「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: Tokyo SOS

Another direct sequel that follows completely different human characters. Made by the same director, who also helped write this time around, and a new effects director.
 

Godzilla X Mechagodzilla AKA Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla

After GMK was a success, but Kaneko did not want to return, Toho turned back to Masaaki Tezuka and decided it was time to bring back a new version of Mechagodzilla.

Terror of Mechagodzilla

After the success of "Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla" Toho decided to bring back Mechagodzilla for a direct sequel as well as Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube hoping for a even bigger hit. It wasn't, and so Toho put the franchise on hold to give it a rest.

 

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.