Mechagodzilla Set To Feature In Second Godzilla Anime Film

All The Classics Are Coming Back!

The dust has barely settled on the likes of Godzilla: Monster Planet; an animated feature that saw humanity return to an Earth ruled by the King of Kaiju, but it seems there’s another film right around the corner!

The jury is still out on how the flick compares to Godzilla’s cinematic legacy, but that’s not stopping the brains behind the film from pushing out new promotional material for the sequel, including a poster that hints at the return of one of the Kaiju’s most infamous nemeses.

According to an article on Anime News Network –

The official website for the Godzilla anime film trilogy revealed a new visual, title, and May 2018 opening for the second film. The second film is titled Godzilla: Kessen Kidō Zōshoku Toshi (Godzilla: The City Mechanized for the Final Battle). The visual teases Mechagodzilla, the ultimate anti-Godzilla weapon secretly developed by humans in previous Godzilla films.

The same visual appears in teaser posters and visuals at participating theaters starting this Friday. While supplies last, the same theaters are also selling advance ticket vouchers and MoviTicke Cards with bonus “Mechagodzilla clear file” folders, all adorned with the same visual.

The first film, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (Godzilla: Kaijū Wakusei), opened in Japan on Friday. It will stream globally on the Netflix service this year.

The official website describes the first film’s story:

The planet is beset by the emergence of colossal creatures that roam the earth, and king among them is “Godzilla”. For a half a century, these beasts engage in ferocious battle with each other and mankind. But humans, unable to compete, prepare for exile from their home planet. In the year 2048, a select few humans are chosen by the central government’s artificial intelligence infrastructure to set out on an interstellar emigration vessel, the Aratrum, on an 11.9-lightyear journey for the planet Tau-e in the Cetus constellation. But when they arrive after 20 years of space travel, the remnants of mankind find the environmental conditions on Tau-e to be much different than expected, and basically uninhabitable by humans.

One youth on board the emigration vessel, Haruo, had seen his parents killed by Godzilla before his eyes when he was only 4 years old. Ever since, he has thought of nothing but returning to Earth to defeat Godzilla. With the doors to emigration now closed, Haruo and other crew spearhead a “return to Earth” decision despite severely attenuated and hazardous conditions on board for such a long trip back.

Somehow, the Aratrum makes the return journey in one piece, but the home they return to has become an alien planet. 20,000 years have elapsed, and a new ecosystem has emerged with Godzilla atop the food chain. Can mankind take back its native planet? Will Haruo get his revenge?

Mechagodzilla, while iconic, is meant to be a mechanical monster capable of bringing down his fleshy counterpart. Considering the anime turned Godzilla into a mountain-sized behemoth, we can’t wait to see how the sequel handles the robot. Maybe less Power Rangers and more Terminator this time around.