A New Godzilla Anime Turns a Boy Into the Iconic Monster

Seems, we’ve received much more Godzilla to sit up for—along with the upcoming Minus Zero and Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, there’s a brand new anime coming the place the King of the Monsters’ is…a teenage boy?

That’s apparently the premise for the brand new collection introduced at Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2025. Whereas mild on particulars, idea artwork reveals an unnamed child wanting very very like the enduring monster and utilizing his breath assault, whereas Godzilla himself is within the background. The artwork offers off vibes of Kaiju No. 8, which is a couple of man remodeling right into a monster, and even My Hero Academia, for the reason that child appears like Deku and that collection can be about inheriting a mantle. Given Toho’s Chief Godzilla Officer Keiji Ota known as the upcoming anime an opportunity to “extra deeply painting each the worry and hope of the fashionable period,” these similarities are probably by design.

全世界解禁！
ゴジラ新作アニメシリーズ、制作決定。
シリーズ70年以上の歴史で初めて、“ゴジラの力を宿す少年”を主人公とした物語が始動。
その少年は、人か、ゴジラか—― pic.twitter.com/vfxcd2rJHo

— ゴジラ (@godzilla_jp) November 29, 2025

What we do know concerning the collection proper now could be it’ll be dealt with by Orange (Trigun Stampede and Stargaze) and Igloo Studio (My Daemon). Orange additionally has Godzilla expertise, having beforehand achieved the Singular Level anime again in 2021. We’ll have extra on this new addition to the franchise as information develops.

[via Crunchyroll]

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