What are your favourite and least favourite Godzilla designs? Let me know!

Godzilla Minus One definitely looks much smaller than Shin and Legendary. I'm glad they stopped trying to one-up his size like they have over the past couple films.

24:00 Just a correction: Godzilla GMK was not fueled by the angry spirits of deceased Japanese soldiers, but rather the angry and vengeful spirits from victims killed by the Japanese imperial army during ww2. So really the spirits would be from areas like China, the Philippines, Korea ect... This was commentary on how the Japanese government had not taken any accountability for Japans massacres and war crimes, and instead had chosen to deny or ignore anything to do with it. Instead the government wants to forget about its actions during ww2 and sweep it under the rug. Thats why Godzilla had such a hatred and lust for revenge against Japan in this movie.

What do you mean Godzilla's D-tier? And holy crap Godzilla being A-tier is just unbelivable.

Zilla’s design isn’t actually that bad, it just doesn’t work as Godzilla. I think it could absolutely work as a Godzilla subspecies though

Shin is what actually got me into Godzilla. You feel a sadness for him knowing he’s in constant pain and is quite literally screaming in pain. It’s a horrible life but knowing what he *BECOMES* which is literally omnipotent I just can’t stress enough how cool this Godzilla is, regardless of some minor design flaws but I think that’s on purpose. He’s not supposed to be like… Comfortable. He’s a constantly evolving pain stricken being that is just trying to die, survive, or both. I think he’s supposed to look stiff and disproportionate because he’s constantly changing and he’s still in his infancy. Sorry for the rant I just love Shin. ❤ You’re obviously welcome to your own opinions.

"the krillin of the godzilla universe" You know, sometimes one hears something so SPOT ON, that there is no going back.... This was one.

I don't know if this counts exactly, but for me Legendary goji's sound design alone clinches him a top A ranking. The roar is immediately recognizable as Godzilla's while still sounding more "realistic" and organic, and that atomic breath chargeup sound instantly burned itself into my head.

35:13 So that last part Chibi Godzilla image into G Tier made me laugh. But that one is from Toho’s KZfaq series Godzilla Chibi and they having a Season 2 on April 10th.

I'll still never get over how badass that one design from the canceled 1994 Godzilla movie is. It looked like the perfect rendition of what a American Godzilla would look like.

I love the shin Godzilla design the way he slowly evolve into this terrifying combination

As a huge Evangelion and Godzilla fan i can't help but adore the Shin design, not only because it looks intimidating and goes back to the roots as it name states, but also because of the tragedy surrounding its painful and aggressive evolution. Shin Goji looks like so much more than a giant monster; it looks like an otherworldly threat: a Lovecraftian-like entity that the main characters struggle to understand, and, according to Hideaki Anno, that was the path its evolution would eventually take.

32:45 Fun fact, The 2019 design was actually made bulkier than the 2014 design, rather than made slimmer. 33:06 The Evolved design was made VERY skinny, with the stomach pulled back, thinner legs, a thin and shorter tail, but the arms were incredibly bulked and the neck had also gone thicker

11:24 The most epic dropkick in the history of dropkicks!

Glad you gave a shout out to some of the suit/mo-cap actors, who had probably the biggest challenge when playing the character.

The reason why Godzilla's dorsal spikes glowed pinkish in G x K, was because he got a massive radiation buff from Tiamat's domain.

Ain’t no way Steve just put The Series, Final Wars, and 2014 designs in C Tier 💀💀💀

Oh heck yeah, this is just what the doctor ordered for a Saturday night

My favorite Godzilla suit is KiryuGoji, My favorite things about the suit are the canine-like face and sleek design, I also love how expressive the suit is and he especially looks great in the comics.

Minus 1 number one for me, that shot of the camera panning over to his face when he’s freezing up but still charging up is INSANE, and on a less that 15 mill budget, holy shit. The 2014 deserved B, and KOTM deserved A.

even if zilla was hated on for being not godzilla, he will always be my favorite. I just really enjoy the appearance and different take on the character

i love how calming and therapeutic ur voice is

Godzilla vs. Gigan was also the last film in the Showa era where legendary suit actor Haruo Nakajima would play the big G.

I like how you said "green makes sense for radioactivity" when blue also does. Turns out that different elements actually burn different colors.

I feel like Shin Godzilla's strange body porportions kind of adds to the creepy scary vibe. Like he dosent look "right" which really triggers a uncanny feeling in a good way.

Godzilla 2000 is probably my favorite. He was my main character in save the earth, and I loved him because as a kid I thought he was cool because he was from the early 2000’s like me

4:41 I never really thought he would mention the man in the suit

I actually like the gxk design a lot, the pink atomic breath, his skinny build to make him run faster, it’s awesome

Godzilla Minus One was one of the beat movies to come out in December! I went and watched it four times!

