Godzilla: S.P

Well, this is it. Now we wait for season 2.
From what I can tell you, this series is better to binge-watch cause they'd hit you with big brain terms that would challenge even Einstein himself.

The story is... Well, it's not really bad, but it's not good. Basically this season is a big info-dump.
Not really the type I like. I like info-dumps, but if they were done basically all the time, then even I get turned off.
Also, the main big in the title only appeared briefly lmao

The characters also isn't the best thing. They aren't characters, but just plot device that explains the plot for the ... viewers.
Heck, even the AI themselves have more personalities compared to the actual characters lol
That doesn't really scream good character writing.

The animation is really really good. Of course if we separate the different styles. Because of the mishmash of the great CGI of Orange studio and the stylized animation style of Bones studio, both styles are fighting when they are on the same screen at the same time.
It really shows how disconnected each style are from another even though separately, both styles are great and worthy of 9/10.
But sadly, they just look jarring together in the same screen.

The music is great. The OST is good and the op/ed themes are both decent. I don't really have have problems with music from Godzilla franchise. But here, really nothing stands out. But still consistently good.

Overall, I probably won't rewatch this series even if season 2 comes. I'm just really not a fan of big info-dumps.

Obvious spoilers ahead**


So it's been six episodes and we've seen a few monsters like Rodan, salunga and anguirus but the titular Godzilla character (whos also stated in the cast as the main character) has yet to actually appear at all.

The CGI isn't bad, but can be jarring when half of the characters on the screen are moving around an animated background. The monster designs are not poor, but aren't anything special either, the most interesting being the anguirus fights so far.

The characters aren't cut and paste, but aren't that interesting either. The main female and male cast are interesting, their designs aren't bad ... either but they lack depth beyond the first two episodes. The main sin is the collective side cast. Characters like gorou are very loud and annoying, their voice actor mainly just screaming 90% of the time they are actually speaking.

The sound is the only redeeming quality of the show, mainly in intro is amazing; BiSH showing their talent with this intro among others like black clover, god eater and the final season of fairy tail to name a few. The monster sounds are good as well, along with the main MCs voice actors doing a decent job. The only very strikingly bad voice actor with be the previously mention gorou.

Overall unless they are saving the excitement for Godzilla's entrance (which again hasn't happened yet half way through the anime) I don't expect this to be much more than a 4-5 which is a shame since monster animes are relatively uncommon in the age of isekai and fantasy / adventure animes.

Edit: I have finally watched episode 13 and holy shit it was a ride. It doesn't nearly redeem the rest of the episodes but dam it really is fantastic. I truly believe season 2 can be an entirely different experience and it potentially can redeem this one. Imo they have set up an incredible story-line. I really hope season 2 will actually happen. This is one of the few things Im genuinely worried about it getting a sequel since its an original. In VERY hyped

Updated scores : Story 8 art and animation 7 sound 7 character6 enjoyment 3 overall 5

Original review:

STOP TALKING FOR GODSAKE!

This ... review is posted by the time 12 episodes are aired of the show but I'm not gonna wait until the final episode is aired because I doubt my opinion will change. But incase it did I will update my review and the score.

English is my third language so try to forgive any grammatical mistakes.

This review will be spoilerless

tl;dr at the bottom


After reading Godzilla Singular point's premise, taking a look at its Myanimelist page, and watching the first 3 episodes I just had way too many things to look forword to.
A collaboration anime that is both made by 2 studios with fairly clean reputation? Great news
Very engaging and an unusual cast? Check
No ecchi tag? YES!
Unique and interesting premise? oh my oh my
Strong presentation? GIVE
Impressive backgrounds?....
Catchy soundtrack?
Good art and animation?
One of the best CGI's I've seen in the anime industry?
Okay I'm hooked

I could list alot more stuff that got me really pumped for this. There simply was no reason for me not to get very hyped for this.

I even praised it and recommend it for my fellow weeb friends and I even claimed that it will be the dark horse of this season. But episode after another this show just drained me.

To put it plainly. This show is very unfun and boring to watch. You get tired very quickly watching it. 70-80% of every single episode is spent on explaining something. They spend most of the time explaining every piece of information thrown at you, whether important or not. They push the unnecessary information down your throat. The first 2-3 episodes were very eventful which deceived me into thinking this anime is something that is actually the complete opposite of it.

