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      Photo courtesy of Super7. TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Source: Super7   Pre-orders are now open for the Toho ULTIMATES! Odo Island Godzilla Figure from Super7. This item is an Amazon.com Exclusive scheduled for release early next year.   Toho ULTIMATES! Godzilla Minus One (Odo Island) Action Figure - Amazon Exclusive   Pre-Order Link: https://www.amazon.com/Super7-Toho-ULTIMATES-Godzilla-Island/ Price: $80.00 Estimated Shipping: January 15, 2027    Odo Island is under attack! Capture the intensity of the opening sequence of GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023) with this Amazon Exclusive ULTIMATES! Godzilla figure. Layers of scales and spikes, intricately sculpted, make this creature true to form—and premium paint details add a realistic touch.   A new articulation pattern emerges as well. This formidable kaiju is 7” scale with a whopping 28 points of articulation, 12 of

    Source: IDW Publishing Special Thanks to Gregg Katzman Cover A by Hendry Prasetya. Photo courtesy of IDW Publishing. ©TOHO CO., LTD.  IDW Publishing has shared a preview of Godzilla #10, which will be available from retailers on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.  For information on how to acquire Godzilla comics and graphic novels from IDW, please contact your local comic shop or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you.     Godzilla #10 Release Date: May 6, 2026 Price: $4.99 Pages: 32   Can anyone stop Kai-Sei Energy Godzilla?! The essence of Godzilla has been absorbed into a young man named Jacen. Curiously tied together by fate (or a sinister plot?), they now share a physical body. But no time to unravel this mystery—as without the King of the Monsters, kaiju have begun to trample across

    Rodan kicks off his 70th anniversary with a surprise cameo at the very end of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season Two. Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/    With the tenth and final episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season Two now available for viewing, Apple TV has released the first official photo of Rodan's surprise appearance at episode's end. The season concludes with Kurt Russell's Lee Shaw staring up at the Titan as it roosts atop a volcano... setting up a faceoff between the two in MONARCH Season Three. Introduced in the 1956 movie RODAN (空の大怪獣 ラドン, Sora no Daikaijū Radon), the Flying Monster is one of Toho's most popular kaiju. Toho lists it as one of their "Big Five"

    © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV, LegendaryOfficial Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Kristi Avila   SPOILER WARNING: This article contains information and photos from the current season of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS.  Apple TV has shared their official list of the Titans and monsters seen in MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season Two. The entire season is now available exclusively on Apple TV.     Photo • Kong The King of Skull Island, the Monsterverse version of Kong was introduced in the 2017 movie, KONG: SKULL ISLAND. Standing over 330-feet tall, the giant primate is incredibly intelligent and strong, making him one of the greatest of all the Titans. More mountain than mammal, he walks upright on two legs, his towering form shaking the ground with each thunderous step. 

    Conan Edogawa returns with his 29th feature film, DETECTIVE CONAN: FALLEN ANGEL OF THE HIGHWAY. Image courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. © 2026 GOSHO AOYAMA/DETECTIVE CONAN COMMITTEE All Rights Reserved. Source: Toho Co., Ltd.Official Site: https://www.conan-movie.jp/2026/ (Japan) A SciFi Japan Exclusive Image courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. © 2026 GOSHO AOYAMA/DETECTIVE CONAN COMMITTEE All Rights Reserved.     Introduction With the original manga series by Gosho Aoyama surpassing 107 volumes—and a cumulative worldwide circulation exceeding 270 million copies—and the TV anime series airing its 1,100th episode and beyond, the momentum of *Detective Conan* knows no bounds. Last year, the 28th theatrical installment, DETECTIVE CONAN: ONE-EYED FLASHBACK (劇場版 名探偵コナン 隻眼の残像, Gekijō-ban Meitantei Konan Ssekigan no Zanzō), achieved a box office gross of 14.74 billion yen. In doing so, it set a groundbreaking new record—a first for any Japanese film—by surpassing

