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Kaiju Girls Anime's 2nd Season Promo Reveals January 9 Premiere
posted on by Karen Ressler
Tsuburaya Productions began streaming a promotional video for the second season of its Kaijū Girls ~Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku~ anime shorts Tuesday. The second season will premiere on television in Japan and stream on the dAnime Store (Docomo Anime Store) service.
The second season will feature new character Guts Seijin (Alien Guts), who appeared in the 39th and 40th episodes of the Ultra Seven television series. The intelligent alien from the planet Guts can create illusions of herself, teleport, and become transparent.
The main cast and staff are returning from the first season.
The first season of anime shorts premiered via streaming in September 2016, and later aired on television in October 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series worldwide outside of Asia when it first debuted, and it describes the first season:
Humanity's battle of many years with the kaiju, giant monsters, has finally come to an end. Now that Earth has entered an age of peace, girls with the souls of kaiju have begun to appear, giving them the ability to transform into kaiju. They are known as the Kaiju Girls, and this is the powerful, transient, beautiful, and at times easygoing story of the strange fate these girls bear.
The anime is part of Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku project, which transforms kaijū (monsters) from the Ultraman live-action special-effects series into cute, female anthropomorphized monsters. The project has four distinct versions. The "POP version" features character designs by POP, and has picture books and drama CDs, as well as the above-mentioned manga. The "Kadokawa version" includes the Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku Galaxy Days four-panel manga by Bakutendo, and the Kaijū Girls ~Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku~ anime shorts. The project also includes figures by Plex, and a "Kodansha version," which includes the Ultra Journey - Twin Tail Shōjo to Twin Tail na Boku manga.
Seven Seas Entertainment will release the first volume of Shun Kazakami and POP's Ultra Kaiju Anthropomorphic Project (Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku: feat. POP Comic code) manga on February 20, 2018.
[Via Ota-Suke