It's almost as if the writers thought the viewers wanted an extra course to study! Ha! Even worse. This show is a thousand times more boring than anything I've studied in both college and school. I'm not even kidding.

But wait! This isnt even the worst part about it. Not only that there is nothing but pointless dialouge. But it's also very hard to grasp! When the plot is extremely complicated with that much dialouge, paired with an unorthodox English vocabulary, I find myself on Google translate more often than you think. Since there isn't any official translations offered for this show in my first and second language I have no choice but watch it in my third one.
Godzilla Singular Point requires so much brain power that I really find it hard to watch any other episodes in the same day as I watch it. I swear I'm not even exaggerating!!

Anime is something I watch in my precious limited Leisure time. And it is supposed to be fun! But this show isnt!!!!

I made the mistake of watching godzilla s.p episodes on release, but you don't have to. If you are planning to watch this or if you haven't watched it yet do yourself a favor and skip it. But if you are really curious and interested in it then I'd suggest watching one episode every 20 days or something. I'm not even kidding. In my opinion that would be the best way of consuming godzilla s.p

Incase you are interested in my rating using the Mal review approach/criteria here it is :

Story 7 art and animation 7 sound 6 character 6 enjoyment 1 overall 3


In short : the show took a very incorrect approach. what seemed very intriguing at first glance turned out to be a snore fest.

This is my first review I've ever wrote so don't expect any essays, I'm just here to say what I think.

Some spoilers ahead, read with caution.

Okay, lets start with the animation and the art. I thought it was one of the best parts of the anime. I liked how all the characters looked and all the colors they used to animate the anime looked. Even though I'm not a big fan of CGI in anime it didn't look that bad this time. The only problem I had with the CGI was how Godzilla looked, I mean all the other kaiju didn't look like their ... MonsterVerse counterparts. I'm a pretty big fan of the Godzilla movies so it looked weird to me how Godzilla and all the other kaiju looked.

So next up the characters, all of them were pretty good. My favorite probably was Pelops II, Pelops was a pretty big part of the story, I mean he was the answer to saving the world at the end and altogether Pelops was a great character. The main characters were pretty good too, I liked Mei the most out of the two of them, I think she was more relevant for the story than Yun.
When I always saw Haberu on the screen I thought of Captain Oubi from Fire Force, he really looked like him and what's the deal with Tilda, like why are her eyes black, she looks like a alien, although the wiki says she's human, I just thought she looked weird.

So, the story was pretty different from other Godzilla films. The funny thing is that the anime is called Godzilla S.P, but Godzilla wasn't a really big part of the story. He just showed up in episode 9 (I think), went in to the city, destroyed it for a bit and then just went to sleep. Like the Rodans were a bigger part of the story than the king of monsters himself. At the end Godzilla just got defeated by Jet Jaguar in a few minutes. They could of done so much more with Godzilla, but he just afked in the center of the city and didn't really do much. Like I said in the beginning the stroy was pretty different from other Godzilla stories so the rest was good, I liked it. Tbh the ending wasn't really that good. All of the build up to finding the code for the bomb, just not to use it. I mean I guess they did use it in a way considering that Jet Jaguar was the the thing that killed Godzilla, but yhea, I think they could of done something other than one-tapping Godzilla and saving the world like that.

I think you should watch the anime all in one go, because at some parts it started to get kind of boring, I even thought of dropping it, but I powered trough it. It really is one of those anime that you watch when you don't have anything else to watch. Or you just want to watch it because you're a Godzilla fan, like me.

Well this review got kind of lengthier that I wanted it to be, but that's okay because I've said everything I wanted.

So, I would rate the story a 7/10, the art a 8/10, the characters a 7/10 and enjoyment a 6/10, so overall a 6/10.

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I will not talk about the story, though there will be spoilers. I will talk about the main 'scientific idea' behind the plot, and how it is badly implemented. Then a few words about the characters.

Wikipedia says that the author did a physics degree. The whole plot revolves around a special compound, 'archetype', that allows light from the future to travel to the present. Large portions of the episodes so far are dedicated to explaining the fantastical characteristics of this compound. A shame that the science-talk is almost irrelevant to the story.

