Kaiju No. 8: Relax Manga Announced

The manga Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8 / Kaijuu 8-gou) by Naoya Matsumoto has more than 13 million copies in circulation, and this number will increase greatly after the premiere of its anime adaptation, and it was now revealed that a new spinoff manga will begin to be published.

The manga is titled “Kaiju No. 8: Relax” and will show what the anime characters do during their time off, which will be a way to inject even more humor into the franchise.

Kaiju No. 8: Relax is authored by Watanabe Kizuku and will begin to be published on June 4, 2024 in Saikyou Jump.

Kaiju No. 8: Relax will thus join the other two spinoff mangas of Kaiju No. 8are they Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on The Third Division It is Kaiju No. 8: B-Side.

The animation of the anime series is the responsibility of the studio Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East) with the Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion) to be responsible for the kaiju design and art. The direction is Shigeyuki Miya (Onihei), the argument is Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) and the character design is by Tetsuya Nishio (Naruto). The art direction is Shinji Kimura (Tekkonkinkreet) and the music is the responsibility of Yuta Bando (BELLE).

Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8) began publishing in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ in July 2020 and the story takes place in Japan where monsters known as kaiju regularly attack the population with the Japanese Defense Force tasked with killing them.

After their town was destroyed by kaiju when they were children, childhood friends Kafka Hibino and Mina Ashiro vowed to become members of the Defense Force. Mina became famous as commander of the Third Defense Force Unit, but Kafka failed the exam several times and is a member of the cleanup team, Monster Sweeper Inc., whose job is to dispose of monster bodies after battle. After a small talking monster enters his body through his mouth, Kafka gains the ability to transform into a monster, which is nicknamed “Kaiju No. 8” by the Defense Force. Kafka remains fully conscious while in this form, but gains superhuman strength and becomes the first monster to escape the Defense Force.

The first volume of Kaiju No. 8 (Monster #8) was released on December 4, 2020 and in Portugal it is published by the publisher Becoming.