Anime streaming giant Crunchyroll has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment to bring Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon into Canadian theatres starting Sunday, April 13th, 2025.
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon is a summary of the first season and a special never-before-seen episode titled “Hoshina’s Day Off.”
Landmark Cinemas is showing the film in both Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English. Cineplex hasn’t updated their website to confirm if this compilation will appear in their theatres.
Crunchyroll provided a synopsis of Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon.
In a Kaiju-filled Japan, Kafka Hibino works in monster disposal. After reuniting with his childhood friend Mina Ashiro, a rising star in the anti-Kaiju Defense Force, he decides to pursue his abandoned dream of joining the Force… when he suddenly transforms into the powerful “Kaiju No. 8.” With help from his junior colleague Reno Ichikawa, Kafka hides his identity while striving towards his life-long dream of passing the Defense Force exam and standing at Mina’s side. But when a mysterious intelligent Kaiju attacks a Defense Force base, Kafka faces a crucial decision in a desperate situation…
(Hoshina’s Day Off) 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…
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon is directed by Shigeyuki Miya and Tomomi Kamiya, with character designer and chief animation director Tetsuya Nishio, monster designer, Hirotaka Tokuda, music composer Yuta Bandoh, and animation production by Production I.G. The ending theme to “Hoshina’s Day Off” is “Invincible” by OneRepublic.
The Japanese voicecast is billed with:
- Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
- Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro
- Wataru Kato as Reno Ichikawa
- Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
- Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshino
- Yuki Shin as Iharu Furuhashi
- Keisuke Komoto as Haruichi Izumo
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Aoi Kaguragi
- Sayaka Sembongi as Konomi Okonogi
- Tessyo Genda as Isao Shinomiya
- Kenta Miyake as Kaiju No. 10
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kaiju No. 9
Appearing in the English dub are:
- Nazeeh Tarsha as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8
- Katelyn Barr as Mina Ashiro
- Adam McArthur as Reno Ichikawa
- Abigail Blythe as Kikoru Shinomiya
- Landon McDonald as Soshiro Hoshina
The manga Kaiju No. 8 is written and illustrated Naoya Matsumoto, and has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump since July 3rd, 2020. In North America, VIZ Media publishes the English-translated manga in digital and print formats.
Source: Crunchyroll press release
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