Kaiju No.8: Hoshina's Day Off
怪獣8号 保科の休日
Kaijuu 8-gou: Hoshina no Kyuujitsu
Binge-ready
Finished airing — 1 episode, ready to binge.
- Format
- SPECIAL
- Season
- Winter 2025
- Studio
- Production I.G
- Based on
- Manga
- Episode length
- 20 min
- Started
- 28 Mar 2025
- Ended
- 28 Mar 2025
- Score
- 69/100
Sci-Fi Slice of Life Shounen Tokusatsu Kaiju
A day off... a rare day of peace for the Defense Force. After spending so long training, Reno has forgotten what he's supposed to do with free time. He sees that Hoshina is up to something with his own day off, and decides to go on a mission to tail him with Iharu! But then things go in an unexpected direction… (Source: Crunchyroll)
Where to watch
Source material
Kaiju No.8 ↗ · 怪獣８号
Manga · Finished · 16 volumes · 129 chapters · 2020–2025
Read it officially: BookWalker ↗
Source: AniList and MangaDex (publication details only).
Credits, releases and news
Staff
- Director
- Shigeyuki Miya, Tomomi Kamiya
- Original creator
- Naoya Matsumoto
- Script
- Yūichirō Kido
- Character Design
- Tetsuya Nishio
- Music
- Yūta Bandō
- Art Director
- Shinji Kimura
- Sound Director
- Fumiyuki Go
- Chief Animation Director
- Tetsuya Nishio
Japanese voice cast
- Curator: Mitsuru Ogata
- Vice-Curator: Shinya Fukumatsu
- Sōshirō Hoshina: Kengo Kawanishi
- Haruichi Izumo: Keisuke Kōmoto
- Mina Ashiro: Asami Seto
- Aoi Kaguragi: Shunsuke Takeuchi
- Iharu Furuhashi: Yūki Shin
- Reno Ichikawa: Wataru Katō
Latest news
- 21 Jun 2025 Crunchyroll Streams Detectives These Days Are Crazy!, Silent Witch, More Anime in India in Summer 2025
- 18 Jun 2025 Crunchyroll Announces Release Schedule for Summer 2025 Season
Anime News Network readers rate it 6.56/10 (39 votes).
Source: Anime News Network. Full details at Anime News Network.
Main characters
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Soushirou Hoshina
保科宗四郎
Voiced by Kengo Kawanishi
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Reno Ichikawa
市川レノ
Voiced by Wataru Katou
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Iharu Furuhashi
古橋伊春
Voiced by Yuuki Shin
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Kafka Hibino
日比野カフカ
Voiced by Masaya Fukunishi
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Mina Ashiro
亜白ミナ
Voiced by Asami Seto
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Kikoru Shinomiya
四ノ宮キコル
Voiced by Fairouz Ai
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- Main story: Kaiju No. 8
- Main story: Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
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