Why Godzilla: The Animated Series Is BETTER Than You Think!

[@DangerVille]

How many of you watched this show back when it was on Fox Kids every Saturday? If you’ve not watched it, hopefully this video convinced you to do so! - Alastair

[@kingshadow8782]

Cool

[@SuSZIlla]

Hi(:

[@kingshadow8782]

Nice video DangerVille.

[@Soul93Taker]

I watched it in Cartoon Network Latino America. Man the hype that intro gives is amazing!

[@austinforgie1069]

I haven't seen it yet but I've heard it's really good. Also I like the 1998 film it's a good movie but the Godzilla design is terrible.

[@SaurianStudios1207]

Godzilla the series is by far the best animated series featuring Godzilla, despite being the animated sequel to the 1998 Godzilla movie. I remember watching all the episodes on YT back in the day when I was around 9 yrs old.

[@bobbielentz1902]

I concur it was an Amazing series and really helped me get into the Godzilla franchise.

[@toro_official]

Same I used to watch it on yt when I was 7

[@Ghostofcalmaity]

Same

[@Azombination]

Loved the movie and series

[@Mephilis78]

Definitely better than that 70s Johnny Quest Godzilla cartoon

[@Nightlizard1564]

FINALLY!!! Super glad that this show is getting the recognition it deserves. This show definitely represented Godzilla a lot more than the movie did back in 1999. Honestly I’ll even put this show up there with the Batman animated series. Godzilla the series is seriously underrated and I hope they find someway to make him fit into the MV.

[@brandonrojas5375]

I can o Relate and agree lol

[@Nightmare_Utahraptor187]

I agree 100%

[@eugenejamesbon4355]

yeah

[@sammontanez6908]

I can’t agree more. But you got the wrong year. The movie came out in 1998. 1999 was the year Godzilla 2000: Millennium came out.

[@jaylenjayden9305]

Same

[@OMAHA16]

Watched this entire series, never missed an episode EVERY Saturday morning on Fox Kids in the late 90's to it's end in 2000. Highly recommend to any Godzilla fans or Giant Monster fans who haven't seen it.

[@canalmonstrosgigantes]

This series stands out for the variety of monsters shown, making it possible to make a solid Zilla franchise

[@AftonThePlushGuy420]

It was perhaps the greatest Godzilla show ever made. I remember first watching it when it was still on Netflix. It is the the reason I got into Godzilla and I always wished it came back the clone wars did.

[@robertsmith5765]

I have seen it but I think if they did a fusion of Zilla from the Godzilla: Ruler of Earth comics and the 1998 Godzilla series and make him a "distant cousin" of MV Godzilla, I think it would work real well.

[@ManSpider92]

Toho toyed with that idea with Zilla and Biollante being an implied subspecies of Godzilla Earth in the prequel novels, so I can see it working with MV.

[@eugenejamesbon4355]

yeah

[@maybetoby]

This show was amazing. I have the entire series on DVD. And the same showrunners also worked on two other shows I loved: Men in Black: The Series and Extreme Ghostbusters. Is Zilla Jr. bigger than Zilla? Yeah the scale was all over the place in that show, but he didn't look bigger

[@eugenejamesbon4355]

yeah

[@tnperkins4art]

Hey fellows! As a part of the character design team for the animated series, thank you for discussing our show. We had a good time making it. 😊🤜🤛

[@tun-tunninc.6492]

That was a great series. One thing that caught my attention was how intelligent Godzilla was. He was really good at problem solving.

[@Shadowrulzalways]

Zilla Jr. is actually confirmed in the show to be immune to conventional weapons and has even withstood alien weapons without visible harm. The only thing he lacks is Godzilla’s regeneration factor which is an important ability Godzilla needs cuz that’s what plays a part in what makes him nearly-indestructible. But at least Zilla Jr. is close enough to be considered “Godzilla”.

[@jonahmoran3751]

Zilla jr regenerates bruh.

[@Shadowrulzalways]

@@jonahmoran3751 He has a healing factor. Not a regeneration factor. And his healing factor requires him to be in a comatose state. Not very good in combat.

