{"id":67180,"date":"2023-08-08T05:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=67180"},"modified":"2023-08-08T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:06:07","slug":"kaiju-no-8-powers-up-in-new-character-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/08\/08\/kaiju-no-8-powers-up-in-new-character-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiju No. 8 Powers Up In New Character Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The titular Kaiju No. 8 of the upcoming Kaiju No. 8<\/em> anime adaptation has received a character visual that depicts him powering up with energy. Another new visual<\/a>, depicting the Defense Force characters in battle poses, was also released around the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiju No. 8\u00a0<\/em>is based on the Shueisha-published manga by\u00a0Naoya Matsumoto<\/b>, which started serialization on Shonen Jump+ in 2020 and has 10 tankoubon volumes as of August 2023. VIZ Media describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\n

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\u00a9 JAKDF 3rd Division \u00a9 Naoya Matsumoto\/SHUEISHA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Production I.G<\/strong>\u00a0is the animation production studio for the anime while\u00a0Studio Khara\u00a0<\/strong>is credited with kaiju supervision (design and artwork). The cast includes Masaya Fukunishi\u00a0<\/strong>as Kafka Hibino, Asami Seto <\/strong>as Mina Ashiro, and Wataru Katou <\/strong>as Reno Ichikawa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> @KaijuNo8_O<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The titular Kaiju No. 8 of the upcoming Kaiju No. 8 anime adaptation has received a character visual that depicts him powering up with energy. Another new visual, depicting the Defense Force characters in battle poses, was also released around the same time. Kaiju No. 8\u00a0is based on the Shueisha-published manga by\u00a0Naoya Matsumoto, which started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":67182,"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":[14,1625,7383,122],"class_list":["post-67180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-kaiju-no-8-2","tag-manga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kaijuno8_kaijuno8visual-1-e1691496318917.jpg?fit=1920%2C1081&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-hty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67180"}],"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=67180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67183,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67180\/revisions\/67183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}