I watched Shin Godzilla for the first time a couple of months ago. It has to be one of my favorite designs. It really brings Godzilla back to the horror aspect. He is the most unsettling version of Godzilla we've seen, from the way we see him crawling on the ground to evolving to what we get at the end. Absolutely well done. I get why he wouldn't necessarily be an S tier for everyone but he is in my book.

The really sad thing about Tora-Goji is that there WAS an honest-to-God traditional Godzilla designed and modeled, along with a completely different script that had him facing a fire-bird sort of monster (I think the opponent’s name was Griffon, but don’t quote me on that), but it all got scrapped once Roland Emmerich replaced the original choice for director. Emmerich has openly stated that he knew nothing about Godzilla and had no intention of doing any sort of research to at least get some basics down, and thought the whole concept was stupid which is why he went with a disaster movie approach, on top of that being his specialty. But like most things, the original ‘98 concept made its way to the internet, and he looks FANTASTIC. He’s greenish instead of black or charcoal colored, but he looks like a very cool spin on the Heisei model, upright but with less folds and wrinkles in his skin (especially on the legs) and a mouth that looks like it took a hint of inspiration from the American alligator. Emmerich not only disrespected the hell out of Big G with GINO, but denied us one of the coolest looks ever designed for him.

35:20 Putting Chibi Godzilla in the G tier is so Based

Some of the reasons for putting certain suits in place sis very weird, like saying a bunch of positives about the singularity point Godzilla, then saying how he is super big from the waist down and his face looks weird in the front puts him all the way down in D tier. I’m just more or less confused on how the ratio of good vs bad goes into the ranking.

The little guy is Chibi Goji which is a Goji used to introduce kids to the big guy himself There's coloring books Music CDs Books And short OVA's Ect.

I love the Megaro design. Definitely peak “good guy” Godzilla.

The 1998 Godzilla is one of my favorite designs

I don't usually care much for ranking videos, but I love Godzilla and the history behind the designs is awesome to see!

Shin is my favorite design since he has numerous forms, and his fourth form is badass. God forbid what his 5th form looks like. I don’t remember where I read this, but one of Minus One’s details is that he has scars and burns instead of reptilian scales, as he is a personification of grief.

You should do a review on Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky, it fits your channel and its also a great series

Final wars in c teir is a crime he was one of if not the most menacing and scary Godzilla

In regards to atomic colors, Legendary Godzilla and Shin fall under the higher spectrum of radiation levels. With purple then pink being on top with a pink level equivalent to first responders radiation levels at Chernobyl. Radiation level colors go from: Green > Blue > Purple > Magenta/Pink

2023/2024 is a great year for us Godzilla fans. I can't wait for future projects from both ToHo and legendary 🔥🔥🔥

The Heisei designs are also my favorite, especially the Burning Godzilla suit for how menacing and visually stunning it is, his theme in that movie is also my favorite. But great overall list! I personally have grown to really like the Monsterverse design. I look forward to your review of Godzilla Minus One!

The ShoshingekiGoji suit looked great in every single one of it's appearances. Even in Godzilla vs Gigan, where it was visibly falling apart, it still looked very menacing.

The 2014 design will always be peak

FINALLY I WAITED THIS VIDEO SINCE I WAS BORN!!!!

3:30 I can't stop laughing at this part of the video

As someone who became engrossed into Godzilla movies early on, the 98 Zilla Godzilla holds a special place in my heart. It was the first Godzilla movie I'd ever seen, and I immediately loved what it was. I loved the look, the sounds, the speed, the music, all of it was a spectacle...which is probably why it fell flat, in the end (with the jets and all). It wasn't trying to give a message through the character like '54 Gojira, or the later Shin Gojira and Minus One Gojira...it's a spectacle monster, like those of the Showa Era, nothing to see here but good times, laughs, and/or action! That was it's flaw; too much about the spectacle, not enough about the seriousness of the situation the movie presented (i.e. a new mutant creature that is practically unstoppable, and is multiplying like wildfire). I definitely think his portrayal in that movie was absolutely weak, and yet: I loved how much more natural of an approach Tri-Star was going with Godzilla in that one; more of a survivor/scavenger, rather than a nuclear blast needing a doomsday sci-fi device that isn't real to kill the monster. I can appreciate the realism of jet fighters taking down a big dinosaur, versus a mad scientist making an even WORSE doomsday weapon than a nuclear bomb to kill something made from nuclear bombs. This Godzilla was fast as heck, cunning, and was the first time we were seeing a Godzilla burrow deep underground and navigate _under_ a city, rather than just totally level it. In a major sense, going the Iguana route was really fascinating to me, esp. as an adult now. Do I hate Zilla? Far from it, he's the reason I love Godzilla today. That said though: I think it's certainly lacking in a lot of core-Godzilla aspects (being way too horizontal, as you stated, not having an atomic breath, and being extremely weak to weapons). Did Toho's monsters look better in the end, absolutely. I think Zilla deserved a C Tier, at least. And with the animated Zilla, a B honestly (because they actually made him use atomic breath, instead of hot sauce indigestion gas from the 98 Zilla film). I think they were awesome to look at at the time they were made (esp in certain scenes with the lighting, because the CGI was stellar for the 90s), and I have a lot of respect for what they were trying to do with the vision of the film being less about a bi-product of nuclear force in the form of an unstoppable monster, and more of a terrifying creature that is trying to live, because it's the only one of its kind (which also made the idea of the baby Zillas terrifying, because a world full of them would be a nightmare!). But I do agree, Zilla is not the best, by a landslide...I do think though Zilla deserved more than bottom of the tier-list. The massive reason we all dislike the film though isn't because of Godzilla himself, I think...it's the human characters...they're all kinda sucky...and that's too bad. But hey, that's just this fan's opinion. Great vid, overall. Cheers.