[@TrashyJayys]

Godzilla regenerates in this show lol

[@Shadowrulzalways]

@@TrashyJayys It’s not regeneration. It’s a healing factor. There is a difference. Healing factor heals wounds to a certain degree. Regeneration factor means he can grow back a body part or regrow tissue and repair damage without leaving scars. Zilla Jr has to sleep to heal that quickly. Not combat effect. Godzilla in various Toho films like the Heisei, 2000, GMK, Shin, Earth, Ultima, Minus One and such, can regenerate in mere seconds to even instantaneously. Even during combat. They all vary in how effective they are.

[@Jose_Lopez08]

This series was a big part of my Saturday morning cartoons back when I was a kid glad that it's getting more recognition nowadays.

[@killerg1853]

I actually love the zilla series, and what's actually cool about zilla is that he kinda looks like a hybrid between godzilla and a raptor and i find that pretty dope. and besides if it wasn't for the 1998 zilla we wouldn't have the monsterverse series

[@titanuskolasaurus2050]

This series is fantastic. The characters, plot and monsters are very solid but nothing compared to our Lord and Savior N.I.G.E.L.

[@HiGuyII]

“NIGEL NOOOOOO!”

[@danielkeller1337]

I personally feel like the change of the Godzilla creature makes it way more interesting. He may not be a normal Godzilla, but his speed, the amount of eggs it lays, which can each have the same amount by itself, and it just being a normal, but powerful dinosaur.

[@lucasfraczek4320]

I remember when my family still had Comcast, I would always go On Demand frequently just to see what new episode would be on to watch. And oh my God this show was so fucking good and did Zilla justice. The new monster of the week, seeing Zilla in action against each of them, holy shit man.

[@scoobysnak07]

Me breakdancing to the kickass opening theme🕺🕺🕺 crazy how the "worst" Godzilla movie spawned the best show.

[@enderdrake444]

I don’t need to be convinced, this show was my introduction to Godzilla, and I loved every episode I watched.

[@DarkKnightForte]

Currently rewatching the series. I love the series and glad i bought to complete series when it first came out.

[@Korbenoriginals]

I agree I wouldn't have known about Godzilla if I didn't see the 1998 film I grew up on that movie and I always cried when the baby Godzilla's died every time

[@generalgrevious7635]

Godzilla the series was my introduction to godzilla as well as giant monsters in general, I remember picking up a copy at a library when I was like 8 back when people actually went to them.

[@clevertroodon6396]

Hello there!

[@generalgrevious7635]

general @@clevertroodon6396 you are a bold one

[@etnev2757]

This show for real is so dope

[@Supersaurus4]

I absolutely loved this series when I first watched it. It was one of my favorite shows to watch every morning on Fox Kids. The monsters fights were especially entertaining every time I saw them.

[@carlosscott9557]

Is there any way for a huge group of people, Godzilla fans, to come together and have a voice to show Toho or anyone of movie-making power that we DO want more from the 1998 Godzilla character???

[@slikkszn601]

honestly if they were to make another sub species, thus being zilla, and show his experience in the hallow Earth, i think that would be cool as it's a chance to show off some other little things and questions in which us fans have about the hallow Earth from the perspective of a monster who resembles the gojira species

[@jcmahrt5100]

Talks about a Godzilla being a dog. Serizawa: "We would be his." Talks about a Godzilla like creature. Me: "Titanus Doug anyone."

[@sebastianhanna8161]

I love this show, the monsters the characters, and Godzilla himself. And while I know that it will probably never happen due to the Monsterverse and other projects happening at the moment, I hope that this show gets some form of continuation. Like in comic books or even a new 3d animated series, again I know that it will never happen but still, I'm hopeful that this incarnation of the character will get more recognition.

[@fuchsiafromlavendertown8466]

I started watching Godzilla back when he started in black and white and was six when the cartoon came out man I was obsessed

[@red-dead-reject8380]

The last episode I remember from the animated series was when they brought back the original zilla armed with milllatary weapons

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

That series is lit.

[@iguachumontiel]

It's incredible how this TV series still represents the best animated iteration of the character. It's truly a hidden gem.

