Theres some sort of legal agreement with Toho. If I remember correctly, the rule between the US and Toho is that only one live action Godzilla film can be made at a time.
Since they were putting all their bets on King of the Monsters, they decided making a Shin Godzilla 2 would distract time and effort away from the new Kaiju universe since Shin Godzilla is an independent reboot
Shin did PHENOMENAL in Japan. The very first Godzilla movie focused on anti-nuclear war because a few years prior Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by the US.
Shin was popular because it focused more on tsunami and flooding and power plant meltdowns.
Toho kept Godzillas natural disaster aspect of himself relevant so it would strike a more relatable core to the new generation of Japanese
Oh, I get all that, just the whole contract of one Godzilla movie per year is shit. The Japanese movies don't have anywhere near the viewership of the American movies here, and vice-versa. Plus it's ludicrous that the country and studios that invented and own Godzilla can't put out a movie because we are. The Japanese Godzilla movies exist in their own insane little continuity, it's not really the same thing like Disney and Sony arguing over Spiderman
Since they were putting all their bets on King of the Monsters, they decided making a Shin Godzilla 2 would distract time and effort away from the new Kaiju universe since Shin Godzilla is an independent reboot
Shin did PHENOMENAL in Japan. The very first Godzilla movie focused on anti-nuclear war because a few years prior Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by the US.
Shin was popular because it focused more on tsunami and flooding and power plant meltdowns.
Toho kept Godzillas natural disaster aspect of himself relevant so it would strike a more relatable core to the new generation of Japanese