Godzilla breaks through a Times Square billboard for Minus Zero

TOHO's corner-screen spectacle has passed 100,000 views in ten hours, with viewers admiring the illusion and joking about Manhattan real estate.

Channel: GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO Story of October 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 164,304 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (9,282).

The King of the Monsters has taken Times Square! #GodzillaMinusZero

A shadow moves behind a cloudy white surface. Then Godzilla bursts through, blue dorsal fins glowing, apparently breaking out of a giant corner screen above Times Square.

The Short on GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO shows a digital billboard advertisement for Godzilla Minus Zero, not destruction spilling into the street. Its trick is to use the screen's corner to give the monster depth, before a roar and an atomic-breath blast fill the display.

That miniature city-stomping spectacle has already passed 100,000 views in ten hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts. The comments are also several times busier than a normal full opening day.

Viewers are picking out the angled screen's illusion, with one imagining Godzilla taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Another finds a distinctly New York upside to monster destruction: perhaps Manhattan property would finally become affordable.

The billboard credits Takashi Yamazaki with the visual effects, writing and direction of Minus Zero, and announces a November 6 theatrical release. Here, the movie's promotional canvas is a piece of the city itself.

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The numbers

The Times Square Short has drawn an unusually large opening audience, with its first day still underway.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,282

this video

164,304

subscribers

822,000

▲ 183,000 in the last 7 days

total views

113,690,014

views per day

215,249

typical day: 318,115

the video

views

100,580

likes

7,185

comments

148

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Fandango (Stream)

1,260,000

Focus Features

1,090,000

CRITERION

939,000

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

822,000

Legendary

615,000

Sony Pictures Releasing UK

578,000

As of October 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.