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 principally 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 strains alongside his childhood good friend 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 Drive.
Kafka’s life is one in every of missed alternatives. That’s, till a freak encounter with a monster provides him the flexibility to remodel right into a humanoid kaiju. A Kaiju Man, if you’ll. Now, Kafka should maintain his newfound alter ego beneath wraps whereas pursuing his childhood dream of turning 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 type of a giant deal (pun meant) in gentle 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 effectively. Protected to say Kaiju No. 8’s anime adaptation is in good palms with people who’re intimately conversant in the style.
Throughout Crunchyroll’s NYCC business panel, Kaiju No. 8’s creator Naoya Matsumoto shared a particular notice 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 individuals into a good barely brighter future. To anybody coping with the complexities of actuality that reads this manga, I hope it will probably assist make your future a bit brighter, too.