At New York Comedian Con on October 13, Crunchyroll introduced Kaiju No. 8, a well-liked Shonen Leap sci-fi monster fighter collection, will come to the anime streaming service solely subsequent spring.
Kaiju No. 8’s elevator pitch is mainly what would occur if an grownup Peter Parker was smack-dab in the course of a Godzilla story. The collection follows Kafka Hibino, a 32-year-old who let his dream of preventing on the entrance traces alongside his childhood buddy Mina Ashiro cross him by. Kafka works a thankless blue-collar job as a sanitation employee tasked with cleansing the aftermath of cataclysmic metropolitan kaiju battles. In the meantime, Mina serves her nation because the fearless chief of Japan’s Kaiju Protection Pressure.
Kafka’s life is considered one of missed alternatives. That’s, till a freak encounter with a monster provides him the power to rework right into a humanoid kaiju. A Kaiju Man, if you’ll. Now, Kafka should hold his newfound alter ego below wraps whereas pursuing his childhood dream of changing into a kaiju preventing hero with Mina.
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Animation powerhouse Manufacturing I.G (Ghost within the Shell) will produce the anime alongside Studio Khara. Studio Khara’s involvement in Kaiju No. 8 is form of an enormous deal (pun supposed) in mild of its earlier work on director Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion rebuild movies and his tokusatsu movies, Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider. Studio Khara will present kaiju designs for the collection as properly. Secure to say Kaiju No. 8’s anime adaptation is in good palms with folks who’re intimately acquainted with the style.
Throughout Crunchyroll’s NYCC business panel, Kaiju No. 8’s creator Naoya Matsumoto shared a particular observe to followers, saying:
[Kaiju No. 8 is] a narrative about somebody struggling in a harsh world with out ever giving up, within the hopes of main folks into an excellent barely brighter future. To anybody coping with the complexities of actuality that reads this manga, I hope it might assist make your future somewhat brighter, too.
