「ゴジラ総選挙2017」 Godzilla General Election 2017: Popular monster selected by 10,000 people TOP 20

01 Mothra モスラ

02 King Ghidorah キングギドラ

03 Rodan ラドン

04 Minilla ミニラ  

05 Showa Mechagodzilla メカゴジラ（旧）

06 Anguirus アンギラス 

07 Mecha King Ghidorah メカキングギドラ

08 Baby Godzilla ベビーゴジラ

09 Giganガイガン 

10 Hedorah ヘドラ 

11 Biollante ビオランテ 

12 Kiryu 3 式機龍  

13 Super Mechagodzilla スーパーメカゴジラ

14 Jet Jaguar ジェットジャガー 

15 Kaiser Ghidorah カイザーギドラ

16 Baragon バラゴン 

17 Destroyah デストロイア 

18 Varan バラン 

19 Godzillasaurus ゴジラザウルス 

20 Battra バトラ 

Toho Kaiju Popularity Index

Reader survey of kaiju popularity from "Godzilla Magazine" Vol 2 1993 right in the middle of the Heisei aka Versus era. Readers sent in postcards from the first Vol of Godzilla Magazine. The results are just over 900 votes, with Godzilla easily the number 1. Also included was most hated ranking with Jet Jaguar the clear winner. Hedorah the only kaiju to make both lists. 

Favorite Kaiju

1 Godzilla (206). 

2 King Ghidorah (124) 

3 Mothra (108) 

4 Anguirus (84) 

5 Rodan (73) 

6 Mechagodzilla (60) 

7 Battra (56) 

8 Baragon (42) 

9 Biollante (41) 

10 Mecha King Ghidorah (38) 

11 Gorosaurus (21)

11 Gigan (21) 

13 Varan (9)

13 Hedorah (9)

13 King Caesar (9) 

Most Hated Kaiju 

1 Jet Jaguar (59) 

2 Gabara (32)

2 Hedorah (32) 

4 Megalon (28) 

5 Minilla (14)

5 Kumonga (14)

Godzilla Final Wars

Toho decided for Godzilla's 50th Anniversary they would do a big extravaganza again like "Destroy All Monsters". They hired a young up and coming director, chucked it full of daikaiju's and former Godzilla actors. But still had it made in the same short development and shooting time.

Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla Vs. the Bionic Monster aka Godzilla Vs. the Cosmic Monster

For Godzilla's 20th anniversary Toho wanted a new opponent, something he had not faced before. Remembering they had Kong face a robot duplicate, they decided to have Godzilla face his own mechanical doppelgänger. Also made the aliens controlling Mechagodzilla, in honor of King Kong, are apes, or maybe it was because of the popularity of the Planet of the Apes movies.  
      

Godzilla Vs. Gigan aka Godzilla on Monster Island

"Godzilla Vs. Gigan" starts the heavy use of recycled effect footage. Godzilla ends up with a lot of screen time, however a lot of that is stock footage or spent swimming. This movie was also a later release in the US not coming out till 1977 five years after it came out in Japan. And called "Godzilla on Monster Island" even though he spends very little time on said monster island.

Destroy All Monsters

What happens when you try to end a franchise with a huge extravaganza? You end up revitalizing to genre into the next decade. Toho took every useable daikaiju suit and made a couple of new ones and through them together into on epic film that ends the golden age of daikaiju movies.

Godzilla Raids Again aka Gigantis, the Fire Monster Breakdown

My Breakdown of the Godzilla franchise continues with the 2nd film, a rushed sequel that gets majorly butchered in the States. It does introduce the daikaiju Anguirus who becomes a major part of the franchise in the 70's.