A Kaiju Rises in the Night Harbour

【Concept】: A kaiju surfacing in a working harbour at night, seen from a fishing boat that is far too close. Twelve seconds, no dialogue, no subtitles. 【Style】: Modern theatrical anime, painted backgrounds with 3D camera moves, hard rim light from sodium dock lamps, volumetric mist, restrained color with one cold green accent. No chibi, no comedy, no speed lines. 【Duration】: 12 seconds 【Scene】: A commercial fishing harbour at 2am. Container gantries along the far quay, a breakwater with a green channel light, a small steel trawler with two crew on deck. Flat black water with an oily sheen. 【Action】: The water level around the trawler drops about a meter and holds, and everything on deck slides toward the low side. One crewman grabs the rail. A back rises out of the harbour between the trawler and the breakwater, tall enough to put the green channel light behind it, and keeps rising. Water sheets off it in curtains. The displaced water comes back as a wall and lifts the trawler bow-first. 【Camera】: Locked low on the trawler deck at gunwale height for the drop, then a single continuous tilt up that loses the top of the creature out of frame, then whipping down as the water returns. 【Continuity】: Two crew only. The green channel light stays on the same side of frame the whole time. Water that leaves the creature has to arrive somewhere. 【Audio】: Hull plates groaning, water draining away, then an enormous displacement roar, rigging slapping, one crewman shouting with no intelligible words, the channel bell. No score until the back clears the light, then one sustained low brass note.