had a Godzilla anime!
Godzilland: Am I a joke to you?
Chibi Godzilla shorts: Don't forget me!
true but we need like an anime that’s like the movies like at the same levels of the hanna barbera cartoon but WAY better
Finally, somebody who thinks the way I do
Toho says Legendary Godzilla is fat but they make a Godzilla just like him. And I'm not saying he's fat I love his design.
I believe that was some of the fans who said that, and not Toho. From what I’ve read of the interviews and reactions, Toho seems to like Legendary’s Godzilla films.
Only dumb fans said Godzilla was fat when Legendary Godzilla is actually one of the slimmest and natural looking. Toho actually applauded Legendary's Godzilla when they got a first look
Andrew Meyer I just wish his feet weren’t so stumpy
@@SamA-cw3be Yeah, they were a lil weird but I DO think it was to stay as far away from Zilla as possible
@@andrewmeyer3599 it wouldn't be bad if he was a 4 legged creature. they just don't look like they will support him n 2...
I agree the godzilla anime trilogy is also a disappointing and a disrespect to me and godzilla
I think the whole trilogy was one massive spit in the face to the Godzilla franchise and fandom to make themselves feel smarter than they're actually being.
3 things about your video Alexthehunted .
1. I completely agree with you about this anime trilogy, it's just a complete mess.
2. I extremely dought Godzilla: King of the Monsters will be a bad movie.
3. I think this will be the only time a America Godzilla will be better than a Japanese Godzilla.
I agree with all 3
Totally agree with you
You’re right about all three
I like Godzilla 2014 and king of the monsters a million times better than the Godzilla anime and I really never thought I would say that about Godzilla. I mean I like Godzilla earth's design but that's about it
Godzilla: King of the monsters isn’t a bad film, and I think it is a good film. (Unlike the anime trilogy)
This trilogy was so bad to the point where it shouldn't even be canon to the Godzilla franchise.
This trilogy is such a waste of time. They should have done a adaptation to the novels they look way better then these movies. Hell godzilla's revenge and the 98 movie is way better then these movies. King of the monsters can't come any sooner
Dude... the books were made a bit more “separate” from the movies production...
Also the anime movies aren’t that bad. It’s the expectations they put for themselves.
@@poochuno8822 no, they ARE WORSE THAN BAD. They are terribly written and executed by two idiots who specifically wanted/admitted to screw over actual fans. It can't GET much worse than that
@@donhillsmanii5906 exactly
This anime trilogy was perfect. All it needed was Marie Kondo to spark some joy to it, too bad she's not a fan
@@Papa_Mendes Perfect disaster
To name the main character Haruro is a disgrace to the memory of Haruro Nakajima
If he was still alive he would have hated this trilogy if u ask me. Polygon does not have the balls to respect that mans legacy! PERIOD!
And Micheal Dougherty honor him with Godzilla King of the Monsters! PERIOD!
Anthony Jordan movies and more well at least KOTM slightly rectified that but overall this trilogy sucked they strayed to much from source material and really when your first movies called monster planet you’d figure you know there’d be monsters
The main character is I'm depressed my parents die
@@kingofmonsters2063 the main character is just sasuke but shoved into a monster movie and a lot more pissed
Thank you Alex for describing what fans who act and feel and think. Being a fan does not mean you should be dogmatic in the fandom. Thank you for pointing that out at the end. I'm sick of fans pulling the "you're not a true fan.." card when someone voices the opposing opinion or critique of a medium. I am a fan of the 2014 godzilla movie where many are not. I am not a fan of Shin gojira where many are. I am not a fan of 98 zilla where that is just.. well universally hated. It still makes me a fan of godzilla. And damn proud of it.
I too am very fond of the Monsterverse and not a fan of Godzilla: Resurgence
Godzilla was nicely animated but it was soooooo boring. To be honest at least the Hanna Barbera Godzilla better ...at least he always fought and had laser beam eyes as goofy as he was...
I want to imagine Alex spending about twenty minutes thinking of a title and then deciding 'screw it, I'll just describe the video'
And thus the perfect title was born
Crap I’m first...
I kinda liked the trilogy, but I understand your points.
All though the “monsters” were crap.
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@STEVE LE I don't really mind the designs for the monsters, except Mechagodzilla should have actually been Mechagodzilla and not a damn city instead
This trilogy sucked so hard
Hi
True
So hard it swallowed and coughed it up and then licks it back up again
Agreed, this trilogy sucked. The mode was depressing and there was no real monster fight. The humans and aliens were beyond worthless. As a Godzilla fan, I just wanted to see how humans could survive under these monsters. I wanted the monsters to be more evolved and sentiet. Shame, really. This series had a lot of potential, but was poorly executed.
