Shinsei or Millennium series (1999–2004)
In 1998, Sony's TriStar Pictures attempted to tell the story of Godzilla in an American fashion, but did not succeed. With the dawn of the new millennium, Toho Co. Ltd. redesigned Godzilla for his third incarnation in Godzilla 2000 to which we are familar.
The Millennium series is unique because rather than creating a single continuity that all the films would follow, the series would instead comprise a number of discrete narratives, each using only the original Godzilla film as a backdrop. It is often called the "Shinsei" series by Western fans (meaning "rebirth") however the name is not recognized by Toho. In Japan, rather, many call it the "X" series, due to the Japanese titles containing "X" instead of "Vs".
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