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Ever since I read and heard about Haruo Nakajima's thoughts on the 1998 Godzilla movie one thing I always wondered about what were his thoughts on the Godzilla the series as that was exactly like the Godzilla films from '54 to '75 where he fights other giant monsters and even saved the Earth from an alien invasion and even fought a MechaGodzilla even though it was the '98 Godzilla resurrected as a cyborg.

[@magicaltour1]

Well never know. Toho itself liked it better than the movie. They even ripped off the cyborg-zilla concept for Kiryu.

[@rickyrackey7930]

Can you guys imagine if Legendary makes an animated series with the same writers of this show and animated by Bruce Timm. The Genius behind the DCAU.

[@jdpragmatic8644]

“IIIIIIIIII NEEEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!” -Spongebob

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@jdpragmatic8644 Batman: The Animated Series was a masterpiece. This would be Bruce’s next masterpiece.

[@joshmcdonald1510]

Yes! I would watch the hell out of it!

[@eugenejamesbon4355]

ye!

[@SasquaDash]

That would be amazing!

[@Ghostofcalmaity]

YES WE NEED MORE GODZILLA.Jr representation (yes not zilla jr he isn’t Godzilla but he’s the closest you can get while still being related to zilla)

[@sphere7158]

Godzilla The Series should get another chance, and have a season 3 with more iconic monsters added to the series.

[@imranmohamed546]

I always wanted to see a season 3 for this series

[@magicaltour1]

Me too. Especially if they could get some of the Toho monsters in. I would have loved to have seen this shows’ take on King Ghidora.

[@alexallen9640]

Nice, another video about Godzilla: The Series. I like the show with it's monster fights and human characters. 🙂👍

[@ziriebenton6659]

This show did the whole Titans thing way before the Monsterverse even became an idea and made Zilla Jr live up to the Godzilla name more than the 1998 movie did.

[@LordLexand]

Thanks for mentioning this series so often and bringing Zilla up back so often. Really guys, thank you so much!!

[@juanisol8275]

I love they focus , design and develoment of the mutants animals in this iconic animated series!🐲👍

[@ElMalito187]

The fact the original art composers who worked on Men in Black TAS also worked on Godzilla TAS is unbelievably incredible. Now the music composer for Godzilla TAS was none other than Jim Latham, who by the way was a big fan of Gargoyles TAS, wanted to incorporate the trumpet 🎺 sound with a futuristic upbeat tempo. And thus Godzilla TAS thematic opening was born.

[@grezilla5701]

This was the first godzilla i knew about.

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

This series is what made me a Godzilla fan. The movie itself was meh but this series was kick ass!

[@TheOmegazerox]

With you. As someone sed the problem with the movie was they called it Godzilla. This series may not be the Tokyo smashing bahemoth Toho gave us but this Godzilla made it's owne mark in history.

[@z_3mk.296]

I've been saying this for years and finally, someone talks about it

[@TheBombayMasterTony]

Man it was fun watching that as a kid. Good times. The way you talked over each other at 6:06 was funny.

[@Stoicbjj]

Haven’t even watched yet and I already know this gonna be a banger

[@Betweentheraindrops8]

This series more than made up for the 1998 “weak” depiction of Godzilla that was given by the movie. And I love that it didn’t try to reboot it and sweep it under the rug. It actually incorporated the movie and even the original Zilla. Like you guys, my first exposure to Godzilla was this movie. I loved it and I still do. But of course it makes sense that people would be pissed about how he was portrayed. What this series got right was giving Zilla all the power of other Godzillas: the atomic breath. They made him bigger than most of them, then kept the sleek design to have him stay a fast, agile, leaping, digging, swimming theropod. He’s still able to be injured and killed so you know there’s risk involved. Legendary portrays him as primordial and responding to atomic threats...but even the original movie all those decades ago depicted him as the result of atomic bombs and a result of humanity’s arrogance, not the counterbalance to our arrogance. Zilla first came about as a mutation from the radiation with no powers, but was still powerful. They decided to have his heir be more powerful like a rapid jump in the evolutionary process that’s been mutated by radiation. I think that’s a cool portrayal. Even Legendary Godzilla is considered to be one of the few if not the only one of his kind to have that amount of power, so the series isn’t too far off from our current Godzilla either.

