Add a stock waifu, and bam, a whole cast of colorful characters which you will instantly forget once you're done watching! The rival that screws the MC, gets it wrong and redeems himself. The rest of the cast are your usual military hardasses and politicking council members who don't do jackshit, but get to expodump it anyway. He also doubles as a mouthpiece preaching not-Christianity like a crazed priest, who worships *drumroll* God(zilla) - The King of Monsters! Metphies, the "alien" companion gets a special mention as being the plot device that enables the MC to be batshit crazy without consequences and be reprimanded again, on top of blatantly stating in metaphor what's about to happen, the worst kind of foreshadowing, when you're too lazy to allude it and just outright state it. Very consistent, deep character writing indeed. Except when they don't, when we have a rebellious MC that starts out with a suicide bomber threat because he cares for his grandpa, only to obsess over Godzilla's murder for the rest of the runtime. There's no point to it all, it doesn't ground itself for the super serious tone it goes for, and doesn't really explore the despair it mentions.Ĭharacters, as usual, make the story in anime. So all this setup was to just get us into a jungled up foggy ass Earth to face Godzilla, and dinosaurs while we're at it! All the talk about living in a ship, wandering through space, that's just to fill time, we're on Earth, so everything's fine right? It's not like you'll be facing those same issues when plant leaves are harder than your pocket knife and shatters it on impact. Except it's 10 000 years once we see the Earth, except it's 20 000 years after we examine the carbon contents of the plants. 1000 years post-Godzilla cuz spacetime continuum. Godzilla attacks! Gasp! Let's have 2 alien races come and not-save-us-by-making-mecha-godzilla, cuz we need to throw that reference in, all to have us start in the setting of spaaaace! What the fuck does space have to do with my kaiju apocalypse?! The movie agrees and has us go back to Earth. It is blatant, obvious and patronizing, on top of being needlessly convoluted. ![]() ![]() So the 1st whole hour is just a grueling trudge through pointless politicking and technobabble all alluding to the final fight and the character of our MC. Gen Urobuchi could never make exposition dumps natural or compelling It's a shame such a simple sequence of events had to be made convoluted mostly because the screenplay had to fill the alloted 1:30h hour mark for a full on movie to be released in theaters. Have the monster appear out of nowhere, cause carnage and destruction, work out a solution, proceed to the cheesy action. For all it's elaborate setup, it's still a simple, cheesy kaiju movie. I wish I could enjoy this movie in its entirety, but alas, that's only the last 30 minutes of it. But, alongside humanity, Earth has undergone drastic change since their departure Godzilla and its numerous spawns may pale in comparison to the darkness lurking within the hearts of this close-knit community of survivors. Now, he spearheads the operation aimed at reclaiming humanity's birthright from the king of monsters and slaying him once and for all. The author of the controversial essay is Haruo Sakaki, a man who witnessed the death of his parents to Godzilla at a young age, which has led him to harbor an obsessive hatred for the monster. With the spacecraft running dangerously low on resources, the survivors' leading council must decide on their path forward: should they continue to gamble on finding another Earth-like planet to inhabit, or take to heart an anonymous essay theorizing what may be the only weakness of the "Godzilla," who forced the last remnants of humanity off their home world? Far away in the depths of space, the last surviving members of humanity float aimlessly in the same ship they escaped Earth with so many years ago. Twenty thousand years after the fall of humanity, Earth succumbed to legions of ravenous creatures who now freely roam the planet.
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