Godzilla: S.P

Well, this is it. Now we wait for season 2. From what I can tell you, this series is better to binge-watch cause they'd hit you with big brain terms that would challenge even Einstein himself. The story is... Well, it's not really bad, but it's not good. Basically this season is a big info-dump. Not really the type I like. I like info-dumps, but if they were done basically all the time, then even I get turned off. Also, the main big in the title only appeared briefly lmao The characters also isn't the best thing. They aren't characters, but just plot device that explains the plot for the viewers. Heck, even the AI themselves have more personalities compared to the actual characters lol That doesn't really scream good character writing. The animation is really really good. Of course if we separate the different styles. Because of the mishmash of the great CGI of Orange studio and the stylized animation style of Bones studio, both styles are fighting when they are on the same screen at the same time. It really shows how disconnected each style are from another even though separately, both styles are great and worthy of 9/10. But sadly, they just look jarring together in the same screen. The music is great. The OST is good and the op/ed themes are both decent. I don't really have have problems with music from Godzilla franchise. But here, really nothing stands out. But still consistently good. Overall, I probably won't rewatch this series even if season 2 comes. I'm just really not a fan of big info-dumps.

There is no denying the originality of this story. It certainly is the most intellectual (or pseudo-intellectual depending on your point of view) Godzilla story ever told. That this story is being told through the medium of anime instead of live action should not come as a surprise since there are moments throughout the show that would cost millions in SFX if done live action. I like the characters very much. They are all intelligent and rarely do anything stupid that makes you groan. Some characters who would have been turned into a second rate villain in past Godzilla stories are actually very nuanced and have reasonable points of view to do what they think is the right thing. The MC's are not superheroes, but just very intelligent characters trying to do their best, as in real life. The anime style is very original. It tries its best to balance between cute and realistic. I think they did a pretty good job. The story is a very interesting original tale, if not a little convoluted. Time travel stories are notoriously hard to keep a track of, and this one is no different. The first half gives you the mystery and is straightforward enough, but the second half gets boggled down by the pseudo-science and at certain points become almost incomprehensible without the MCs giving us an info dump in the way of SMS text messages between the two. Not exactly subtle. Also, let me warn you that the ending is rather abrupt. Not bad, but also not the best. The best thing about this show is that you can tell the creators love the Godzilla (and other Toho monster) franchises. The EP is simply a love letter to all past films and is an absolute joy to try to find every little bit of Easter Egg in it. I've noticed about two dozen immediately, but my understanding is that there are a heck of a lot more. I would absolutely recommend this show. It is fun. It is certainly much better than the last attempt to animate Godzilla.

Godzilla Singular Point is going to get a lot of small minded fake galaxy brain talk because of its speed and the wide variety of high concept science fiction references. Those people have misread the show. Godzilla SP is a goofy, fluffy, and overall fun time. There's classic kaiju running around, rendered in lame-cool CG. There's a lazy genius guy and an energetic genius girl who shout commands at a cute animated AI to do all the fake deep science for them. There's a massive cast of fully formed eccentric adult with quirks rather than horny teenager merch objects. And, maybe most impressive, all eight of sci-fi visual novel plots that usually fucking suck in these shows are here, but they fly past while the AI dog does some goofy sight gag. This show does not give a fuck about handling narrative twists in a certain way nor does it think any of the sci-beats are more important than the character interactions which all kick ass. The massive supporting ensemble works well enough by not pretending to be anything more than vehicles to move between the secret underground lab to the Diet building. And they look good as hell while it all happens. The show just wants to give you wide establishment shots followed either by the lazy genius guy and goofy-cool CG kaiju fighting the goofy DIY mech or the energetic genius girl running along with her AI dog box on wheels talking about diagonal lines or some shit. The characters are colored with a bright flatness that rubs against the CG really well without ever being too loud or overstated. This isn't ground breaking, but if a monster of the week show pretending to be high concept sci fi kind of sounds interesting to you, then please check it out.

