While the trailer for the November release Godzilla-0.0 has started airing, an article caused a stir by reporting that a film industry insider revealed a sequel to Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla is secretly moving forward behind the scenes. It’s also been reported that the new cast may include an actress who overlaps with the previous film. On 5ch’s Entertainment & Sports News+ thread, discussion moved past the rumor itself and into a debate over which style is better — Shin Godzilla or Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla-1.0 — with opinions split over differences in domestic versus overseas reception and personal taste regarding Anno’s distinctive script and direction.
October 7, 2026, 1:00 PM
“We hadn’t finished burying Godzilla after all–“
Amid land buried in rubble, Hidetaka Yoshioka murmurs this line. It’s the opening scene of the trailer for the movie Godzilla-0.0, set for release in November. Yoshioka returns, continuing his role from the previous film, Godzilla-1.0. In ‘-1.0,’ Ryunosuke Kamiki, playing a former kamikaze pilot, and others confronted the threat of a Godzilla rendered with spectacular VFX. Now, with the sequel’s release approaching and anticipation steadily building, it turns out there’s actually another “Godzilla movie” quietly in progress behind the scenes. A film industry insider reveals the details.
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They're both Shirogumi movies, so they're basically the same.
This time it's probably going to be absolute garbage 😗
That's not the Godzilla aesthetic.
Anno really gets it, though — his is a proper Japanese Godzilla.
They're not that far apart in age, but a 2-year gap might actually matter more than you'd think.
Things moved fast back then, so two years made a real difference.
I'm already stark naked, so what's wrong with that
A toy train hits its leg, it faints, and they pump drugs into its mouth while it's out to win — that might be the worst Godzilla movie in franchise history.
Minus One, made as basically the polar opposite of that, was good though.
What's fun about a tug-of-war?
For me it was funny like those old Drifters or Hyokin-zoku comedy sketches where someone has to keep chugging milk for a commercial shoot until they're like "I caaaan't drink any moooore!" — Godzilla looked exactly like that.
The train crashing into it was so dumb too, and it played well against how self-serious all the meeting scenes were.
With Minus One, Godzilla somehow felt like it was just background scenery.
Messing with Mio Hamabe in a CG world lol
Is she gonna get turned giant this time?
thinks in three dimensions. That's why it ends up looking like some oversized reptile. Yamazaki's Godzilla is the Hollywood type.
He's thinking about it too realistically. That's also the difference between Disney animation and Japanese anime.
Japan has expressed things in two dimensions ever since the days of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
Godzilla isn't a drawing, but it's something closer to a deity than a giant reptile.
In the original Mothra vs. Godzilla, Godzilla slowly wading in from the sea, seen from a distance — that's the true aesthetic of Godzilla.
we don't need it anymore (referencing her meme-worthy pronunciation of "Godzilla" in the film)
What a waste all those years spent on the Rebuild of Evangelion films were.
Guess we're just ignoring that Mio Hamabe was also the lead in Shin Kamen Rider, huh lol
Even if they make a sequel, the fanbase has shrunk a lot, so I'm predicting it won't even clear 5 billion yen at the box office.
With Anno writing the script, the dialogue just ends up sounding dated.
Well yeah, a movie that spends forever dwelling on "everything wrong with Japanese-style meetings" was never gonna land overseas.
Regular office staff just support meetings, they don't run them — that part was just annoying.
The box office numbers were about the same though.
I don't want to watch a meeting.
That was just miniature-set tokusatsu, though.
There was a movie called "The Great Monster Clean-Up," but it seems to have gotten a pretty bad reputation.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
“Shin Godzilla” (2016) was highly praised domestically, but is said to have struggled at the overseas box office due to its meeting-centered style of storytelling. “Godzilla-1.0” (2023), on the other hand, earned high acclaim both at home and abroad under director Takashi Yamazaki, and won the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2024. Against this backdrop of differing track records, opinions in the thread were split over whether Hideaki Anno’s style (two-dimensional, emphasizing stylized aesthetics) or Takashi Yamazaki’s style (three-dimensional, emphasizing realistic depiction) better fits the image of Godzilla. It should also be noted that the “Shin Godzilla 2” rumor itself comes only from remarks attributed to a film industry insider — it is not a confirmed production or an official announcement. As for the “overlapping actress” casting detail, no specific name is given in the original text, so it should be read as speculation rather than confirmed fact.
*This article has been excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “Rumor: Hideaki Anno’s “Shin Godzilla 2” Secretly Underway Behind the Scenes as “Godzilla-0.0” Nears Release — New Cast Features an Unusual “Overlapping Actress”” and reconstructed for this piece.
