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The Millennium era,[1][2] Millennium series (ミレニアムシリーズ,   Mireniamu shirīzu),[3] or New Century series (新世紀シリーズ,   Shinseiki shirīzu),[4] is the third distinct era of Godzilla series films, spanning from 1999 to 2004. It is preceded by the Heisei era, which concluded in 1995 to make way for a new trilogy of Godzilla films planned to be produced in the United States. After the release of the first American movie in 1998, TriStar Pictures' GODZILLA, its planned sequels fell through and production of Godzilla films returned to Toho Pictures. Toho's first post-Heisei-era film was Godzilla 2000: Millennium in 1999, kicking off the series which would come to be known as the Millennium era. It is important to note, however, that the entirety of the Millennium era was produced during the same Heisei political period of Japan as the Heisei era.

The Millennium era is notable for being the first in the Godzilla series to not occupy a single continuity, with almost none of the Millennium films being canon to each other. The exception to this is Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and its sequel Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, which are sometimes grouped together as a subseries called the Kiryu series (機龍シリーズ,   Kiryū shirīzu)[5] or Kiryu Saga (機龍物語,   Kiryū Monogatari, lit. "Kiryu Story"),[6][7] referencing the name given to the Mechagodzilla in those films. The Millennium era is otherwise only unified by Godzilla's first appearance always being set in 1954.

The Millennium era was followed by a nine-and-a-half-year-long hiatus, which was finally broken in 2014 with the release of another American film, Legendary Pictures' Godzilla. This one, which was considerably more well-received than TriStar's 1998 effort, would ultimately spawn the Monsterverse series of films, crossing over Godzilla and King Kong for the first time since 1962. In 2016, Toho released its own post-Millennium film, Shin Godzilla, which despite also being released during the Heisei period, has been deemed the first film of the "Reiwa era."

Entries

  1. Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
  2. Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
  3. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
  4. Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
  5. Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
  6. Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

Monsters introduced

The following monsters were created for, or made their Godzilla film debut in, the Millennium era:

See also

References

This is a list of references for Millennium era. 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]

  1. Baker & Goehner 2019, p. 92.
  2. Skipper 2022, p. 178.
  3. Nomura 2014, p. 405.
  4. Godzilla Killigraph.jpg
  5. Nomura 2014, p. 313.
  6. @Godzilla_Toho (21 February 2023). "The final installment of the Kiryu Saga, Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, comes to theaters for one night only, March 22. Will you answer the call?

    Get your tickets now 🎟️: https://hubs.la/Q01CMftr0"
    . X.
  7. "GODZILLA: THE KIRYU SAGA - T-SHIRT". Cavitycolors. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

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