Well, well, well. This is certainly a Godzilla sci-fi flick at best, through one that tries to inject life into the classic franchise by incorporating a rather lengthy (and much too convoluted) sci-fi angle story that at the end of the day, is stilll centered around Toho's now decades-old famous Kaiju IP. Being the latest entry in the slew of Godzilla TV series (and not counting the numerous films that were both hits and misses), the announced show (that is this one: Godzilla: Singular Point) that is exclusively made for Netflix reams around the all-too-familiar big Godzilla Kaiju fights by stacking another sci-fi and technical story on top of the already co-existing sci-fi Tokusatsu series. I know how much many of you hate the Netflix binging business model of having to release all at one go (as opposed to releasing weekly), but for shows like these that are locked behind the jail that is Netflix Japan, your only choice is to sail the high seas in order to watch this one. The many mixed-media derivatives of Godzilla vary by tone and themes per its source, and in the case of Singular Point, incorporates complex internal mythology (or a "shared universe" for the easy-going), because its themes forces you to be highly IQ-centric in order to figure out what is truly going on with not just the resurrection of Godzilla by its unique means to Singular Point, but also the various routes and processes that evolve this story plot from just a foreseeable time-travel experiment that had its shares of shortcomings as starting clues, to one that requires you to be very attentive to the information dished out with the tight pacing within these 13 episodes (well, minus the final episode as per the norm for a closure finish), and the icing on the cake: Godzilla itself as the constant threat that everyone knows all too well (this should be the easiest to understand regardless of your IQ). This is in all parts, a contribution to the show's scriptwriting that is handled by Toh EnJoe, being a man that is full of wonders for both science fiction and physics. He helped work episodic scripts for Space Dandy, and also worked together with the late Satoshi Itou at a time when both of their sci-fi novels were getting attention (the former with the highly acclaimed decade-old Genocidal Organ, and the latter with Toh's own "concept album" Self-Reference ENGINE), and earned the latter the highly prestigous Nihon SF Taisho (or the equivalent of the Nebula Award in the West) for the mediocre-to-decent Shisha no Teikoku a.k.a The Empire of Corpses. To that effect, Godzilla: Singular Point definitely reeks of the immaculate sci-fi handy work of Toh EnJoe, bringing in his literary "allusional" fiction works of mathematical motifs that are sprung throughout the series as modern technology and history combine to outdo a common threat, from the core settings to even the episode titles. In case you weren't paying attention, all Japanese and English episode titles contain EXACTLY eight characters, and when arranged along the edges of a cube in 3D space, the first and last letters of episode titles intersect at the vertices, spelling the word "together". For context, 99% of anime nowadays just lift off episode titles based on their source material's counterparts to match similar terms, leaving original anime to be forced to be creative with their episode titles, and this show certainly knows how to deliver that effect as well. Despite being a veteran sci-fi writer for more than a decade, the Average Joes like you and me won't see that everything else clicks until the final moments, and that's where people will conspicuously feel like they have something missing to the mystery to the make-or-break point of dropping this show when the going gets tough. As a veteran AniManga watcher, I implore you to see through the lines if you're hell-bent on enjoying this show, it'll take some levels of brain power just to understand what's going on while the unique mystery slowly piles up. So then, what exactly is Godzilla: Singular Point all about? As I've surfaced just a moment ago, it's modern technology at the forefront, while keeping the historical symbolism of Godzilla central, as with the sprinkling of the different Kaiju from Rodan, Anguirus, Jet Jaguar, Manda, to even Godzilla Aqualitus and Salunga, all hailing from the Showa Era of the franchise. What feels standalone to S.P. is the main characters: two geniuses (Mei Kamino and Yun "Gintoki look-alike" Arikawa), both specializing in their different fields (the former is a technological research nut with her Pero 2 machine-cum-A.I. helper, the latter an on-the-ground engineer with the Otaki Company of boss Goro and helpers Haberu Katou and Satomi Kanahara), and from the current issue of a lullaby that springs out classic Godzilla-variant Kaijus, they must work together to prevent a catastrophe from the eventual resulting factor that is Godzilla's destroying rampage. Even when operating at different stages, both Mei and Yun know that answers will be hard to come by depending on their unique circumstances, and Toh EnJoe's allegory of the mathmetical physics structure only confides the reasoning that while the end result is one big picture, the many smaller puzzle pieces are just set-ups to a whizz-level story that only gets better...if you can consummate piece by piece to arrive at the only resultant circumstance. Again, the keyword being "together", both Mei and Yun's allies help shape the foundation of the many workaround theories analyzed and scrutinized with their constant conflicting information to see the big picture and eradicate the Singular Point of the show (which is just more than just Godzilla alone). Now that's a lot of bludgeoning information to swallow, even when the paths are both linear and non-linear. But trust me, when you are able to see the fractured pieces that slowly come together to form the big picture, then this by a long extent, will only be certified as a good show. Being a Netflix-exclusive show can only mean that production quality will be subpar, but bringing in two of the most prolific studios together for a co-production, this in no doubt, raises expectations from the get-go. You have Orange for the OK-ish tried-and-true 3DCG formula with the Kaiju, while Bones handled basically everything else, and this at least swallows the fact that this show's production values will be considered as the decent-to-good mid-tier echelon of Netflix productions. Still though, always keep your expectations in check when shows only have Netflix as its streaming platform. The music is somewhat so-so, I'd expected a better showing from BiSH because of their song repertoire standards from Black Clover, and the OP here just sounds very mid, and with the Netflix standard of "Skip Intro", you can click that button as you so desire and go ahead with the episode contents. On the other hand, I adore Polkadot Stingray's music style a lot that's experienced from Radiant's 1st ED, and the same J-Pop style lingers here for the ED, this is a great song, no doubt at all. It takes a real deal to understand this show, and by all accounts, it is equally taxing on trying to concentrate a lot for this show's between-the-lines commentaries while watching this like the average anime nut. Unless you really don't care for all the sci-fi in-between, this show is still Godzilla at the heart of it all, and depending on your takes of the amount of Kaiju there is to find for caveats, this would be an entangled mess of an experience. Take it or leave it, this show has more Singular Points pertaining to never-ending doubts.

