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Shin Godzilla is by far a one of my favorite Godzilla films. As a kid of course I would always rewatch his movies. As a adult, I have watch Shin probably over twenty times. Where others probably hate and say it is to slow, I enjoy the bureaucratic aspect of it. This was a terrifying Godzilla. They succeeded with this movie.
As someone who’s family has been greatly impacted by nuclear disaster, shin godzilla hits home. When I was in 5th grade my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the months that followed, every other woman in my family - grandma and aunts, a total of 4 in all including my mother - developed the same type of breast cancer. The kicker was that all tested negative for the gene that corresponded for the type of cancer they had. They all had one thing in common; they were all present and living but a mile away when the 3 Mile Island disaster occurred. That plant even before the disaster would release steam and radiation every Sunday, and would order the local residents inside, as if that would do anything to protect them. To this day people who live around the plant die early, almost all people my mother and family knew from there have either had some form of cancer or have already died from it. The government denies that the plant was in direct correlation with the large quantities of diagnosis’s coming from there. But all the doctors that treated my mother agreed that 3 Mile Island caused her cancer; there was no other way she got the type she had without the necessary genes coded for it. Nuclear power destroyed my family and ripped away my childhood. It still continues to haunt me to this day what we’ve all had to endure. I will never be able to forgive or see the good in it, nor will I ever be able to forgive the government for what they’ve done.
I'm deeply sorry for what happened to your family. It is true that people allowing such tragedies to happen (government, businessmen, etc) must be held accountable for their actions (even though that won't undo the damage). However, and I do not want to seem hostile by any way, I think we need nuclear energy. Please, let me explain a bit. Current energy sources make more people die than nuclear incidents. I, for example, live in a country where we only have one nuclear plant (far away from my city), a few wind, solar and hydroelectric installations; but those are just too small and inefficient to satisfy the nation's need of energy. So, we still largely depend on burning oil, gas (or even coal in some places) to run our electric systems. And that, causes far more suffering. I've seen firsthand outer neighborhoods of my city engulfed by smoke when the weather does not cooperate to disperse such toxins. Fortunately, neither me nor my family live right there, but I have friends who have told me of their parents developing various pulmonar diseases because of such pollution. I believe we (as a global society) must abandon fossil fuels as soon as possible, we are already kinda late, and sadly, current "green" alternatives are not ready to fully replace fossil fuels. Nuclear is, for now, the only option we have to make a serious and quick transfer. Also, incidents involving nuclear facilities always have something to do with human error and plain irresponsibility; we have now many ways to make nuclear energy safe, and we only have to make sure the people working on it complies with the regulations. Finally, I want to express that I am against the manufacturing, storage, and of course, use of nuclear weapons. I've actually been to Nagasaki (and although the Japanese committed some serious war crimes, I think the use of two nuclear weapons over densely populate areas was unnecessary) and the things you can see there: the photographs of that day, being right above where they were taken, the ruins that still stand there, but specially the testimonies of the people (I even could meet one of the survivors, he was a small kid that day)... it all is just horrifying, the idea of it happening again somewhere in the world. But nuclear energy is other story. Just as Godzilla himself, it can be a destructive force that shows no mercy, or it could help us preserve this Earth, the only one we have. Thank you for reading and I really hope you are fine, and that your family gets some justice. My best wishes.
just releasing radiation at places where people live should be a crime. so much silent suffering ignored by government, it's really sad.. I hope your family gets to recover at some point, breast cancer isn't too lethal right?
@@Voxen712 like any cancer, if not caught early, it can be lethal. We were lucky that it was caught early because it had already spread to her ovaries, and would have kept going. Thankfully my mother only has 2 years of extended treatment left to make sure the cancer doesn’t return.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 First, I’d like to thank you for being so civil when responding. I was super worried at first but when i continued reading that worry went away. I also just wanted to say that when I originally posted my comment, it was from a place of anger and grief spurred in the moment. I don’t truly hate nuclear energy, but I am greatly mistrustful of it due to my experience with it. As someone who lives in America, we aren’t often shared news from other countries; including how energy and resources look in other counties besides our own. When you talked of how people you know are hurt by the continued use of fossil fuels, that genuinely broke my heart. I’m so sorry for what has happened due to them, and it brings me some comfort to know that nuclear energy has helped someone. In short, thank you so much for telling me about your experiences. It’s really helped to expand my views on such a complicated subject as energy and resources. I would like to end on a bit more of an upbeat note however, in saying that eco friendly alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy are finally being taken more seriously and being implemented more. From my understanding, the one issue that remains that prevents alternative sources from being implemented is big corporations themselves as well as the government. Through research I’ve found that many oil and gas companies lobby against the replacement of natural gas and hold it up and prevent it from being implemented, one of their ways of doing this being through the government by paying politicians and supporting their campaigns. Thankfully, people are fighting back against such things to try and make energy safer and more efficient while not just the USA, but the whole world. I hope one day that the wrongs done to both of us can be undone, and that one day we can live without fear of our own self made problems and creations.
@@aspen4786 I'm so glad that this reply thread has gone this way. Yes, I hope some day we can fully rely (globally speaking) on renewable and clean energy sources. As you mention, the main obstacle as of now, is greed; but I'm optimistic that it can be defeated by the people having knowledge and using their true power (although it will take some time, of course). Also, I read your other reply, I'm so happy to know that your mother was able to recover, although for sure it was a though experience.
Godzilla 2014 being used as a metric for the popularity of kaiju films seems wrong to me as it barely shows kaiju and has a very American focus on military over science
I find it amusing that Toho would even consider the idea of removing the nuclear aspect of Godzilla. To do that would be like removing Batman's parents being killed in a Batman film, it's a fundamental element of the character. Godzilla is the atomic bomb given flesh, he's meant to be a physical manifestation of the fact that we can never put that genie back into the lamp. The lack of that kind of neuters the character in my opinion. It's one of my issues with the Monsterverse movies to be honest.
This may seem off topic but I took note that those types of films tend to go along with some things a society is use to or what the audience may o it care enough to understand, some of the greatest films of iconic characters tend to dive in deep into what they’re about and even challenge society in itself with the idea that one can be just as good as person as the hero themselves, most people may be considered through mostly technicalities, but just how children want to be as good as those heroes, teenagers, and adults should be to, it may be said many are superficial but people can change for the better, these types of concepts are present in all sorts of stories of heroes whether it deals with romance or good and evil or a combination of both, people can care for each other unbiased, stories about such characters heroes, anti-heroes, or villains if done well to represent a message, a truthful one, and/or concept of the character they can do well, some of these films are from the Godzilla series, Joker, older Spider-Man films, some Batman films, and so on, that’s also why I think the Shin Trilogy should be wider marketed, especially Shin Kamen Rider, i think they can serve a good “challenge” in the west if you get what I mean, lots of modern works like some of the popular anime that are watched don’t necessarily have much a meaning to them other than entertainment, it’s odd how “children’s” media can be much more darker and realistic with a glimpse of hope and messages of warnings regardless of all its fantastical elements. Society in these stories often the common thing tends to be an advocate for creation of certain bad things, some of these things may seem justified or normalizes, some of them may be wrong but let be to move on or go on with the world but they’ll continuously cause issues in real life, so these heroes take it upon themselves to fight these things regardless of how small or big. At times with superheroes and monsters some say if they existed they’d love them, but often it’s obvious it’s not truly for who they are, anyhow it’s the idea that the heir can fight for the chance for a better world of love and for that to become a reality. Sorry for the long paragraph but thank you if you read it all.
That's not a good analogy when godzilla has 2 meanings to his character, on one hand he's a representation of the dangers of nuclear power and the manifestation of nature itself. The monsterverse films still have his origins (mostly just encounters with modern humans) linked to nuclear weapons but monsterverse godzilla isn't meant to be the son of a nuke. He's equivalent to heisei godzilla where he's a force of nature. Comparing godzilla's nuclear origins to batman's parents being killed are 2 different essential parts of both characters. Batman needs some sort of trauma to even properly work as a character and even then Flashpoint batman isn't even Bruce. It's his father who became batman after seeing his son die. Godzilla is a character who's relevance only works depending on the environment he's in and the message of him being a representation of nuclear power only works in some situations. Not all. It's why shin gojira and gojira (and to a extent 84goji) work because all 3 godzillas were born when the topic of nuclear power was relevant. Outside of that, every other time godzilla was relevant, he was relevant because of environmental issues which happens more often than nuclear related incidents. Even Honda at one point acknowledged godzilla was no longer mankind's greatest fear and became his own entity.
I always view monsterverse Godzilla as a sorta combined, and more modern view on nuclear power. That it is incredibly dangerous and can be a threat to humanity and the planet. But if controlled and used properly/safely can be one of(if not the) most powerful energy sources we have.
Lmao Godzilla doesn't need the Nuclear aspect at all except as his origin, in Shin he's literally just a whatever motive to explain the shit state of Japanese politics, in the Monsterverse they're just fucking around, in most Godzilla movies he's either a general environmental message, a spit at politics and business or a living weapons development program, Godzilla being a direct link to nuclear weapons is only present in very specific films of the saga and even then there are other interpretations to them
"There was too much content, the budget can only supported 2 hours film, and the script looked to be 3 or 4 hours worth of material" This is really sad, they had to cut everything out, it's like the Snyder's Cut case.
@@IamaNewCreature Minus One was very good, but I feel personally still like Shin more. They're very different. I think Minus One is a better character drama, which is honestly a massive W for a kaiju film. The genre isn't exactly known for good acting, but as a film in the genre I still like what Shin does more. That said I'm looking forward to the Minus One sequel.
Shin Godzilla was Godzilla at it's most Lovecraftian. What most people don't realize, is that Godzilla is a cosmic horror story. Humans are insignificant to the terrifying elements of earth and beyond, Shin Godzilla is the perfect example of that.
Bruh , we got Ultima to do that job as a lovecraftian being . Shin Godzilla is just what would happened if Godzilla was realistically come to the world in the most realistic way possible
@GodzillaBoyNY bruh , Ultima is better than Shin at being a Lovecraftian cosmic horror and an pure evil mf . Shin is just clumsy walking cancer tumor that can shoot laser and that's a pure truth fam .
I do wonder about there ever being a director's cut of the film to include some other concepts they had to end up cutting from the theatrical release. I distinctly remember one of the 'multiple bodies' concepts involving Shin Godzilla's cells developing into fleshy nodes of eyes and teeth that would grow over and around other material to assimilate the environment in addition to destroying it.
7:37 I was just watching Shin Godzilla for the billionth time with my partner, and was talking about how seeing the 3/11 footage side by side with shin Godzilla would be fascinating Im not Japanese and live in America, so I apologize if this appears insensitive, please feel free to let me know I feel like 3/11 was a monumental moment in internet history. So much footage was being shown online, and it was terrifying. I remember when my family and friends were like, "look on TH-cam, you can see people getting taken by the waves" to 8 year old me, it was just a glimpse of how big the internet would become in terms transmitting world events across the globe When I first watched shin godzilla, it took me back to that. It was crazy. And seeing the footage side by side, I honestly thought it was just like behind the scenes or unedited footage until I saw the timestamp! Truly an amazing film, especially compared to the bland American bullshit the monsterverse has become, and most hollywood films in general
Great video and I love that thumbnail, awesome artwork! I liked some aspects of Shin and even want a sequel but I admit that I wish Anno handled the project more traditionally like he did with Shin Ultraman and Kamen. We still need a live action Shin Gamera too
Fantastic video man. As a huge Shin Godzilla fan, that saw it openening night in Japan and a huge fan of Anno, a lot of this I unaware of! Thanks for the info and great presentation!!
I love how for once the pressure of toymakers was used to make a project fit its creator's vision *more*, not less ^^ Small thinh: The quotes were kinda hard to follow because of the distracting text effects. I ended up looking away and listening to the sound during those, but that's not why people put effort into visuals, so I thought it might be helpful info
@@norikaikakyoin7069 THat is assuming he is in pain because we would. Cocodriles fight and lose limbs, for us it would be extremely painful but for them is not. We don't have the same level as pain, specially talking about a gigantic fictitious radioactive animal which it's anatomy we don't know anything of it.
@@norikaikakyoin7069 Well we are humans and shin is Godzilla, so he wouldn't feel the same pain as us because of the completely different anatomy. The gasping thing is completely made up. And don't bring the "The atomic breath makes him feel pain" argument, because that logic could be applied to dragons and their fire breath, or to xenomorphs and their acid blood...
Toho has done that. The Godzilla anime trilgoy is super experimental, used the medium of animation to tell its story and took great risks in elevating the monsters from simple Kaiju. To god like beings who represent different ideologies Godzilla Singular Point also does a lot of that as well. It even brings back a bunch of the other monsters as well. Like the Meganulon, the Megalon like bugs and even a Hedorah reference
All of this, and yet....no sequel. Out of all of the individual movies and 'eras', this is one of the most deserving. It even ended with a teaser for another film (humanoid figures on shin's tail). So given all off the success...I just don't get why they wouldn't do a sequel.
Yes, but if the sequel was made then Godzilla would have a minor to a non existent role and Anno claimed if there was a sequel to Shin Godzilla, it would end up being Godzilla facing with another kaiju, specifically to the ones in the Showa era, which would ruin the seriousness of the first film
It wouldn’t make sense for a Shin Godzilla sequel. The film states that if Godzilla were to show any signs of becoming active again, the countdown on the Thermonuclear warhead would continue. Rando Yaguchi and his team barely were able to stop Shin Godzilla before the countdown ended In a potential Shin Godzilla sequel they would’ve had to essentially take Godzilla out of the film and focus it on the Godzilla humanoid hybrids. Which at that point it should just be an entirely different film not connected to the Godzilla franchise. Just look at how actively people hate the Netflix Godzilla anime trilgoy, those films (at least in the minds of many fans) had strayed too far from the franchise
I only had the chance to watch Shin Godzilla last year. It is my single favorite Godzilla film. Almost expressly because of the grounded concepts and I even enjoy that the parallels of the Covid response here in the US and the response to Godzilla in the movie. It is a phenomenal reimaging of Gojira and the evolutions, well I wish we could have had a chance to see the fully realized evolutions as Godzilla became all-encompassing upon the Earth and the known galaxy.
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I only recently watched Shin Godzilla because it was added to Crunchyrolls library! It's a masterpiece! I literally wept when he first unleashed his atomic breath! Chilling!
The core of Godzilla is humans being foolish and play with things they don't understand .... Shin Goji did not specifically mention what agent mutated smoothing to become Godzilla .... What's worse is the implied consequences shown at the last 20 seconds of Shin Goji
I think my only only real problem with Shin Godzilla was with the final design. I'm a fan of the shifting of design, but I do wish that it ended up looking a little more Godzilla-esque. While I can mostly tell what it's supposed to be, it just feels a little off to me.
@@chuviis3508 I like fat Godzilla, that's pretty much it. It looks weird to me when it's as skinny as it is in the movie. Experimentation is fine and all, I just didn't like the result in this case.
"with my best friend standing beside me, we will triumph over the pressure that would otherwise make me run far away", this, ladies and gentleman, its EVANGELION
Man learning how Hideyaki Anno made his version of Godzilla making me wanna make my own Godzilla film I'll be something like the Godzilla 54 how he was the metaphor nuclear weapons so my version of Godzilla would be a metaphor for war, destruction, and natural disasters
Outstanding work. Yet, back in 2016-17, when I did research about that movie, I found a different kind of story. Tweets and forums were telling a story, that Anno was hired as an art-director. And later, he basically highjacked the director's position. Those stories were also about Anno being very demanding and taking a lot of hate from filming crew. Now, I am a little bit confused and don't know where is the truth, and where is Toho's PR stories.
My feelings on the film have fluctuated wildly. The things about it I don't like aren't Anno, they're wider attitudes in Japan, but in what sense can the two be separated? Should they be separated? Is it right to pass blame and what will the consequences be one way or the other? Then there's all the things about the film that go above me or anyone else and enter into the realm of fate and insanity. I don't see how anybody can have answers for that stuff, or if they do they have never been forthcoming.
Getting really sick of the japanese complaining about Hiroshima and Nagasaki while completely ignoring their own actions proceeding/during the war. Their actions in China alone justified their annihilation, they got off lucky.
It's a version of the original Gojira theme from the 1954 film if I recall correctly. Whether or not its a new arrangement or the original, I'm not sure.
Great guess studioozkai 👍But it's also in the Shin Godzilla soundtrack, named Yashiori Strategy. However, the video's version of the song is pitched down.
That’s not a fact. It’s a headcanon, and everything you said is simply ridiculous. He doesn’t want to murder? He came to Tokio City and move and crushed people he clearly could saw, he knew how humans look a like because he look before goro maki, but he didn’t care and attack being intimidating and offensive. In the scene where a bomb hits him he in purpose decides to destroy the whole City, trying to kill everyone just because of hate and anger. After finish in the stopped, só he CAN control That and he did it un purpose and resentment. Plus, his face is the most emotionless on all godzillas ever made, and almost never roared of pain. You saw a different movie?! Stop watching movies threw tik tok or YT reviews. You misse the whole point of the movie.💀🤦♂️🤷♂️💁♂️🙅♂️ If you want to see that theory completely destroyed, search “shin Godzilla no sufre y te explico Por qué” in Google, turn on subtitules with automatic traduction and put it in english so you can understand that video because is in spanish.
Well...Shin Godzilla is actually always in pain and everytime he roars he screams in pain. The song "Who will know" even conveys his emotions and his perspective.
@@thenorthstarsamuraiThat’a just a head canon. Hasn’t been confirmed. The only scream of pain is when they throw bombs at him. And the song refers clearly to the victims of the natural disaster. It doesn’t fit at all with the moment, perspective or anything.
I can't watch Shin Godzilla as its presented. His instant "Evolution's". They just remind me to much of Pokemon and Digimon. Something my brothers now think of after I made them watch it with the Digimon evolution music ready to play when those scenes come up. And they where in the target audience for those shows. There is also another reason, but that would require several walls of text to explain. Something I try to avoid any where that is not Reddit or a forum.
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Where's that clip from ?
Toho: We don't want Godzilla to have 3 forms
Bandai: *H E A V Y B R E A T H I N G*
Bandai being Bandai, I'm glad this time they did the right thing ~~
I love how Anno does not give a shit and just tells Toho to fuck off. Need more filmmakers like him, regardless of if you agree with his vision
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It’s crazy how this movie almost wasn’t made in the first place
Shin Godzilla is by far a one of my favorite Godzilla films. As a kid of course I would always rewatch his movies. As a adult, I have watch Shin probably over twenty times. Where others probably hate and say it is to slow, I enjoy the bureaucratic aspect of it. This was a terrifying Godzilla. They succeeded with this movie.
As someone who’s family has been greatly impacted by nuclear disaster, shin godzilla hits home. When I was in 5th grade my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the months that followed, every other woman in my family - grandma and aunts, a total of 4 in all including my mother - developed the same type of breast cancer. The kicker was that all tested negative for the gene that corresponded for the type of cancer they had. They all had one thing in common; they were all present and living but a mile away when the 3 Mile Island disaster occurred.
That plant even before the disaster would release steam and radiation every Sunday, and would order the local residents inside, as if that would do anything to protect them. To this day people who live around the plant die early, almost all people my mother and family knew from there have either had some form of cancer or have already died from it.
The government denies that the plant was in direct correlation with the large quantities of diagnosis’s coming from there. But all the doctors that treated my mother agreed that 3 Mile Island caused her cancer; there was no other way she got the type she had without the necessary genes coded for it.
Nuclear power destroyed my family and ripped away my childhood. It still continues to haunt me to this day what we’ve all had to endure. I will never be able to forgive or see the good in it, nor will I ever be able to forgive the government for what they’ve done.
I'm deeply sorry for what happened to your family. It is true that people allowing such tragedies to happen (government, businessmen, etc) must be held accountable for their actions (even though that won't undo the damage). However, and I do not want to seem hostile by any way, I think we need nuclear energy. Please, let me explain a bit.
Current energy sources make more people die than nuclear incidents. I, for example, live in a country where we only have one nuclear plant (far away from my city), a few wind, solar and hydroelectric installations; but those are just too small and inefficient to satisfy the nation's need of energy. So, we still largely depend on burning oil, gas (or even coal in some places) to run our electric systems. And that, causes far more suffering. I've seen firsthand outer neighborhoods of my city engulfed by smoke when the weather does not cooperate to disperse such toxins. Fortunately, neither me nor my family live right there, but I have friends who have told me of their parents developing various pulmonar diseases because of such pollution.
I believe we (as a global society) must abandon fossil fuels as soon as possible, we are already kinda late, and sadly, current "green" alternatives are not ready to fully replace fossil fuels. Nuclear is, for now, the only option we have to make a serious and quick transfer. Also, incidents involving nuclear facilities always have something to do with human error and plain irresponsibility; we have now many ways to make nuclear energy safe, and we only have to make sure the people working on it complies with the regulations.
Finally, I want to express that I am against the manufacturing, storage, and of course, use of nuclear weapons. I've actually been to Nagasaki (and although the Japanese committed some serious war crimes, I think the use of two nuclear weapons over densely populate areas was unnecessary) and the things you can see there: the photographs of that day, being right above where they were taken, the ruins that still stand there, but specially the testimonies of the people (I even could meet one of the survivors, he was a small kid that day)... it all is just horrifying, the idea of it happening again somewhere in the world. But nuclear energy is other story. Just as Godzilla himself, it can be a destructive force that shows no mercy, or it could help us preserve this Earth, the only one we have.
Thank you for reading and I really hope you are fine, and that your family gets some justice. My best wishes.
just releasing radiation at places where people live should be a crime. so much silent suffering ignored by government, it's really sad..
I hope your family gets to recover at some point, breast cancer isn't too lethal right?
@@Voxen712 like any cancer, if not caught early, it can be lethal. We were lucky that it was caught early because it had already spread to her ovaries, and would have kept going. Thankfully my mother only has 2 years of extended treatment left to make sure the cancer doesn’t return.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 First, I’d like to thank you for being so civil when responding. I was super worried at first but when i continued reading that worry went away.
I also just wanted to say that when I originally posted my comment, it was from a place of anger and grief spurred in the moment. I don’t truly hate nuclear energy, but I am greatly mistrustful of it due to my experience with it.
As someone who lives in America, we aren’t often shared news from other countries; including how energy and resources look in other counties besides our own. When you talked of how people you know are hurt by the continued use of fossil fuels, that genuinely broke my heart. I’m so sorry for what has happened due to them, and it brings me some comfort to know that nuclear energy has helped someone.
In short, thank you so much for telling me about your experiences. It’s really helped to expand my views on such a complicated subject as energy and resources. I would like to end on a bit more of an upbeat note however, in saying that eco friendly alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy are finally being taken more seriously and being implemented more. From my understanding, the one issue that remains that prevents alternative sources from being implemented is big corporations themselves as well as the government. Through research I’ve found that many oil and gas companies lobby against the replacement of natural gas and hold it up and prevent it from being implemented, one of their ways of doing this being through the government by paying politicians and supporting their campaigns. Thankfully, people are fighting back against such things to try and make energy safer and more efficient while not just the USA, but the whole world.
I hope one day that the wrongs done to both of us can be undone, and that one day we can live without fear of our own self made problems and creations.
@@aspen4786 I'm so glad that this reply thread has gone this way. Yes, I hope some day we can fully rely (globally speaking) on renewable and clean energy sources. As you mention, the main obstacle as of now, is greed; but I'm optimistic that it can be defeated by the people having knowledge and using their true power (although it will take some time, of course).
Also, I read your other reply, I'm so happy to know that your mother was able to recover, although for sure it was a though experience.
Godzilla 2014 being used as a metric for the popularity of kaiju films seems wrong to me as it barely shows kaiju and has a very American focus on military over science
Godzilla 2014 is So Scary In Hole Movie
I find it amusing that Toho would even consider the idea of removing the nuclear aspect of Godzilla. To do that would be like removing Batman's parents being killed in a Batman film, it's a fundamental element of the character. Godzilla is the atomic bomb given flesh, he's meant to be a physical manifestation of the fact that we can never put that genie back into the lamp. The lack of that kind of neuters the character in my opinion. It's one of my issues with the Monsterverse movies to be honest.
This may seem off topic but I took note that those types of films tend to go along with some things a society is use to or what the audience may o it care enough to understand, some of the greatest films of iconic characters tend to dive in deep into what they’re about and even challenge society in itself with the idea that one can be just as good as person as the hero themselves, most people may be considered through mostly technicalities, but just how children want to be as good as those heroes, teenagers, and adults should be to, it may be said many are superficial but people can change for the better, these types of concepts are present in all sorts of stories of heroes whether it deals with romance or good and evil or a combination of both, people can care for each other unbiased, stories about such characters heroes, anti-heroes, or villains if done well to represent a message, a truthful one, and/or concept of the character they can do well, some of these films are from the Godzilla series, Joker, older Spider-Man films, some Batman films, and so on, that’s also why I think the Shin Trilogy should be wider marketed, especially Shin Kamen Rider, i think they can serve a good “challenge” in the west if you get what I mean, lots of modern works like some of the popular anime that are watched don’t necessarily have much a meaning to them other than entertainment, it’s odd how “children’s” media can be much more darker and realistic with a glimpse of hope and messages of warnings regardless of all its fantastical elements. Society in these stories often the common thing tends to be an advocate for creation of certain bad things, some of these things may seem justified or normalizes, some of them may be wrong but let be to move on or go on with the world but they’ll continuously cause issues in real life, so these heroes take it upon themselves to fight these things regardless of how small or big. At times with superheroes and monsters some say if they existed they’d love them, but often it’s obvious it’s not truly for who they are, anyhow it’s the idea that the heir can fight for the chance for a better world of love and for that to become a reality. Sorry for the long paragraph but thank you if you read it all.
That's not a good analogy when godzilla has 2 meanings to his character, on one hand he's a representation of the dangers of nuclear power and the manifestation of nature itself. The monsterverse films still have his origins (mostly just encounters with modern humans) linked to nuclear weapons but monsterverse godzilla isn't meant to be the son of a nuke. He's equivalent to heisei godzilla where he's a force of nature.
Comparing godzilla's nuclear origins to batman's parents being killed are 2 different essential parts of both characters. Batman needs some sort of trauma to even properly work as a character and even then Flashpoint batman isn't even Bruce. It's his father who became batman after seeing his son die. Godzilla is a character who's relevance only works depending on the environment he's in and the message of him being a representation of nuclear power only works in some situations. Not all.
It's why shin gojira and gojira (and to a extent 84goji) work because all 3 godzillas were born when the topic of nuclear power was relevant. Outside of that, every other time godzilla was relevant, he was relevant because of environmental issues which happens more often than nuclear related incidents. Even Honda at one point acknowledged godzilla was no longer mankind's greatest fear and became his own entity.
I always view monsterverse Godzilla as a sorta combined, and more modern view on nuclear power. That it is incredibly dangerous and can be a threat to humanity and the planet. But if controlled and used properly/safely can be one of(if not the) most powerful energy sources we have.
The thing about Godzilla is that he can have multiple origins
Lmao Godzilla doesn't need the Nuclear aspect at all except as his origin, in Shin he's literally just a whatever motive to explain the shit state of Japanese politics, in the Monsterverse they're just fucking around, in most Godzilla movies he's either a general environmental message, a spit at politics and business or a living weapons development program, Godzilla being a direct link to nuclear weapons is only present in very specific films of the saga and even then there are other interpretations to them
"There was too much content, the budget can only supported 2 hours film, and the script looked to be 3 or 4 hours worth of material" This is really sad, they had to cut everything out, it's like the Snyder's Cut case.
Shin Godzilla is the best kaiju film ever. I've watched it a dozen times, and it never gets old.
Lol you haven't seen the OG goji movie and the 90s Gamera trilogy
@@Godzilla-jr5gi Indeed I have.
@@middle_pickup what about Godzilla minus one?
@@IamaNewCreature Minus One was very good, but I feel personally still like Shin more. They're very different. I think Minus One is a better character drama, which is honestly a massive W for a kaiju film. The genre isn't exactly known for good acting, but as a film in the genre I still like what Shin does more. That said I'm looking forward to the Minus One sequel.
@@middle_pickup I haven’t seen it yet, I’ll watch Shin Godzilla again. It was epic!
Shin Godzilla was Godzilla at it's most Lovecraftian. What most people don't realize, is that Godzilla is a cosmic horror story. Humans are insignificant to the terrifying elements of earth and beyond, Shin Godzilla is the perfect example of that.
Bruh , we got Ultima to do that job as a lovecraftian being . Shin Godzilla is just what would happened if Godzilla was realistically come to the world in the most realistic way possible
@GodzillaBoyNY bruh , Ultima is better than Shin at being a Lovecraftian cosmic horror and an pure evil mf . Shin is just clumsy walking cancer tumor that can shoot laser and that's a pure truth fam .
Don't lump everything with Lovecraftian
@@thanghoangsong6138 ikr
Lovecraft has truly lost his meaning if kids nowadays lump "Godzilla" as Lovercraftian
I do wonder about there ever being a director's cut of the film to include some other concepts they had to end up cutting from the theatrical release. I distinctly remember one of the 'multiple bodies' concepts involving Shin Godzilla's cells developing into fleshy nodes of eyes and teeth that would grow over and around other material to assimilate the environment in addition to destroying it.
7:37
I was just watching Shin Godzilla for the billionth time with my partner, and was talking about how seeing the 3/11 footage side by side with shin Godzilla would be fascinating
Im not Japanese and live in America, so I apologize if this appears insensitive, please feel free to let me know
I feel like 3/11 was a monumental moment in internet history. So much footage was being shown online, and it was terrifying. I remember when my family and friends were like, "look on TH-cam, you can see people getting taken by the waves" to 8 year old me, it was just a glimpse of how big the internet would become in terms transmitting world events across the globe
When I first watched shin godzilla, it took me back to that. It was crazy. And seeing the footage side by side, I honestly thought it was just like behind the scenes or unedited footage until I saw the timestamp!
Truly an amazing film, especially compared to the bland American bullshit the monsterverse has become, and most hollywood films in general
You know you made it when you got a raid shadow legends sponsorship
FFS of course Bandai Stepped in.... it would seem that Bandai is indeed Tokusatsu's Saviour...
Great video and I love that thumbnail, awesome artwork! I liked some aspects of Shin and even want a sequel but I admit that I wish Anno handled the project more traditionally like he did with Shin Ultraman and Kamen. We still need a live action Shin Gamera too
This is the type of well researched, well presented content that I love more than anything else. Keep it up!
As a life long Monster movie fan, its awesome seeing a new golden age of Monster movie cinema hitting theatres.
I just wish Toho would reconsider doing a sequel instead of binning it. But that said in doing so, the movie has become legendary
Fantastic video man. As a huge Shin Godzilla fan, that saw it openening night in Japan and a huge fan of Anno, a lot of this I unaware of! Thanks for the info and great presentation!!
shin godzilla was an absolute fucking masterpiece.
I love how for once the pressure of toymakers was used to make a project fit its creator's vision *more*, not less ^^
Small thinh: The quotes were kinda hard to follow because of the distracting text effects. I ended up looking away and listening to the sound during those, but that's not why people put effort into visuals, so I thought it might be helpful info
See Star Wars.
"Bandai can sell three different toys" lol
my favorite Godzilla i like how its constantly in pain
He is not
@@Danee-IHMBA-HcistaLmericaMzMx he is bleeding everywhere i tnknm its sage to assume he might just be
@@norikaikakyoin7069 THat is assuming he is in pain because we would. Cocodriles fight and lose limbs, for us it would be extremely painful but for them is not. We don't have the same level as pain, specially talking about a gigantic fictitious radioactive animal which it's anatomy we don't know anything of it.
