Kai-Sei Era
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The Kai-Sei Era is the name for a shared universe of Godzilla comic books created by IDW Publishing that began in 2025. The series is named after "Kai-Sei", a fictional energy source introduced in the series that was responsible for awakening and empowering Godzilla among other beings. It is the second shared universe of ongoing IDW titles following the "IDW Universe" (2011-2015).
The Kai-Sei Era is set in an alternate 2025, featuring a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by the kaiju and fundamentally altered by Kai-Sei. Each series will focus on a different facet of this universe, from an American superhero group and its efforts to defeat the kaiju in Godzilla, to a half-human half-kaiju mutant wandering through an irradiated wasteland in Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone, to adventures beyond the Earth aboard the spacefaring S.S. Mechagodzilla in Starship Godzilla.
Comics
| Logo | Title | Start date | Format | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Editor |
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Godzilla: The New Heroes | May 3, 2025 | One-shot | Tim Seeley, Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Chris Gooch | Nikola Čižmešija, Pablo Tunica, Oliver Ono | Jake Williams |
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Godzilla | July 23, 2025 | Ongoing series | Tim Seeley | Nikola Čižmešija | |
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Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone | August 6, 2025 | Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan | Pablo Tunica | ||
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Starship Godzilla | October 1, 2025 | Chris Gooch | Oliver Ono |
Kaiju appearances
- Godzilla
- Jet Jaguar
- Anguirus
- Giant lamprey-like leech
- Lament
- Armored monster steed
- Blade-headed kaiju
- Humanoid kaiju
- Mechagodzilla
- SpaceGodzilla[1]
- Moguera[1]
- King Ghidorah[2]
- Rodan (mentioned)
- King Caesar (mentioned)
Development
IDW Publishing first revealed plans for a new Godzilla ongoing title and shared universe with the solicitation of Godzilla: The New Heroes in November 2024. On February 19, 2025, the Kai-Sei Era was formally announced alongside details and preview images of the first three ongoing titles set within the series: Godzilla, Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone, and Starship Godzilla.[3] The new Godzilla design featured in this continuity, revealed that same day, was a joint collaboration between Godzilla artist Nikola Čižmešija and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone artist Pablo Tunica.[4]
Series editor Jake Williams has likened the series to Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel imprint as a reimagining of various Godzilla mythos and emphasized the importance of playing to the strengths of the medium, expressing a desire to tell stories that can only exist in comics.[5] Williams has offered additional insight into the setting of the series in various interviews ahead of the release of Godzilla #1, detailing an alternate history fundamentally altered by the presence of kaiju and the mysterious Kai-Sei energy in which the United States lost the Cold War and has become isolated from the rest of the world;[5] he has further indicated that characters and elements from these individual series will eventually cross over.[4]
Gallery
Art
Series logo
Godzilla concept art by Nikola Čižmešija
Series logo concept art by Nikola Čižmešija
Concept art for the Collector's Paradise Kai-Sei Era connecting covers series by Patrick Horvath
Merchandise
Kai-Sei Era enamel pin
Starship Godzilla Mechagodzilla enamel pin
Double-sided Kai-Sei Era poster (front)
Double-sided Kai-Sei Era poster (back)
Kai-Sei Era shelf-talker
References
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