The official websites for Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (Chibi Godzilla no Gyakushū), the anime about the Chibi Godzilla character, revealed a new character for the sequel anime’s 2d half in a trailer and visual on Tuesday.
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Mamoru Miyano voices the brand new character Chibi Gigan, a robot monster tasked to retrieve Chibi Mecha Godzilla and destroy Monster Island. Sadly, Chibi Gigan is continually easily defeated. The new character will appear within the anime’s subsequent episode on Wednesday.
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Miyano old starred as Haruo Sakaki within the Godzilla anime film trilogy, and he also dubbed the male protagonist Trapper in Jap for this yr’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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The sequel anime premiered on April 3 at 7:05 a.m. JST on TV Tokyo‘s Oha Suta. After its broadcast, TOHO animation‘s YouTube channel streams the episodes completely free. The Godzilla franchise‘s YouTube channel started streaming the episodes in Jap with English subtitles on April 10.
The anime ingredients a returning cast.
Taketo Shinkai is yet again directing the anime at Pie within the sky, and Chiharu Sakazaki is yet again designing the characters.
The anime premiered in April 2023 at 7:00 a.m. on TV Tokyo‘s Iniminimanimo programming block. (Iniminimanimo — a reference to the English counting-out rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe” — has previously aired anime sequence aimed at children such as Pui Pui Molcar Riding College.)
The anime’s cast comprises:
- Jun Fukuyama as Chibi Godzilla
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Chibi Mecha Godzilla
- Takuya Eguchi as Chibi Ghidorah
- Rie Takahashi as Chibi Mothra
- Hiro Shimono as Chibi Radon
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Chibi Hedorah
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Chibi Biollante
- Reina Ueda (older sister) and Akari Kitō (youthful sister) as the Kobijin sisters
- Maaya Uchida as Chibi Minilla
- Subaru Kimura as Chibi Titano
- Ryōhei Kimura as Chibi Gabara
A sequence of appealing shorts titled “Tadaima! Chibi Gojira” (I am House! Chibi Godzilla), based on the Chibi Godzilla character, streamed on the Godzilla (Gojira) franchise‘s YouTube channel in 2020.
Chibi Godzilla debuted in Chiharu Sakazaki‘s Ganbare Chibi Gojira (Carry out Your Ideal, Chibi Godzilla) image e book in October 2018. Sakazaki launched a 2d image e book Nakayoshi Chibi Gojira (End Chums, Chibi Godzilla) in Also can goal 2019.
The Chibi Godzilla challenge renowned the Sixty fifth anniversary of the Godzilla franchise. The challenge launched in July 2018, and it has since appeared on a wrap of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Constructing, as a kigurumi character at 2018’s “Gojira Fes” (Godzilla Fest) match, in appealing shorts within the course of theater intermission, and for other projects. Before designing Chibi Godzilla, Sakazaki was known for designing characters such as the Suica commuter card’s penguin and Chiba Prefecture’s official mascot Chi-ba-kun.
Sources: Chibi Godzilla Raids Again anime’s websites, Humorous Natalie
