An 11th new “Kaiju Hyakkei” seasonal showcase visual has been unveiled for the upcoming second season of Kaiju No. 8. Season two is expected to premiere in Japan sometime in July 2025.
The main staff, returning from the first season, include Shigeyuki Miya (Afterlost, The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior) and Tomomi Kamiya (A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd, Hikari: Kariya wo Tsunagu Monogatari) as directors, Ichiro Okouchi (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury, Code Geass) as series screenwriter, Tetsuya Nishio (Naruto, Vampire in the Garden) as character designer, Mahiro Maeda (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Evangelion 3.0+1.0 co-director and concept art director et al.) as kaiju designer, Studio Khara as kaiju supervisor (design and artwork), Shinji Kimura (Children of the Sea, Blood Blockade Battlefront) as art director, and Yuta Bandoh (Belle co-composer) as music composer. Production I.G is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino
- • Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
- • Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa
- • Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
- • Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina
Kaiju No.8 Season 1 premiered in April 2024. A compilation of the first season and a new original episode titled “Hoshina’s Day Off” were screened theatrically from March 28, 2025 for three weeks. Sony Pictures Entertainment released the film in North American theatres in April 2025, in both Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English.
Crunchyroll confirmed it will be streaming season two, as it did with season one.
Naoya Matsumoto’s action manga series was first launched in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ online website on July 3, 2020. Fifteen tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2025. VIZ Media licensed the manga for release in English for North America.
The manga has also inspired spinoffs titles such as Kaiju No.8: B-Side and Kaiju No. 8 Relax. A four-chapter side-story light novel written by Keiji Ando was also released on November 4, 2022.
VIZ Media releases the Kaiju No. 8 manga in English, describing the main synopsis as:
Kafka hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she’s out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out for the squad once more. There’s just one problem—he’s made the Defense Force’s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.
Source: Kaiju No. 8 Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Crunchyroll News
