The latest Shonen JUMP bombshell continues to expand at meteoric speed: after conquering Crunchyroll viewers with its anime, achieving dream collaborations and beginning to receive its own spin-offs, the increasingly successful manga Kaiju No. 8 will make its debut in video games from Akatsuki Games.
To be fair, for fans of the manganime we could say that technically it is more of a confirmation than an announcement: last June 8 a big announcement was promised for this month along with a first image of a menacing kaiju, a brutal monster of colossal size, sporting a textureless model. White and bottled. In any case, we already have the first and more than promising trailer
To put ourselves in a bit of a situation, the work Kaiju No. 8 intermixes elements of Japanese cult series such as Ultraman and Japanese monster movies, like Godzillagiving it a curious twist: in a world at the mercy of mammoth creatures the size of entire buildings, a simple wreckage cleanup worker named Kafka Hibino He receives an unusual gift: the ability to transform into a Kaiju.
What would normally be a setback becomes an opportunity to get his life back on track: at 38, Kafka had given up his dream of joining the elite forces that heroically protected the city. And although h is form is terrifying, it makes her return to his aspirations. Not as a member of the Defense Forces, but as one of them. Fighting fire with fire.
Except for a last-minute surprise, the project based on the manga written and drawn by Naoya Matsumoto will be based on the anime and is being supported by both Toho and Production IG, receiving the simple but more than illustrative name of Kaiju No. 8: The Gameconfirming its launch both on PC through Steam and for iOS and Android devices.
However, at the moment we have more questions than answers: we do not know how its gameplay will be planned, nor if there will be a multiplayer system and a date for its launch has yet to be set. In the trailer the only thing that has been established is that Kaiju No. 8: The Game
In any case, it is a safe bet: more than 13 million copies of the manga have been sold in Japan alone. Kaiju No. 8 both physically and digitally until April 2024. And that, whether you like it or not, is a powerful endorsement for one of the emerging manga and anime series of this decade. Which is not little.
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