Godzilla S.P truly is disappointing, maybe because it is not what I expect at all but I think most would agree Here I thought it was gonna be a proper Kaiju film, you know big monsters destroying cities or fighting with each other but NO instead they spend most of the time talking this science(and also some poetry or something) mambo jumbo that people don't really understand or care through the human character which btw seems rather uninteresting. For the art and sound well it's a meh So unless you are a HUGE HUGE fan of Godzilla, I don't think you are gonna enjoy it

(writing this drunk an the only reason its rated 5 is cause i have a godzilla bias) Unless you are a massive godzilla fan do not watch this and instead watch many of the live action films. I am the biggest Godzilla fan I know and been wanting to write a review for this series but at the time I could not put my feelings into words. The story is fucking boring as fuck they hit you with so much made up sience terms and philosophy instead of BIG MONSTERS FIGHTING EACHOTHER. I mean what were they thinking when they made this show do they not even know why Godzilla got popular in the first place we wanna see Godzilla beat the shit out of other monsters and destroy cities and armies, instead we get the most boring characters spouting off made up bullshit for 95% of the show, Godzilla himself does not even make a full appearence until episode 10 is stupid and even after he shows up he doesn't do anything and we get a lackluster fight at the end between Godzilla and Jet Jaguar. The show could have been better if Godzilla showed up way sooner and fought more monsters from the classic films and remove ALL of the made up science boring talk that honestly reminds me of boring shows like fate/stay night and gundam unicorn. DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW, WATCH THE HEISEI TIMELINE - Gojira (1954) - The return of Godzilla (1984) - Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) - Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991) - Godzilla vs Mothra (1992) - Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla (1993) - Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla (1994) - Godzilla vs Destroyah (1995) these films are better at telling a good story thats easy to follow while giving you good monster fights. You can also watch the showa timeline or millenium films to because they are also good and the monsterverse is also good. TLDR SHOW IS BORING AND THERE ARE NO FIGHTS.

Regrettably, the Orthogonal Diagonalizer arrived too late to stop this anime from being made, ushering in a true Catastrophe. Superficially, this is a pretty well-made show. It looks good and was clearly directed with a relatively strong sense of how to visually present a story with some verve. But, oh Lord is the writing horrifically bad, and in the end, no director can cover for dialogue this dreadful. Godzilla S.P. is plagued by too many characters, too much pointless talking, and far too little Godzilla and friends. I’m not sure the endless rambling of virtually every character who receives any significant screen time is best described as pretentious, or merely inane, but whether spouting literary or philosophical references or just a word salad of incomprehensible technobabble, the criminally bad dialogue in this show proves that the only monster really needing to be stopped is the guy who wrote this garbage. The writer clearly believed that taking the subtext of the traditional Godzilla story and trying to explain it in great detail using pseudoscience stuffed into the mouths of the characters would be a good addition to the canon. Truly, a Godzilla-sized mistake.

Well written and thought out holistically, a show made above the standard of modern film or animation, one that commits to its scope and amazingly actually manages to thread the line between science and fiction in a way that is both plausible enough not to take you out of it, and out there enough to be deeply interesting. Godzilla: S.P is a commendable piece, a brave production; for unlike its contemptible contemporaries which confound quality and intention ultimately and unavoidably under-delivering. it does not make the childish attempt to reach implausible heights of emotion or "art", and it doesn't sell itself out for ratings with stupid fan service or a cheesy romance plot, it doesn't pander to the audience, it doesn't dumb itself down, nor does it pretend to be more profound than it is, and for all that it deserves reverence and respect, for it truly is brave to do so; it costs money to make a show, and because of that shows are usually dressed up shit; they need to sell, to do that they need to attract people, and people aren't actually drawn to quality; they are drawn to Kitsch. It really is impressive how well this show delivers on its premise and on what it promises the viewer, especially when compared to most other anime which almost always set their ambitions too high and fail to fulfill even a fraction of them. In contrast Godzilla: S.P is a show that wraps its entire plot up in 12 episodes with basically perfect pacing and writing, great action, great voice acting, superb animation, amazing sound design/soundtrack and heaps of personality. The perfect is the enemy of the good, and attempting to make the greatest story is essentially the downfall of most stories. Godzilla: S.P is one of the best because it just tries to be good, not one of the best. Of course those distinctions are just a bit too subtle for the average person, and certainly too subtle for the average anime fan, and so the show somehow got a very low user rating on this website.

This show was a poor depiction of Toho's infamous king of the monsters, Godzilla. The trailer for this show had me excited however, the final product was very lackluster. Most of the show was intellectuals talking about concepts that went way over my head, like what the fart is a singular point. On top of this, the classic Godzilla monsters in this show were portrayed poorly. Rodan, Anguirus, and all of the other monsters were highly undersized and underwhelming. Even Godzilla himself had a ugly new depiction, which was disappointing. I came to watch Godzilla wallop on iconic kaiju not whatever this show was.

I don't know why I see so many people giving this show even a 6. It genuinely baffles me. The "characters" are just there to serve the plot or look cool/cute (which none of them manage to do.) The cgi was fine for godzilla and JJ, but everything else was garbage. There's this one seen in the last episode where one of the monsters swings down this rope thing and holy, it looked like it belonged in 2002 not 2021. The story was boring, I ended up skipping through most of it on my first attempt watching and watching on 2x speed my next. Even the episodes I did watch in the normal speed (first three) I can't remember anything from. The story's pacing was really weird. Like end of the world could be happening but the mc's would just be wandering around fighting some random monster or looking for clues. Honestly I still don't understand the mystery aspect, but it could be because I was just too bored to pay attention to it. I think the show gets most of its mileage from nostalgia baiting and pretending to be Shin Godzilla, which I guess worked alright for them. All in all I wouldn't recommend the show, there's so much Godzilla media out there please pick something better than this cash grab.