Minus One looks so much like Heisei and Legendary its like Heisei and Legendary made a baby and birthed Minus One Heisei's Arms, Legs, Thickness Legendary's Scales, Dorsal Plates, Gyattness like literally bro....

I still have my Imperial Godzilla toy with glorious derpy eyes, he is my center piece on my coffee table, I have him sitting down playing a music box piano.

Godzilla 2014 isn't really that fat though, it's more muscular. It certainly looks less fat than the fat rolls that were on most heisei Godzilla suits lol.

2:27 Thank you for finally saying this along with minus one so many people keep saying Godzilla skin is green but it’s not in the poster it was. But the original was black or grey, bumpy, and rocky looking to immtate burns people get due to radiation.

This video has to be one of the best ranking videos I’ve seen of the Godzilla franchise. All of the reasonings for why the Godzilla suits were placed where they were are extremely solid and reasonable, and I respect all the choices that I both agreed and disagreed with. Really good list and a really good video. It goes to show how much care and love goes into this franchise from you. Great job.

6:44 Goji when the thing you did wasn't very cash money

the green little guy is from the show Chibi Godzilla, I think the first episode is on Toho's official Godzilla KZfaq channel.

Thanks for giving a photo I took of Godzilla on the set of GMK exposure here. Such an honor.

Umm Steve? Be aware you’re using fan made animations for the ani-goji segment. None of it appears in the film trilogy and it’s all done by 華音 or @Canon_MMD. If your aware because of how much Godzilla earth does (which is not much at all) then that’s fine for better shots, but I see no credit for them to their channel.. Link for those who are curious. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJ6hmJmTuZ7Lc6M.htmlsi=ds1KiWvN771_Jcl3 Good video, just so I’m clear, just giving a heads up.

Honestly I love the US design (monster verse) at first I was like everyone “oh Merica so fat” but honestly after they slimmed him down I absolutely adored the look of him it to me at least feels like a perfect mix of past and present.

I actually love the MechaGoji suit, he has so much character and a look of raw determination, and he fights like a wrestler (same with Megalon one). I will never forget the scene of him using lightning to give himself a magnetic charge.

9:14 I’m so happy you added Jirahs 😊

Zilla is an amazing design IF you consider him as his own kaju, separate for Godzilla. Having him be big yet slim gives him the uncanny fast movement that is terrifying for something so big. The comics and show did him justice but as him being the Godzilla? Nah he can’t make a good design better by changing THAT much.

I did not expect you to do Godzilla, thank you so much! :D

5:41 when someone talks smack about me from behind my back

Nice to see someone else make the Krillin and Anguirus comparison. They can't always keep up, but we still love them both.

10:24 important to note that Gemstonegoji and FinalGoji are now being used for G-Fest films, so it could soon "outuse" this Goji

1:24 The Disrespect 😂😂😂

Legendary godzilla not being at least A tier is actually crazy

Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla had the coolest design. Most interesting concept too how they made it evolve in a really gruesome way. Theres art that shows how its "final" form wouldve looked and its so cool how the tail turned into a head as well, and the smaller humanoid things coming off the tail at the end of the movie. I really liked that idea. My personal favorite Godzilla.

Legendary’s design is my absolute personal favourite, especially the KotM. Just perfection!

Hail to the king of the monsters 👑. Im a big fan of Godzilla and he will always be my favorite movie monster.

