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movie review - Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This anime has the interesting premise of documenting mankind's return Earth some 20,000 years after Godzilla chased them off the planet. A spacecraft full of colonists had gone to a distant star system but the intended plnet proved unsuitable for human habitation. Running out of resources on their ship, they've decided to return despite the presence of not only Godzilla and similar giants but some kind of extra-terrestrial allies that have aided the monsters against humanity.

Without going through everything that follows, I'll simply point out that the situation is not resolved by the end of the story. There are two sequels planned but in the mean-time the plot just sort of ends when this volume closes and there's no sense of any kind of closure to the goings-on in the movie. Moreover, I'm not sure that even three volumes will be enough to develop a strong story and develop some characters worth caring about.

Not recommended.