[@magicaltour1]

The fact that GodZilla could be killed added drama to the series, because the question isn’t *if* they could kill Godzilla but rather if they *should*. One of my favorite episodes is when Jean Reno’s character returns. While he’s still cordial with Nick, it turns out he hates Godzilla with a passion worthy of Melville, hating him for what his siblings did to his men in the movie. There’s a moment where he has a chance to take Godzilla out, and is seriously considering it. Thankfully, he masters his own bias and shoots the monster of the week instead. If Godzilla was totally invulnerable, we wouldn’t get any dramatic scenes like that.

[@BeastFanatic101]

I started rewatching all the episodes recently so fun how you came up with this haha !!

[@shainewhite2781]

Thank you for this! The show acts as a sequel to the 1998 Godzilla movie, which may have been a Box Office hit, but critics ripped this movie apart.

[@chichiboypumpi]

Let there be a live-action based on that show, with Jean Reno reprising his role

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

This cartoon was one of those rare moments where an animated spinoff does better than the movie it’s based on. I don’t hold too much animosity to the 98 movie in my opinion it’s still a good monster movie but not a good godzilla movie. The animated series blew it out of the water giving everyone what they wanted to see in the beginning Atomic Breath ✔️ Indestructible ✔️ Fighting interesting new monsters ✔️ Great fight scenes ✔️ Worthy of the name Godzilla

[@-insertnamehere-5503]

Finally some quality content!

[@shadowninja606]

me and zilla have some history that needs to be squashed when I was 7 or 8 I knew about Godzilla through my dad showing me the showas and heisei era of Godzilla media bear in mind that I went to see Godzilla 98' in theaters after I came out watching the movie I couldn't help but feel enraged ... how an 8yr old boy like myself could be enraged by this sudden take of my favorite monster fast forward to the mid-2000's I was a teen I found out about the series through Fox kids or 4kids as it was called I was enraged again not because it was good because it was what I wanted in the 98' film that was robbed from me as an 8 yr old but yet again fast forward in my 30's .... i went back to watching the animated series like a couple of episodes ........ in that moment I had a change of heart towards Zilla ... something inside my heart ... told me " is he as any different to Godzilla?" look at him fighting monsters the offspring of the Zilla of 98 look at him make a connection to nick (MC) it may have been years apart isn't this what being a Kaiju fan is about to feel this connection to Godzilla to say I have ended a 20 yr grudge towards Roland Emmerichs Godzilla was not chance I would've taken if not for that series that series changed every discomfort I had with Zilla to herald as part of the Versions of the King of the Monsters .

[@Jezzikinz]

I actually have this series on DVD and watched as a kid. For me I feel it ended a bit anticlimactic, but man the animation and art design is really nice. I think the intro to the cartoon is still so memorable! There was also a KONG series around the same time (probably trying to bank off the reinvigorated interest in a "new" Godzilla)

[@TheOmegazerox]

I found the series at a thrift store. Once I saw the box I double checked and all the dvds we thier. Man that was a finde. Never know what I'll finde in old dvd colections.

[@jonahmoran3751]

Well the ending wasn’t the chronological ending. The actual last episode is cash of the Titans or whatever it’s called.

[@wanderingbufoon]

what I loved about the series is that they were a bridge to the Zilla movie and Monsterverse. It is as if the Legendary monsterverse is made from this series. The thing about the Zilla movie is that it simply is a King Kong movie but as the lizard instead of ape. Then the series builds upon that mutation where the son of godzilla didn't just became a big sized monsterfied iguana but an actual monster. The series progressed the movie into a realistic standpoint to a more fantastical standpoint like the kaiju films were. It explained as to where these monsters came from rather than just saying "yeah, here's the back story." It puts in the perspective that Zilla is just the precursor of these kaijus. An incomplete monster. This explains why there weren't any other monsters as well till later on. Also the Gman in the series is just a teenage mutant ninja lizard so I find it hilarious with how it was progressing from King Kong to TMNT to TOHO.

[@finlayhenderson9609]

Love you vids.there amazing keep it up

[@JcgLounge]

Welp, I still have the complete series on DVD. Never did continue it. Maybe someday down the line this year I’ll give it a second shot.

