{"id":106962,"date":"2024-12-22T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T00:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=106962"},"modified":"2024-12-22T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T00:31:57","slug":"kaiju-no-8-season-2-premieres-july-2025-unveils-new-teaser-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/12\/22\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-premieres-july-2025-unveils-new-teaser-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 Premieres July 2025, Unveils New Teaser Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the Jump Festa \u201825 event, it was announced that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/08\/05\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-premieres-in-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">upcoming second season<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/06\/29\/kaiju-no-8-anime-to-continue-with-sequel\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No. 8<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series is scheduled to premiere in July 2025. A new teaser visual featuring First Division captain Gen Narumi was also released. Crunchyroll will also stream the new season.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106965\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/12\/22\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-premieres-july-2025-unveils-new-teaser-visual\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1811%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1811,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kaiju no 8 season 2 new visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 \u9632\u885b\u968a\u7b2c\uff13\u90e8\u968a \u677e\u672c\u76f4\u4e5f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-106965\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kaiju no 8 season 2 new visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1449%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1510&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1811&amp;ssl=1 1811w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 \u9632\u885b\u968a\u7b2c\uff13\u90e8\u968a \u677e\u672c\u76f4\u4e5f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Koki Uchiyama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will be joining the anime\u2019s voice cast as Gen Harumi for the second season. He joins a main cast that stars:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Masaya Fukunishi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Kafka Hibino<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Asami Seto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Mina Ashiro<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Wataru Kato<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Reno Ichikawa<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Fairouz Ai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Kikoru Shinomiya<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Kengo Kawanishi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Soshiro Hoshina<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several staff members are returning to direct the second season, which include <\/span><b>Shigeyuki Miya <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afterlost, The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as director, <\/span><b>Yuichiro Kido<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Stone New World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as screenwriter and scriptwriter, <\/span><b>Tetsuya Nishio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Naruto, Vampire in the Garden<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as character designer and chief animation director, <\/span><b>Mahiro Maeda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<em>SSSS.GRIDMAN, Evangelion 3.0+1.0<\/em> co-director and concept art director et al.) as kaiju designer, and <\/span><b>Yuta Bando<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Belle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> co-composer) as music composer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff include <\/span><b>Studio Khara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as kaiju supervisor (design and artwork),<\/span><b> Izumi Hirose <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tengoku-Daimakyo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as color designer, and <\/span><b>Shinji Kimura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children of the Sea, Blood Blockade Battlefront<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as art director.<\/span><b> Production I.G<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A compilation film of the series\u2019 first season will be screened in Japan on March 28, 2025 within a limited 3-week, 32-theater release period. The screening will include the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/11\/29\/kaiju-no-8-releases-new-visual-for-hoshinas-day-off-special-episode\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hoshina\u2019s Day Off<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d OVA episode.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No. 8<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was streamed weekly on Crunchyroll, X (formerly known as Twitter), and iQIYI outside of Japan in select territories. Crunchyroll streamed new episodes of the anime live weekly in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, simultaneously with the Japanese broadcasts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106408\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106408\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/06\/aspect-awards-2024-nominees\/kaiju-no-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?fit=2200%2C3111&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2200,3111\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kaiju No.8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-106408\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kaiju no 8 anime main key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=1448%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=1068%2C1510&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kaiju-No.8.png?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 \u9632\u885b\u968a\u7b2c\uff13\u90e8\u968a \u677e\u672c\u76f4\u4e5f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Naoya Matsumoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s original action manga first debuted in Shueisha\u2019s Shonen Jump+ online website on July 3, 2020. Fourteen tankobon volumes have been released as of November 2024. VIZ Media licensed the manga series for release in English.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The manga has also inspired spinoffs titles such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No.8: B-Side<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No. 8 Relax<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A four-chapter side-story light novel written by <\/span><b>Keiji Ando <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was also released on November 4, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VIZ Media describes the main synopsis of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No. 8<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s 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\u2019s just one problem \u2014 he\u2019s made the Defense Force\u2019s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KaijuNo8_O\/status\/1870723313204691179\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiju No 8. Official Anime Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eBivqKyjiqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toho Animation YouTube Channel<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Jump Festa \u201825 event, it was announced that the upcoming second season of Kaiju No. 8 TV anime series is scheduled to premiere in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":106963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[78,5044,2331,5672,1638,590],"class_list":["post-106962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-crunchyroll","tag-kaiju-no-8","tag-production-i-g-2","tag-shonen-jump-2","tag-shueisha","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kaiju-no-8-season-2-new-visual-scaled-e1734913656227.jpg?fit=1809%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-rPc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106967,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106962\/revisions\/106967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}