The trailer with English subtitles has been streamed online
The official YouTube channel of the Godzilla franchise announced on Wednesday that the sequel to Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, (Chibi Godzilla no Gyakushū), an anime about the character Chibi Godzilla, will begin streaming in Japanese with subtitles English on the channel on April 10 at 1 p.m. EDT. The channel streamed the trailer with English subtitles:
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Image via Twitter account for the anime Chibi Godzilla Raids Again
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The sequel will premiere on April 3 at 7:05 a.m. JST (April 2 at 6:05 p.m. EDT) on TV Tokyo's Oha Suta.
The anime will have a returning cast. Maaya Uchida voices the new character Chibi Minilla, the “chibi” version of Minilla, Godzilla's adopted son.
Taketo Shinkai once again directed the anime at Pie in the sky, and Chiharu Sakazaki again designed the characters.
The anime premiered in April 2023 at 7:00 am on TV Tokyo's Iniminimanimo programming block. (Iniminimanimo — a reference to the English countdown rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe” — previously aired children's anime series such as Pui Pui Molcar Driving School.)
The anime's cast includes:
The short animated series titled”Tadaima! Chibi Gojira”(I'm Home! Chibi Godzilla), based on the character Chibi Godzilla, was streamed on the YouTube channel of the Godzilla (Gojira) franchise in 2020.
Chibi Godzilla debuted in Chiharu Sakazaki's picture book Ganbare Chibi Gojira (Do Your Best, Chibi Godzilla) in October 2018. Sakazaki released his second picture book Nakayoshi Chibi Gojira (Close Friends, Chibi Godzilla) in May 2018. 2019.
The Chibi Godzilla Project celebrates the 65th anniversary of the Godzilla franchise. The project launched in July 2018 and since then it has appeared on the cover of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, as a kigurumi character at the 2018 “Gojira Fes”(Godzilla Fest) event, in sets animated short films during theatrical hiatuses and for other projects. Before designing Chibi Godzilla, Sakazaki was known for designing characters such as the penguin in the Suica travel card and Chiba Prefecture's official mascot Chi-ba-kun.
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