A brand new character visible has been launched for the second season of Kaiju No. 8, spotlighting the First Division captain Gen Narumi. The second season premiered its first episode (thirteenth total in the collection) in Japan on July 19, 2025, and could have 11 complete episodes. 

A lot of the essential employees from season one are reprising their respective roles for season two. A few of them embody Shigeyuki Miya (beforehand co-director) as director, Yuichiro Kido (Dr. Stone: Science Future, Hoshina’s Day Off scriptwriter) as collection screenwriter and scriptwriter, Tetsuya Nishio as character designer and chief animation director, Mahiro Maeda as kaiju designer, and Studio Khara as kaiju supervisor (design and paintings). Manufacturing I.G is dealing with the animation manufacturing for the second season, because it did with the primary. 

In the meantime, the anime’s essential voice forged stars: 

• • Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino
• • Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
• • Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa
• • Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
• • Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina

Very like the primary season, the second season’s distribution plans embody streaming on Twitter/X, in addition to on Crunchyroll and Ani One Asia ULTRA. 

The primary season premiered in April 2024 and ran for 12 episodes till June 2024. A compilation of season one and the Hoshina’s Day Off OVA had been screened theatrically in Japan for 3 weeks, beginning on March 28, 2025. Hoshina’s Day Off was broadcasted in Japan on July 5, 2025. 

The anime adaptation is predicated on Naoya Matsumoto’s motion manga collection, which was launched in Shueisha’s Shonen Soar+ on-line web site on July 3, 2020. The manga just lately ended on July 18, 2025. Fifteen tankobon volumes have been launched as of March 2025, with a sixteenth quantity set to be launched on September 4, 2025. VIZ Media licensed the manga for publication in English for North America. 

The manga has additionally impressed spinoffs titles akin to Kaiju No.8: B-Facet and Kaiju No. 8 Calm down. A four-chapter side-story gentle novel written by Keiji Ando was additionally launched on November 4, 2022.

An upcoming online game from Akatsuki Video games shall be launched on the App Retailer, Google Play, and Steam at a still-to-be-determined date. Pre-registrations opened on April 26, 2025. 

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Crunchyroll is streaming the second season of Kaiju No. 8, and describes the principle premise as: 

Due to Isao Shinomiya, Kafka Hibino avoids being become a weapon. As new recruits head to their posts, Kafka meets Gen Narumi, the strongest man in the Protection Drive and chief of the First Division. Kafka embraces the ability of Kaiju No. 8 to power Gen to acknowledge his power. In the meantime, Kaiju No. 9 lurks in the shadows as the best menace the Protection Drive has confronted awaits.

Sources: Kaiju No. 8 Official Twitter, Crunchyroll News