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Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 Streams Trailer for New Arc
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the television anime of Naoya Matsumoto's Kaiju No. 8 manga started streaming the trailer for the "Bungui Tōge Tōbatsu Sakusen-hen" (Bungui Pass Subjugation Operation arc), on Wednesday. The latest arc starts in the second season's seventh episode (episode 19 overall) on Saturday.
New cast members for the second season include:
- Kōki Uchiyama as Gen Harumi
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Eiji Hasegawa
- Kana Hanazawa as Rin Shinonome
- Kotono Mitsuishi as Hikaru Shinomiya
- Yūko Kaida as Jura Igarashi
- Shunsuke Sakuya as Shūgo Ogata
- M.A.O as Tōko Kirinomori
Norwegian singer-songwriter (and longtime anime fan) Aurora performs the second season's opening theme song "You Can't Run From Yourself." American band OneRepublic, who also performed the first season's ending theme song, returns for the second season's ending theme song "Beautiful Colors."
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon, the compilation film of the first Kaiju No. 8 anime season, opened in 32 theaters in Japan for three weeks only starting on March 28, and included the new original episode "Hoshina's Day Off."
The anime's first season premiered on TV Tokyo in April 2024 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime with English subtitles, and also streamed an English dub. The anime streamed on X (formerly Twitter) as well worldwide in real time as it aired on TV in Japan, at the exact time the anime aired.
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:
A man working a job far removed from his childhood dreams gets wrapped up in an unexpected situation…! Becoming a monster, he aims once again to fulfill his lifelong dream…!
Matsumoto launched the ongoing manga in July 2020 on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website. The manga ended on July 18.
Sources: Kaiju No. 8 anime's website, Comic Natalie
