2026 is a big year for Mothra "The Queen of the Monsters" will be celebrating her 65th anniversary, not just of her film debut, but of her story debut as well. In 1961, Toho commissioned Shin’ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta to write a novel that would serve as a proof of concept for their next kaiju film, and this is where Mothra was born.