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| Kenichiro Terasawa | |
| Continuity: | Godzilla |
| Type: | Main character |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Relatives: | Emmy Kano (descendant) |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) |
| Actor: | Kosuke Toyohara |
Kenichiro Terasawa was a supporting character featured in the Godzilla film franchise. Played by actor Kosuke Toyohara, he was introduced in the third film in the Heisei series entitled Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.
This was the character's only known appearance in the series.
Biography[]
Kenichiro Terasawa was a respected writer living in Tokyo, Japan in the early 1990s. He was present when a group of time travelers from the 23rd century calling themselves the Equal Environment Earth Union came to the present to warn them that the monster known as Godzilla was fated to destroy Tokyo. Their plan was to go back to the year 1944 and capture Godzilla at a point in time prior to the incident that mutated him into an atomic power house. Terasawa accompanied the EEEU on this endeavor and he witnessed the Battle of Lagos Island, which pitted members of the United States Navy against the Imperial Japanese Navy. A Godzillasaurus attacked the soldiers, but was taken down in a hail of gunfire. The EEEU collected the injured animal and brought him back to the year 1992 where he was dumped into the Pacific Ocean.
Terasawa eventually discovered the EEEU's true purpose, which was not to safeguard Tokyo, but rather to cripple it, preventing it from becoming a corrupt super-power in the future. One of their members, Emmy Kano, who happened to be Terasawa's descendant, betrayed the group and together she and Terasawa worked to stop the EEEU and their plot. They stole their teleportation technology and took off in a small shuttle. They then turned the teleportation ray on the time travelers' space ship and teleported it into the middle of a pitched battle between the alien dragon monster King Ghidorah and a newly reborn Godzilla. Godzilla viewed the ship as a mere annoyance and promptly roasted it with a blast of atomic breath.
When the battle was finally over, Emmy Kano told Kenichiro that she was his descendant from the future. The two said their goodbyes and Emmy returned to her native timeline in the year 2204.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Kenichiro Terasawa was created by writer/director Kazuki Ōmori.