# ‘Kaiju No. 8’ Officially Returns in 3 Weeks After 1 Year of Waiting — but There’s a Catch

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kaiju-no-8-officially-returns-in-3-weeks-after-1-year-of-waiting-but-theres-a-catch/
- Published: 2026-08-15T19:00:12+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/kaiju-no-8-new-season-narumis-week-at-work/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Kaiju No. 8 returns with a four-part Narumi spin-off.
- It is not the next main-series chapter.
- Crunchyroll will release episodes weekly from 5 September.

## Summary

Kaiju No. 8 will return on 5 September with Narumi’s Week at Work, a four-episode original short anime released after roughly a year without the main series. The catch is that it is not the long-awaited next instalment of Kafka Hibino’s central story, but a lighter spin-off focusing on Gen Narumi, the First Division’s powerful yet easily distracted captain.

The series explores Narumi’s chaotic day-to-day work rather than large-scale kaiju battles, drawing on the franchise’s workplace-comedy side. It is directed by Shigeyuki Miya and produced by Production I.G., with character designs by Tetsuya Nishio; story drafting came from Kizuku Watanabe. Episodes will arrive weekly on 5, 12, 19 and 26 September, streaming internationally on Crunchyroll on the same day as their Japanese YouTube premieres.

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