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Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Anime Gets New TV Series in July
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The first fan meeting for Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (Chibi Godzilla no Gyakushū), the anime about the Chibi Godzilla character, announced on Saturday that a new series will premiere on television on July 2.
Katsuyuki Konishi is joining the cast as Chibi JJ (seen below), and the group Wednesday Campanella created the song "Kaijū-Tō" (Monster Island) as the new series' theme song (as heard in the trailer above). In addition, the overall anime franchise's first DVD will ship in Japan on October 29.
Taketo Shinkai is again directing the new series at Pie in the sky, and Chiharu Sakazaki is again designing the characters.
The new series will air on Wednesdays at 7:05 a.m. (Tuesdays at 6:05 p.m. EDT) within the Oha Suta program on TV Tokyo and its affiliated channels. After airing, each episode will stream for free on the anime's official YouTube channel.
The second series' cast includes:
- Jun Fukuyama as Chibi Godzilla
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Chibi Mecha Godzilla
- Takuya Eguchi as Chibi Ghidorah
- Rie Takahashi as Chibi Mothra
- Hiro Shimono as Chibi Radon
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Chibi Hedorah
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Chibi Biollante
- Reina Ueda (older sister) and Akari Kitō (younger sister) as the Kobijin sisters
- Maaya Uchida as Chibi Minilla
- Subaru Kimura as Chibi Titano
- Ryōhei Kimura as Chibi Gabara
- Mamoru Miyano as Chibi Gigan
The first Chibi Godzilla Raids Again anime series premiered in April 2023 at 7:00 a.m. on TV Tokyo's Iniminimanimo programming block. (Iniminimanimo — a reference to the English counting-out rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — has previously aired anime series aimed at children such as Pui Pui Molcar Driving School.)
A series of animated shorts titled "Tadaima! Chibi Gojira" (I'm Home! Chibi Godzilla), based on the Chibi Godzilla character, streamed on the Godzilla (Gojira) franchise's YouTube channel in 2020.
Chibi Godzilla debuted in Chiharu Sakazaki's Ganbare Chibi Gojira (Do Your Best, Chibi Godzilla) picture book in October 2018. Sakazaki launched a second picture book Nakayoshi Chibi Gojira (Close Friends, Chibi Godzilla) in May 2019.
The Chibi Godzilla project celebrated the 65th anniversary of the Godzilla franchise. The project launched in July 2018, and it has since appeared on a wrap of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, as a kigurumi character at 2018's "Gojira Fes" (Godzilla Fest) event, in animated shorts during theater intermission, and for other projects. Before designing Chibi Godzilla, Sakazaki was known for designing characters such as the Suica commuter card's penguin and Chiba Prefecture's official mascot Chi-ba-kun.
Source: Press release