The concept of the compound itself is not obviously impossible. But, on its ... own, it would not make an interesting story. The plot needs that light coming from the future through the 'archetype' conveys information about the future. And from this, in virtue of their relation with the 'archetype', the kaiju are given the ability to foresee attacks. How the 'archetype' gives us any information about the future is never explained. Given that almost half the screen time is taken up by explanation of 'science' behind it all, it is hugely dissatisfying to not be given the most important part of the narrative. If the author has no way of explaining the future sight in the first place, it would have been best not to spend so much time discussing the pseudo-science. Simply asserting that kaijus see the future is much better than writing convoluted conversations that do not give much relevant information.

Now this is not a criticism of the idea behind the story. On the contrary, I think the play with time adds great spice to Godzilla, elevating it beyond just a kaiju show. I'm taking issue with the execution. It's a simple choice: either give some complete, coherent scientific picture in simple terms, or simply assume the effects of seeing the future, and do great things with it. For now, the show has not done either. The time spent on dialogues took away chances for the show to go to strange places with the idea, while the dialogue themselves do not give a satisfying picture.

An aside. The show has the interesting idea of building a super computer that spits out the output instantly by acquiring information from the future, through the 'archetype'. But, it is then ruined with the plot requirement that it cannot solve certain things due to there being an Armageddon in the future. In episode 9, finally, some character suggested that one can loop the calculations before the Armageddon. It is unthinkable that, with some characters being professors, no one understood that if information from the future is at all possible, any algorithm can be completed (almost) instantly. One can do this by looping: look 30 seconds ahead, carry on from that information, and look 30 seconds ahead again... This is completely analogous to the author's description of how light is amplified by the 'archetype'. All the more mysterious that the characters had no clue earlier. But, this is an aside, I am fine with this kind of plot holes.

There is a bigger problem than genius characters not actually being geniuses: their portrayal. The author decides that characters have to think slow enough for the audience to follow, but at the same time portrayed as extraordinary. This is just does not work: it ends up with the characters dropping jargon all over the place, while only demonstrating reasoning skills that are at best ordinary. Such characters are, to me at least, nothing but annoying. And the time they spend babbling on about the pseudo-science just robs them of any character development. (Contrary to when I first saw the character art, I now feel glad that Arikawa Yun is not voiced by Sugita-san.)

All in all, the show could have gone to great places with this nice concept, but the author's attempt to science-up the show has achieved little beyond taking up time. Still, a few more episodes to go, hopefully they'll change my opinion.

While this series is far from the worst story to feature the titular kaiju, it might be the most frustrating one for kaiju fans to watch.

What's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If your answer is Godzilla, Singular Point will frustrate you. Not since Final Wars have I seen a Godzilla story that seems to so heavily resent the need for Godzilla to be in it. Now I'm not saying he needs to be in every scene, or even every episode, since some of my favourites like Invasion of Astro-Monster and Shin Godzilla are among those where he has ... the least screen time, but there are limits. He doesn't show up until halfway through this 13-episode series, and has (at a guess) maybe five minutes of screen time in total, most of which has him almost completely hidden in a cloud of red dust. Even this wouldn't be so bad if he was having a tangible effect on the story the rest of the time, as in Shin Godzilla, but he's only tangentially related to the impending wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey disaster that the characters spend the whole series worrying about. You could remove Godzilla from this series altogether, and barely impact the plot at all.

So what's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If your answer is giant monsters, Singular Point will frustrate you. When a Godzilla story doesn't have much Godzilla, it's usually because of budget constraints, but that clearly isn't a problem here, since Singular Point has extensive monster action scenes in almost every episode. You'll notice I only said monster, not giant monster. For some reason, the decision was made to shrink some of Toho's most famous kaiju down to the size of the dinosaurs that inspired their designs, and instead feature copy/pasted swarms of them. So we have Rodans the size of pterodactyls (ie. the car-sized ones, not the airliner-sized pteranodons), and so on. I'm sure the staff followed the same logic as Roland Emmerich when he switched to baby Godzillas for half of his lambasted 1998 movie: having monsters that can interact with the characters more directly. The problem in both cases is that this causes a genre shift; it's no longer kaiju, it's an animal-on-the-loose story. Now, as animal-on-the-loose stories go, this one presents enough action to be a good stand-in for Jurassic World 3; it just fails to fulfil the narrative promises implied by the Godzilla title.