First one decent , second one disappointing , the third one
The worst Godzilla movie in the entire series
I remember when I saw city on the edge of battle I spent the entire movie just making fun of it and got super borde i new never get like that when im watching a Godzilla This movie were nothing more of a catch grap
My issues were king ghidorahs new design and the after credit scene on the third part was a confusing ending
Ok, so the end cut scene was supposed to be them remembering Sakaki'a death and him destroying the last bit of nanotech. But first to understand the end scene you gotta understand why Sakaki killed himself and it was because the villagers knew nothing of Hatred, or really any negative emotions, nor did they have an ambition to create society like Sakaki and company did. So basically the end scene is them remembering to let go of Hatred and greedy ambitions that gave rise to Godzilla to begin with. Plus apparently Ghidora had his eye on Sakaki and could use him to come back somehow????
If the American (King of the monsters) is much more successful, Japan needs to step up!
1998.
Enough said
I think I have better ideas than this anime.
Japanese goji in sleeping because they dont any idea and legendary already is giving them money
I heard somewhere that these movies are taken as more of a Human Drama, rather than an outright Godzilla movie, so I’ll take that. Though I will say that I hate Hate HATE how Yuko was basically killed off so that Hauro could plow some native chick. I HATED that! So stupid!!!
@STEVE LE it felt so forced especially cause harou and yuko had good chemistry
Dear god I hated this anime, it was just a depressing, plot-hole filled slog the whole way through. And what the hell did they do to Ghidorah!? That was just awful
Good thing the monsterverse will erased the trilogy from our minds .
@@Naseem-fl3zt No kidding. Ghidorah was actually GOOD in the monsterverse
@@OmegaGameDude because Michael Dougherty give godzilla , ghidorah and the Godzilla franchise justice that it deserves.
You think that ghidorah is bad? You don't even know what did they do to mechagodzilla!
@@cupcaketf223 Oh I do. I watched the Enitre trilogy. This is just genuine garbage.
Is it bad that I forgot Mothra was in this movie
Japan: likes anime
Japan: like Godzilla
Japan: LETS WAIT HALF A CENTURY SINCE GOJIRA COMES OUT THEN WE WILL MAKE A GODZILLA ANIME!
Godzilland: "Am I joke to you?"
to be fair, godizlla did have an animated series. Not Japanese and instead Hanna Barbera but it was good and if Godzookie grew up, it'd be frightening.
oh and the 1998 Godzilla had an animated series too and that was waaaaaaaay better than the movie.
I hate Godzilla anime trilogy
Sadly not everyone COUGH BLUNOVA COUGH tohoremix cough monstrosities COUGH matt Frank COUGH d man 1954 COUGH up from the depths
While I agree that technology vs nature and Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla is done a LOT, I wouldn't have cared if we'd at least gotten a cool fight between them.
I wanted a Godzilla that didn't put me to sleep. This was a total fail.
Well, let's look at all the other godzilla reactions:
1954: Dark and Thought provoking
1955-1975: Goofy and Fun
1984-1995: Dark and Serious
1998: WTF
1999-2000: Basic but Faithful
2001: Nightmare Fuel
2002-2003: Great Design but Weak
2004: Ridiculously OP
2014: Finally, they got it right
2016: Visual Nightmare Fuel
2017-2019: ZZZZZZZZZZZ
2019: 2014 but much more
2021: We'll have to wait and see
@@natek4488 1998 tho😂
I don't think raids again and terror of mechagodzilla is goofy fun
Welcome back man, you where greatly missed; well by me at least. Confession I liked genuinely liked Planet Of Monsters/Monster Planet; that said your criticism of it is actually spot on. As well as the other two movies, good Lord those were horrible! Knowing how Japan works given the way they went with Street Fighter, they might hold off on doing another anime for at least a generation. When you review these bring booze!
Wait did you get a translated copy of the prequel books? Please send me the link of where you got them!
Just agree with me and so many others Godzilla fans, this was a disaster of the biggest kind. The human characters let's face it most where forgettable assholes are the lack of monster was so sad.
To sum up the overall quality of the Godzilla anime trilogy, in my opinion.
A disgustingly shameful, incredible waste of amazing potential.
This could’ve been so much more than what it turned out to be.
Toho and their creative team who worked on the production, royally fucked it up!
They sure did. They (toho and friends) forgot to show us Godzilla and instead told an uninteresting anecdote full of disconnected, sobbing assholes.
Im scratching my head here and wondering how is it that we the west. Ya know the americans can make godzilla more faithfully then his eastern brethern can as of today? Explain that to me! Toho is a shell of its former self either the guy in charge is a complete moron and knows nothing about his icon? Or he is just using the King for a quick cash flow and thats what shin and the anime trilogy felt like in all honesty. In other words the King is ruling the west right now but the east cant make a good dozilla movie to save thier asses today!
I want gabara stand alone film were he fights kamacurus and weaker monsters and is hurt by guns etc. it would be a goofier film and it would be about gabara destroying a city while fighting monsters. He would spend a lot of the movie getting beaten up. I dunno why I commented this I just think it would be cool. (I like gabara)
Dogzilla 72 maybe small shorts would be better
I think I have better ideas for not only a trilogy but a cinematic universe with all the characters with new ones and bagan being the endgame. Also Alex what you said in this video is absolutely correct. My man!
Two problems. 1) there were almost no monsters. I was hoping to see some kaiju and be able to pose threats to both Godzilla and the humans, but there was just the Godzillas, King Ghidorah, and those dragon things. Such wasted potential. 2) Unnecessary. We have shin Godzilla and the shared universe that's gonna come, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: king of the monsters in here, there's no point in making 3 films when we're getting already what we need
What was the point of a Godzilla Anime trilogy if there's no full commitment to it. What a waste of effort and time.
I knew he would've liked the fan film with Godzilla fighting Mechagodzilla, I knew it!
I hate this movies Godzilla: The Series (1998) is 100 time better.
I've got a couple ideas for a godzilla anime a shonen battle series where people inherited the spirits of kaiju, or something like a goofy comedy that brings it back to the goofy godzilla years, or something like monster museme because kaiju girls are the next step in athromorphising monsters. Anyone else have some idea I'd love to hear them
Bring bagan from the scrapped Godzilla monster section because Matt Frank was able bring back garasharp from scrapped Gamera monsters and made that thing the reason of gyaos creation in the heisei Gamera series
Just came here from watching the trailer for “Godzilla: Singular Point”. I’m cautiously optimistic because it looks like they might have actually been listening to the criticism levelled at the Anime trilogy.
This trilogy is basically the SW prequels of Godzilla movies
More like the SW sequels
And this folks is why I love the monsterverse. Why? Well for one, they put more effort. Two, they have more then fricking 4 monsters.
Yup, and the MonsterVerse is MORE faithful to the Godzilla franchise than these THINGS.
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 More like these DISASTER OF FILMS THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST
We have had a Godzilla cartoon....from the '70's. I watched it every Saturday morning.
I've watched Shin Godzilla I don't know how many times. I was so excited for this trilogy. The first movie was ok, got me looking forward to the next 2. They were not what I expected, lol.
Well we know who's to blame, the director.
I think that when Toho had this series in mind, I think they genuinely wanted to make the series they said they'd make. But the director came over and looked over everything Toho had related to they're kaiju and Godzilla and said "This is garbage. We're going to do this instead of what fans want. If they don't like it, they're just traditionalists".
This trilogy was more disrespectful to the franchise than the 1998 movie
It would have honestly been so much better if we got 2 or 3 anime films, one or two based around the prequel novels and then the final film being basically the first film that we actually got, showing Godzilla as an unstoppable force even after all these years.
Can you imagine watching all these monsters destroy the world and then at the end of the film humanity flees the planet, and in the next film they come back 20,000 years later, think they've finally killed Godzilla and then the true king now 300+ meters tall rises up from the ground, destroys the whole army in one go and leaves the fate of the survivors ambiguous?
That would have been incredible, hell, giving us mechagodzilla and king ghidorah would have been incredible too, but all we got was a city that did very little aside from kill more characters and a giant noodle that sucked Godzilla's energy for a bit before getting it's ass kicked in 3 seconds, 1 for each head
This year's Godzilla's 65th anniversary.
Here is my main thought: the first one was good and a great beginning, good characters and motivation the plot twist of godzilla being like an old man was nice. The second one was just there for me nothing really new and a bad plot twist but only because we saw it coming. The third one I hated, the only good thing I liked was what they did to king ghidorah because he is a god of destruction and that fits him but everything else... no. I hated the plot twist and it was just frustrating to me personally to see a decent character turn into "I'm evil now MWEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" To me it would have been better if he didn't know the full power of king ghidorah and paid the price for it. And just the fight sucked the first have godzilla gets his ass kicked (very much like final wars to a dot) and when godzilla gets the upper hand it can be summed up as the little kid pushing another kid going "ewww get away". The anime was just so... disappointing I saw potential of the first anime the second one made me realize that maybe it wasn't going to be good, the third confirmed it for me.
I like to refer to Ghidorah as three headed Shinron because he has no body and doesn't actually fight anyone.
Nice one. I call him the Golden Noodle Boi
Compared to the story of this trilogy, it makes Godzilla‘s revenge look like a better movie. However I did think the credit music was awesome
A dumpster fire I would say. But needs a lot more improvement. I mean A LOT of improvement
It's spaghetti Ghidorah
Review Godzilla king of the monster
What is the name of the fan movie your speaking about ?
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The fact that it took THIS long for a Godzilla anime just makes it worse...
I know Toho was experimenting, but like Moffat, the writer(s) of this trilogy really didn't think things through. I mean, I like Godzilla Earth's design and power, but that Godzilla was limited by screentime and movement. What Toho could have done was make an actual anime SERIES about Godzilla. It can be the same one in the trilogy, but I'd prefer it to be the traditional Godzilla.
They screwed up as bad as the people who made the ps4 Godzilla game, they were completely incompetent
It was a disaster. I couldn't stand Haruo.
And even worse, the writers were trying to make him the star of the trilogy.
Ghidorah was just space noodles
Then who is the sauce
Everything good in the anime series has taken place in the prequel novels.
Seriously someone give toho GOT budget and gets a live-action series of that story.
I’ve loved the top 10 lists and the energy Godzilla movie list that you did, but would you rank Godzilla’s? I mean, like your favorite Godzilla’s themselves. Your favorite designs, and stories they were in. There were like 4vdifferent Iriginsl Godzilla monsters, 3 American, shin, and king of the monsters. The shoho era. Then all the reboots. How many of the millennium movies didn’t connect to each other or the shoho era, so each were their own distinct Godzilla. Zella from the cartoon. The animated Godzilla’s. There’s a lot of different incarnations of big G and maybe an interesting vid idea
Ghidorah gets one shot after that eye got popped out... brilliant
NexusSM_ 2020 yeah I’m not sure how people think he’s the most powerful ghidorah when he’d probably get his ass kicked by the other ghidorahs
I never got past the first film, these movies suck. I look forward to your reviews on these films. The novel was so much better.
Why was first movie good but the other 2 were bad
Are we all REALLY going to forget the disrespect they did to Mothra?!?! "Oh shit we need Mothra? Just... put a 2D black cutout and use a sound clip and put her in for... hmmm.. she IS a fan favorite... oh I know! Put her in for 2 seconds and make it an extremely fast scene so you barely notice her!" Such a fucking dumpster fire of a well known icon in film
This Anime was an ABORTION...
Gotta admit the thumbnail picture is amazing shot
Godzilla 98 was better and I hated that movie. There I said it.
I agree
I keep hearing about these tie in books. Are they in English? Or where do i find them?
34.Godzilla City On The Edge Of Battle (2018-2018)
33.Godzilla Planet Eater (2018-2019)
32.Godzilla Planet Of Monsters (2017-2018)
(All 36 Godzilla movies)
A new anime story set in the showa timeline would be lit. Have the same king Kong come back.
Alexthehunted, the real reason why the Godzilla anime failed was that Toho and Kobun Shizuno told Hiroyuki Seshita to have the trilogy lack any monster fights and other monsters because they wanted to appeal a new audience.
blame hiroyuki seshita fro ruining the trilogy
Second the first trailer surfaced, I knew this trilogy was going to be a disaster. That style of CG animation that is becoming so prevalent in anime is TERRIBLE, and it's always a sign that a very lazy and unskilled studio is at work.
I Was Hyped Too
I just came back from the mechagodzilla fan project vid he mentioned.... Holly gojira, watch it, its AMAZING. IT ACTUALLY HAS MECHAGODZILLA AND THEM FIGHTING! HELL YES
I wanted godzilla POTM had more monsters like an anguirus made of rock , rodan made of fire , king ghidorah ( not the king ghidorah from the third movie ) made out of lightning and etc.
Heres how i rank the trilogy,
PoTM: Okay
CotEoB: Disappointing
Planet Eater (To quote Jontron): Well that was a load of sh*t
At least the only good thing was, in my opinion, is Takayuki Hattori's music.
The Anime Trilogy is basically the kaiju equivalent to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
I really hate the Godzilla anime series
What were you going to say after “look at the...” transformers
I look forward to your review. Yeah, everythihng you said I agre with. When it comes to Godzilla movies, there needs to be Godzilla. They can't do the Shin Godzilla thing or the Godzilla 1985 thing and have Godzilla be the focus because the destructive potential of Godzilla was already set up. He's destroyed everything and all the monsters and nothing can stop him.
I really hated the main character of Haruo!
I agree, it is a total insult to the original suit actor.
Probably one of the more evil Godzilla’s instead of being a earth defender, but actually killed all the old human race. Just the handfull that will die off from age and basically mate and turn into the evolved humans but that basically it for the old human race. Dead
They told the audience how dangerous and evil godzilla is, but in the actual movies he was just standing around while a guy screams at him like a mad man.
Space hologran manda.
That was a brilliant one!!!
Actually, no. Because Manda is cool.
singular point seems to be an apology for these films, jet jaguar seems to return which is a classic showa era monster and possibly we can see some old classics come back. These films came directly after shin godzilla and just before KOTM. comparing shin to these is 2 drastically different, one is a biding political commentary off of the fukushima nuclear disaster that still holds up to this day, and a film that has nothing that holds up.