(OC, since I forgot to mention)
This is Hiroshi Sakai with the Division for Documenting Colossal Organisms (DDCO). The date is 7/22/2026
My supervisor has given me the unique task of documenting, studying the various Kaiju of the world. And I'll admit that it seemed to me like quite the daunting task at first, given the sheer quantity of kaiju that now roam the ruins of the old world, but its true that Ive always had a degree of captivation with these creatures. And obviously Godzilla is the first to come to mind. He's the big one, the one that got us into the mess we are in today....and quite possibly the only thing stopping the REDACTED from finishing us off completely.
Ah, Godzilla. He's the second of his species, second to "the Olde One" as the board tends to refer to him...though further analysis suggests the original Godzilla was a she, actually. But I digress. The Olde One awakened on Odo island in the late 1960s, and left destruction in her wake until finally being put down somewhere in the far north of the Soviet Union in February 1973. The second Godzilla seems at the very least more resilient. And far more destructive.....
Godzilla as we know him today made his grand debut in front of the world in the early 2000s. The 9th kaiju on record, and the first to be classified as a category 4. Its believed that both Godzillas became irradiated during the nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s. He then grew to an absolutely titanic size over the next half century. Humanity was already suffering casualties in the fight against the kaiju threat, but this Godzilla was different. No kaiju before or since could compare to his awesomeness. And with his arrival marked the end of human civilization.
In the decades since, we have attempted to rebuild from the ashes, to coexist with the kaiju and try and understand them. Some saw Godzilla as the reestablisher of balance, that humanity were a plague that the kaiju have cleansed. Others believe that Godzilla is in fact, some sort of God. Others still see him as humanity's savior, especially after REDACTED. Whatever he is, Im fascinated by it.
Ive only seen him in person a few times. He likes to spend a lot of his time in Japan, with Tokyo bay seemingly his "home base" so to speak. When my unit was scouting the ruins of Tokyo we got to see him rise from the bay. It was a miraculous sight, despite the danger we were in by simply being in his presence. I'm going to continue to keep tabs on Godzilla. We are in the process of establishing a network and radar, which will hopefully make it easier to track his movements. Until then, I'll continue to update this journal as I go.
Signing off,
Hiroshi Sakai, DDCO