2015

6 January: DeAgostini Japan releases Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare on DVD.
22 January: Yoshiyuki Kuroda passes away at age 86. As the Gods Will is released in the Netherlands as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
23 January: Shogakukan publishes an ebook version of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla Super Complete Works.
28 January: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #20.
29 January: Riichiro Manabe passes away at the age of 90.

February

27 February: Shogakukan publishes an ebook version of Godzilla: Tokyo SOS Super Complete Works.

March

4 March: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #21.
25 March: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #22.
26 March: As the Gods Will is released in Hong Kong.
27 March: Shogakukan publishes an ebook version of Godzilla Final Wars Super Complete Works.

April

10 April: Construction of the Godzilla Head on the 8th floor terrace of the Hotel Gracery Shinjuku is finished. The hotel itself, as well as the rest of the Shinjuku Toho Building, is opened to the public.
21 April: The mobile game Godzilla Kaiju Collection is released.
22 April: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #23.
25 April: Parasyte: Part 2 is released in Japan.

May

15 May: As the Gods Will is released in Taiwan.
20 May: Toho releases As the Gods Will on Blu-ray.
21 May: As the Gods Will is released in South Korea.
27 May: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #24.
31 May: Hiroshi Koizumi passes away at age 88.

July

8 July: The final, double-sized issue of Godzilla: Rulers of Earth is released, ending the IDW Universe continuity.
14 July: Bandai Namco's Godzilla is released in North America.
15 July: IDW Publishing releases the first issue of Godzilla in Hell. DVD Toho releases The Secret of the Telegian on DVD, while also re-releasing The Three Treasures, Battle in Outer Space, The Last War, and Atragon on DVD as part of the Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection. They also re-release Gorath on DVD.
17 July: Bandai Namco's Godzilla is released in Europe.
20 July: Chico Lourant passes away at age 86.
23 July: The discovery of Kepler-452b, a rocky exoplanet in orbit around the star Kepler-452, is announced by NASA, having been identified and discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope.^[1]
30 July: The Rosen Publishing Group publishes Greatest Movie Monsters: King Kong and Other Monstrous Apes.

August

1 August: Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 is released to Japanese theaters on August 1.
5 August: Queen Kong is released in the United States.
10 August: Queen Kong is released in Australia.
12 August: Queen Kong is released in the United Kingdom.

26 August: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla in Hell #2.

September

19 September: Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 is released in Japanese theaters.
23 September: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla in Hell #3.
24 September: Monster Maker: Keizo Murase - Treasured KAIJU Photobook is published by Yosensha.
27 September: John Guillermin passes away at the age of 89.
30 September: Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 is released in American theaters.

October

8 October: GAMERA screens at New York Comic Con following a presentation by Kadokawa.
13 October: DeAgostini Japan releases The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch on DVD.
14 October: As the Gods Will is released in the Philippines.
20 October: Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 is released in American theaters.
21 October: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla in Hell #4.
27 October: Noriyoshi Ohrai passes away at age 79. Warner Home Video releases King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms on Blu-ray.

November

3 November: The Film Detective releases The Lost World on DVD.^[2]
18 November: IDW Publishing releases the final issue of Godzilla in Hell.
24 November: DeAgostini Japan releases The Invisible Man Appears on DVD.

December

16 December: Hobby Japan publishes Godzilla vs. Biollante Completion.

In fiction

The primary events of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters take place.
- AET rebrands as Apex Cybernetics.

Gallery

References

This is a list of references for 2015. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Batalha, Natalie M.; et al. (23 July 2015). "Discovery and Validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6 R_🜨 Super Earth Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a G2 Star" (PDF). The Astronomical Journal. p. 56. arXiv:1507.06723. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...56J. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/56. ISSN 1538-3881. S2CID 26447864. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
↑ "Silent Era: The Lost World". www.silentera.com. Retrieved 2026-01-03.

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[1] Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Batalha, Natalie M.; et al. (23 July 2015). "Discovery and Validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6 R_🜨 Super Earth Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a G2 Star" (PDF). The Astronomical Journal. p. 56. arXiv:1507.06723. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...56J. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/56. ISSN 1538-3881. S2CID 26447864. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[2] "Silent Era: The Lost World". www.silentera.com. Retrieved 2026-01-03.

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