So what's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If it's endless dry exposition and techno-babble, Singular Point has you covered. This show just never stops explaining its convoluted 13-dimensional gibberish, which makes up the majority of the dialogue. Even the brief final battle against Godzilla is overlayed with yet more exposition; they simply will not shut up. There's an okay mystery at the heart of it all, but the eye-wateringly complex jargon feels like smoke and mirrors to distract the viewer from how much of the plot relies on deus ex machina.

So what kind of Godzilla story is this? It's not, basically. It's an exposition-heavy sci-fi mystery with a lot of pretty good dinosaur action scenes, but precious little in the way of kaiju. If you're okay with that, it might just scrape a 7/10 for you, but I watch kaiju stories to see giant monsters knocking cities down, so for me it's:

6/10

Scientific buzz word bingo!

The story is mostly incoherent, and heavily bloated out to fill 13 episodes by characters spouting scientific nonsense. It could have been good, if the story was remotely coherent, anyone who says they understood it is lying.

Character design & art style are both to a high quality.
Music/sounds are good, and in line with what you would expect from a Godzilla anime.
Voice acting in of its self is not bad, but some of the character personas/writing are a bit to stereotypical.

To conclude, if you are bored and want to watch an anime maybe pick this up, but if your time ... is at a premium don't bother.

This series started extremely promising with the first few episodes, with a completely different approach and story-line that is radically different from previous Godzilla works.

There are a mixture of both mystery, suspense and plenty of scientific jargon that will make sci-fi fans very happy.

Animation is pretty good also using a pretty retro and abstract style to give the series a more retro feel.

The first 6 to 7 episodes are pretty good, slowly building up the suspense with many technical elements mixed into the story. The plot also seemed pretty good and deep for the first half of the anime series.

However things started to ... nosedive though the later part of the series. The thing that is very turn off for me is that how godzilla came to be is extremely similar to Shin Godzilla the movie. It just felt to me that the writers felt lazy for the second half of the series.

The story was getting too complicated with so many technical jargon that one have to re-watch many conversation scenes just to understand what they are talking about.

The major disappointment was that the anime title was titled "Godzilla Sp" but Godzilla only appeared for pretty brief moments in the entire anime towards the final few episodes.

And the ending is obviously extremely rushed and just destroyed whatever satisfaction there is and the point of watching the entire anime.

Overall I find that this anime's potential is terribly wasted because they tried to squeeze in too much stuff over 13 episodes. An extremely disappointing ending ruined the entire series.

I feel many things after watching this anime, in part I like it and in another part I dislike it. The good things it has are the protagonists who are always close but far away, afterwards, how artificial intelligence develops is very well achieved and how contrasts are made between the different characters by age. Because of how one and the other think. From the first chapter it is full of questions that the series tries to answer you as the chapters go by. You are assuming things with the new information they give you.
The bad thing is that I do not feel that it ... is a godzilla series until chapter 8 more or less, you always see re op creatures that are destroying things and that but I feel that the title is only to attract more attention quietly the anime could have another name and I think it would be much better since it does not influence you when choosing the anime. I recommend it is entertaining but you will not see much of godzilla.


En español:
Siento muchas cosas después de ver este anime en parte me gusto y en otra parte me disgusto. Las cosas buenas que tiene son los protagonistas que siempre están cerca pero lejos, después como se desarrolla la inteligencia artificial esta muy bien logrado y como se hace contrastes entre los distintos personajes por la edad. Por como piensa uno y otro. Desde el primer capitulo esta lleno de preguntas que la serie te trata de responder a medida que pasan los capítulos. Vas suponiendo cosas con la información nueva que te dan.
Lo malo es que no siento que sea una serie de godzilla hasta el capitulo 8 mas o menos, siempre se ve criaturas re op que están destruyendo cosas y eso pero siento que el titulo solo es para llamar mas la atención tranquilamente el anime podría tener otro nombre y creo que seria mucho mejor ya que no te influencia a la hora de elegir el anime. Lo recomiendo es entretenido pero no vas a ver mucho a godzilla.

