A promotional video for Mina Ashiro , a character from the anime " Kaiju No. 8, " based on the popular manga by Naoya Matsumoto currently being serialized on Shueisha's manga app "Shonen Jump+," has been released on YouTube. Mina Ashiro is the hope of the Japan Defense Force that everyone looks up to, and is played by voice actress Asami Seto. The promotional video introduces Mina with eight keywords. It shows her demonstrating her leadership as the captain of the third squad, fighting with a weapon in hand as a colossal monster killer, and making a promise with her childhood Kafka Hibino, as well as showing her playful side. Promotional videos for other characters will be released in the future.
"Kaiju No. 8" has been serialized in "Shonen Jump+" since July 2020. Set in Japan, a monster superpower where monsters mercilessly invade everyday life, the story follows the adventures of the protagonist, Kafka Hibino, whose body has been transformed into a monster by a mysterious creature. It also attracted attention in 2021 when it was selected as the grand prize winner in the web manga category of the "Next Manga Awards 2021." The comic has sold over 17 million copies in Japan.
The anime will be produced by Production IG, which has worked on the Ghost in the Shell series, and Studio Khara, which has worked on the Rebuild of Evangelion series, will be in charge of monster design and works. The first season of the TV anime will be broadcast from April to June 2024, and it was also a hot topic that it was streamed in real time worldwide on Twitter in conjunction with the TV broadcast.
A compilation of the first season and "Hoshino's Holiday" will be screened in theaters for three weeks only from March 28. The second season will be broadcast on TV Tokyo and other networks from July.