@@Danee-IHMBA-HcistaLmericaMzMx well those are crocodiles and this is godzilla and he also cant breathe air yet so hes also gasping fot air constantly
@@norikaikakyoin7069 Well we are humans and shin is Godzilla, so he wouldn't feel the same pain as us because of the completely different anatomy.
The gasping thing is completely made up. And don't bring the "The atomic breath makes him feel pain" argument, because that logic could be applied to dragons and their fire breath, or to xenomorphs and their acid blood...
Do one simply thing to get attention Toho. Try new ideas, take risks, explore new mediums, and stop using the same kaiju over and over
Toho has done that. The Godzilla anime trilgoy is super experimental, used the medium of animation to tell its story and took great risks in elevating the monsters from simple Kaiju. To god like beings who represent different ideologies
Godzilla Singular Point also does a lot of that as well. It even brings back a bunch of the other monsters as well. Like the Meganulon, the Megalon like bugs and even a Hedorah reference
its been almost 6 years since the movie release and im still learning more stuffs about shin godzilla. Great stuff.
Probably my favorite godzilla movie ever
Better than Godzilla minus one?
All of this, and yet....no sequel. Out of all of the individual movies and 'eras', this is one of the most deserving. It even ended with a teaser for another film (humanoid figures on shin's tail). So given all off the success...I just don't get why they wouldn't do a sequel.
Yes, but if the sequel was made then Godzilla would have a minor to a non existent role and Anno claimed if there was a sequel to Shin Godzilla, it would end up being Godzilla facing with another kaiju, specifically to the ones in the Showa era, which would ruin the seriousness of the first film
It wouldn’t make sense for a Shin Godzilla sequel. The film states that if Godzilla were to show any signs of becoming active again, the countdown on the Thermonuclear warhead would continue. Rando Yaguchi and his team barely were able to stop Shin Godzilla before the countdown ended
In a potential Shin Godzilla sequel they would’ve had to essentially take Godzilla out of the film and focus it on the Godzilla humanoid hybrids. Which at that point it should just be an entirely different film not connected to the Godzilla franchise. Just look at how actively people hate the Netflix Godzilla anime trilgoy, those films (at least in the minds of many fans) had strayed too far from the franchise
I only had the chance to watch Shin Godzilla last year. It is my single favorite Godzilla film. Almost expressly because of the grounded concepts and I even enjoy that the parallels of the Covid response here in the US and the response to Godzilla in the movie. It is a phenomenal reimaging of Gojira and the evolutions, well I wish we could have had a chance to see the fully realized evolutions as Godzilla became all-encompassing upon the Earth and the known galaxy.
Impeccably researched and presented! So grateful for this level of content, thank you for your hard work!
That ad transition was insane. Great analysis!
Great video! I love Shin Godzilla and what it represents.
Love that thumbnail!❤
Definitely some stuff I didn't know here! Thanks for making it!
Great video man! Happy holidays👍.
I need that Rei figure where she is dressed up as the aliens from the showa era Godzilla films...
Aw man, would've liked to find the references at the end by myself...
21:25 Get wrecked American!
Yes! More content like this is much appreciated!
Actually it's interesting because Christchurch, New Zealand had just also had a pretty severe earthquake not even a month before Japan's
1:50 - thats basically a description of the Ramiel fight in 1.0
Never did I expect you to get sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends“. Great content as usual, honestly waiting for your thoughts on the Heisei Ultraman.
Will you post a new link for the sources you used? The current link in the description is not available. I would like to use this information for a future research project.
Yep. The link has been updated.
I only recently watched Shin Godzilla because it was added to Crunchyrolls library! It's a masterpiece! I literally wept when he first unleashed his atomic breath! Chilling!
My favourite fact is Anno adding one of his wife's creations into the movie❤ thank you for telling us
saw shin godzilla last week and i have been thinking about it since. what are the chances that you came in with a great video on the subject matter !!
Another banger
The godzilla shoots down a drone scene is also a reference to evangelion
Awesome video!
Godzilla has shins?
I dont care qhat others say, but Shin Goji is FAR Superior to then All of the Monsterverse Put together
Honestly both can't hold a candle to the three classic eras
The core of Godzilla is humans being foolish and play with things they don't understand .... Shin Goji did not specifically mention what agent mutated smoothing to become Godzilla .... What's worse is the implied consequences shown at the last 20 seconds of Shin Goji
Holy fuck so 1954 Godzilla was almost absolutely broken 14:15
Where did you get 7:38 footage? Coz I've never seen one of comparison videos like this one, or you make comparison by yourself?
I think my only only real problem with Shin Godzilla was with the final design. I'm a fan of the shifting of design, but I do wish that it ended up looking a little more Godzilla-esque. While I can mostly tell what it's supposed to be, it just feels a little off to me.
@bienG6745 not really
More Godzilla-esque: Generic. Weird and experimenting with new designs is always good
@@chuviis3508 I like fat Godzilla, that's pretty much it. It looks weird to me when it's as skinny as it is in the movie. Experimentation is fine and all, I just didn't like the result in this case.
@@Baddest_of_Men Ia gree, bulky Godzilla is the best look for him. My favorite ones are Heisei and MonsterVerse
23:01 is that A2 fighting a kaiju type robot? If anyone has more info please tell me more because I've never seen this.
"with my best friend standing beside me, we will triumph over the pressure that would otherwise make me run far away", this, ladies and gentleman, its EVANGELION
Anyone know the song that start at 9:56
Not even 2min in and there's already 2 ads. Come on guys.
