1996

Dark Horse's Gamera comic series begins publication with its first issue.
Dark Horse publishes Godzilla #15.
Dark Horse publishes Art Adams' Creature Features, which features two previously published Godzilla comics.
4 August: Madman Entertainment is founded.
5 August: Kodansha publishes Gamera Super Force Pictorial Book.
10 August: Shogakukan publishes Gamera 2: Attack of Legion Super Complete Works.
27 August: Akiji Kobayashi passes away at age 65.

September

Dark Horse publishes Godzilla #16, the final issue in the run.
Dark Horse publishes Gamera #2.
1 September: Andrew Hughes passes away at the age of 88.
7 September: The first episode of Ultraman Tiga airs in Japan, making it the first Japanese entry in the Ultra Series in 16 years since Ultraman 80.
30 September: Guyferd concludes its television run.

October

Dark Horse publishes Gamera #3.
Dark Horse publishes A Decade of Dark Horse #4, which contains an original story connected to its previously concluded Godzilla run.
1 October: Toho airs the first episode of Godzilla Kingdom.
26 October: Random House publishes Godzilla Returns, the first novel in a young adult series by Marc Cerasini.
28 October: Kuichiro Kishida passes away at the age of 89.
29 October: Random House publishes Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla on Monster Island, Godzilla Saves America: A Monster Showdown in 3-D!, and Godzilla vs. Gigan and the Smog Monster.

November

Dark Horse's Gamera comic series concludes with its last issue.
18 November: Galgameth is released in Spain.
20 November: Shogakukan Inc. publishes the fourteenth edition of Definitive Edition Godzilla Introduction.
21 November: Galgameth premieres on video in Japan.
30 November: Shogakukan publishes chapter 1, "The Guardian of Justice, Mothra, Arrives!!", of the first volume of Outrageous Flying Mothra!.

December

13 December: Junkichi Oki passes away at the age of 56.
14 December: Rebirth of Mothra is released in Japan.
19 December: Harold Conway passes away at age 85.
20 December: Shogakukan publishes Rebirth of Mothra Super Complete Works.
28 December: Shogakukan publishes chapter 2, "Big Battle at the Ski Resort!", of the first volume of Outrageous Flying Mothra!.

In fiction

Baas Island is found destroyed, and Godzilla emerges in Hong Kong with burning hot rashes all over his body. It is speculated that the fission in the monster's body has gone out of control, and the creature will soon explode, taking the planet with it. At the same time, it is discovered that the detonation of Dr. Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer in 1954 not only killed the original Godzilla, but revived and mutated a group of ancient crustaceans from the Precambrian era. The creatures have begun to amass and soon fuse into one giant monster dubbed Destoroyah. Meanwhile, the G-Force's new Super X3 has subdued Godzilla and prevented the explosion, but has paved the way for a meltdown that may still prove to be the end of the world, as well as the King of the Monsters. The Counter-G Bureau decides that the only way to save the Earth and humanity is to bring Godzilla and Destoroyah together, in hopes that the monster king will face the same death as his predecessor in the 1950s. The only way to lure Godzilla to Japan, however, is to use his adopted son, Godzilla Junior, as bait. Junior is indeed lured to Tokyo, and engages Destoroyah in battle. Godzilla soon arrives, just in time to see Destoroyah evolve into his final form and lift Junior into the sky. The demon then drops the young monster from an extreme altitude, and watches as the creature hits the ground and apparently dies from the impact. Furious, Godzilla attacks Destoroyah with all he has, his temperature rising every second. Destoroyah eventually turns and retreats, but the JSDF shoots the creature down with low temperature lasers. With the opportunity to exact revenge on his son's murderer taken from him, Godzilla's temperature rises to 1200 degrees Celsius, and the beast melts down. Within seconds, the King of the Monsters is gone, and Tokyo is left in irradiated ruins. Suddenly, however, the radioactivity decreases and soon disapears. From out of the smoke and mist appears Junior, who has survived, absorbed the exess radiation, and inherited his father's crown as the new King of the Monsters. (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
Desghidorah, an ancient creature that destroyed an ancient civilization millions of years earlier, is awoken by the evil Elias, Belvera. Her two sisters, Moll and Lora, call on the last remaining Mothra to fight the three-headed space monster. As she begins to loose the fight, her larval offspring hatches prematurely to assist her, and arives to fight Desghidorah. Although the tiny creature's mother is killed in the battle, the small larva, known as Leo, metamorphoses into it's imago form and defeats the demonic hydra once and for all. (Rebirth of Mothra)
Godzilla reappears in Osaka and attacks an experimental new plasma plant. (Godzilla vs. Megaguirus)

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