History Literature / GodzillaAndGodzillaRaidsAgain

** In ''Godzilla Raids Again'', Professor Yamane and his zoologist colleague Dr. Tadokoro state that ''Ankylosaurus'' -- aka Anguirus -- was a carnivorous dinosaur that was between 150 and 200 feet (45 and 60 meters) tall, had multiple brains all over its body, and lived concurrently with Godzilla between 150 to 70 million years ago. In actuality, ''Ankylosaurus'' were herbivorous dinosaurs that were between 6 to 8 meters long, and lived between 68 and 66 million years ago.

** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land. The Jurassic Period actually lasted from around 201 million years ago to 145 million years ago, with no known fossil evidence of marine reptiles transitioning to life on land in the manner Professor Yamane describes[[note]]Ironically, however, precisely the reverse trend (terrestrial reptiles adapting to life in the sea) ''is'' known to have occurred in the Cretaceous with the mosasaurs[[/note]].

** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land. The Jurassic Period actually lasted from around 201 million years ago to 145 million years ago, with no known fossil evidence of marine reptiles transitioning to life on land in the manner Professor Yamane describes.

* InconsistentSpelling:: Jeffrey Angles' afterword notes that the script for ''Godzilla'' uses ''Ōto Island'' rather than {{Invoked}} [[ViewerNameConfusion the more popular fan-spelling]] "Ōdo Island", but that he decided to go with the fan convention to avoid angering hardcore fans.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Professor Kyōhei Yamane is a heroic example, insisting that Godzilla should be studied rather than slain, and when the [[ApocalypseCult Tokyo Godzilla Society]] starts posting pamphlets saying that Godzilla is a DestroyerDeity come to punish Japan for having surrendered at the end of World War II, Professor Yamane is one of the prime suspects. However, unlike in the film version, he explains that the reason he wants this is so that Japan can atone for the war-crimes it committed during World War II by unlocking the secret to Godzilla's apparent immortality and sharing it with the rest of humanity.
* AgeLift: Shinkichi Morita was a young teenager in the film version of ''Godzilla'', but in the novella is around the same age as Emiko Yamane--in his late teens to early twenties--and a childhood friend of hers, having met her when they were evacuated during World War II.

** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land. The Jurassic Period actually lasted from around 201 million years ago to 145 million years ago, with no known fossil evidence of marine reptiles transitioning to life on land in the manner Professor Yamane supposes.
** ''Godzilla Raids Again'' states that ''Ankylosaurus'' -- aka Anguirus -- was a carnivorous dinosaur that was between 45 and 60 meters tall, and lived concurrently with Godzilla between 150 to 70 million years ago. ''Ankylosaurus'' were herbivorous dinosaurs that were between 6 to 8 meters long, and lived between 68 and 66 million years ago.

* InconsistentSpelling:: Jeffrey Angles' afterword notes that the script for ''Godzilla'' uses ''Ōto Island'' rather than [[ViewerNameConfusion the more popular fan-spelling]] "Ōdo Island", but that he decided to go with the fan convention to avoid angering hardcore fans.

** Godzilla is an amphibious theropod with a crocodilian hide that lived between two and 150 million years ago, and was a ravenous carnivore that was up to 50 meters tall.
** Anguirus is a carnivorous ToughArmoredDinosaur that lived between 150 to 70 million years ago, standing between 45 and 60 meters tall; and had multiple brains scattered throughout its body to maximize its speed and agility.

* SkewedPriorities: In ''Godzilla'', Professor Kyōhei Yamane is vehemently against Godzilla being killed, arguing that he should be studied so mankind can harness his unnatural longevity. Shinkichi Morita--who lost his mother and brother to Godzilla's attack on Ōdo Island--calls him out on holding this view even as Godzilla razes Tokyo, asking how he would feel if Godzilla had succeeded in eating Emiko on Odo Island.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Godzilla'', Godzilla is framed in less of a sympathetic light in the novelization. While Professor Yamane states that he was driven from his native habitat by H-bomb tests, he is treated as a horrifying entity able to survive for 2 million years and withstand the radiation of an H-bomb unfazed, and even before being nuked he would ravage Ōdo Island to devour their livestock and villagers.

* DemotedToExtra: Hideto Ogata was effectively the protagonist of the film version of ''Godzilla'', being in an AgeGapRomance with Emiko Yamane, but in the novella his role is filled by Shinkichi Morita, with Ogata being his superior at the Tokyo Bay Rescue and Salvage.

** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land.
** ''Godzilla Raids Again'' states that ''Ankylosaurus'' -- aka Anguirus -- was a carnivorous dinosaur that was between 45 and 60 meters tall, and lived 150 to 70 million years ago, concurrently with Godzilla. ''Ankylosaurus'' were herbivorous dinosaurs that were between 6 to 8 meters long, and lived between 68 and 66 million years ago.

** In his afterword, Jeffrey Angles speculates that Shinkichi Morita was made into the ''Godzilla'' novella's protagonist to emphasize Shigeru Kayama's anti-war attitudes.

* DoNotGoGentle: In ''Godzilla'', even as the Oxygen Destroyer suffocates him, Godzilla identifies the ''Seagull'' as the source of his agony and makes an attempt to sink the vessel, but succumbs to the Oxygen Destroyer before he can.

* DissonantLaughter: In ''Godzilla'', Hagiwara--a reporter for ''New Japan News''--is so disdainful towards the people of Ōdo Island's belief that a ''kaiju'' caused the disappearance of several ships that he starts laughing in the middle of a sacred ''kagura'' dance designed to ward off Godzilla, finding such antiquated superstitions silly. The villagers blame for making the ritual go awry when an ill omen occurs and Godzilla attacks later in the night.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Doctor Serizawa frames the Oxygen Destroyer as this, an incomplete stage of his experiments that would make the perfect superweapon, and refuses to reveal it to the public until he can find a peaceful use for it.

* PowerGlows: In addition to Godzilla's spines glowing when he charges his atomic breath, in ''Godzilla'' it's described as passively emitting an eerie blue-white glow from his whole body due to having been irradiated.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Jeffrey Angles' afterword notes that the script for ''Godzilla'' uses ''Ōto Island'' rather than the more popular fan-spelling "Ōdo Island", but that he decided to go with the fan convention to avoid angering hardcore fans.

* AmbiguousGender: Jeffrey Angles' afterword notes that Godzilla is not identified with pronouns in the Japanese scripts, and that he originally translated the novellas using "it" before trying to follow contemporary trends by referring to Godzilla as the gender-neutral "they/them"... but the hardcore Godzilla fans among his students vehemently objected and insisted that Godzilla cannot be anything other than male, so he capitulated to their demands.

* AgeLift:
** Shinkichi Morita was a teenager in the film version of ''Godzilla'', but in the movie is around the same age as Emiko Yamane and a childhood friend of hers -- having met her when they were evacuated during World War II.
** Hideto Ogata is older than in the film version of ''Godzilla'', a former classmate of Doctor Serizawa's, and is Shinkichi's boss at the Tokyo Bay Rescue and Salvage.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Even prior to being nuked, Godzilla is noted to be a 2 million-year-old creature somehow able to withstand not only the march of time unfazed but the impossible crushing pressure at the bottom of the ocean and the annihilating heat of a nuclear explosion--with this being the reason why Kyōhei Yamane wants to study him. The inhabitants of Ōdo Island regard him as a [[DraconicAbomination terrifying dragon-god]] that comes out of the ocean to rampage and devour everyone and everything he comes across.

* AmbiguousGender: Jeffrey Angles' afterword notes that Godzilla is not identified with pronouns in the Japanese scripts, and that he originally translated the novel using "it" and then tried to follow contemporary trends by refering to Godzilla as the gender-neutral "they/them"... but the hardcore Godzilla fans among his students vehemently objected and insisted that Godzilla cannot be anything other than male, so he capitulated to their demands.

* BreathWeapon: Godzilla's atomic breath is described as a beam of white light or column of white-hot fire that sets everything in its path ablaze. In ''Godzilla Raids Again'', Anguirus is depicted as also having the ability to shoot beams of incandescent light from its jaws.

