Kaiju No. 8 Anime's Compilation Film Previewed in Video
The Jump Festa '25 event on Sunday revealed a video for the compilation of the first season of the anime based on Naoya Matsumoto's Kaiju No. 8 manga. The film will screen in 32 theaters in Japan for three weeks only starting on March 28, and will include the new original episode "Hoshina's Day Off." The event on Sunday also revealed the film will screen "worldwide."OneRepublic will perform the ending theme song "Invincible (from Kaiju No. 8)" as the ending theme for the "Hoshina's Day Off" part of the film.Multiple staff members from the first season are returning for the new episode. Yūto Tsukuda (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma original creator) is credited as the writer for the new episode's original story, and Yuichiro Kido (Dr. Stone) is the scriptwriter. The story follows Reno on a day off, who senses something unusual with Hoshina, who is also on his day off, and follows him along with Iharu.The anime's second season will debut in July 2025. Crunchyroll will stream the new season. Kōki Uchiyama will join the cast as Gen Harumi in the second season.Shigeyuki Miya (Onihei) and Tomomi Kamiya directed the anime. Ichirō Ōkouchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) handled the series composition and screenplay. Tetsuya Nishio (Naruto) was the character designer and chief animation director. Mahiro Maeda (Shin Godzilla) designed the monsters. Shinji Kimura (Tekkonkinkreet) was the art director. Yuta Bando (BELLE) composed the music.Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) handled animation production, and Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion) was in charge of kaiju designs and artworks.Viz Media is releasing the manga in English digitally and physically. Shueisha also publishes the manga digitally on its MANGA Plus service under the title Monster #8, and it describes the story: Matsumoto launched the ongoing manga in July 2020 on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website. The franchise also has a spinoff manga and an upcoming game for smartphones and PC.Source: Jump Festa '25 livestream
