Trivia / Shin Godzilla

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• Ascended Fanon: The nicknames for Godzilla's first two land-capable forms, "Kamata-kun" and "Shinagawa-kun" (after the wards the monster rampages through, respectively), were later used in official advertising and merchandising after being popularized online through fan art.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Hideaki Anno was given a limited window to work on this movie around the time he was wrapping up work on the third Rebuild of Evangelion movie, which he jumped aboard immediately at the cost of delaying the last movie in the series. As it turned out, this is just what the doctor ordered for Anno (see below).
• Creator Recovery: Technically acts as one for Hideaki Anno, who suffered a(nother) Creator Breakdown while working on the Rebuild of Evangelion movies and had to postpone production on them in order to work on this one. Anno has since suggested that working on this film has reignited his love of filmmaking, and his desire to work on his projects. The final Rebuild movie was finally released on March 8, 2021.
• Deleted Scene:
  • The scene where the workers discover a piece of Godzilla that was blown off by the bunker-buster bombs had a part removed where the workers would've looked up to see a larger piece of flesh caught in the rubble above them that was just as mutated as what fell to the ground.
  • A scene that was partially developed but never completed would've shown Godzilla's third form vomiting a torrent of irradiated blood that would've been hot enough to pop the tires of cars that it fell onto and warp train tracks.
• Dueling Dubs: There are two Latin American Spanish dubs: One done in Mexico by Funimation and used in both the streaming service and Mexican theaters, and another one done in Chile, used exclusively in HBO Max.
• Fake Mixed Race: Dialogue indicates that Kayoko Ann Patterson is one quarter Japanese but is played by the fully Japanese Satomi Ishihara.
• Fake Nationality: To go along with her Fake Mixed Race, Kayoko Ann Patterson is the American envoy to Japan played by native-born Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara, though the film tries to get around this by having her be Japanese-American but she speaks with a very heavy Japanese accent.
• Flip-Flop of God: The film's title, Shin-Gojira was originally given the English transcription of Godzilla Resurgence. A few days before the film's Japanese release, at the insistence of Toho, Funimation has changed the film's English title to SHIN GODZILLA.
• Incidental Multilingual Wordplay: The "god" meaning of "Gojira" for this version of Godzilla translates easily to English, since "God" is already part of its name.
• Market-Based Title: Not as frustrating as other Godzilla titles (especially most, if not all, of the Showa films). In Japan, it's called Shin-Gojira. Internationally, it was called Godzilla Resurgence (English posters still have the title). In the US, it's called Shin Godzilla. The last one was changed because Toho wanted Funimation to use it as its English title in the US.
• No Export for You: Thankfully averted. Toho had announced that the film will be released in 100 territories, making it the biggest release of any Godzilla film made by Toho. Even better: Funimation has acquired U.S. distribution rights for the movie and had a limited theatrical release in October 11-18 and they released the DVD and Blu-Ray versions in August 2017.
• Production Posse: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, and Shiro Sagisu have all worked together on Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Rebuild of Evangelion movies, and various other projects, with Higuchi and Sagisu also previously working on the live-action Attack on Titan films.
  • Speaking of Evangelion, some people involved on the series made the storyboards for the film, like Masayuki.
• Same Language Dub: The Funimation dub of the film also have voice actors for American characters.
• What Could Have Been: The design works book showcases concept art for all five of Shin Godzilla's forms, as well as a variety of other ideas that ultimately went unused.
  • Among the humanoid Godzillas only one of them came out female, holding a prayer-like pose.
  • Originally, Godzilla was going to begin in a traditional form, only to evolve into something weird. Toho told them no, so instead, they made something weird evolve into Godzilla.

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