For the film “Godzilla X MechaGodzilla”, Toho decided to stray away from Shusuke Kaneko's Godzilla design and go back to the look of the Mire/Gira-Goji designs. This new version, dubbed Kiryu-Goji, did however go under some pretty obvious changes from those two previous designs. The head was completely changed and made smaller to sort of represent the head of the Heisei series Godzilla. The dorsal plates were reduced a bit and lost their purplish hue, deciding to keep the classic bone-white color, but still remained jagged like the Mire/Gira-Goji dorsal plates. Godzilla's skin also returned from the Mire/Gira-Goji green to the old charcoal gray, Godzilla's traditional color. The following year for the film “Godzilla X Mothra X MechaGodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.”, the sequel to Godzilla X MechaGodzilla, Godzilla's appearance remained basically the same. The Kiryu-Goji suit was repaired and used again, but this time had a new, large, deep red scar on the chest of the suit.
