Godzilla Anime Reveals Title, Synopsis, and More
Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures’ Godzilla anime has received an official title of Godzilla: Kaijū Wakusei, which translates to Godzilla: Monster Planet. The film has also received a release date of November 2017, where it will premiere on Netflix. This information comes from the film’s official website.
The story uses time in a rather interesting way. In 2048, humans flee Earth after multiple kaiju battles have ravaged the landscape. Upon reaching a planet they thought was habitable, they realize it’s the opposite and they must return to Earth. However, since their travel was at lightspeed, 20,000 years have passed and Earth has changed enormously in that time.
New images and a poster of the main character have been released and can be seen below, along with the site’s full synopsis.
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Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) are preparing the animated feature. It will be co-directed by Kobun Shizuno (Detective Conan, Knights of Sidonia) and CG director Hiroyuki Seshita (the Final Fantasy movie franchise, Ajin: Demi-Human). Gen Urobuchi (Psycho-Pass, Gargantia) will write from his own concept.
Confirmed voice actors include Yuki Kaji, Takahiro Sakurai, Tomokazu Sugita, Junichi Suwabe, Kana Hanazawa, and Mamoru Miyano.
The site offers an official synopsis:
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 has 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-year. 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?
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