A New Godzilla Anime Turns a Boy Into the Iconic Monster

Seems, we’ve acquired 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 sequence introduced at Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2025. Whereas gentle on particulars, idea artwork exhibits an unnamed child trying very very like the long-lasting 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 few man remodeling right into a monster, and even My Hero Academia, for the reason that child seems like Deku and that sequence can also 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 doubtless 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 sequence 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 completed 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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