Talk:Continuity/@comment-8683878-20190128050704/@comment-8683878-20190129033246

There's nothing in the film that explicitly says that Godzilla is fictional. (I haven't watched the original Japanese version yet.) There are many adults who are confused whenever Ichiro explains that he's been with Godzilla and Minilla on Monster Island, but no one actually says that they aren't real creatures.

The toymaker Inami explains at the end that Ichiro's role model is a monster, but he never says that the monster isn't a real being. If it's in continuity, it's been four years since there's been a kaiju attack on a major Japanese city (Invasion of Astro-Monster, 1965). As far as Ichiro knows, Godzilla is a giant monster that lives on an island with his son.

I'd say it's in continuity because nothing I've seen excludes it from the Showa continuity. I'll have to skim through the film again.