‘Kaiju No. 8’ Season 2 Hits Crunchyroll With New Characters + Higher Stakes

Kaiju No. 8 is back today for its second season, just a little over a year after its initial debut, putting the anime production schedule on pace with its live-action streaming counterparts—a dream come true for fans who are used to waiting years for their favorite animated stories to continue.

The series, which is based on Naoya Matsumoto’s manga of the same name, is a masterclass at world-building, drawing on familiar tropes from Japanese film history. Kaiju refers to the iconic larger...