This is a very intellectually written anime, and when i mean intellectually written, i mean with a boat load of science. This is godzilla with the focus on realism, characters, and accuracy cranked up to a 10. Primarily a mystery and suspense anime, because the writer knows we expect kaijus, so we're pretty much blue balled until the big reveal...in which the reveal hasnt been shown yet. Big G doesnt show up even at episode 6. So fans of godzilla like me are gonna be disappointed in some ways unless youre satisfied with kaijus no bigger than a house. This show doesnt show much symbolism, ... but it IS present in the form of science symbolism, and not much more than that. Just like how the protagonists are deeply engrossed in their science work, so are all of the characters in this story. They honestly seem to all blend together in terms of motives, despite having very colorful personalities and designs. Overall, I am feeling neutral about the whole show, but it is starting to feel like a hassle to watch and plus all the science is starting to be too much for my caveman brain, and I can't recall certain things they discuss about archetypes and new molecules or how light is refracting through time...yeah why is this in a godzilla related piece of media i dont know but the unique concept is refreshing to say the least!

This review has many spoilers.

I always enjoy watching new faces in the Godzilla series try to inject new life and ideas into the series, which while I have loved since I was a kid and still love to this day, can admittedly fall into the same tropes in every subsequent addition to the franchise. And I think that this was a very good attempt by the writers at a more deeply sci-fi story in the franchise, but for me in many ways it was just that: an attempt.

I think that if you look at the score I gave the series, you might think that I ... was not really into the show, but there are actually quite a few parts I really enjoyed. The main three areas I thought the show did really well with were: the visuals, the sound design and music, and the bag of concepts that the writers were willing to pull from.

I feel like usually 3DCG in anime is a mostly negative mixed bag, with it sometimes looking better than expected, but I thought the textures and styling of the monsters was very good, and if you might be even able to stretch the lens and view it as a representation of showing how the monsters exist in the world but don't belong.
As a big Godzilla weeb, I really appreciated the use of the classic Godzilla themes and kaiju cries and roars, which really took me back and I think helped convince me that the creators of the show are also just big fans of the genre. To add even further to this point, many of the plot points and presentation of the story is dripping with references and allusions to previous entries in the series (i.e. the story of Godzilla as a urban legend like it was in the original movie, essentially taking the plot of Shin Godzilla and adding time travel to mix, the scene after Godzilla unleashes its atomic breath and hibernating also basically being directly lifted from Shin Godzilla, and *spoilers* using the skeleton of a previous Godzilla to make Mechagodzilla a la Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, etc.) and as a long time fan, I really appreciated them showing that they knew their stuff.

However, this also directly leads into some of the issues I had with the show, which particularly start to come in during the second half of the show where it focuses on the story. I think that the story suffers a lot with pacing, and trying to convince itself of its own time shenanigans to the point where to me, it feels like they almost gave up trying to make sense at the end. The use of the lullaby to transmit information through time marginally makes sense until it is revealed that Pelops uses it to transmit information to Jet Jaguar in the future, even though the song was originally supposed to have come from the deceased Godzilla in the basement, which doesn't really make sense as to how Pelops encoded that information, not to mention why it made Jet Jaguar huge aside from the obvious reason of wanting Robots to fight giant monsters which I am not against in the slightest, but still it felt like they included too many ideas and realized on the last two episodes that it was almost impossible to tie everything together.

However, I think the biggest issue I had with the series was the utilization of Godzilla. In Godzilla's truest essence, he is an incarnation of the sins of mankind and their arrogance in using atomic power, a theme which has mostly remained true through all of Godzilla's more serious appearances, or at least he has represented the power of nature like in the Monsterverse. But in Singular Point he's a threat just because he's a big monster, and that is my issue: this show didn't have to be about Godzilla. To me, it felt like the creators had the concept for the show and later decided to add Godzilla, because it feels like they could have replaced Godzilla and all the other monsters with generic kaiju and the plot would remain largely unchanged, Godzilla just has better brand recognition. To be perfectly honest, Godzilla didn't even really come across as being the biggest threat to the characters: the Salunga and the vaguely described Catastrophe going on in India were always framed as being the more immediate threat to humanity, and Godzilla was mostly just chilling in Japan and cracking open a cold one with the boys unless people bothered him.

Despite its flaw in my opinion, Godzilla: Singular Point is a good attempt at a heavier sci-fi Godzilla story and is a good addition to the franchise and mythos that I think fans of Godzilla will enjoy, but couldn't tie together the good concepts it presented, didn't utilize Godzilla very well, and to me ultimately failed to resolve the story it was trying to tell in a satisfying way.

