Kaiju No. 8 Anime Announces April 13 Debut

The opening theme song featured YUNGBLUD

Dev 29 Feb 2024

On Thursday, The official website for the anime of Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga released a new PV, announcing its April 13 debut.

Furthermore, the anime’s opening theme song “Abyss” by British Singer YUNGBLUD, and the ending theme song “Nobody” by American pop rock group OneRepublic were also announced.

The anime stars:

Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
Wataru Katō as Reno Ichikawa
Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina
Yūki Shin as Iharu Furuhashi
Keisuke Kōmoto as Haruichi Izumo
Shunsuke Takeuchi as Aoi Kaguragi

<Staff members>

Original Manga: Naoya Matsumoto
Director: 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
Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
Editor: Aya Hida
Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
Music: Yuta Bandoh
Kaiju Design & Works: Studio khara
Animation Production: Production I.G

About Kaiju No. 8:

Kaiju No. 8 is a manga series written and illustrated by Naoya Matsumoto.

It has been serialized for free on Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ application and website since July 2020, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes as of December 2023.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Production I.G is set to premiere in April 2024.

Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Kaiju No. 8 as follows:

In a world plagued by threatening creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in the Japan Defense Force to defeat them.

“Let’s wipe out the Kaiju together.”

Kafka pledged to his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro.

Over time, life circumstances forced them to go their separate ways and caused him to abandon his lifelong ambition.

He found himself employed by Monster Sweeper, Inc., a professional cleaning company that specializes in cleaning up the aftermath of Kaiju battles. Meanwhile, Mina Ashiro is now the Captain of the Defense Force’s 3rd Division.

As it stands, he is currently unworthy of fighting Kaiju alongside her.

At work, Kafka crosses paths with the highly motivated Reno Ichikawa.

Reno’s undying determination to join the Defense Force leaves no room for failure.

His perseverance reawakens Kafka’s ambition of standing next to Mina as they protect humanity from Kaiju together.

A dream frozen by time, thawed by a burning promise.

Source: ANN