At New York Comic Con on October 13, Crunchyroll introduced Kaiju No. 8, a well-liked Shonen Jump sci-fi monster fighter sequence, will come to the anime streaming service solely subsequent spring.
Kaiju No. 8’s elevator pitch is mainly what would occur if an grownup Peter Parker was smack-dab in the course of a Godzilla story. The sequence follows Kafka Hibino, a 32-year-old who let his dream of preventing on the entrance traces alongside his childhood buddy Mina Ashiro go him by. Kafka works a thankless blue-collar job as a sanitation employee tasked with cleansing the aftermath of cataclysmic metropolitan kaiju battles. Meanwhile, Mina serves her nation because the fearless chief of Japan’s Kaiju Defense Force.
Kafka’s life is certainly one of missed alternatives. That is, till a freak encounter with a monster offers him the flexibility to remodel right into a humanoid kaiju. A Kaiju Man, if you’ll. Now, Kafka should preserve his newfound alter ego below wraps whereas pursuing his childhood dream of turning into a kaiju preventing hero with Mina.
You can take a look at the new trailer beneath:
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Animation powerhouse Production I.G (Ghost within the Shell) will produce the anime alongside Studio Khara. Studio Khara’s involvement in Kaiju No. 8 is type of an enormous deal (pun supposed) in gentle of its earlier work on director Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion rebuild movies and his tokusatsu movies, Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider. Studio Khara will present kaiju designs for the sequence as nicely. Safe to say Kaiju No. 8’s anime adaptation is in good palms with folks who’re intimately aware of the style.
During Crunchyroll’s NYCC trade panel, Kaiju No. 8’s creator Naoya Matsumoto shared a particular be aware to followers, saying:
[Kaiju No. 8 is] a narrative about somebody struggling in a harsh world with out ever giving up, within the hopes of main individuals into an excellent barely brighter future. To anybody coping with the complexities of actuality that reads this manga, I hope it could assist make your future a bit brighter, too.