In short, I would say that while Godzilla Singular Point had a strong start, it ultimately bit off more than its extra-dimensional kaiju mouth could chew.

Hearing about the show initially, I was excited to see another return to Godzilla's initial roots, where his existence is intertwined with humanity's push towards scientific development. While I do appreciate a good kaiju v. kaiju smackdown flick too, I like to think these more contemplative pieces are just as crucial to the identity of the series, even if not as frequent.

That said, a common criticism that you'll hear is the large abundance of science jargon and explanations, and while ... in a vacuum I don't have much issue with it, it was mainly what was sacrificed in order to do so. It often felt like these scientific concepts and explanations actively fought for screentime with basic story-telling elements like plot and character development, and when push came to shove, the latter was what faced the chopping block.

In the early episodes we're introduced to a handful of characters under the Otaki Factory and Misakioku Facility, most prominent of which being Mei and Yun. And to be honest, everything went smoothly at first, seeing how these characters tick, interact, and perceive the world. And then they introduce more characters like Li, as well as more characters, and yet more. And then even more for good measure. It only gets worse because these characters are intended to have these complex nets of relationships to one another, but when each one only gets maybe, 10 minutes of screen-time max, how is anyone supposed to keep track, much less care. How am I supposed to parse out their motivations or get invested? How is one supposed to determine who is purposely shady and who just got shafted in terms of screentime because we're still going on about the Diagonal Orthagonizer? By the end I found myself thinking that to a certain extent a good handful of these characters, if anything, just served as tools to move the plot forward rather than as actual characters.

Main characters like Mei don't exactly make it out of this unscathed either. In the initial episodes we're led to believe she's a relatively normal Grad student. Yet by the end, perhaps as a consequence of the show's breakneck plot pacing in order to cram in all of it's pseudo-science, we see the show (hopefully) unintentionally portray her as this infallible super-genius in direct contrast to the initial image the anime intended to portray. If you ever had a hard time getting invested in an overpowered shonen protagonist, it's pretty much the same here. She apparently pumps out a report in a single night and understands the equivalent to what took her superior years to decipher. Her conclusions are taken by characters like Yun as gospel pretty much immediately without any academic discourse, despite these claims being that the entire fabric of reality is essentially null and void. She is the only one who can decipher these age-old notes, and does so in a matter of days, with the only difficulty she had being solved in a matter of less than half an episode. She is essentially portrayed as this being who can do now wrong, despite the science of this series literally being where 1+1 can equal anything.

In terms of plot progression, it's all over the place. Moments are barely given any moment to breathe, again having to fight for screen time alongside all the pseudo-science going on. We as the viewer barely have any bearing on time or place, not only because so much is spent explaining jargon, but also because of how we're frantically taken from place to place and character to character to give each their brief moment with what little time is left. There's no sense of urgency or investment as a result, which is a real problem when the climax of the story is an apocalypses level event.

In the end I feel like this anime had a major issue of scope. Many series already face issues cramming a satisfying amount of character development and plot progression inside a 12 episode season, so to do that alongside explaining mass amounts of scientific jargon was likely a fool-hardy task from the start. The story would have done much better keeping its cast small and manageable, and keeping its story in a singular location rather than jump frantically across many places around the globe that in the end the audience can barely even discern. While the psuedo-science was interesting, I feel more should have been done to tie all the series' long list of disparate concepts together into one cohesive network of ideas, which also necessitates down-sizing how many the show tackled at once due to how congested the show already is.
While I'm still eager to see a season 2, I genuinely hope the effort is one that is more intentional about focusing on the foundational aspects of cohesive story-telling, rather than as a jumble of speculative science concepts roughly strewn together.

It's important for storytelling to be concise and uncomplicated enough for the viewers to understand. The story itself had potential, if it wasn't for the pacing and exposition, it almost seems like every dialogue has to have a metaphor, especially when the characters are explaining a phenomena in the show. What I enjoyed the most were the animation, visual effects, art design, and the music, of which are outstanding, they've handled the CGI extremely well. The only problem is the storytelling and pacing. I had high hopes for this series during its early episodes, but later on, the show keeps repeating the same thing where ... it's exposition after exposition. It wouldn't be a problem if it was straightforward but there are scenes where the dialogues or texts just move too fast before you can even comprehend what they meant. Godzilla also has too few of a spotlight in the series. I never had a problem with Godzilla's screen-time in the newer American films, it's a problem if your main monster is in a show that spans 13 episodes long and only release every week. If monster action is not in the scene, I would usually enjoy the human's side of the story, but in this case, it's really hard to appreciate it. tldr: could've had a better pacing and more comprehensible dialogues. Only 1 episode left, and I hope it's worth the wait.

