Godzilla Island


Godzilla Island is a television show spinoff of the Godzilla franchise. It premiered on October 6, 1997, and ran for a total of 256 three-minute episodes, finishing on September 30, 1998.

Premise

Set in 2097, most of Earth's kaiju live on an island out in the Pacific Ocean called Godzilla Island, which is monitored by G-Guard. The creatures living on the island includes Godzilla, Godzilla Junior, Mothra, Mothra Leo, Rodan, Fire Rodan, King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, Anguirus, Gigan, Hedorah, Destoroyah, Baragon, King Caesar, Moguera, Megalon, Battra, SpaceGodzilla, Gorosaurus, Kamacuras and Jet Jaguar. Torema and Zagreth's kaiju includes a black-coloured Mechagodzilla, a fully mechanical King Ghidorah, a new version of Hedorah, Kumasogami, Jigora, a powered-up version of SpaceGodzilla, a different version of Fake Godzilla, Proto Moguera and Gororin. One kaiju that did not appear in a Godzilla movie, a miniature version of Dogora, also appears for a few episodes, working with Zagreth. Kumonga, Ebirah, Varan, Manda, the Showa Mechagodzilla, Titanosaurus, Gabara, Minilla, Biollante, Oodako, Ookondoru, and The [Return of Godzilla | Shockirus] does not appear in the series. Ebirah, Manda and Varan are mentioned in the theme song, while King Kong does not appear in the series due to legal reasons.

Cast

  • Jiro Dan as G-Guard Commander
  • as Torema
  • as Misato
  • Nagisa Sawamura as Nao
  • as Zagreth
  • as Randeth

    Voices

  • Kenichiro Shimamura as Lucas
  • Yutaka Aoyama as Narrator

    Episodes

Marketing

A large number of tie-in toys were produced for this series by Bandai, since this series' kaiju sequence was filmed through the use of action figures.
A CD of theme music, mostly composed by Akira Ifukube, was released in 1997 by Polygram entitled 'Welcome To Godzilla Island'.

Release

In 2007, a 4-disc DVD set including every episode of the show was released in Japan at a price of 16,000 yen.
In 2018, Toho began streaming the series in Japan on the official Godzilla YouTube channel, with each episode made available for four weeks after its release.
In 2023, Toho began releasing episodes with English subtitles though the official Godzilla by Toho YouTube channel, the first time the series was made available outside of Japan.