Kaiju No. 8 Anime To Cast Nene Hieda, Mayuko Kazama
Members of the third division of the Defence Force make up both characters.
On Thursday, the official Twitter account for the anime of Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga has announced that they are casting two new members from the anime.
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— 怪獣８号【公式】 (@KaijuNo8_O) May 9, 2024
In the pictures above, from left to right, are the recently revealed cast members:
- Nene Hieda as Akari Minase
- Mayuko Kazama as Hakua Igarashi
Members of the third division of the Defense Force make up both characters.
On April 13, the animation debuted on TV Tokyo. Both the English dub and the animation may be streamed live on Crunchyroll.
At the exact moment the anime airs on TV in Japan, it is simultaneously streamed live on X/Twitter globally.
The anime stars:
- Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
- Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa
- Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
- Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
- Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina
- Yūki Shin as Iharu Furuhashi
- Keisuke Komoto as Haruichi Izumo
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Aoi Kaguragi
- Tomohiro Ono as Yoshimura
- Jun Fukushima as Miike
- Yutaka Aoyama as Masahide Tokuda
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Mizoguchi
- Takuya Masumoto as Kinugasa
- Ivan Shibata as Mori
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 to stand next to Mina as they protect humanity from Kaiju together. A dream frozen by time, thawed by a burning promise.
Source: Kaiju No. 8’s official Twitter
- 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’s opening theme song “Abyss,” performed by British artist YUNGBLUD, and its closing theme song “Nobody,” performed by American pop rock group OneRepublic.
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 to stand next to Mina as they protect humanity from Kaiju together. A dream frozen by time, thawed by a burning promise.
