Well, I think mostly because it is just a Gamera Millennium Film, not a reboot.VoyagerGoji wrote:You’re welcome dude. I think the idea of a ‘Millennium Gamera Series’ is redundant anyway.Terasawa wrote:Thanks for including Gamera, the Brave. It was annoying when fans dubbed that "the Millennium series" Gamera movie, despite Toho only using that branding for the 2000s Godzilla films. I'm not sure what Tsuburaya did with Ultraman but Toei used "Heisei series" for Kamen Rider and Super Sentai until -you know- the Heisei era ended.
For me, I completely do think of "The Brave" as the "Millennium Film" because for me, I never think of the eras in terms of the corresponding years, so much as I just use them to refer to distinct continuities or to films sectioned together in the "production timeline" after any kind of break in continuity or hiatus in production.
For me...the Godzilla Millennium Era is 98-2004 because the Heisei Era/Continuity ends with Destoroyah, so after that, something new HAS to start.
Just as the Gamera Trilogy, despite going 95-99, is still the Heisei Trilogy.....even though Godzilla films from 98 and 99 are in the "Millennium Era"....and the Heisei Trilogy ends after 3 years. So anything that came next, unless it was a literal "Gamera 4", would HAVE to represent the start of something new.
And with The Brave being a new reboot and 7 years after Revenge of Iris....I just can't think of it as being part of the "Heisei Era" or "Heisei Series"....so it is the Millennium Reboot, Millennium Film, Millennium Era for me.
Still, like I said....with Gamera The Brave just being one film, I mostly just think of it as "Just Gamera The Brave" as opposed to any kind of distinct era....but I most certainly can't think of it being grouped in with the Heisei Trilogy, because the Heisei Trilogy is very much a contained, stand-alone thing.