{"id":57747,"date":"2023-03-21T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=57747"},"modified":"2023-03-22T00:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T07:19:47","slug":"kaiju-no-8-reveals-minas-anime-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/kaiju-no-8-reveals-minas-anime-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiju No. 8\u00a0Reveals Mina&#8217;s Anime Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Kaiju No. 8<\/em> anime adaptation has received a character visual for Mina Ashiro, the captain of the Defense Forces&#8217; Third Unit and childhood friend of protagonist Kafka Hibino.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Previous character visuals showed off Kafka&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/19\/kaiju-no-8-reveals-kafka-hibinos-kaiju-form-in-new-character-visual\/\"> kaiju<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/20\/kaiju-no-8-drops-new-kafka-visual\/\">human<\/a> forms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57748\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/kaiju-no-8-reveals-minas-anime-design\/kaijuno-8_minavisual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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=\"kaijuno.8_minavisual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?fit=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?resize=434%2C579&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57748\" width=\"434\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>\u00a9\u9632\u885b\u968a\u7b2c\uff13\u90e8\u968a \u00a9\u677e\u672c\u76f4\u4e5f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Kaiju No. 8&nbsp;<\/em>is set to premiere in 2024. The anime is based on the Shueisha-published manga by <b>Naoya Matsumoto<\/b>.&nbsp;<strong>Production I.G<\/strong>&nbsp;is serving as the animation production studio while&nbsp;<strong>Studio Khara&nbsp;<\/strong>is handling the kaiju designs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">VIZ Media describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>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\u2014he\u2019s made the Defense Force\u2019s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The\u00a0<em>Kaiju No. 8\u00a0<\/em>manga began in 2020 and has nine tankoubon volumes as of March 2023. It is serialized on Shonen Jump+ and published under the Jump Comics label.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaijuNo8_O\/status\/1638133360273809409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@KaijuNo8_O<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaiju No. 8 anime adaptation has received a character visual for Mina Ashiro, the captain of the Defense Forces&#8217; Third Unit and childhood friend of protagonist Kafka Hibino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":57749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,5044,122,1082,1343],"class_list":["post-57747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-kaiju-no-8","tag-manga","tag-production-ig","tag-studio-khara"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kaijuno.8_minavisual-1-e1679397788625.jpg?fit=900%2C507&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-f1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57747"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57865,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57747\/revisions\/57865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}