From Bandai Spirits' S.H.MonsterArts line, Shin Gojira - The Fourth Awakening Ver. presents the Gojira design from Shin Godzilla (2016). The figure faithfully captures the movie’s mass and brutal presence, with a squat, muscular silhouette and highly detailed, mud-gray skin. Fine wrinkles, gnarly folds, and textured pores cover the body, while the dorsal plates rise in jagged rows, painted with lava-like washes that transition from charcoal to ember to ash. The face emphasizes a hornless, predatory snout and piercing eyes, and the limbs and tail are sculpted to imply relentless forward motion. Finish work highlights pinkish highlights around fissures and a matte body contrasted by glossy fin edges, achieving a cinematic, weighty showroom presence.

Shin Gojira reimagines Godzilla as an evolving threat rooted in catastrophe and science. In the 2016 film Shin Godzilla, this incarnation - The Fourth Awakening Ver. - begins as a radioactive anomaly that mutates in unpredictable ways and rapidly grows in size and reach. The creature adapts to every obstacle, evolving its biology to survive, brutalize, and resist attempts to contain it. Government agencies and researchers race to understand the pathogen-like transformation while public fear mounts. The story uses Godzilla as a social mirror - an unstoppable force linked to humanity's failures and vulnerabilities - driving a tense, procedural drama that imagines disaster response, politics, and ecology colliding with a creature that cannot be reasoned with. It's a stark portrait of resilience amid annihilation.