This big ol' lizard has been stomping around Japan for more than 65 years! He's fought his fair share of enemies from all over the world! But does he translate well onto the animated medium? There it becomes a problem, why does Godzilla not translate well onto anime? To me, it seems as if the big guy takes a back seat to put the spotlight on different characters that mostly do not interact with the big kaiju. The exceptions being mentioning his name or having flashbacks to encounters when he was an antagonist for them.
For the duration of this movie, not much of the big kaiju was shown and was left up to the human counterparts to lay out the setting, motifs, and problem of the story. However, every fan of this big lizard should know that the movies should focus on the monsters and their history. The human connection is not what it's all about, but rather what the monsters themselves represent. Back in 1954 when the monster himself was created, it was for the purpose of having a constant reminder of nuclear warfare brought on by the monster. The monster himself is a constant reminder of the tragedy, why does it need a human connection to an already gruesome and beastly weapon? I do not think that there is anyway you can humanize what lies beyond the human mind. There lies within a beast that does not wish to take pity on his fellow man nor see others as his equal. He must dominate and conquer.
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