So, a couple things, with a cooler head hopefully, but still, very very adamantly sticking to my choices and argument:
1. No, really, I'm serious. It is
not ok to make Godzilla look like that. At all. I don't care if he looks more like a proper Godzilla
at the end. I don't watch things just for the ending. The reason I enjoy Godzilla movies, and have ever since I was a young child, is because there is a thing on screen that looks Like Godzilla, more or less consistently, for the entirety of his screentime. Yes I know that this puts Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah at least partially on my shit list, and I'm fine with that. Sure his design changes over the years, iterates, sometimes slimming, sometimes bulking up, head shapes that vary. But he is always a huge, bipedal, greenish grey monster with three rows of distinctive spines running down his back that breaths blue fire that's a mix between smokey and beam-like. His facial features are often a mix of reptilian and mammalian traits and he is to some degree expressive or reactive in a way that makes him feel like a genuine living creature and character, ableit a seemingly invincible one.
He is not a big red whale. He should never ever BE a big red whale.
I don't care what the origin of his name is. I don't care if it's called "a new direction" or a "reinvention". It's some shithead anime director making up some completely new monster and copy-pasting it over a treasured cinematic icon and saying "yeah that's the same guy." It's Godzilla '98 shit. I'm not even saying he can't use his red whale design! By all means put that red whale in your anime series! You can even give it an origin story that explains why it has some vaguely Godzilla-like features! Just don't fucking call it Godzilla god damn you.
2. I hate the pokemon evolving. I hate it, I hate it so much. I retroactively hate the Pokemon series now for unintentionally inspiring a form of creative cancer in my favorite series of all time. I know that Shin Godzilla started it and believe me, I consider it just as much of a sin there even with my more agreeable position on that film.
3. I didn't even get into this but I particularly
loathe the CG-ification of monsters and robots in Anime. It universally has resulted in uglier and worse animated monsters and robots. When I look at animated monsters and robots from the 80's and 90's I weep, weep for how far things have fallen and pine for the timeline where they decided to do an anime Godzilla back then. Or at least give it to Studio Trigger.
4. It may be true that it doesn't take away from the classic Godzilla movies I already love, but what it does do is waste resources and misuse artistic talent that could have been spent making something good instead. Something that doesn't have to be perfectly faithful and completely stick to a very strict set of unambiguous rules, but should at least respect the basic fucking concept. And from where I'm sitting the existence of this anime is a threat to the future of Godzilla in two ways:
-The anime is a critical and financial failure and Toho is once again convinced Godzilla's not a good moneymaker and shelves the franchise again.
-The anime is a critical and financial success and Toho decides to continue the trend of letting any asshole get wacky with it and completely bending and stretching and altering the very concept of what A Godzilla is until it's a completely unrecognizable thing. A ship of Theseus but after you replace all the parts it looks like a Buick.
So yeah no, no insults or mockery of my thought process on this is going to sway me. Nor will any earnest endorsements. A one-man boycott doesn't amount to much but it at least is one thing in which I can put my foot down and stand up for what I believe in. I know I failed to stop from getting emotional again and I don't care I'm emotional about it. I will go in the fucking ground before I waste one single minute of my increasingly precious watch time on this absolute garbage.
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