Kaiju No. 8 anime movie including Season 1 and the Hoshina’s Day Off bonus episode has revealed a key visual and March 2025 release date. The movie was announced along with Season 2, which is also scheduled to release next year. Production I.G will return to animate, with creature designs by Khara. The movie will premiere in Japan on March 28, 2025, and you can see the key visual below.
The full staff list for the Kaiju No. 8 anime includes:
- Directors: Shigeyuki Miya, Tomomi Kamiya
- Series Composition/ Screenplay: Ichiro Okouchi
- Character Designer & Chief Animation Director: Tetsuya Nishio
- Kaiju Design: Mahiro Maeda
- Art Director: Shinji Kimura
- Color Design: Izumi Hirose
- 3DCG Director: Masaru Matsumoto
- Photography Director: Eiji Arai
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Music: Yuta Bando
The main voice cast for the Kaiju No. 8 anime includes Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8, Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa, Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro, and Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina. We had the opportunity to talk with Masaya Fukunishi at this year’s Anime Expo, where he shared his experience voicing Kafka.
Kaiju No. 8 manga by Naoya Matsumoto began serialization in July 2020 on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ and has since been collected into 14 volumes as of this November. Viz Media licensed it in English.
The official synopsis for Season 1:
In a Kaiju-filled Japan, Kafka Hibino works in monster disposal. After reuniting with his childhood friend Mina Ashiro, a rising star in the anti-Kaiju Defense Force, he decides to pursue his abandoned dream of joining the Force… when he suddenly transforms into the powerful “Kaiju No. 8.” With help from his junior colleague Reno Ichikawa, Kafka hides his identity while striving towards his life-long dream of passing the Defense Force exam and standing at Mina’s side. But when mysterious intelligent Kaiju attack a Defense Force base, Kafka faces a crucial decision in a desperate situation…
The official synopsis for Hoshina’s Day Off:
A day off… a rare day of peace for the Defense Force. After spending so long training, Reno has forgotten what he’s supposed to do with free time. He sees that Hoshina is up to something with his own day off, and decides to go on a mission to tail him with Iharu! But then things go in an unexpected direction…
Besides the movie and Season 2, a Kaiju No. 8 video game for the franchise is also in development.
Source: Official Website
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