In the middle of 2024, it is almost impossible to talk about the state of the manganime without referring to Kaiju No. 8: with only 106 chapters published to date, it is considered one of the great successes of the decade. He has made a splash with his role proposal, he has just released his long-awaited anime series on Crunchyroll and the chances that some of his merchandising will end up in your house increase with each passing day. What will be next? The answer is Kaiju NO.8 Relaxwill begin to be published on June 4 from Saikyou Jump and what is proposed is already pointing out ways.
In case all this comes as news to you, we are going to put ourselves just a little bit in the situation: the drawn and written manga Naoya Matsumoto It takes us to a Japan in which attacks by Kaijus, the iconic monsters of the Japanese imagination, constantly attack cities causing waves of destruction. It is something so relatively common that there is a Defense Corps to deal with it, and a public service to clean up all the mess called Monster Sweeper. Our protagonist, Kafka Givesis part of the second although he dreamed of fighting the Kaijus… until due to life circumstances he ended up becoming one of them. And what about the spin-off?
Kaiju NO.8 Relaxthe new manga series, is being developed by Watanabe Kizuku to arrive on the first Tuesday in June and shares a universe with the main manga, but gives fans a different perspective: instead of advancing the plot by adding emotion, and as suggested by the title, we will be shown what the protagonists of the play do during their days off. A simple idea that, no matter how you look at it, seeks to give readers and viewers pure fanservice while expanding the universe in a more entertaining way.
The addition of new spin-offs of successful works is not something that catches us new. From Dragon Ball to One Piece they have had works that have expanded their universe, in different ways; and we cannot forget that Akira Toriyama himself gave us a nice prequel with Jaco y Dragon Ball Minus more than a decade ago. Currently, works like My Hero Academia have very similar initiatives, so this movement on the part of Kaiju NO.8 consolidates its meteoric rise. And it began to be published in 2020.
In any case, and if you are interested in the proposal of Kaiju No. 8, giving Naoya Matsumoto's Monster Festival a chance is really simple: you have the first chapters of the manga for free and officially on Shueisha's own MangaPlus, Planeta has published them in Spain and since April 13 they have begun to be broadcast the anime episodes from Crunchyroll with simultaneous premieres as they are broadcast in Japan live. Given what we have seen, we will have Kaijus fever for a while.
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