Kaiju No. 8 is an anime television series based on Naoya Matsumoto's manga series of the same name. Produced by Production I.G with Studio Khara supervising the kaiju designs and artworks, the anime series was announced in August 2022. The first season aired from April 13 to June 29, 2024, on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, alongside a Twitter simulcast as it aired. The series is directed by Shigeyuki Miya and Tomomi Kamiya with scripts written by Ichiro Okouchi, character designs and chief animation direction by Tetsuya Nishio, art direction by Shinji Kimura, monster designs by Mahiro Maeda and music composed by Yuta Bandoh. For the first season: the opening theme song is "Abyss" performed by Yungblud, while the ending theme song is "Nobody" performed by OneRepublic.