So I finally noticed that the new Netflix anime Godzilla Singular Point (wasn’t it Godzilla Singularity at first?) has dropped sometime last week. Netflix, this is the ONE show you don’t email me about? Work on your algorithm.
To my vast relief, I really like it. The three anime Godzilla movies Netflix produced a year or two ago were dreadful, banal edgelord stuff, all doom and gloom and ‘reinterpreting’ Godzilla and the other monsters in new and uninteresting ways.
This, however, is a pretty great anime that has the bonus of having the Toho monsters in it. I watched the first six episodes yesterday, and Godzilla has barely made an appearance, but lots of the rest of the roster has–especially Rodan(s)–so it’s all good. Don’t let Netflix skip the end credit song/sequence, which is full of monster-y goodness and Easter eggs, more than they possibly fit into the actual series, I’m thinking.
The characters are great and carry the show even when the monsters aren’t on screen. The writing is more than solid, with a genuine sense of mystery and build up, and ‘smart’ genius characters who actually are believable as smart genius characters, and even a comical AI who is actually kind of funny. Good stuff, I can’t wait to see the rest of it. Let’s hope for a second season.