This anime is not for everyone, just because you have funny colours, robots and Godzillas and looks like a standard anime to watch... it's not. Most people watching this are either children or, sorry for the term, "illiterate" people. This is why the score is so low, even though the story is so D*** GOOD! It's the only explanation possible for such unfair rating. Hear me out, this anime will give you the most convoluted science class you will ever have in your whole life. And to make it worse/better (depending how your brain is developed) it presented to you at light speed. If I had to summed up the entire anime in a sentence would be. "Do you know what "Schrodinger cat" is? Yeah if you don't, than this anime is probably not for you. Its a super underrated anime that was bashed by braindead people who can't even question things they take for granted because they are in front of them and where never used for anything different. The story is so real, that makes you question reality on it self, and this is the plot device for the entire series. And probably the only logical way to make a "Godzila" situation be real in the 1st place. And this anime delivers it so wellllllllllllll! How? The characters, you have all type of characters combined in a very well rounded cast, their conversations are super high intellect and if you pay attention, you will see what is to come and how much potential this anime has. I don't want to spoil anything, cause this anime got me hocked since episode one and I couldn't stop watching it. Because you really don't see very good Animes with some deep story as this one. This made me remember they 1st time I watched Steins;Gate dang I knew something big was coming and this anime calls out the exact same vibe that will culminate in the end and blend everything together so well, it's so satisfying. I swear that Animes should be judged per single series(and not seasons) and by age rating. So you can have all the proper metrics to justify if an anime is worth the watch or not. And this one is worthy, if you are a smart person or interested in science to a degree (I wasn't) you will enjoy it sooooooooo much. Plus the Opening intro music is a dang BANGER! Come on on this alone the anime should be worth 7/10 right there! The anime is super colourful, the story is so on point and develops as it should without any BS! The anime as no fillers, is all full story non-stop from the get go till the end! Easily a 8/11 assuming mature people are actually watching this. Ps: My mom approves of this anime! She really does!

Today I'll be giving my thoughts on Netflix's second attempt at a Godzilla anime, Godzilla: Singular Point. This show is an utter mess, and I'll get into why in this review. Let's get into specifics. Story: 1 This category is where most of the issues with this anime lie. To be blunt, this is probably the most confusing piece of entertainment I've ever witnessed. I'm convinced you need to have an exponentially high IQ in order to comprehend what's going on. The reason this show is so confusing is the piles of techno-babble words used in every episode. Your average viewer won't have much of an idea what many of the terms used mean, let alone how to apply them in the context of the story. In broad terms, said story revolves around the appearance of strange & dangerous monsters around the world and how they could bring an end to the world as the characters know it. In more specific terms, the show involves ideas of dimensions unseen, events that shouldn't be theoretically possible but happen by means of said unseen dimensions, predictions from decades past, electromagnetic waves, an element that requires questioning the fabric of reality to rationalize, and much more. If those concepts alone are too much to wrap you're head around, I wouldn't exactly blame you, as I can barely understand them myself. Because of all this, the pacing of this show feels like one one a minigun, firing on all cylinders with no let up to gauge what exactly is happening. The nature of this show also creates a conflict of interest, as the nigh-incomprehensible concepts create a lack of interest while the rapid-fire pacing makes not missing even a single line of dialogue a priority. Also, I find it hilarious that this show has a post-credit scene in the last episode as a form of sequel bait, as if anyone who watched this would want more. Art: 6 The animation of this show is, without a shadow of a doubt, its best aspect. Unlike Netflix's previous attempt at a Godzilla anime, this show is very vibrant and lively in its presentation. However, that can come to be a fault at times, as the color red will take over the screen in some scenes. Also unlike the previous work, the human characters are all hand-drawn rather than CG. This leads to the characters moving fluidly, as one would expect. However, not everything in this show is animated in the traditional sense, as all of the monsters and the robot, Jet Jaguar, are computer-generated. This CG isn't too bad, but everything animated like this moves a bit more janky and at a lower frame rate compared to the hand-drawn parts. The opening is very aesthetically pleasing and cool. I can't speak for the ending, as I never watch it since Netflix automatically starts the next episode a few seconds after it starts. Sound: 6 There isn't really much to say about this category. The sound effects sound as you'd expect them to, but they don't sound spectacular by any means. The monsters' roars also sound fine, but many of them I believe are recycled from previous, undoubtedly much better Godzilla works by Toho, including the titular kaiju. What elevates the sound from average to fair is the awesome opening, in case... by BiSH. It's very upbeat and catchy, just overall a good song. I have no opinion on the ending song, Aoi (青い) by POLKADOT STINGRAY, since, as previously mentioned, I never stay for the ending. The voice acting is also good but unremarkable. All of the voices fit the characters good enough. Character: 2 The characters in this show really aren't that great. They have little to no development as people and act more as vessels to drive the story forward than human beings with their own personalities and feelings. The closest this show gets to giving any character any semblance of development is having one of the characters have a daughter. Other than that, this is really the bottom of the barrel in terms of development. At least the characters the audience is supposed to like are likable throughout the duration of the show and vice versa. Enjoyment: 2 This anime started off decently enjoyable to watch at first, but then completely fell off the wagon with all the pseudo-philosophical jargon that bashes the audience over the head in every episode. Once the show becomes as confusing as it'll stay for the majority of its run time, it becomes an exercise of patience. You'll hope that the topics juggled around in this show will eventually attain a suitable level of comprehensiveness, but, if anything, the show just gets more complicated as it trudges on. By the end, the only facet of enjoyment that is salvageable from this mess is the cool kaiju and the havoc they cause. After all, it's pretty hard to mess up something as easy as a cool monster fight, at least in concept. But even then, Godzilla doesn't even show up until the show is halfway through and doesn't make as many appearances as I assume audiences would like from their piece of Godzilla media. Overall: 2 Despite very occasional redeeming factors, Godzilla: Singular Point is an utter trainwreck of kaiju-sized proportions. Characters are pathetically lacking in development, animation and sound are generally nothing to write home about, and, above all else, the story and the interactions that encompass it would even throw the heads of the likes of Stephen Hawking and Thomas Edison into a tailspin. For the second time, Netflix has tried and spectacularly failed at delivering a Godzilla story worth the time and mental effort of fans via making them unnecessarily complicated and multi-layered. There's only so much that needs to be done in order to make a Godzilla work enjoyable and Netflix has twice now gone above and beyond to a fault. I cannot, within any realm of my sanity, recommend this anime to anyone that values their time or appreciates a show they can fully understand. If anyone is daring enough to brave the choppy waters of this anime, it is available exclusively on Netflix.