Shin and Minus One are my favorite Godzilla designs ever, and favorite Godzilla movies. Shin...do I even need to explain why? The pure horror of Godzilla's forms is just breathtaking. And Minus One...they somehow made Godzilla look threatening at all angles, which to me, I find almost impossible to do

Oh, come on. Zilla doesn't deserve to be hated because it's totally normal for a character to go through significant changes later on

Minus One felt S-tier for me and makes me excited for Godzilla to return to Japanese production. He just is so menacing in this design, the beady eyes aren't as scary as Shin but they're still quite amazing. And also the cinematography of some of the shots made it feel like a suit instead of CG. They captured the classic look perfectly while bringing it into the modern CGI age. And ya as you said, greatest and most intimidating charge up we've ever seen. The whole movie made me excited for Japan to being making Godzilla movies again, and i seriously hope they give that studio full reign to make a bunch more movies

19:48 I had that toy set as a kid. And the portable video game where you had to destroy the military under water, while they attack from every angle.

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Godzilla minus 1's design is the only one to have actually win an Oscar

Shin Godzilla will always be my favorite for just how different of a monster he is (aside from the plant based Godzilla from Godzilla earth). Like the original film hes a indirect creation from man, an innocent creature mutated from chemicals angry at the people that disturbed nature, living in constant pain and rapid evolution. Concept art shows ideas of even more mutated versions with multiple heads growing and a 2nd body growing on his back, along with the deleted scene of eyes and teeth growing from the chunks that fell off of him. A true catastrophe created by the carelessness of mankind, in the end its not even the chemical companies/government that gets that truly suffers, it's the people that had nothing to do with it that had their homes destroyed; the irony.

Fun fact: Minus One Godzilla was scaled down to the original 1954 design in height, being only slightly taller.

6:15 here’s a fun fact about the king goji suit this suit was reused in Godzilla vs mothra (1964) right when Godzilla got silked by mothra larva

I fell in love with Shin years ago and was what got me into Godzilla and he's still my favorite to this day. His design is horrific and his atomic breath scene still gives me goosebumps.

Also as a long lanky guy with hands, I feel seen.

Hey Steve, not sure you’ve heard, but there was a short Japanese educational series about the very rampaging reptile, focusing on himself as a baby where he learns mathematics and writing. Would it also shock you that out of all kaiju’s, Mothra is the mother of the group, while MechaGodzilla is the lonesome bully?

YESSIR! ALL HAIL THE KING! 🫅🫅🫅🫅🫅🫅

I have to say that I like the look of smaller, more twisted arms on a Godzilla, especially on the shin Godzilla. They look like the arms of charred up bodies, tucked around their chest when the heat contracts the muscles.

I loved how not only did Minus One Goji's dorsal plates extend out one by one, but how that sequence accelerates as it ascends his spine. And then to top it all off, they all slam down, much like what you'd see in nuclear reactor control rods. The Minus One atomic breath is by far the most devastating we've ever seen it, and its powerup sequence helps establish its incredible potential and deadly impact.

Henesi is honestly one of my favorites, The angry cat face is just an favorite for me. It looks a bit 'Childish' Which makes it different. Which is just funny as my favorite.

Steve: I’m a Godzilla fan Also Steve: *Millennial* era Also Also Steve: Doesn’t know Chibi Godzilla

"idfk where this little guy came from, g tier" is the most fitting reaction possible to chibi goji.

Shin Godzilla is my personal favourite Godzilla design with minus one right behind.

I would definitely rank Godzilla Ultima way higher in A tier.

The last Godzilla design was from a chibi comedy anime called Chibi Godzilla. Technically, not really Godzilla, but his son. Season 1 had him giving Chibi MechaGodzilla a tour around Monster Island and introducing him to his friends, who are also chibi versions of classic Godzilla monsters.

Can we just stop and appreciate the suit actors who had to wear the suits… thank you have a nice day

I waited all the video to know what was that green plushy thing! And boy. YOU DELIVERED 🤣

Personally, I love Ultima for how “alien” it looks

Ugh, I actually think the 1998 Godzilla design is my favorite, so many people hate on it and I can't understand why...minus the lack of atomic breath, it's a cool looking design.

Ngl I always thought the Raids Again suit was creepy. Like it’s proportions are almost too human, and there’s absolutely nothing behind it’s dead eyes.

2:22 Also, the tail of a Sauropod.

So glad when I saw you in my notifications again. GODZILLA ON TOP 💪

I think Zilla is a pretty good design for a Kaiju but it misses the mark for a Godzilla design. Although arguably it is the most "realistic" Godzilla we've had.

Despite all the hate that Zilla 1998 has, I genuinely like it. The design is unique and takes a nice turn on Godzilla, but it’s just so overhated. I really like the movie, it being the first Godzilla movie I had ever seen, and it’s really cool. His roar is good, it’s just the story that’s bad. But overall, I really like 1998 Godzilla