Continuity is enough to put G84 and Gamera 99 into the Heisei Era, but LACK of continuity...while enough to keep G98 out of the Millennium era, is not enough to EXCLUDE it from the Heisei era?GojiSquid wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:43 pmRoG is included in large part because it is canonically connected to the events of all the following Hesei films. Plot elements of it directly lead into vs. Biollanted, which then lead into vs. King Ghidorah, and so on. It simply wouldn't make sense to lump it in with the Showa Era when every aspect of it, especially continuity, ties it with the Hesei films. G98 doesn't share continuity with any of the Millenium Era (aside from one joke made at it's expense), which on top of all of the other differences, makes it unneccesary to lump it in with them.
Another good reason to keep it on it's own is the fact that the film and it's creators wanted nothing to do with the larger Godzilla mythos/canon, and even did away with most of the fundamentals of Godzilla. If it doesn't want to play with the others, then it doesn't have to sit next to them.
What is the justification for Godzilla 2000 starting the Millennium era? It came out in 1999 the same year as Gamera 3, which is a Heisei film.
G2K started a new continuity...except it didn't, it started a new yearly cycle of Godzilla films (Which G98 did) and a cycle of Godzilla films that were largely an anthology in terms of continuity (Which G98 also did). G2K was largely seen as an 'answer' to G98, GMK referenced it as a gag, and Final Wars included Zilla.
G98 is more responsible for the creation of the Millennium era than Godzilla 2000 is.