[saghm]

> Gojira is three syllables total, go-ji-ra (or non-standard older go-dzi-lla; never god-zil-la for Japanese -- it does not rhyme with deities).

Aha, okay, that's what I was thinking; I was confused by the phrasing that Wikipedia used (i.e. "the product name comes from the second syllable") and assumed that meant that "jira" was a single syllable (the second), and thought that I might be missing something about how the pronunciation works. It sounds like I was just misreading the Wikipedia quote though, so thanks for bearing with my confusion and explaining it!