The Godzilla: Singular Point season 1 ending concluded the fight to stop the Catastrophe, while also setting up the story for season 2 with a post-credits scene. All season, the main characters have been working to unlock the mystery of an unknown song and its connection to kaiju-related incidents.
In the series premiere of the Netflix showseries, the playing of the song somehow led directly to the emergence of Rodan, and soon after, entire flocks of his species. An assortment of characters including Mei, Yun, Haberu, BB, and Shunya Sato have devoted their time to figuring out what’s really going on. Early on in the series, they came to understand that monsters like Rodan, Anguirus, Manda, and Godzilla are “singular points,” which were defined as “places where the logic of our world disappears.” These singular points have been popping up everywhere and creating Red Dust, which has become a danger to the entire planet.
With help from Otaki Factory’s robot creation, Jet Jaguar, the humans found that they had a chance against some of Singular Point's monsters, but the fight against the constantly evolving Godzilla was a different story. As a kaiju much more massive than the others and one of the creatures capable of spreading the Red Dust, Godzilla proved to be the heroes’ greatest threat. During the second half of the season, the goal was to acquire a code known as the Orthogonal Diagonalizer, which they believed would eradicate the Red Dust and save the world from Godzilla’s destructive wrath.
How Jet Jaguar Defeats Godzilla
During the trip to India, BB, Mei, Pelops II, and Lyna reached Shiva, where they hoped to finally find the Orthoginal Diagonalizer that Ashihara developed decades ago. They uploaded Pelops II into the computer so that the AI could uncover the solution to all their problems. In the season finale, Pelops II completed her search and came up with a disappointing answer: there wasn’t a Orthoginal Diagonalizer within the data. Then, when the song began to play again, Mei told Pelops II to analyze it. In doing so, the AI found a protocol designed by Yun (presumably from the future) to “make Jet Jaguar invincible.” Once this was found, Jet Jaguar grew to enormous size, thus making him large enough to match blows with Godzilla for the first time in the series. His shocking transformation matched the one he went through to fight Megalon and Gigan in the Showa series classic, Godzilla vs. Megalon.
It would seem that the activation of future Yun’s protocol awakened “Jet Jaguar PP”, which claimed to be a direct descendant of both Pelops II and the robot hero. As Mei said, it turned out that the answer was with them all along via the song, which was actually broadcast by Jet Jaguar PP in the first place. According to it, the code they were looking for was within the robot this entire time, waiting to be found. Jet Jaguar PP then bade farewell to Yun, and blew itself up. Apparently, Jet Jaguar’s self-destruction sequence was the Orthoginal Diagonalizer sent back in time to beat Godzilla and stop the Catastrophe. The energy that exploded from its body immediately brought an end to the battle. Based on what the robot said, this was always supposed to happen. The Pelops II descendant explained that it was “born again and again all within the parameters of time” for this moment.
Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, and Salunga’s Fates Explained
The three main kaiju in the anime’s final battle all seemingly perished in the Godzilla: Singular Point season 1 finale. A brief shot in the finale confirmed that Salunga, the giant green monster inspired by All Monsters Attack’s Gabara, was killed by the Orthoginal Diagonalizer. His body had been impaled by multiple blue crystals. Though it had come back from being stabbed by the red crystals from the previous episodes, it appears that this time, Salunga’s death is final. Jet Jaguar is gone too, but since he has a descendant in the future, it makes sense that Otaki Factory is destined to rebuild him. But whether or not he’ll ever regain his size-upgrade remains to be seen.
As for Singular Point's Godzilla, his body was never shown, so it’s not altogether clear what really happened to him. Jet Jaguar's sacrifice did prevent the Catastrophe as promised, but there's no definitive proof that Godzilla is dead. The Orthogonal Diagonalizer instead may have sent him back through time to wherever he came from, which would mean that he’s still alive somewhere in the universe. If so, a new singular point can allow Godzilla to return in season 2. Alternatively, it could be that Godzilla is dead, and that a new version will need to be introduced. After all, the Godzilla skeleton at the beginning of the series does show that it is possible for there to be more than one Godzilla.
Mechagodzilla Is Set Up For Godzilla: Singular Point Season 2
A post-credits scene set the stage for what comes next in the anime. A scene in a giant warehouse revealed that the show’s take on Mechagodzilla is currently under construction. Blueprints of Godzilla bones on a computer screen provide a hint that the robotic kaiju is being built from the Godzilla skeleton in the series premiere. Regardless, the Mechagodzilla tease is a sign that the iconic Toho villain who most recently menaced the MonsterVerse in Godzilla vs. Kong will soon emerge as a major problem for the anime’s heroes as well.
In this version of the story, it’s revealed that both Michael and the mysterious journalist named Takehiro are involved in some capacity with Mechagodzilla’s creation. The two were seen observing him, along with a third figure whose identity is one of the episode’s biggest reveals. The person with them is in fact Ashihara, the supposedly dead scientist whose research served as a basis for most of the main characters’ findings. He was perceived as some kind of hero, but the look on his face in the post-credits suggests a sinister element to his character and perhaps an evil plan for the new robot. Who Ashihara really is, what he wants with Mechagodzilla, and how he’s still alive are sure to be integral to the story for Godzilla: Singular Point season 2.