Is entertainment the same as quality? well the answer is an obvious no, quality by nature is more objective than subjective with entertainment being the exact opposite. This is a type of show that unless you are into hard sci-fi things, you WILL find to be very boring, but... is that really a problem? people forget that This show is first and for most is a sci-fi. and that is the fault of this shows' advertisement and name. This is not a Godzilla series with sci-fi elements. it's a sci-fi that Godzilla just happened to be in it. now that you know why the show is rated so lowly despite of my high score, let's talk about the show. ***** Story: 8.5/10, writing:8/10, Direction: 8/10, Pacing: 6.5/10 story: For you to get the story, you need to pay full attention to every single line of dialogue, so I suggest watching the show In dub. Trust me, I watched both versions. now what is it about? it's about evolving. Imagine the theory of evolution but extremely fast forwarded because of a new kind element that is not from this world. Some scientist guy who knew about this has been out of the picture for a long time and monsters are starting to show up. now our two leads try to survive the monster attacks while also trying to stop The catastrophe that can doom all of humanity by trying to figure out that scientists' papers. now tell me that doesn't sound more interesting that a generic giant monster goes brrrrr series. writing: the science theories are well explained and the dialogue is clever. the science is extremely well researched, and the contrast of characters and themes of philosophy are implemented in the story extremely well. Directing: this show has amazing Cinematography, and while it's not full of fight scenes, where there is a fight it's super well done in terms of fight choreography. pacing: Now this is mostly a fault with the episode number. this is a 16-18 episode show trying to fit itself in only 13 episodes. the show does a PERFECT job with doing that in the best way possible, but it has resulted in the episodes being PACT, which is one of the biggest reasons people get bored by the show. the show gives you a Lot to think about. so unless you are in the mood to work your brain out, you will get tired sooner or later. so, binge watching is not a good idea for this one. 2 episodes a day at best. ***** Art: 7.5/10, animation: 8/10 Art: the 2d parts look pretty good, but nothing legendry. the 3d is a hit or miss. some of the 3d monsters look awesome, while the others look jank as hell. the backgrounds look extremely good though. Animation: pretty damn smooth if i do say so myself. specially when the 3d action scenes happen. **** music 9.25/10, voice acting 8/10 sub 7/10 dub music: it's breath taking, it's most likely my favorite sound track of 2021, and this is a year where: re:zero, attack on titan, megalo box and 86 also aired. so that is high praise. voice acting: not much to say here, since I'm not really a voice actor so this is mostly subjective. I did think that the sub was better sounding, but f@ck that, the only thing harder than listening to heavy science talk is reading it. just trust me on this one. the first time you watch this going with dub is almost a must. ***** characters 6.5/10 it has way too many characters. it does give some of them major development, so it's not that it lacks good characters. it's just that because of how huge the cast is, 80% of the characters you can't be bothered to give a single crap about. so when any character that is not from the main cast is on screen, your interest level goes down the drain. ***** enjoyment: 8/10 I love myself a good sci-fi, and my favorite genre is mystery. so you bet that this show despite entertainment value being one of it's weak points, was very enjoyable to me. note: when I was watching it dubbed, the sub got even me a little bored at times ***** overall a low 8/10 for me If you liked this for the sci-fi elements, I suggest you watching the anime steins;gate or the movie primer.

This is my first review I've ever wrote so don't expect any essays, I'm just here to say what I think. Some spoilers ahead, read with caution. Okay, lets start with the animation and the art. I thought it was one of the best parts of the anime. I liked how all the characters looked and all the colors they used to animate the anime looked. Even though I'm not a big fan of CGI in anime it didn't look that bad this time. The only problem I had with the CGI was how Godzilla looked, I mean all the other kaiju didn't look like their MonsterVerse counterparts. I'm a pretty big fan of the Godzilla movies so it looked weird to me how Godzilla and all the other kaiju looked. So next up the characters, all of them were pretty good. My favorite probably was Pelops II, Pelops was a pretty big part of the story, I mean he was the answer to saving the world at the end and altogether Pelops was a great character. The main characters were pretty good too, I liked Mei the most out of the two of them, I think she was more relevant for the story than Yun. When I always saw Haberu on the screen I thought of Captain Oubi from Fire Force, he really looked like him and what's the deal with Tilda, like why are her eyes black, she looks like a alien, although the wiki says she's human, I just thought she looked weird. So, the story was pretty different from other Godzilla films. The funny thing is that the anime is called Godzilla S.P, but Godzilla wasn't a really big part of the story. He just showed up in episode 9 (I think), went in to the city, destroyed it for a bit and then just went to sleep. Like the Rodans were a bigger part of the story than the king of monsters himself. At the end Godzilla just got defeated by Jet Jaguar in a few minutes. They could of done so much more with Godzilla, but he just afked in the center of the city and didn't really do much. Like I said in the beginning the stroy was pretty different from other Godzilla stories so the rest was good, I liked it. Tbh the ending wasn't really that good. All of the build up to finding the code for the bomb, just not to use it. I mean I guess they did use it in a way considering that Jet Jaguar was the the thing that killed Godzilla, but yhea, I think they could of done something other than one-tapping Godzilla and saving the world like that. I think you should watch the anime all in one go, because at some parts it started to get kind of boring, I even thought of dropping it, but I powered trough it. It really is one of those anime that you watch when you don't have anything else to watch. Or you just want to watch it because you're a Godzilla fan, like me. Well this review got kind of lengthier that I wanted it to be, but that's okay because I've said everything I wanted. So, I would rate the story a 7/10, the art a 8/10, the characters a 7/10 and enjoyment a 6/10, so overall a 6/10. Thanks for reading, check out my profile and leave a comment or something.