Don't get misleaded by "GODZILLA"


PROS :-
- The Art Style
The art style is really a major standout for this Anime. Every character design looks unique & vibrant. The monster character designs, Radons, Spiders & of course Godzilla gives the feel of the monster that they are. The series is made by studios "bones" (FMAB & MHA) & "Orange" (Land of the Lustrous & Beastars) and you can tell who's making what, if I've seen their previous works. The human designs looks so vibrant which are hand drawn. And the monster design look creepy & scary but unique, which is thanks to the CGI. Many have a ... misconception that CGI is always bad but that's definitely not the case here. The clunky CGI really worked for the creepiness & monstrous look for the giant, other wordly creatures.


CONS :-
- Bland Characters
During every episode which has a monster attacking a character, I constantly asked myself, "Why should I care for you?". I know that sounds really harsh & edgy, but seriously the characters are just so bland, they feel more like "Plot devices" than actual characters. Their only personality is their design & maybe their high intelligence but nothing else. The series focusses so much on the plot and the sci-fi element, which completely forgets that these are people. Only memorable character are the AIs who shows more personality than people.


Things we can debat on:-
This is a section where few things may or may not apply to others that I personally found bad. So, these may not be cons or pros.
- Lack of more Godzilla
"I mean, c'mon.... You have Godzilla in the title and there are like what! A 20 minute scenes in the whole 13 episodes Anime?? Are you kidding me!?" is what many might think after watching this. I haven't watched many Godzilla films (watched only two of them) but I think that shouldn't be considered here. This is Anime with not much to the production, and that's a live-action Hollywood film with more budget. It's kinda unfair to compare both, but that's really understandable if you are someone who expected to see big creatures fight and hated this work. I don't really disliked lack of Godzilla, but it could've been so much better if Godzilla had much screentime

- The Sci-fi Element
Honestly, it is pretty interesting how the series managed to convey it's sci-fi element through boring dialogues. The exposition is completely based on more & *more* dialogue, which is very fast paced(for sub watchers, Dub seems to be fine).
For Die Hard Sci-fi fans who constantly wants to wrap their head around, this show can be a treat. For me though, I really found it boring even though it's actually interesting. You could actually tell the creators did their research. I mean, HELL. One of the spiritual theories they talk about(The Bagvadgita) is something I'm familiar of. It's really nice to a homage for my country. But that's kinda it. I really appreciate it, but it didn't impressed me because of the bland execution through boring dialogue.

- The Blend between 2D & 3D
In the series(and few Anime in general), you have few scenes where they blend the 2D & 3D together. Now this is a little problem for me. While they are good in their own way, they aren't really good together because the distinction is visible. I personally think it's a little out of the place cause it didn't worked well.

This is a very common problem for anything that tries to blend 2D & 3D. You have the infamous CGI crowds that looks so out of the place that it can put you off like in many Anime, but then you also have something like "Land of the Lustrous" CGI that really uses 3D in a way that many still framed 2D scenes can't try to deliver.

TL;DR
May not be for GODZILLA fans**, but it can be a good watch for "Die hard Sci-fi fans".
For people who just want to check this out tho, not really worth your time.

Honestly one of the best types of Godzilla media out there, sadly there are times when the dialogue can get boring, Godzilla and other Kaiju only serve tiny screentime for all the characters to come up with some new Scientific Breakthroughs or whatever. The only problem in this show is that they really didn't plan the dialogue well making in some of the most boring and yawn inducing parts of the show not to mention only having 13 episodes with numerous characters to introduce. I brute forced myself to watch all the episodes which I guess is worth it since I got to see Godzilla ... beat the shit out of a skinny armed and fat Jet Jaguar which Godzilla did not win (sad), but hey at least the show just made me motivated enough to keep watching.

I don't recommend this to someone who's more into action since the dialogue (again) can get pretty boring, the show is fine just covered with a cast who's just doing science stuff. The fights in the show can get epic but you have to sit through most of the exposition.

(P.S I just woke up, don't criticize my review)