Gamera

On the data. Twelve films and one anime series across four separate continuities, and the first thing to say is that none of it is Godzilla. Gamera is Daiei, now Kadokawa. Godzilla is Toho. Different companies, different universes, and the two have never appeared together in a film. A Godzilla versus Gamera project was proposed around 2002 and Toho turned it down, and several other crossover ideas across the decades were never made. The characters did share a stage show in 1970, which is trivia rather than a franchise entry. Treating Gamera as part of the Godzilla universe is the single most common error about him. The continuities are four. The eight Showa films from 1965 to 1980 are loosely connected and frequently contradict each other, with Gamera as a friend to children. The Kaneko trilogy from 1995 to 1999 is a full reboot with a new origin, and those three are properly continuous with each other. Gamera the Brave from 2006 is a second reboot, made deliberately to get back to the child-centred idea, with its own backstory in which an earlier Gamera destroys itself in 1973. GAMERA -Rebirth- from 2023 is a third restart, set in 1989, with the kaiju reimagined as artificial life. Release order and continuity order happen to agree, which makes the page simpler than it might have been. Gamera the Brave falls inside the Heisei imperial period by calendar, which is why some sources file it as a fourth Heisei film. It is not part of the Kaneko trilogy. Two translation problems to know about. The 1996 film is Attack of Legion in standard English usage and Advent of Legion in a more literal rendering, and both appear. The 1999 film's monster is spelled Iris and Irys. The 1965 original's American recut is Gammera the Invincible, with two Ms and added American footage, and is a different cut from the Japanese film. Rebirth is six episodes as Netflix released it in 2023. A recut version in twelve episodes was broadcast on NHK in 2025, which is why both counts circulate. No second season has been announced; the director has spoken about ideas for more and also called the show's future uncertain.

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