Rodan: The Animated Series

Rodan: The Animated Series (Japanese: 空ロダンの巨大モンスターキング Sora Rodan no Kyodai Monsutākingu, Giant Monster King of the Skies Rodan in English) is a American-Japanese cartoon-tokusatsu science fiction series based off characters from the Godzilla franchise created by Toho and Man of Actions Studios. The show takes place half a century after the events of Rodan (1956) as well as taking place in a different timeline.

Plot
60 years after Japan was attacked by two giant pteranodon Kaiju nicknamed Rodan, a nest was found near Mount Aso as when other giant monsters and aliens appear to wreak havoc as this new Rodan emerges from his egg and spreads his wings as he protects Japan from other threats.

Protagonists

 * Dr. Ishiro Kawamura - a
 * Alexa Kitolov - Ishiro's Russian wife
 * - a Geologist at the University of Tokyo who often works with Ishiro

Antagonists

 * Mitsuo Katagiri - the head of government agency Crisis Control Intelligence, which seeks to eliminate all Kaiju, which they see as a threat to Japan.
 * Shinzo Mafune - a Japanese scientist who was famous for his research on dinosaurs.
 * Akira Yuki -

Supporting Characters

 * Frank Kingston - Ishiro's mentor

Monsters

 * Rodan - a giant irradiated pteranodon and the offspring of the very two Rodans that attacked Japan in 1956.
 * Meganulon - giant prehistoric insect nymphs from another dimension known as Yggdrasil. These creatures also appeared in 1956, prior to the Rodan Incident.
 * Meganula - the adult form of Meganulon.
 * Maguma - a giant walrus, and one of earth's few naturally occurring Kaiju.
 * Gigan - a cyborg-enhanced alien Kaiju from Space Hunters M, Yggdrasil's moon.
 * Zilla - a massive theropod-like mutated iguana, formerly mistaken for another Kaiju.
 * Crustaceous Rex - a terrestrial anomalocaridid desendant from Yggdrasil.
 * Hagane Squadron - several large mecha created in part by CCI to defend Japan against Kaiju.
 * MOGUERA - a large humanoid mecha.
 * DRACU - a flying mecha resembling a robotic bat armed with a large variety of sound-based weapons. Her name stands for Defence and Recon, Aerial Combat Unit.
 * Baragon - a giant horned burrowing creature (it is currently unknown if he's a mammal, a reptile, or a mammal-like reptile). He's a very old Kaiju, with him arriving through our world from Yggdrasil nearly 400 years.
 * Kumonga - a giant mutant spider from Sogell Island of Yggdrasil, where Madagascar is on our Earth.
 * Kamacurus - giant mantises
 * Titanosaurus - a giant aquatic dinosaur that was discovered by a Japanese scientist named Shinzo Mafune who wants to get revenge on Japan (For shunning him on his theories of controlling the Kaiju) with the help of the Black Hole Aliens.
 * Anguirus - an anklyosaurid (though millions of years' worth of evolution makes it look and act more like a crocodilian) brought into our world by the same nuclear bomb that created Godzilla.
 * Godzilla - a giant radioactive dinosaur born from atomic radiation and the successor of the first creature that attacked Tokyo in 1954. He is nicknamed the King of the Monsters and one of the most destructive Kaiju on Earth.
 * Megaguirus - an extremely large mutant Meganula that can function as a queen to Meganula swarms.

Episode One: The Monster of the Skies

 * Air Date:
 * December 26, 2015 (Japan)
 * January, 7, 2016 (USA/Canada)
 * Monsters: Rodan
 * Summary: 60 years after the 'Rodan Incident' in 1956, mysterious mutilations and sightings of a flying creature have occurred around the very place where it first happened: Mount Aso. A team of scientists lead by Dr. Kawamura of the University of Tokyo travels to the volcano around the same time to explore the deep caverns of Mt. Aso, not explored since 1993.

Episode Two: A Swarm in the Night

 * Air Date
 * February 18, 2016 (USA/Canada)
 * January 13, 2016 (Japan)
 * Monsters: Rodan, Meganulon, Meganula
 * Summary: With Rodan now a sub-adult, Ishiro.

Episode Three:

 * Air Date:
 * (USA/Canada)
 * (Japan)

Episode Four: Titanosaurus Strikes Back

 * Air Date:
 * Monsters: Rodan, Titanosaurus
 * Summary: Sendai was recently attacked by Titanosaurus, a giant aquatic dinosaur that's being mind control by a mad scientist who wanted revenge on Japan for shunning him.
 * Summary: Sendai was recently attacked by Titanosaurus, a giant aquatic dinosaur that's being mind control by a mad scientist who wanted revenge on Japan for shunning him.

Episode Five: Titanosaurus attacks Tokyo

 * Air Date:
 * Monsters: Rodan, Titanosaurus
 * Summary: After learning that aliens are involved, the team must stop them from conquering the Earth while Rodan fights Titanosaurus in Tokyo.

Episode Six: Salamander

 * Air Date:
 * (USA/Canada)
 * (Japan)
 * Monsters: Rodan, Zilla, Giant Mutant Squids
 * Summary: When a massive beaching of Giant squids occurrs in Okinawa, the team goes in to investigate, joined by fellow research team HEAT and their own Kaiju: Zilla.

Trivia

 * Since the show takes place in a different universe, Rodan's appearance in Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster never occurred.
 * Toho has confirmed that Godzilla will appear on the show due to his popularity and to promote Godzilla: Resurgence, although his KiryuGoji design is used.