Honestly anno can do pretty much every thing right i mean he made my favourite anime and also started the Japanese Godzilla franchise back
Man learning how Hideyaki Anno made his version of Godzilla making me wanna make my own Godzilla film I'll be something like the Godzilla 54 how he was the metaphor nuclear weapons so my version of Godzilla would be a metaphor for war, destruction, and natural disasters
Outstanding work. Yet, back in 2016-17, when I did research about that movie, I found a different kind of story. Tweets and forums were telling a story, that Anno was hired as an art-director. And later, he basically highjacked the director's position. Those stories were also about Anno being very demanding and taking a lot of hate from filming crew. Now, I am a little bit confused and don't know where is the truth, and where is Toho's PR stories.
Don't believe everything you read.
What is the song around 17:30 please?
Shin godzilla is ez my favorite godzilla film to date
Hey Blunova, where did you get the footage of the guy holding the 8" Bandai godzilla figure and the guy with his collection on the floor?
What is the song playing in the background at 16:25?
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I was thinking that's what it was but I wasn't sure. Thank you!
Will you ever return to Ultraman Leo?
My feelings on the film have fluctuated wildly.
The things about it I don't like aren't Anno, they're wider attitudes in Japan, but in what sense can the two be separated?
Should they be separated?
Is it right to pass blame and what will the consequences be one way or the other?
Then there's all the things about the film that go above me or anyone else and enter into the realm of fate and insanity. I don't see how anybody can have answers for that stuff, or if they do they have never been forthcoming.
are you high, friend?
I think Anno-san should take a crack at Go Ranger at some point, I mean he's done Ultraman and Kamen Rider, he should do the big three.
In context to the ticket sales statement at 21:28, are the three monsterverse film ticket sales world wide or Japanese?
That comment is exclusive to the Japanese market.
@@Blunovain alright thanks!
19:50 I can't for the life of me remember the name of this music piece. Can anyone help a brother out?
Getting really sick of the japanese complaining about Hiroshima and Nagasaki while completely ignoring their own actions proceeding/during the war. Their actions in China alone justified their annihilation, they got off lucky.
shin godzilla isn't a film it's a story of a disaster
It was inspired by Eva?
That must be why I fell asleep watching the movie.
I know this isn't the place for asking this but..... someone has an idea where i can watch the original godzilla film online?
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Hbo max
@@Godzilla-jr5gi not on my region, although there's shin and legendary
A very fine documentary about a film I just don't think is that good. Thanks for your efforts.
Say, what's the excerpt music used from 10:55 to 12:42 ?
It's a version of the original Gojira theme from the 1954 film if I recall correctly. Whether or not its a new arrangement or the original, I'm not sure.
Great guess studioozkai 👍But it's also in the Shin Godzilla soundtrack, named Yashiori Strategy. However, the video's version of the song is pitched down.
Some facts you missed a out shin: actually shin never wants to murder but just want to live and every hit Godzilla screams because it’s in sheer pain
That’s not a fact. It’s a headcanon, and everything you said is simply ridiculous.
He doesn’t want to murder? He came to Tokio City and move and crushed people he clearly could saw, he knew how humans look a like because he look before goro maki, but he didn’t care and attack being intimidating and offensive. In the scene where a bomb hits him he in purpose decides to destroy the whole City, trying to kill everyone just because of hate and anger. After finish in the stopped, só he CAN control That and he did it un purpose and resentment.
Plus, his face is the most emotionless on all godzillas ever made, and almost never roared of pain. You saw a different movie?! Stop watching movies threw tik tok or YT reviews. You misse the whole point of the movie.💀🤦♂️🤷♂️💁♂️🙅♂️
If you want to see that theory completely destroyed, search “shin Godzilla no sufre y te explico Por qué” in Google, turn on subtitules with automatic traduction and put it in english so you can understand that video because is in spanish.
No mention about allegations about Shin Godzilla's plot and visuals being plagirised from Kami no Kemono comic?
Turned the video off as soon as I saw raid
People gotta pay bills, and lord knows they pay well.
i'mma be real with you chief
wtf is "nucular"
6min in - 3 ads.
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A anime managed to beat out shim godzilla, that's crazy ☠️
I mean the anime was really good
3/11 2
Nucular lol
:)
The American Godzilla sucks.
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One of my least godzilla movies because I hate emotionless godzilla's
Well...Shin Godzilla is actually always in pain and everytime he roars he screams in pain. The song "Who will know" even conveys his emotions and his perspective.
@@thenorthstarsamuraiThat’a just a head canon. Hasn’t been confirmed. The only scream of pain is when they throw bombs at him. And the song refers clearly to the victims of the natural disaster. It doesn’t fit at all with the moment, perspective or anything.
@@Danee-IHMBA-HcistaLmericaMzMx Thank you for replying to me...a year after
@@thenorthstarsamurai Better later then never
@@Danee-IHMBA-HcistaLmericaMzMx fair enough
I can't watch Shin Godzilla as its presented. His instant "Evolution's". They just remind me to much of Pokemon and Digimon. Something my brothers now think of after I made them watch it with the Digimon evolution music ready to play when those scenes come up.
And they where in the target audience for those shows.
There is also another reason, but that would require several walls of text to explain. Something I try to avoid any where that is not Reddit or a forum.
Go outside nerds
Potentially interesting
However, near-constant quoting the director, along with captioning of his (translated to English) quotes was very distracting