* DoNotGoGentle: In ''Godzilla'', even as the Oxygen Destroyer suffocates it, Godzilla identifies the ''Seagull'' as the source of his agony and makes an attempt to sink the vessel, but succumbs to the Oxygen Destroyer before he can.

* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of ''Godzilla Raids Again'', Kōji Kobayashi is killed keeping Godzilla distracted from leaving Kamiko Island, his plane crashing into a mountain and setting off an avalanche that partially buries Godzilla in snow.

* RealAfterAll: The younger generation of Ōdo Island's inhabitants scoff at the elders' belief in Godzilla... until he shows up and ravages the island.
* RetiredMonster: Jeffrey Angles notes that it's subtly implied that Doctor Serizawa was involved in Unit 731 or otherwise associated with the fascist regimes of World War II, as he is a veteran of World War II and German scientists are intimately familiar with the nature of his work. By the time of ''Godzilla'', however, he is a staunch pacifist who is horrified by the idea of the Oxygen Destroyer being used as a superweapon.

* TimeAbyss: In ''Godzilla'', Godzilla is stated to be 2 million years old, having survived all that time due to his preternatural longevity.

In 1954, a series of mysterious ship-sinkings draw Shinkichi Morita, Emiko Yamane, and Professor Kyōhei Yamane to Ōdo Island, where the locals believe the legendary sea-dragon Godzilla is responsible. When Godzilla--revealed to be a prehistoric reptile mutated by hydrogen bomb tests--attacks the island, the trio return to Japan to rally the government in mounting countermeasures, though while Shinkichi wants to kill the beast Professor Yamane wants to study it. Meanwhile, Emiko's fiancé, brooding chemist Doctor Daisuke Serizawa, reveals a dark secret to her that could prove the key to stopping Godzilla once and for all.

A year later, the discovery of a second Godzilla and new kaiju Anguirus by Kōji Kobayashi and Shōichi Tsukioka--a pair of pilots--sends Japan into a panic regarding how to handle these devastating creatures before they lay waste to all of Japan.

''Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again'' is a completion of ''Gojira'' and ''Gojira no gyakushū'', novella adaptations of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'' and ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'' written by Shigeru Kayama in 1955. Translated into English by Jeffrey Angles in 2023, the novellas re-tell the events of the two films while making a number of alterations and incorporating elements from earlier editions of the film scripts and radio drama.

A year later, the discovery of a second Godzilla and new kaiju Anguirus by Koji Kobayashi and Shōichi Tsukioka--a pair of pilots--sends Japan into a panic regarding how to handle these devastating creatures before they lay waste to all of Japan.

* JustFriends: Shinkichi is Emiko Yamane's childhood friend and mostly fills Hideto Ogata's role in the film version of ''Godzilla'', but they lacks the film's secret romance component.

* BreathWeapon: Godzilla's atomic breath is described as a beam of white light or column of white-hot fire that sets everything in its path ablaze.

* RetiredMonster: Jeffrey Angles notes that it's subtly implied that Doctor Serizawa was involved in Unit 731 or otherwise associated with the fascist regimes of World War II, as he is a veteran of World War II and German scientists are intimately familiar with the nature of his work. By the time of ''Godzilla'', however, he is a staunch pacifist who is horrified by the idea of the Oxygen Destroyer being used as a superweapon.

* {{Bowlderize}}: The novelization goes out of its way to avoid naming the United States of America, simply referring to it as "A-".

* DoNotGoGently: In ''Godzilla'', even as the Oxygen Destroyer suffocates it, Godzilla identifies the ''Seagull'' as the source of his agony and makes an attempt to sink the vessel, but succumbs to the Oxygen Destroyer before he can.

* LikeAFatherToHisMen: The president of the South Seas Steamships company -- which the Eikō-maru was owned by -- was noted to be a kindhearted man seen as a surrogate father by his employees, and weeps openly upon learning the Bingo-maru -- sent to search for survivors -- was also sunk.

''Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again'' is a completion of ''Gojira'' and ''Gojira no gyakushū'', novella adaptations of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'' and ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'' written by Shigeru Kayama in 1955. Translated into English by Jeffrey Angles in 2023, the novellas re-tell the events of the two films while retaining elements from earlier editions of the scripts.