Scientific buzz word bingo! The story is mostly incoherent, and heavily bloated out to fill 13 episodes by characters spouting scientific nonsense. It could have been good, if the story was remotely coherent, anyone who says they understood it is lying. Character design & art style are both to a high quality. Music/sounds are good, and in line with what you would expect from a Godzilla anime. Voice acting in of its self is not bad, but some of the character personas/writing are a bit to stereotypical. To conclude, if you are bored and want to watch an anime maybe pick this up, but if your time is at a premium don't bother.

While this series is far from the worst story to feature the titular kaiju, it might be the most frustrating one for kaiju fans to watch. What's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If your answer is Godzilla, Singular Point will frustrate you. Not since Final Wars have I seen a Godzilla story that seems to so heavily resent the need for Godzilla to be in it. Now I'm not saying he needs to be in every scene, or even every episode, since some of my favourites like Invasion of Astro-Monster and Shin Godzilla are among those where he has the least screen time, but there are limits. He doesn't show up until halfway through this 13-episode series, and has (at a guess) maybe five minutes of screen time in total, most of which has him almost completely hidden in a cloud of red dust. Even this wouldn't be so bad if he was having a tangible effect on the story the rest of the time, as in Shin Godzilla, but he's only tangentially related to the impending wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey disaster that the characters spend the whole series worrying about. You could remove Godzilla from this series altogether, and barely impact the plot at all. So what's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If your answer is giant monsters, Singular Point will frustrate you. When a Godzilla story doesn't have much Godzilla, it's usually because of budget constraints, but that clearly isn't a problem here, since Singular Point has extensive monster action scenes in almost every episode. You'll notice I only said monster, not giant monster. For some reason, the decision was made to shrink some of Toho's most famous kaiju down to the size of the dinosaurs that inspired their designs, and instead feature copy/pasted swarms of them. So we have Rodans the size of pterodactyls (ie. the car-sized ones, not the airliner-sized pteranodons), and so on. I'm sure the staff followed the same logic as Roland Emmerich when he switched to baby Godzillas for half of his lambasted 1998 movie: having monsters that can interact with the characters more directly. The problem in both cases is that this causes a genre shift; it's no longer kaiju, it's an animal-on-the-loose story. Now, as animal-on-the-loose stories go, this one presents enough action to be a good stand-in for Jurassic World 3; it just fails to fulfil the narrative promises implied by the Godzilla title. So what's the main thing you want from a Godzilla story? If it's endless dry exposition and techno-babble, Singular Point has you covered. This show just never stops explaining its convoluted 13-dimensional gibberish, which makes up the majority of the dialogue. Even the brief final battle against Godzilla is overlayed with yet more exposition; they simply will not shut up. There's an okay mystery at the heart of it all, but the eye-wateringly complex jargon feels like smoke and mirrors to distract the viewer from how much of the plot relies on deus ex machina. So what kind of Godzilla story is this? It's not, basically. It's an exposition-heavy sci-fi mystery with a lot of pretty good dinosaur action scenes, but precious little in the way of kaiju. If you're okay with that, it might just scrape a 7/10 for you, but I watch kaiju stories to see giant monsters knocking cities down, so for me it's: 6/10

Honestly one of the best types of Godzilla media out there, sadly there are times when the dialogue can get boring, Godzilla and other Kaiju only serve tiny screentime for all the characters to come up with some new Scientific Breakthroughs or whatever. The only problem in this show is that they really didn't plan the dialogue well making in some of the most boring and yawn inducing parts of the show not to mention only having 13 episodes with numerous characters to introduce. I brute forced myself to watch all the episodes which I guess is worth it since I got to see Godzilla beat the shit out of a skinny armed and fat Jet Jaguar which Godzilla did not win (sad), but hey at least the show just made me motivated enough to keep watching. I don't recommend this to someone who's more into action since the dialogue (again) can get pretty boring, the show is fine just covered with a cast who's just doing science stuff. The fights in the show can get epic but you have to sit through most of the exposition. (P.S I just woke up, don't criticize my review)

