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Y\u016bko Kaida<\/a> as Jura Igarashi, the captain of the Second Division<\/p>\n Shunsuke Sakuya<\/a> as Sh\u016bgo Ogata, the captain of the Fourth Division<\/p>\n M.A.O<\/a> as T\u014dko Kirinomori, the second-in-command of the Fourth Division<\/p>\n \u00a9\u9632\u885b\u968a\u7b2c3\u90e8\u968a \u00a9\u677e\u672c\u76f4\u4e5f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e<\/p>\n The second season premiered<\/a> on TV Tokyo<\/a> and affiliated channels on July 19. The second season is also streaming on X (formerly Twitter<\/a>) worldwide in real time as it airs on TV in Japan, and Crunchyroll<\/a> is streaming<\/a> the season with both English subtitles and an English dub<\/a>. Additionally, the original side story episode “Hoshina’s Day Off” aired on Japanese TV on July 5 on TV Tokyo and affiliates at 11:00 p.m JST (10:00 a.m. EDT), and also streamed on X\/Twitter worldwide in real time as it aired.<\/p>\n K\u014dki Uchiyama<\/a> joined the cast as Gen Harumi in the second season. Other new cast members include Hiroki Yasumoto<\/a> as Eiji Hasegawa and Kana Hanazawa<\/a> as Rin Shinonome. Kotono Mitsuishi<\/a> joins the anime’s cast as Kikoru’s late mother Hikaru Shinomiya<\/a>.<\/p>\n Norwegian singer-songwriter (and longtime anime fan) Aurora performs the second season’s opening theme song<\/a> “You Can’t Run From Yourself.” American band OneRepublic<\/a>, who also performed the first season’s ending theme song, returns for the second season’s ending theme song “Beautiful Colors.” <\/p>\n Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon<\/a>, the compilation film<\/a> of the first Kaiju No. 8 anime season, opened<\/a> in 32 theaters in Japan for three weeks only starting on March 28, and included the new original episode “Hoshina’s Day Off.”<\/p>\n The anime’s first season premiered<\/a> on TV Tokyo in April 2024 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Viz Media<\/a> is releasing the manga in English digitally and physically<\/a>. Shueisha<\/a> also publishes the manga digitally on its MANGA Plus<\/a> service under the title Monster #8<\/a>, and it describes the story:\n<\/p>\n A man working a job far removed from his childhood dreams gets wrapped up in an unexpected situation\u2026! Becoming a monster, he aims once again to fulfill his lifelong dream\u2026!<\/p>\n Matsumoto launched the ongoing manga in July 2020 on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+<\/a> website. The manga ended<\/a> in its next chapter on July 18.<\/p>\n Sources: Kaiju No. 8 anime’s website<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New cast members play officers in ongoing season The official website for the television anime of Naoya Matsumoto‘s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-90864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"kaiju\"](\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/224991\/kaiju.jpg\")
Image via Kaiju No. 8 anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n