The Kaiju No. 8 Anime’s First Trailer Reveals a Team Up of Epic Proportions

Earlier this yr, we obtained the good news that Naoya Matsumoto’s incredible superhero monster manga Kaiju No. 8 can be getting its personal anime, and now we all know there’s going to be a hell of a group behind it.

Today a brand new trailer for the collection—briefly displaying us the collection’ protagonist Kafka Hibino in each his human and monstrous kaiju varieties—confirmed that legendary Ghost within the Shell animation studio Production I.G. will develop the collection, however they received’t be alone. The kaiju designs within the collection will probably be dealt with by Studio Khara, a.okay.a. the group behind Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion rebuild tetralogy, in addition to the Shin tokusatsu movies Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and subsequent yr’s Shin Kamen Rider.

Kaiju No. 8, a breakout hit from the manga anthology journal Shonen Jump’s Jump+ digital output since its arrival in 2020, follows Kafka, a part of a Kaiju waste disposal group in a near-future Japan repeatedly assaulted by large monsters, the place he wistfully imagines a profession as a part of the anti-monster Defense Force. But when a small Kaiju bonds with Kafa’s physique after an accident, he discovers he has gained the facility to remodel right into a superpowered monster-human hybrid, and begins main a double life as a brand new recruit within the Defense Force and the hunted superbeing identified solely by his new colleagues as Kaiju No. 8.

We’ll be ready some time to see extra from the anime, nevertheless—the brand new trailer additionally confirms that Kaiju No. 8 received’t hit screens till 2024. That’s plenty of time to meet up with the manga, a minimum of!