Summary
- Kaiju No. 8's final chapter will be released on July 17, 2025, in Chapter 129.
- Season 2 of Kaiju No. 8 will start airing in Japan on July 19, right after the manga ends.
- The manga may conclude with Volume 16 or 17, with potential bonus content in the final volume.
July will be full of emotions for Kaiju No. 8 fans. The second season of the anime will finally start airing, but the original Kaiju No. 8 manga is bidding fans farewell. There's surely a lot to anticipate in July, whether it's good or bad.
Fans have known that the manga was heading towards its end for a while, but this kind of announcement always takes fans by surprise either way. The manga has gained a lot of attention since its release on the Shonen Jump+ and MANGA Plus apps in 2020, mostly due to its unique premise.
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Kaiju No. 8's Final Chapter Will Be Released in 2025
Chapter 129 will be Kaiju No. 8's final chapter, and it is officially scheduled for release at 3:00 PM (GMT) on July 17, 2025. As usual, the chapter will be added to Shonen Jump+ (in Japan) and MANGA Plus (internationally) at the same time. Currently, 15 volumes have been released, so the manga will likely conclude with volume 16, compiling Chapters 120–129, making it slightly longer than usual.
Another option would be finishing it with Volume 17, which would likely mean that the final volume will contain a lot of bonus content. Typically, the compiled volumes feature some changes and small additions compared to the original chapters, and it's also common for final volumes to contain an epilogue or an extended ending. So, it wouldn't be surprising if the final volume contained the last three or four chapters and one or two additional chapters.
Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 Will Debut After the End of the Manga
The manga will end on July 17 (July 18 in Japan), and Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 will debut in Japan on July 19, just one day after the manga ends. Crunchyroll has already announced that it will stream the series as it airs in Japan, and fans expect it will provide an English dub, just like it did with the first season. The anime's production is reportedly mostly the same, at least in terms of the main staff and cast.
While some may think that concluding with 16 or 17 volumes is short for a Shonen Jump series, that's actually a solid length for most of the magazine's history, especially since the 1980s. Kaiju No. 8 may not have been a part of a potential next "Big Three," but it's hard to say it hasn't been successful at all; in fact, it seems unlikely that Shonen Jump will find another Big Three so soon.
Kaiju No. 8 is available to read on MANGA Plus in English and many other languages.
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- Release Date
- 2024 - 2025-00-00
- Network
- TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, TSC
- Directors
- Kouji Komurakata, Takayuki Inagaki, Yoshihide Ibata, Kazuma Satou, Kazuki Yokoyama, Hitomi Ezoe, Hirotaka Mori, Claire Barbou des Courières, Tetsuharu Nakamura
- Writers
- Ichirō Ōkouchi
- Franchise(s)
- Kaiju No. 8
Cast
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Masaya FukunishiKafka Hibino / Kaiju No. 8 (voice) -
Asami SetoMina Ashiro (voice)
Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 is a Spring 2024 anime based on Naoya Matsumoto's Shonen Jump+ manga. Set in an alternate version of Japan, the story follows the Anti-Kaiju Defense Force as they try to protect the nation from monster attacks.
- Studio
- Production I.G
- Japanese Title
- Kaijuu 8-gou
- Based On
- Manga
- Creator
- Naoya Matsumoto
- Number of Episodes
- 12
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll
- Creator(s)
- Naoya Matsumoto
