Superhero Media: Godzilla - City on the Edge of Battle

Having survived their encounter with the not-really-Godzilla, protagonist man and his team must race to their ship before the mothership leaves orbit or they're eaten by the local fauna. A chance discovery leads the survivors to a massive factory city composed of nanometal, a city grown from the wreckage of Mechagodzilla. You know what? I've figured these damned things out, they're not Godzilla films, they're someone's Science Fiction concept that they couldn't get made into a series or film until they slapped Godzilla branding on it, like a bunch of the crappier Doctor Who novels. Even for one of the cheaper Godzilla efforts, there is precious little Godzilla in City on the Edge of Battle, excepting the planet full of Kaiju spawn; and Mechagodzilla doesn't actually appear at all, unless you count the city, I guess?

Thing is, as a Science Fiction film? City on the Edge of Battle is actually alright. I'm not really a big SF fan when it really comes down to it, but from what I have seen, the concepts here were interesting and all of the tech looked pretty cool. But I did tune in to see giant monsters fighting each other, and I got all of none of that, so I can't really rate the series that high on that aspect. The most interesting part of City on the Edge of Battle is the continuation of the exploration of the two alien belief systems, here revealed to both rotate around Kaiju of some form, which makes a sort of sense, as the creatures are destroying civilisations across the universe, evidently. One species even does the thing where they don't say the name of the monster as a kind of Magical Thinking, with our protagonist ending the film by recalling the name "Gidorah". I hope this means the next one at least involves a monster fight at some point.

I'm personally pretty forgiving when it comes to the huge range of Godzilla fiction, even defending Jet Jaguar and Minilla when I get the chance, but I'm yet to find anything in this series that I feel I'm really going to carry forward. Keep in mind that I even like elements of the 1998 American Godzilla, so this series is really leaving me cold. I'm just not sure what the point of it all was, as it barely even contains Godzilla and even I'm not familiar with the weird philosophy and politics of the narrative, if indeed there is a message trying to be conveyed. Now it's on to the last one of these, which will at least be the end, even if I doubt it will be satisfying.