    Photo courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. ©Yuto Suzuki / SHUEISHA ©2026 SAKAMOTO DAYS Film Production Committee Source: Toho Co., Ltd. Official Site: skmtdays-movie.jp (Japan)   Photo courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. ©Yuto Suzuki / SHUEISHA ©2026 SAKAMOTO DAYS Film Production Committee Toho has provided information and images for the live action feature film SAKAMOTO DAYS (サカモト デイズ, Sakamoto Deizu), which opens in Japanese cinemas this Wednesday, April 29th. The movie is based on the wildly popular manga by Yuto Suzuki, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in November 2020 and has since surpassed 15 million copies in worldwide circulation. An action story that blends the mundane with the extraordinary, it follows Taro Sakamoto, a former legendary hitman, as he engages in fierce battles against a relentless stream of assassins in order to protect the ordinary, everyday life he shares with his beloved family. With

    Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) and Keiko Randa (Mari Yamamoto) are back on Skull Island in the season finale of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS. Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the tenth and final episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, April 24 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm. Kong, and Titan

    Photo courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. Source: TohoOfficial Site: https://godzilla-minuszero.toho-movie.jp/ (Japan)    Godzilla Fest 2026 is already taking shape in Tokyo, Japan, and this year’s biggest early reveal gives fans outside Japan a direct way to take part in the celebration. The annual Godzilla birthday event will return on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with a new Fest Godzilla short film now in production. The highlight of the Godzilla Fest 2026 announcement is a global crowdfunding campaign to support the creation of a new Burning Millennium Godzilla suit.The campaign will run through CAMPFIRE, one of Japan’s major crowdfunding platforms, and will be open for international participation across 82 countries. Fans will be able to support the campaign from regions including North and Central America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Europe, South America, and Africa.

    Photo courtesy of IDW Publishing. ©TOHO CO., LTD. Source: IDW Publishing Special Thanks to Gregg Katzman   IDW Publishing is gearing up for a summer full of comic book blockbuster launches featuring two VERY different new Godzilla series this July! For information on how to acquire Godzilla comics and graphic novels from IDW, please contact your local comic shop or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you.   Cover A by Jack Lawrence. Photo courtesy of IDW Publishing. Sonic ©SEGA. Godzilla ©TOHO CO., LTD. Cover B by Mauro Fonseca. Photo courtesy of IDW Publishing. Sonic ©SEGA. Godzilla ©TOHO CO., LTD. Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla #1 Release Date: July 15, 2026 Price: $4.99 Pages: 36 When the King of the Monsters and other iconic kaiju mysteriously arrive in the Blue Blur's world, the

    The next chapter in Godzilla’s epic crossover saga with the Marvel Universe, arrives in July from writer Gerry Duggan and artist Javier GarrónSource: Marvel Entertainment press release Special Thanks to Anthony Blackwood   Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ. Photo courtesy of Marvel. © 2026 MARVEL. GODZILLA TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. Since Marvel Comics and Toho International, the Japanese studio’s U.S.-based subsidiary that’s brought global sensation Godzilla to life, joined forces to bring Godzilla to the Marvel Universe, the King of the Monsters has battled iconic heroes across eras, rampaged across Earth, and now roars into the cosmos in Godzilla: Infinity Roar! This July, this unforgettable crossover escalates beyond what anyone could imagine in GODZILLA CONQUERS THE MULTIVERSE! Infinite realities unleashes infinite possibilities as Godzilla ascends to the Marvel multiverse, taking on bold new versions of both Kaiju from the Tohoverse and heroes of the Marvel

    Godzilla pursues Titan X towards Skull Island. Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the ninth episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, April 24 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm. Godzilla, Kong, and Titan X all appear in this episode!   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 209 - “Ends of