[@terrortree]

I used to tape all the godzilla episodes too!

[@Soul93Taker]

Damn, a topic to hit right in the nostalgia.

[@madiqissumtingwong1799]

Nostalgia man nostalgia

[@thetheorizermoore7476]

I’m making a fan fic continuety of this so it will have a perfect finale

[@d.w.saurus5831]

this series is why i am a Godzilla fan and got into it at all. I've got it on dvd got it for 10 bucks new at walmart about 8 or 9 years ago id of paid 3 times that lol.

[@collinpeugh2238]

I would love to see a series that paid homage to the older Godzilla series but was somehow still in the monsterverse maybe a female Godzilla something that could look different aestheticly from Godzilla but also share similarities to him

[@Nightmare_Utahraptor187]

I love Godzilla the animated series too because it's awesome and badass to see Zilla jr defeated monsters and protect his human allies

[@lilshax7297]

Zilla in the monsterverse would be super cool he would be an allies of Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and Kong against other monsters

[@JoshuaTheOrigional0]

The 1998 film was my childhood. I have it, the animated series and I would never part with them

[@lynx-fernandogonzalez1571]

I watched before the pandemic and it surprised me that there were more episodes that I remembered when I was kid and watched the first time

[@rockstar1st244]

If they do make an animated series,i hope they bring back Rino Romano,that whole “we’re scientists” bit always made me smile

[@theyiffystick4663]

I'd settle for a reboot godamn

[@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart]

Well I will say it’s better then the 1998 film because there’s no Matthew brodrick for zilla to ruin his career

[@cesarvictorino8624]

I recommend people watch the episode from this series called Future Shock. It’s on KZbin.

[@akirandrake414]

Actually finding it is a pain, I'm currently looking for it.

[@waterboyvlogs9130]

I remember when I think the first season was on Netflix and it was the only show I ever watched on Netflix unfortunately it was taken off but for awhile my young kid brain was captivated

[@mohdhafiz666]

Godzilla 98 Vs All Monsters the best series in cartoon.. Hope make the series in reality...

[@harekrishna9267]

Yeah I very much liked Godzilla animated series was way better than the 1998 sequel it deserves more and more attention

[@sticoftruth3084]

I watched this with my dad when I was younger we both loved it

[@ericscrogham210]

Godzilla the series was fun. I wish it lasted longer than two seasons. I wonder if anyone remembers the mid 2000's live action kaiju series Surface. It may not be Godzilla but it was fun for what it was.

[@jpeezy9163]

I actually loved Zilla as a little kid. I remember i wanted to buy a zilla toy for when i did stop motion films at the time. I watched the series and i loved it. It was the design i loved and it didnt kill off zilla and it even uses the zilla from the movie later in the series. It was just amazing for me personally

[@RaptorofRex07]

List of Godzilla TAS monsters for the monsterverse 1.Zilla 2.C-rex 3.El Gusano 4. Dragma 5. Nigel

[@KillrMonkey19]

Woke up Saturday mornings to watch this as a kid, the good ol' days

[@demariayb]

I need a video about the legendary guardians of the monster verse .

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Tristar Godzilla made me a Goji fan. Also thanks to my mom😊

[@Nightmare_Utahraptor187]

Awesome video btw

[@tomthespaceknerd5396]

I love the show. I think every Godzilla fan should give it a go at least. I think the biggest factor in whether a classic goji fan would like it is whether or not they have any tolerance for Saturday morning kids cartoons. Because if you can get past that, it has everything. Edit: I also find it hilarious how Nick and Audrey's relationship seems be going down the pan for the entire series. It's like we actually see what happens after the stereotypical action movie when the two leads hook up.... and then realise they have nothing in common.

[@JoseR1207]

A discerning fan knows that the fact that this is the Tristar version is no reason not to like the series. This series and this one captures the traditional essence of Toho and although its design is still different from the traditional one, as such it is not bad for itselves (I even like to conceive it as a second species of Godzilla). I can call this one Godzilla (Jr.) without any problem.

