Anime Lovers

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 in North America, and they describe the story:
Kafka hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she’s out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out for the squad once more. There’s just one problem—he’s made the Defense Force’s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.

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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