Talk:Nikkei Science December 2016 Issue/@comment-35582575-20180517103901

Wait, "Future Shin Godzilla evolutions" is completely a hoax.

I'm Japanese, and on twitter came across a fake article ("Shin-Godzilla has the potential to evolve into a literal god where he becomes immortal and contains a universe within its body"), then I went google it and found this wiki. It is confirmed that Shin Godzilla's 6th, 7th, 8th forms and 5th form's specific powers are fake. All of them are FLAT-OUT LIES.

I'm gonna give a step-by-step explaination here.

Technically, this particular article on Gojipedia is a combination of the accurate translation from Nikkei Science (the first half, the careers of the scientists) and total bullshit (the latter half, the ability of the Godzilla's 5th, 6th, 7th 8th forms). The 5th form itself is confirmed official(downsized G-human on the tail), but the further explanation of its ability beyond the film's dialogue is fake.

1:The scientists above(Naganuma, Matsumoto, Fujikura) surely cooperated in the production of Shin Godzilla. But they are just external advisers, not the internal staff of Toho or Khara.

2:The careers of them on this page are true. The texts are correctly translated from Nikkei Science except one point, Prof. Naganuma has nothing to do with Computer Science, but Bio-sphere science.

"3":The problem is, Shin Godzilla's 6,7,8th forms are fake. The specific ability of the 5th form(from "Acquired flight ability..." to "...self-generation ability") is fake, either. The reason is quite simple. No such writings on Nikkei Science. So, "Future Shin Godzilla evolutions" lost all its  relyability at this point. It's quite easy to tell by page citations.

Naganuma's career:Page 47 Matsumoto's:Page 49 Fujikura's:Page 53

6,7,8th forms:None 5th form ability:None

I read through the whole topics from Page 40 to 3 (Page count 14 pages), but there were no 7,8th forms.

Here's the scanned images from Nikkei Science Page 52-53, you can see the Arabic numerals "6" on Page 52, but no "7" or "8" in the texts. (Page 52 to 53 is the hypothesis by Fujikura on Shin G's 6th form. Again, just "Hypothesis") Page52-53

https://i.imgur.com/zsH2iN8.jpg

Page 54-59 are the topic on Origami in Shin Godzilla, have nothing to do with evolutionary stages. Page 54-555

https://i.imgur.com/lcesEdS.jpg Contents

https://i.imgur.com/UKiEPO4.jpg

In addition to that, Fujikura stated that the 5th form Godzilla might lost its teeth and jaw. This description is contradicting the movie's appearance of the 5th form G-human which had the sharp teeth. Why? Because Fujikura was not the internal staff of Toho or Khara. He was just an adiviser.

Thus We have verified from the documental aspects that the 6,7,8th form G and the specific ability of the 5th G are all fake.

Originally the fake 6,7,8th forms were made up in Japan to coincide with terrestrial television broadcast of Shin Godzilla around November 12th, 2017 (if my memory serves). I assume that the page creator(s) copied and pasted the latter half from somewhere, Japanese viral curation blog.

In short, the one who editted this article was fooled by the fake news.