The Return of Godzilla (ゴジラ)

A Toho Production

Godzilla

Daikoku Island, southern tip of the Izu Island Chain

Three months after the Daikoku eruption

Hey. You all right?

Yes, I'm fine.

It's no good, Captain. The helm won't budge. Something's strange about this tide.

What? Don't be dumb. These waves aren't enough to...

We're being pulled toward the island!

This is the Yahata Maru No. 5. I repeat, the Yahata Maru No. 5. Our ship...

Our ship is in danger of wrecking!

We are currently due west of Daikoku Island.

Concrete no mori wa The concrete forest

Shizumu yuuhi o kakushi Hides the setting sun

Kodomotachi dake ni nemuri no epilogue An epilogue to the sleep only of children

And now the news.

Turbulent waves from a low-pressure system last night caused several vessels to run aground,

Hey!

And an investigation by the Japan Coast Guard revealed that the number is expected to increase.

Is anyone on board? And an investigation by the Japan Coast Guard revealed that the number is expected to increase.

And an investigation by the Japan Coast Guard revealed that the number is expected to increase.

One of the boats believed to have wrecked is the Yahata Maru No. 5, a 77-ton fishing ship

Yahata Muru No. 5

based out of Misaki Harbor.

It was traveling in the waters near Daikoku Island in the southern tip of the Izu Island Chain

when it suddenly disappeared, and continues to remain missing.

He's alive. He's alive!

Student ID Dept. of Science Electrical Engineering Division Hiroshi Okumura

It was... a monster.

The island suddenly rose up...

like some giant rock.

It was alive.

Hold on a minute.

Was it a monster like that sea louse just now?

Something completely different.

Huh?

It breathed out some bluish-white ray.

With a giant roar...

Did you get a good look at it?

It was too big.

I couldn't see all of it from the bridge.

We're a rescue squad from the Japan Coast Guard.

They're here. We're a rescue squad from the Japan Coast Guard.

They're here.

Repeat, a rescue squad from the Japan Coast Guard.

Hey!

We will now initiate rescue procedures.

Hey!

Hey! Please do as you are instructed by our crew.

Please do as you are instructed by our crew.

Oshima, Izu

Times Tohto

Now listen here: The sole surviving crewmember said he saw some kind of giant creature.

And there's a monster sea louse on that ship, as well as nine mummified bodies. That's more than enough proof!

Come on!

This is a major scoop, I'm telling you! Okay? Please have more faith.

Okay, fine. I'll be there with the negatives soon. Okay.

I swear... They won't believe me.

I wouldn't believe in some "giant creature" either.

To tell the truth, neither would I. Okay, look after things while I'm gone.

Kanto No. 2 Police Hospital

Professor Hayashida!

Okumura-kun.

You say you saw some monster?

Yes, I did.

Sir... since being rescued, I've told the coast guard, the police, and the people here over and over again.

Is it that hard to believe what I say?

It's only natural they don't believe you.

That's what I think.

All my friends are dead...

and look what happened to me!

This "monster" that he saw is Godzilla.

Godzilla?

I know Okumura-kun well. He's a trustworthy man.

Head of the Cabinet Research Office Noboru Watanabe

I didn't want to believe it was true, but...

Still, why were the bodies of those aboard in that state?

A giant sea louse drained their bodies of all blood and moisture.

As for why an insect that should only be a few centimeters was that big...

it's because it fed on Godzilla.

It probably reached that size by being continually bathed in the radiation that Godzilla emits from within.

Why do you think Godzilla suddenly appeared?

I believe the cause is the volcanic eruption on Daikoku Island three months ago.

Violent tectonic activity caused the sleeping Godzilla to awaken, driving it to the surface.

Official Residence of the Prime Minister

Godzilla, huh?

Cabinet Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura

I was hoping to finish out my term without incident.

But, Mr. Prime Minister,

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirotaka Takegami

that's not to say it will immediately attack Japan.

This is true, but...

Takegami-kun.

Sir?

Sure enough, let's keep this under wraps for now.

Tohto Times They say it's pretty popular now.

Tohto Times Thanks as always!

Sir.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Huh? What gives, Maki-chan?

This is unexpected. Maki-ch... Huh?

Okay, Mr. Editor. Why was this story dropped?

I want to hear a reason.

Something's come up. Let's go see the Editor-in-Chief.

Editor-in-Chief's Office

We've already been given a gag order by the coast guard, the police, and other agencies involved.

The Yahata Maru No. 5, the ship with Okumura-kun and nine other people aboard, is officially still missing.

What does that mean?

That even the government has acknowledged there was some giant creature.

Isn't that all the more reason to publish this?

This "giant creature" was Godzilla.

Godzilla?

Sure enough...

Incidentally, Maki-kun, if news of this got out, it would plunge the whole country into uncontrollable panic.

It would shake people to the core. Stocks would plunge, and there could even be a political uprising.

For better or worse, this scoop has to stay with you.

I get it. So we've just rolled onto our backs like dogs, huh?

We may be reporters, but this is something we can't print.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami has given us permission

to reach out to Makoto Hayashida, a professor of bioscience.

Hayashida?

Excuse me. Are you Professor Hayashida?

Who are you?

I'm Maki from the Tohto Times.

You, huh?

They told me about you.

What are you researching?

Genetic recombination of the common vinegar fly.

Flies... Genetic combination...

What does that have to do with Godzilla?

I understand you lost your parents in Godzilla's attack thirty years ago.

So then, your initial motive in studying Godzilla was out of hatred or revenge?

At first. But not now.

Professor, is Godzilla an animal?

A beast created through radiation? A monster?

That seems to be the general consensus.

It was man that created that "monster." Mankind is far more monstrous.

Godzilla could be said to be a nuclear weapon.

Nuclear weapon?

What's more, a living nuclear weapon.

It does as it pleases and continually destroys.

What's more, Godzilla is immortal.

So then, we just give up?

I didn't say that. Godzilla is an animal. That much is certain.

Excuse me.

Is there something about her?

Um, yes.

What is she to Okumura-kun?

His younger sister.

His sister?

So then, she and Okumura-kun have...?

No, she hasn't seen him.

She hasn't even been told he's been rescued.

Government's orders.

By the way, Professor, you've seen Okumura-kun, haven't you?

Is he still in the hospital?

Ah, thank you for earlier. How do you happen to know Professor Hayashida?

I take his seminars at college. That's how I got this job, working part time and organizing his data.

I understand you're Okumura-kun's sister.

Yes. Are you a friend of his?

That's right. Sorry, but what's your name?

Naoko.

Naoko-san, you must be worried about your brother.

Do you have family?

My brother and I, just the two of us.

Every year, he works a few months on a fishing boat, knowing it will set him back in school.

He does it to pay for my tuition and part of my living expenses.

All the more reason to hate how the government handles things,

not letting his sole flesh and blood know that he's alive.

My brother is alive?

He's being hidden away somewhere.

Hidden...?

Why?

Because he witnessed Godzilla.

The government fears a panic, so they're keeping your brother confined.

They've imposed a media blackout.

They're ignoring a sibling's love in the name of protecting "state secrets," and that's wrong.

That's why I, on the other hand, choose to talk.

Maki-san!

He's at No. 2 Police Hospital.

Thank you.

Please! Let me see him!

No visitors allowed.

I don't care!

Hey, wait!

Please!

Wait there!

Let go!

You can't! Let go!

Let go of me!

Wait right there!

Naoko!

Wait!

Brother!

I'm sorry for making you worry.

Thank goodness.

Naoko.

Hey!

I missed it.

This is a scoop! Just one more shot!