During Jump Festa 2026, the staff of the Kaiju No. 8 anime confirmed that a “conclusion arc” anime adaptation and a new “Narumi’s Weekday” short are in the works. A new trailer for the conclusion arc of the Kaiju No. 8 anime was also released.
The first two seasons of Kaiju No. 8 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora performs the Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 opening theme song “You Can’t Run From Yourself.” OneRepublic performs the ending theme song “Beautiful Colors.”
The cast includes:
- Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
- Kengo Kawanishi as Sōshirō Hoshina
- Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
- Wataru Katō as Reno Ichikawa
- Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Eiji Hasegawa
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kaiju No. 9
- Kana Hanazawa as Rin Shinonome
- Keisuke Kōmoto as Haruichi Izumo
- Kenta Miyake as Kaiju No. 10
- Kōki Uchiyama as Gen Narumi
- Kotono Mitsuishi as Hikaru Shinomiya
- Sayaka Senbongi as Konomi Okonogi
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Aoi Kaguragi
- Tesshō Genda as Isao Shinomiya
- Yūki Shin as Iharu Furuhashi
Shigeyuki Miya is the director of Kaiju No. 8 Season 2, with series composition by Yūichirō Kido, music composed by Yūta Bandō, and character designs by Tetsuya Nishio. Production I.G. and Khara are producing the series.
Additional staff members include:
- Art Director: Shinji Kimura
- Chief Animation Director: Tetsuya Nishio
- 3D Director: Hayato Aragaki
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
- Brand Art Direction: Shingo Kitada
- Color design: Izumi Hirose
- Editing: Aya Hida
- Kaiju Design: Mahiro Maeda
- Logo Design: Shingo Kitada
- Prop Design: Yukiko Watabe
- PV Production: Nobutaka Yoda (10GAUGE)
Lastly, Crunchyroll describes the anime as follows:
