Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 revealed a new trailer at Anime Japan, teasing “Japan’s Strongest Anti-Kaiju Combatant” Gen Narumi in action. The anime previously confirmed a July 2025 release date at at Jump Festa ’25, while the Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (recap + Hoshina’s Day Off) movie will premiere next month.
You can watch the new trailer below.
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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 last 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 the Hoshina’s Day Off bonus episode:
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 TV anime, a Kaiju No. 8 video game for the franchise is also in development.
Source: Kaiju No. 8 Official X, AnimeJapan 2025
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