This review has many spoilers. I always enjoy watching new faces in the Godzilla series try to inject new life and ideas into the series, which while I have loved since I was a kid and still love to this day, can admittedly fall into the same tropes in every subsequent addition to the franchise. And I think that this was a very good attempt by the writers at a more deeply sci-fi story in the franchise, but for me in many ways it was just that: an attempt. I think that if you look at the score I gave the series, you might think that I was not really into the show, but there are actually quite a few parts I really enjoyed. The main three areas I thought the show did really well with were: the visuals, the sound design and music, and the bag of concepts that the writers were willing to pull from. I feel like usually 3DCG in anime is a mostly negative mixed bag, with it sometimes looking better than expected, but I thought the textures and styling of the monsters was very good, and if you might be even able to stretch the lens and view it as a representation of showing how the monsters exist in the world but don't belong. As a big Godzilla weeb, I really appreciated the use of the classic Godzilla themes and kaiju cries and roars, which really took me back and I think helped convince me that the creators of the show are also just big fans of the genre. To add even further to this point, many of the plot points and presentation of the story is dripping with references and allusions to previous entries in the series (i.e. the story of Godzilla as a urban legend like it was in the original movie, essentially taking the plot of Shin Godzilla and adding time travel to mix, the scene after Godzilla unleashes its atomic breath and hibernating also basically being directly lifted from Shin Godzilla, and *spoilers* using the skeleton of a previous Godzilla to make Mechagodzilla a la Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, etc.) and as a long time fan, I really appreciated them showing that they knew their stuff. However, this also directly leads into some of the issues I had with the show, which particularly start to come in during the second half of the show where it focuses on the story. I think that the story suffers a lot with pacing, and trying to convince itself of its own time shenanigans to the point where to me, it feels like they almost gave up trying to make sense at the end. The use of the lullaby to transmit information through time marginally makes sense until it is revealed that Pelops uses it to transmit information to Jet Jaguar in the future, even though the song was originally supposed to have come from the deceased Godzilla in the basement, which doesn't really make sense as to how Pelops encoded that information, not to mention why it made Jet Jaguar huge aside from the obvious reason of wanting Robots to fight giant monsters which I am not against in the slightest, but still it felt like they included too many ideas and realized on the last two episodes that it was almost impossible to tie everything together. However, I think the biggest issue I had with the series was the utilization of Godzilla. In Godzilla's truest essence, he is an incarnation of the sins of mankind and their arrogance in using atomic power, a theme which has mostly remained true through all of Godzilla's more serious appearances, or at least he has represented the power of nature like in the Monsterverse. But in Singular Point he's a threat just because he's a big monster, and that is my issue: this show didn't have to be about Godzilla. To me, it felt like the creators had the concept for the show and later decided to add Godzilla, because it feels like they could have replaced Godzilla and all the other monsters with generic kaiju and the plot would remain largely unchanged, Godzilla just has better brand recognition. To be perfectly honest, Godzilla didn't even really come across as being the biggest threat to the characters: the Salunga and the vaguely described Catastrophe going on in India were always framed as being the more immediate threat to humanity, and Godzilla was mostly just chilling in Japan and cracking open a cold one with the boys unless people bothered him. Despite its flaw in my opinion, Godzilla: Singular Point is a good attempt at a heavier sci-fi Godzilla story and is a good addition to the franchise and mythos that I think fans of Godzilla will enjoy, but couldn't tie together the good concepts it presented, didn't utilize Godzilla very well, and to me ultimately failed to resolve the story it was trying to tell in a satisfying way.

Godzilla S.P. is the most disappointing thing since my son. It originally seemed so interesting and fresh, with a new set of Kaiju designs and an overall greater emphasis on new ideas. So what could go wrong? Everything, that's what. Let's start with: CHARACTERS The characters in Godzilla S.P. are so utterly bland that it hurts, which is a serious problem considering the fact that we spend so much time with them. To make a bad situation worse, there are also approximately 10,000,000 characters to follow at any given time. Seriously, by the time the season's mid-point rolled around I was getting a headache just trying to remember who was doing what. Again, the insane amount of characters could work if they were interesting, but everything about S.P.'s characters just screams unremarkable. I seriously can't name a single person in this show, all I can do is vaguely describe their role and what I hate about them. STORY The story of Godzilla S.P. is some of the most convoluted garbage to ever come out of the Godzilla franchise, which is saying a LOT. Basically, the story revolves around a piece of music that seems to be attracting Kaiju. Oh, and also there's a bunch of useless time-travel crap that doesn't contribute anything, and there are also a billion characters running around trying to solve inane Kaiju related mysteries for their own stupid reasons, and how could you forget about the professor guy who is dead, but actually not dead. I DEFINITELY didn't forget about his existence until he randomly shows up in the last episode. But if the story is too straightforward for you, don't worry, because there's also a bunch of ridiculous technobabble that'll be sure to either annoy or confuse you. I swear, if I have to hear the stupid purple haired girl say "Orthogonal Diagonalizer" one more time I'm actually gonna scream. ART Alright, let's take a little negativity break and talk about something I actually did enjoy: the art. The overall style of the show is very visually pleasing, and everything and everyone is very well drawn (although I utterly despise this show's character design). I was also worried that the CGI Kaiju wouldn't look very good, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that they actually blended pretty nicely with the 2D art. Speaking of Kaiju... KAIJU I have very mixed feelings about Godzilla S.P.'s Kaiju. On one hand, the redesigned Toho Kaiju are really cool and breathe a lot of life into the characters, but on the other hand, way too much time is spent on certain Kaiju, specifically on Rodan. Like, Rodan is a cool Kaiju and all, but did we really need to spend half of the darn show focusing on an utterly uninteresting hoard of mini-Rodan? Even when other Kaiju show up, they barely get anything memorable or interesting to do. Sure, Anguirus gets a pretty cool fight with Jet Jaguar (more about that later), but it feels like Manda, Kumonga, and even Godzilla himself don't really get that much spotlight. This shafting of classic Kaiju makes the inclusion of the new Kaiju even more embarassing, as it takes way too much time off of the Kaiju people actually care about. Speaking of new Kaiju, there are four Kaiju that S.P. introduces, those being Salunga, Kamanga, Hanenga, and Zenbunga. Kamanga, Hanenga, and Zebunga are extremely boring copy-and-pastes of Kumonga who don't really do anything of note, while Salunga is a Kaiju with an interesting concept, but an ultimately useless role in the story. But there is one Kaiju I haven't really mentioned yet, that being... JET JAGUAR That's right baby, Jet Jaguar is getting his own section because he's the only part of the show I genuinely enjoyed! It was fantastic seeing Jet Jaguar get treated like a major player against the other Kaiju, and I was always excited to see him on-screen. He's also tied to the only human character that I actually liked, that being the old man who created him. Not only was the old man the closest thing to an interesting character, but he was also voiced by a certain Buggy D. Clown, who's always a treat to hear. Seriously, Jet Jaguar's inclusion ALONE bumps this show up from a 3 to a 4. MUSIC I don't really have a lot to say about the music, it's just kind of there. The OST is nothing special and the opening was kind of neat. I did really like the ending, although I hated how it basically teased me by showing tons of Toho's classic Kaiju in super faithful anime designs, only for those Kaiju to never even be shown in the actual anime. CONCLUSION This show freakin' sucks, look up the Jet Jaguar scenes on YouTube and skip the rest.