      Source: GKIDS press release, TohoOfficial Site: https://godzilla-minuszero.toho-movie.jp/ (Japan), https://godzilla.com/pages/godzilla-minus-zero (US) Special Thanks to Jonah Keel and Adrian Figueroa   The Epic Follow Up to Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki’s GODZILLA MINUS ONE is the First-Ever Japanese Project Filmed For IMAX   Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe are Additionally Confirmed to Reprise Their Roles in the Epic New Story, Depicting the World Two Years After the Events of GODZILLA MINUS ONE   Film Opens in North America on November 6, 2026   Photo courtesy of GKIDS. © 2026 TOHO TOHO and GKIDS, the Academy Award-winning curator, producer, and distributor that was acquired by TOHO in 2024, revealed on stage at CinemaCon the first teaser for GODZILLA MINUS ZERO (ゴジラ-0.0/ゴジラマイナスゼロ, Gojira Mainasu Zero). Director Takashi Yamazaki took to the CinemaCon stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this morning,

    The Randa family: Kentaro (Ren Watabe), Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Cate (Anna Sawai). Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the eigth episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, April 17 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm. Godzilla makes his long-awaited return in this episode!   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode

    Cate Randa (Anna Sawai). Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the seventh episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, April 10 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm.   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 207 - “String Theory” Shaw receives an impossible radio transmission. Cate and Keiko uncover an ancient link

    The Monsterverse version of Godzilla comes to Tokyo to kick some ass in MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season Two, Episode Six. Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the sixth episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, April 3 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm.   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 206

    Source: Marvel EntertainmentSpecial Thanks to Anthony Blackwood   Photo courtesy of Marvel. © 2025 MARVEL. GODZILLA TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. Our friends at Marvel are offering SciFi Japan readers a chance to win a copy of their new Godzilla Destroys The Marvel Universe trade paperback, collecting all 5 issues of the 2025 mini-series by superstar writer Gerry Duggan and drawn by acclaimed artist Javier Garrón!   Synopsis:        Icons collide, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance! Look out, New York! A previously dormant Godzilla has been awoken and angrily begun carving a path of annihilation toward the Big Apple. Earth's Mightiest Heroes band together to try to stop this cataclysmic rampage - but when their combined efforts fail to slow the Bringer of Destruction, the planet's defenders are forced to go to extraordinary lengths to bring down Godzilla…including joining

    Keiko Randa (Mari Yamamoto) and Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) return to Santa Soledad in the hunt for Titan X. Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the fifth episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, March 27 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm.   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 205 - “Furusato”

    Keiko Randa (Mari Yamamoto) and May (Kiersey Clemons). Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Juliet Bryce   Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2026 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the fourth episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, March 20 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm.   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 204 - “Trespass” To get Hiroshi’s device back, Shaw and the team execute

    Photo courtesy of Super7. TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Photo courtesy of Super7. TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Source: Super7 Special Thanks to Brian Flynn and Ashley Anderson Clear your shelves of any tall buildings. A new wave of Toho ULTIMATES! kaiju chaos is heading your way this November.. just in time for this year's Godzilla day! Prepare your Godzilla collection for the long-awaited Shin Godzilla, Godzilla Millennium (2002), and Kiryu Mechagodzilla figures. Each collectible is in 7” scale and highly articulated, capable of recreating some of your favorite monstrous movie moments, carried out on your shelf, display case—or anywhere you think they’ll strike next. These made-to-order figures also come with accessories, fitting to each creature’s character. All that grand-scale, King of the Monsters energy continues with collector-friendly window-box packaging featuring original Super7 artwork. If you feel the ground

    Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) and Keiko Randa(Mari Yamamoto). Photo courtesy of Apple TV. © 2025 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Source: Apple TV Official Site: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/monarch-legacy-of-monsters/Special Thanks to Julia Siegal   Key art of Kong battling Titan X. Image courtesy of Apple TV+. © 2025 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM & © Legendary Apple TV has shared photos and a sneak peek clip from the third episode of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS season two, premiering globally Friday, March 13 on Apple TV. MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS stars returning cast members Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Emmy Award winner Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm.   MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Episode 203 - “Secrets” Shaw, Keiko, Hiroshi

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