Scheduled to premiere in April 2024, the official website for the anime series adaptation of the manga Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8 / Kaijuu 8-gou) by Naoya Matsumoto has posted this new promotional image online.
In the image we see the protagonist, Kafka Hibino, in his monstrous battle form, looking darkly at the wreckage left behind after a giant monster attack.
Animation is the responsibility of the studio Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East) with the Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion) to be responsible for the kaiju design and art.
In the cast we have:
- Kafka Hibino / Kaiju No. 8 by Masaya Fukunishi (Draken in Tokyo Revengers)
- Mina Ashiro voiced by Asami Seto (Aoi Amawashi in BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls’ Story-)
Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8) began publishing in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ in July 2020 and the story takes place in Japan where monsters known as kaiju regularly attack the population with the Japanese Defense Force tasked with killing them.
After their town was destroyed by kaiju when they were children, childhood friends Kafka Hibino and Mina Ashiro vowed to become members of the Defense Force. Mina became famous as commander of the Third Defense Force Unit, but Kafka failed the exam several times and is a member of the cleanup team, Monster Sweeper Inc., whose job is to dispose of monster bodies after battle. After a small talking monster enters his body through his mouth, Kafka gains the ability to transform into a monster, which is nicknamed “Kaiju No. 8” by the Defense Force. Kafka remains fully conscious while in this form, but gains superhuman strength and becomes the first monster to escape the Defense Force.
The first volume of Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8) was released on December 4, 2020.
