Kaiju anime No. 8 was voted the most anticipated new movie (not a sequel) of Spring 2024. It accounted for 4.29% of the votes, with 11,913 participants. Next up is Mission: Yozakura Family and the new Spice and Wolf anime reboot. Kaiju No. 8 will be animated by Production IG with creature designs by Khara and will release on April 13. Check out the top 10 graphics below.
Previously, the anime revealed images of the main characters Kafka, Mina, Reno, and Kafka as Kaiju No. 8 and Kikoru. You can watch the latest trailer (including ONE REPUBLIC's opening song) below.
The main voice cast for the Kaiju #8 anime includes Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju #8, Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa, and Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro. The anime will be streamed on X (formerly Twitter), as well as on Crunchyroll. Naoya Matsumoto's manga began serialization in July 2020 on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ and has since been collected into 11 volumes as of December 2023. Viz Media has licensed the series in English in North America and they describe the story:Kafka hopes to one day keep his comic. pact with childhood friend Mina to join the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and fight alongside her. But while he's out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is busy cleaning up the aftermath of his battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible to join the Self-Defense Forces, he decides to try out for the team again. There's just one problem—he's landed on the Self-Defense Forces' disabled list under the codename Kaiju No. 8.
Staff:
- Director: Shigeyuki Miya, Tomomi Kamiya
- Composition/Screenplay: Ichiro Okouchi
- Character Designer & Animation Director: Tetsuya Nishio
- Kaiju design: Mahiro Maeda
- Art director: Shinji Kimura
- Color design: Izumi Hirose
- 3DCG Director: Masaru Matsumoto
- Director of photography: Eiji Arai
- Sound director: Fumiyuki Go
- Music: Yuta Bando
Cast:
- Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
- Wataru Kato plays Reno Ichikawa
- Asami Seto plays Mina Ashiro
- Ai Fairouz as Kikoru Shinomiya
- Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina
- Yuki Shin as Iharu Furuhashi
- Keisuke Komoto as Haruichi Izumo
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Aoi Kaguragi
Source: Anime Corner Ranking © JAKDF Division 3 © Naoya Matsumoto/SHUEISHA