In short, I would say that while Godzilla Singular Point had a strong start, it ultimately bit off more than its extra-dimensional kaiju mouth could chew. Hearing about the show initially, I was excited to see another return to Godzilla's initial roots, where his existence is intertwined with humanity's push towards scientific development. While I do appreciate a good kaiju v. kaiju smackdown flick too, I like to think these more contemplative pieces are just as crucial to the identity of the series, even if not as frequent. That said, a common criticism that you'll hear is the large abundance of science jargon and explanations, and while in a vacuum I don't have much issue with it, it was mainly what was sacrificed in order to do so. It often felt like these scientific concepts and explanations actively fought for screentime with basic story-telling elements like plot and character development, and when push came to shove, the latter was what faced the chopping block. In the early episodes we're introduced to a handful of characters under the Otaki Factory and Misakioku Facility, most prominent of which being Mei and Yun. And to be honest, everything went smoothly at first, seeing how these characters tick, interact, and perceive the world. And then they introduce more characters like Li, as well as more characters, and yet more. And then even more for good measure. It only gets worse because these characters are intended to have these complex nets of relationships to one another, but when each one only gets maybe, 10 minutes of screen-time max, how is anyone supposed to keep track, much less care. How am I supposed to parse out their motivations or get invested? How is one supposed to determine who is purposely shady and who just got shafted in terms of screentime because we're still going on about the Diagonal Orthagonizer? By the end I found myself thinking that to a certain extent a good handful of these characters, if anything, just served as tools to move the plot forward rather than as actual characters. Main characters like Mei don't exactly make it out of this unscathed either. In the initial episodes we're led to believe she's a relatively normal Grad student. Yet by the end, perhaps as a consequence of the show's breakneck plot pacing in order to cram in all of it's pseudo-science, we see the show (hopefully) unintentionally portray her as this infallible super-genius in direct contrast to the initial image the anime intended to portray. If you ever had a hard time getting invested in an overpowered shonen protagonist, it's pretty much the same here. She apparently pumps out a report in a single night and understands the equivalent to what took her superior years to decipher. Her conclusions are taken by characters like Yun as gospel pretty much immediately without any academic discourse, despite these claims being that the entire fabric of reality is essentially null and void. She is the only one who can decipher these age-old notes, and does so in a matter of days, with the only difficulty she had being solved in a matter of less than half an episode. She is essentially portrayed as this being who can do now wrong, despite the science of this series literally being where 1+1 can equal anything. In terms of plot progression, it's all over the place. Moments are barely given any moment to breathe, again having to fight for screen time alongside all the pseudo-science going on. We as the viewer barely have any bearing on time or place, not only because so much is spent explaining jargon, but also because of how we're frantically taken from place to place and character to character to give each their brief moment with what little time is left. There's no sense of urgency or investment as a result, which is a real problem when the climax of the story is an apocalypses level event. In the end I feel like this anime had a major issue of scope. Many series already face issues cramming a satisfying amount of character development and plot progression inside a 12 episode season, so to do that alongside explaining mass amounts of scientific jargon was likely a fool-hardy task from the start. The story would have done much better keeping its cast small and manageable, and keeping its story in a singular location rather than jump frantically across many places around the globe that in the end the audience can barely even discern. While the psuedo-science was interesting, I feel more should have been done to tie all the series' long list of disparate concepts together into one cohesive network of ideas, which also necessitates down-sizing how many the show tackled at once due to how congested the show already is. While I'm still eager to see a season 2, I genuinely hope the effort is one that is more intentional about focusing on the foundational aspects of cohesive story-telling, rather than as a jumble of speculative science concepts roughly strewn together.