The 1979Godzillaanime’s second season is now available to stream for free on YouTube. It was released on June 6 via the TOHO official channel. Last August, TOHO began to stream season one of this classic anime.
TheGodzillaanime was first released in 1979, with 13 episodes in each season. However, remained a rare series that few people have seen for the last 40 years. The trailer for season two came out on TOHO’s official YouTube channel just four days before it began streaming.
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Most people know Godzilla fromclassic or modern live-action films; he’s one of Japan’s most celebrities, after all. Few people know about theGodzillaanime, which adds an all new story to everyone’s favorite giant lizard monster. In fact, it was never released for home viewing after it finished premiering on TV, and since 1979 was before internet streaming sites, no one saw it that didn’t watch it on release.
The modern world has changed that, though, making something forgotten and inaccessible available for everyone to enjoy again. It’s likely that theGodzillaanime will find an audience again, especially following on the heels ofGodzilla Singular Point, an anime released globally on Netflix last June. It receivedgenerally favorable reviews, showing that people are interested in more than justGodzillalive-action films.
Some fans may not be familiar with the name TOHO unless they’re really into Japanese cinema, but it’s a large cinema chain in Japan - and the production company behind 32 Godzilla films, andhelped shape modern sci-fi. TOHO’s mascot character is actually a cute, baby-like version of Godzilla known as “Chibi Godzilla,” and he appears in most of their marketing.
The large TOHO cinema in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is also famous for having a huge Godzilla head and hand on the top of the building and has become a landmark for that neighborhood. So it’s not a stretch of the imagination to understand why TOHO are the ones digging up this proverbial fossil of an anime and bringing it into the public eye again.
As a company, TOHO does a lot for Godzilla’s continued popularity, and he in turn does a lot for their branding. There are manydiehardGodzillafans around the world, and they’re likely very excited to see the second season of the 1979 anime. For anyone else who is curious to see a rare, classic anime, it’s worth checking out.Godzilla is here to stay, and this is a chance to catch up on the old stuff, too.
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Godzilla(1979 TV Series) is currently streaming on the TOHO YouTube channel.
