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Crunchyroll Streams Kaiju No. 8, Migi & Dali, 16bit Sensation, 8 More Anime in India

Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream the anime of Naoya Matsumoto's Kaiju No. 8 manga in India in spring 2024. It began streaming the following anime in the past week:

• The television anime of Nami Sano's Migi & Dali (Migi to Dali) manga began streaming on October 2.

• The television anime adaptation of Inori's I'm in Love with the Villainess (Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijō) light novels began streaming on October 2 with an English dub and a Hindi dub.

• The television anime of Sametarō Fukada's I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I'll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! (Konyaku Haki Sareta Reijō o Hirotta Ore ga, Ikenai Koto o Oshiekomu -Oishi Mono o Tabesasete Oshare o Sasete, Sekai Ichi Shiawase na Shōjo ni Produce!-) light novel series began streaming on October 4.

• The 16bit Sensation: Another Layer anime began streaming on October 4.

• The television anime of Kengo Hanazawa's Under Ninja manga began streaming on October 5.

• The television anime of Rasuko Ōkuma's Hoshikuzu Telepath (Stardust Telepath) manga began streaming on Monday.

• The original television anime Kawagoe Boys Sing began streaming on Monday.

• The short television anime of Iro Aida's After-School Hanako-kun (Hōkago Shōnen Hanako-kun) spinoff manga began streaming on Tuesday.

Additionally, Crunchyroll began streaming the television anime adaptation of Bukimi Miki's SHY manga as Muse Asia simulcasts it in India. It began streaming the anime of Akira Amano's Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri) manga alongside Ani-One Asia, which is streaming the anime for Ultra subscribers.

Kaiju No. 8 will premiere in April 2024.

Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) is handling animation production, and Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion) is in charge of kaiju designs and artworks.

Matsumoto launched the manga in July 2020 on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website. The first print volume shipped in December 2020, and the volume has since had several more printings due to demand. Shueisha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on August 4.

Viz Media licensed the manga. The company releases chapters digitally and physically. Shueisha publishes the manga on its Manga Plus service under the title Monster #8, and it describes the story:

A man working a job far removed from his childhood dreams gets wrapped up in an unexpected situation…! Becoming a monster, he aims once again to fulfill his lifelong dream…!

In September 2021, the manga surpassed 4 million copies in circulation, making it the fastest Shonen Jump+ manga (as opposed to manga running in Shueisha's print magazines) to reach the milestone.

The series was nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Awards in January 2021, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in February 2022, and the Eisner awards in May 2022. It took first place in the seventh "Next Manga Awards" (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in the web manga category in August 2021.

Sources: Email correspondence, Crunchyroll