Mireniamu era (daikaiju eiga)

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In the terminology of daikaiju eiga the Millennium Era (Mireniamu Era, romaji for the Japanese approximation to "Millennium") refers not to the third millennium but to all daikaiju eiga made since 1999, beginning with Toho's Godzilla 2000: Millennium) and most recently Gamera: The Brave. It closely follows the Heisei era, which ended with Daiei's Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys earlier in 1999.

Unlike the VS Series and, to a lesser extent, the Shōwa Series, the Godzilla films of this series do not fall within a single timeline. Godzilla: Tokyo SOS is a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, but otherwise the films are disjoint from each other and include only Shōwa era daikaiju eiga in their individual chronologies, often only the original 1954 Godzilla; not all Millennium era movies even acknowledge the full course of events of that movie (for example, according to Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla was not destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer, but instead attacked Tokyo and retreated to the ocean, never to be seen again until 1966). Likewise, the first Gamera film of the Millennium Era ignores the events in the three Heisei era films, starting a new story.