Netflix: Animated ‘Godzilla’ Trailer Is Unleashed

The King of Monsters has returned… to Netflix!

Written by,
Sean Wall
@SeanW_se

Godzilla has been a pop-culture icon for decades and ever since 2014’s American revival of the King, Godzilla has become the topic of discussion for the past 4 years. However, fans of the great monster should be excited as the legendary ‘King of the Monsters’ is coming soon to the anime world. The upcoming Godzilla anime film is set to be a film trilogy with the first film being released in 2017. The first film is entitled Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters and will be able to stream on Netflix in Japan on November 17th and the rest of the world will have a release later this year.

The story for the new anime ‘Godzilla’ film is described below via the website:

The last summer of the 20th Century. That day, the human beings learn that they are not the only ruler of the planet Earth.The appearance of the giant living creatures “Kaiju’s” and the ultimate existence that destroys all monsters: Godzilla. Through the battle against kaiju’s that lasted for half a century, human beings have experienced continuous defeat and finally plans to escape from the Earth. And in 2048, only those who were selected by the A.I. managed under the central government boarded the inter-sidereal emigrant spaceship “Aratrum” to head for “Tau Cetus e”, the planet beyond the distance of 11.9 light-years. However, the environmental condition differences between that of the Earth and Tau e, which they finally arrived after 20 years were far beyond the predicted numbers and was not an environment considered to be habitable by human beings.

The young man on the emigrant ship: Haruo, who saw his parents killed by Godzilla in front of his eyes when he was 4 years old, had only one thing in his mind for 20 years: to return to the Earth and defeat Godzilla. Shut out from the possibility of emigration, as the living environment in the ship deteriorates, the group of “Earth Returnists” led by Haruo became the majority and determines to head back to Earth through a dangerous long-distance hyperspace navigation. However, the Earth they have returned has already passed the time of 20,000 years and has become an unknown world with the ecosystem reigned by Godzilla.

At the end, will human beings win back the Earth? And what will Haruo see beyond his fate?

The cast for ‘Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters’ will be directed by, Kobun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita. The screenplay is penned by, Gen Urobuchi and will star, Yuuki Kaji, Takahiro Sakurai, Mamoru Miyano, Junichi Suwabe, Kana Hanazawa, and Tomokazu Sugita.