Welcome to Godzilland!

"NOTE: As said above, this is a fictional extension to the real life Japanese franchise 'Godzilland'. This should not be taken literally."Welcome to Godzilland (Japanese: へようこそ！ゴジランド Hepburn: Heyōkoso! Gojirando) is a Japanese animated series that originally aired on TV Tokyo. It is the third and final entry in the televised Godzilland franchise. The series is a parody of the Monsterverse, and is about a cartoonified versions of the kaijus from there going on adventures, as well as being set on Monster Island, also dubbed "The Kaiju's Paradise". It debuted on November 6th, 1994 on TV Tokyo and two OVAs devoted towards younger audiences were released seperately on the same day, and it aired for 4 seasons before ending on December 21st, 1998, thus marking the end of the 14-year long Godzilland franchise. A reboot of the show was announced in 2004 but was stuck in development hell for 16 years before announcing genuine progress devoted towards it in 2020, and is set to release some time around January - February 2023.

Premise
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History
The first series of Godzilland aired on TV Tokyo in 1992, titled Adventure! Godzilland (冒険！ゴジランド, Hepburn: Bōken! Gojirando). The series was first aired to promote Godzilla vs. Mothra. It was a trivia show, and had live action and animated segments. The show also aired in Neon District on NRTN's KNRTN block, as well as on other networks in different countries. The show had good enough ratings so they made a sequel in 1993, called Adventure! Godzilland 2 (冒険！ゴジランド２, Hepburn: Bōken! Gojirando Tsū), originally made to promote Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II.

The series planned to go into dormancy afterwards, but Seinosuke Tanaka and Osamu Nakayama of Toho made concepts of what would be an animated sequel in around mid - late 1993, alongside with other minor Toho executives Sebastià Godayol and Akhmetzhan Baltabek, both immigrants from Catalonia and Kazakhstan. Production of the show then started in October 1993, and a pilot, Adventure! Godzilland 3 (冒険！ゴジランド３, Hepburn: Bōken! Gojirando Tsuri) was shown to Toho executives on December 18th, 1993, but they said it needed to go through a lot of improvement, and needed to be fully animated as some small parts were live action (like the previous two Bōken! Gojirando shows), so they made another one, which they showed on April 19th, 1994, and it was approved, but had to go through some changes. Throughout May - October 1994, the show went through many changes, such as a definite theme song being added, an improvement on animation quality and introduction of new characters. The first episode was finally finished on November 2nd, 1994 and was first premiered on TV Tokyo on November 6th at 7:35PM. Alongside it were the first two episodes of Get Going! Godzilland (すすめ！ゴジランド, Hepburn: Susume! Gojirando), the educational OVAs, which were later dubbed and released internationally in 1995. The show also had a bid for which foregin networks to air it first (between late November - early December 1994), with TV3 of Catalonia in Spain, Radio Televisión Peruana of Peru (although the show ended up airing on América TV in 1997 - 1998) and Qazaqstan-1 of Kazakhstan betting the most, so the show was aired on their networks.

Ratings were slightly lower than expected at first, but after a few episodes the show became a success, mostly due to it airing around prime time. It also started to be dubbed in many languages and was aired in many networks around the world, even on heavily censored state-owned networks in authoritarian countries, such as IRIB TV2 and TV3 in Iran, and ARTK in Azaristan. The shows popularity was at its peak around 1996 - 1998.

The animation style was traditional ink and paint from the first episodes, although coloring became predominately acrylic instead of regular paint when Season 2 began, and was transitioned into digital ink and paint at the beginning of Season 3, which during the first 30 episodes was criticized due to the animation not being as fluid or varied as the previous episodes, but this eventually became prominent afterwards. Shading was only used for backgrounds up until Season 3 when it was dropped, but it returned in Season 4 and eventually ended up also being used (in slight amounts) for the characters.

The show finally came to an end on December 21st, 1998, although episodes of it were still rerun in many countries until the mid 2000s. The show has become a part of cult following in Aritonesia (such as in Neon District and El Kadrse), Catalonia and its surrounding regions and East and Central Asia (examples are Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan).

The show, until late 2016, was practically inaccesible to audiences who didn't speak Japanese or any languages that the show was dubbed in, until a YouTube channel started to subtitle the episodes in English. These videos are being deprecated though, as El TV Kadsre have announced a digital remastering of each of the episodes, with an official English dub that will start being distributed between February - November 2023 and will air on ETVKK.

Episodes
Main article: List of Welcome To Godzilland! Episodes

Characters
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Reception
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International broadcast
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Home media
The show, when it came to home media, was distributed by Gakken Video, like its educational OVA counterpart (released in 1994 and 1996 seperately) from 1994 - 1996 and by Shogakukan Video from 1996 - 1998. There would be 3 - 4 episodes (thus making the average tape length 105 minutes, the tapes were distributed on T-60 tapes on LP) featured on each tape (including the OP and CL).

Trivia

 * The anime is considered to be a "UHF Anime", due to it airing on TV Tokyo, a TV station not available throughout the entire country (as part of the TX Network, who's only affiliates were in Kantō (TX), the Keihanshin (TVO), Aichi (TVA), Fukuoka (TVQ), Hokkaidō and Tōhoku (TVh) and Kagawa and Okayama (TSC).
 * JAITS members in Tokai and Kansai Regions aired (and still does) select TV Tokyo programming, meaning that the show could (possibly?) be available in this region.
 * Reruns now air on TV Asahi.
 * The characters ages are never mentioned in the show, but they are most likely around the age of 8 - 11 as they attend elementary school. (An exception is some of the characters who are deemed "older", such as King Ghidorah, who is speculated to be most likely 14 - 17.)
 * In international dubbing, the jokes and references from the original Japanese series are still kept and are not changed to apply to the culture of the country or removed.
 * In Catalonia on TV3's Club Super3 (now SX3) block, it also probably (ironically) also aired alongside another series also devoted to the Monsterverse franchise, Godzilla, la sèrie.