Kaiju No. 8 Anime Releases A New Character Preview Trailer
A new visual for Reno Ichikawa also got released.
On Saturday, TOHO Animation began streaming the new character preview trailer for Reno Ichikawa from the upcoming Kaiju No. 8 anime adaptation on their YouTube channel.
Furthermore, Wataru Kato will give his voice to Reno Ichikawa.
A new visual for Reno Ichikawa, which you can check below,
The anime cast includes:
- 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
The staff members for the anime are as follows:
- Original Manga: Naoya Matsumoto
- Director: Shigeyuki Miya and Tomomi Kamiya
- Series Composition and Screenplay: Ichiro Okouchi
- Character Designer and 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.
The anime is based on Naoya Matsumoto’s manga Kaiju No. 8.
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 it 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: Comic Natalie, TOHO Animation on YouTube