[@666_ralmok]

My favorite episode was when Godzilla met Komodithrax

[@kevin6137]

I loved the Zilla series but i couldn't watch it anymore when I was young bc my sisters took it away bc they thought it was annoying

[@thunderstar6997]

I think it's a really good series and agree they made this one "Godzilla" version the movie version. I like how as the series moved forward that the individual stories linked to a larger story. I liked the different monsters that were added over the series. As a G-Fan since the 70's and a father, my five year old is following in my foot steps and he labeled this version of Godzilla as "Green Godzilla:. I purchased the box set for him and me. It on our G-Watch listed.

[@donnellwilliams3988]

I remember my ex girlfriend she's a huge godzilla fan & she already knew i was a godzilla fan giant monster movie fan, she brought i think it was a dvd set & i gonna be honest when i say Dangerville you are absolutely correct, they knew there were godzilla fans still out there but how do they present this out there using the 1998 godzilla & keep them interested especially the that version of godzilla was presented so poorly here, you was given a pretty decent story line as far as godzilla & how he would be able to connect with humans, at the time i was & still am to this day a die hard godzilla fan, i try not to get to invested in them the monsterverse making a hardcore godzilla film today i feel the movie exe's of today feel like this generation of today wouldn't understand it or preserve it, which i think their wrong on that i watched GvK with my nephew's & they was exactly feelin it, even my oldest nephew which is 18 now, i know with me the first godzilla movie i saw i wanted to know more, & to this day at 50 years old i still want to more what turned him into this indestructible beast that man brought back to life do to ignorance of the h bomb, & then be came even more badass when man thought they killed him, not only they didn't kill him he came back even more badass then before💯

[@zidanerizalalghifaryalghif3248]

the series is like an im sorry gift right the know what the movie did wrong and they improved the sequel with the same design but making it an actual godzilla

[@jdpragmatic8644]

Episodes of This show definitely pop up on KZbin frequently. Go watch the first five or six, you won’t regret it.

[@christophermonteith2774]

liked the series, it was my first godzilla experience, and was blissfully unaware of 98, and toho

[@zionleach3001]

Can you do a video on the Vampires of the 1996 From Dusk Till Dawn? Edit: Maybe in the Monster Verse they could make a new one for kids and adults. Maybe make it PG-13. Maybe zilla could be a subspecies of godzilla.

[@moyom777]

I would kill for an animated series like this one but taking place right after Godzilla vs Destoroyah with Adult JR

[@izzoArtistry]

This zilla definitely had a lot of great feats going for him throughout the series, don’t sleep on him! If anything he does indeed carry the fighting spirit of the original godzillas. Perhaps maybe a bit too intelligent… but still good nonetheless.

[@srwordsussecuaces6374]

You say it as if being intelligent is a bad thing lmao

[@davidurbach7882]

So, who wants to see Zilla JR. in the Monsterverse!

[@Urrrm255]

I saw it in parts on KZbin when I was little it was some of my first memories of Godzilla yeah I like Toho but this was the first Godzilla I saw.

[@MysteriousTomJenkins]

Haven't watched this series yet even though I want to but I can say this. People seem to remember this series fondly and find this to be a worthy depiction of Godzilla. Because of that and the fact that this is a sequel to the movie, I find it impressive how they turned a universally loathed movie into a beloved cartoon series. I watched a video talking about the production of the 1998 film and heard what Toho thought, from what I have seen, if they saw this or if this was what the movie was, they would have loved this and instead of Zilla being used as fodder for Godzilla, he'd probably be a decent rival to him.

[@peaceLove777Love]

Wow I remember that movie ,to be honest I rather this version of godzilla since it's the first Godzilla I've seen,then when I saw monstervers Godzilla, I was like ok......he look different, and all the monster he was fighting in 1998 was awsome, So yes it's a good anime.

[@andrewrowland1989]

I also think a cool way to introduce Zilla into the Legendary Titantverse, would be to make Zilla Godzilla Jr. Like the radiation that Godzilla absorbed over the years has affected Jr to where it kinda deformed him (thus why he would look like Zilla). And if they want to do a "Destroyah kills Godzilla" story, Godzilla Jr needs to be different from his dad, and not be a carbon-copy, otherwise there's no point to killing of Godzilla Sr.