Godzilla Anime Movie (2017): Written by Gen "Urobutcher" Urobuchi himself

2017 Godzilla anime film announced.

Polygon Pictures is animating it, the directors of Ajin and The Detective Conan movies will direct it, and the Urobutcher himself is scriptwriting.

Wow. You chose a really fitting avatar.

As for this, it's gonna be bloody I'd assume.

Meh.

I think the name value of Urobuchi is grossly overrated anyway.

Mn. Urobuchi's output is pretty erratic in quality. Heard mixed reviews of the directors' works as well

The interesting thing is really the very SF imagery of the visual, though

It all depends on if he is actually writing the whole thing. If he is, I'm excited.

If I recall, Hideaki Anno is also supervising as a result of Shin Godzilla being extremely successful in Japan.

So Anno and Urobuchi are working together if that's true? Man, that's quite a dream team.

If Tappei Nagatsuki could get on board, it would be the ultimate despair team.

Eh, the 'big name writers' like Urobuchi is vastly overrated nowadays. I didn't like what Anno came up with for the franchise, so I guess I'll just lower my expectations.

Personally, I'd have Anno and Urobuchi work alongside Kunihiko Ikuhara. That'd be a dream come true.

Seriously though, Toho really seems to be going for big name talent for this franchise nowadays. First Anno and now Urobuchi.

Tappei Nagatsuki is far more fitting terms of being a despair inducing then ikuhara. He's considered to be the most sadistic light Novelist in Japan, even taking Urobutchi's title into consideration.

I also find Ikuhara to be a bit of a hack job in recent years, moreso then anno or Urobuchi. Yuri Bear Storm turned me off him as a director forever.

Huh so this is CG then?

Interesting.

What's wrong with Ikuhara exactly? His work on Utena pretty much rivals that of Anno and Urobuchi's work for Evangelion and Madoka respectively.

Him working alongside those two on Godzilla or something else would be pretty awesome. Plus, he's good buds with Anno to begin with.

Polygon Pictures did Transformers Prime before they started doing CGI Anime.

edited 18th Aug '16 8:23:51 PM by Demongodofchaos2

If this new Godzilla involves the Big G fighting other Kaiju, that would be dandy. And it should fill the niche left by Godzilla: The Series quite nicely.

(Yes, I'm one of those who thought that Zilla Jr. wasn't that bad. Now, Zilla Sr./"GINO", on the other hand...I hope that was the one that got trashed by the Big G in Godzilla: Final Wars.)

Being Godzilla is Suffering. But seriously, I am really looking forward to this. I've always wondered why Toho never did make a Godzilla anime of any kind before now. I mean it is their biggest cash cow mixed with a very successful medium, you'd think they would have jumped on that ship a long time ago.

@Icognito Ninja: You arn't the only one. I thought that version of Zilla and his show were actually pretty cool and a far better depiction of Godzilla then the one in the movie.

edited 25th Aug '16 7:10:17 PM by marston

New c oncept art and voice actors revealed There will be stage show (And probably a trailer) at Anime Japan 2017 on march 26th. Here are 6 main character voices announced so far:

Yuuki Kaji

Takahiro Sakurai

Mamoru Miyano

Junichi Suwabe

Kana Hanazawa

Tomokazu Sugita

edited 19th Jan '17 3:49:24 AM by Demongodofchaos2

First concept art is out

Looks like Hoth, of all things...◊

That Mini-Mecha in the picture looks like a Walker from Return of the Jedi with arms.

Speaking of, isn't Hoth the snowy planet from The Empire Strikes Back? That concept art looks too lush in greenery to resemble Hoth...

EDIT: Looks more like Endor if it was going through a fog storm.

edited 24th Jan '17 7:32:41 PM by TargetmasterJoe

It looks like Dagobah, the swamp planet Yoda was on.

(Smacks himself on the head for not thinking about Dagobah.)

First image of Godzilla. He's basically a Nightwalker version of the G 2 K design.

https://twitter.com/sttcom3373/status/832222821111574529

Been confirmed to be just fan-art

Aww this isn't a TV series.

I could see Khara doing a TV series later.