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Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Anime Sequel's Trailer Reveals Maaya Uchida as Chibi Minilla

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sequel anime premieres on April 3

The official Maaya Uchida. (Chibi Mechagodzilla does note, "Wait, don't 'chibi' and 'mini' mean the same thing?")

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Image via Chibi Godzilla Raids Again anime's Twitter

The sequel will premiere on April 3 at 7:05 a.m. JST (April 2 at 6:05 p.m. EDT) on TV Tokyo's Oha Suta.

The anime will feature a returning cast.

Chiharu Sakazaki is again deg the characters.

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The anime premiered in April 2023 at 7:00 a.m. on TV Tokyo's Iniminimanimo programming block. (Iniminimanimo — a reference to the English counting-out rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — has previously aired anime series aimed at children such as Pui Pui Molcar Driving School.)

The anime's cast includes:

A series of animated shorts titled "Tadaima! Chibi Gojira" (I'm Home! Chibi Godzilla), based on the Chibi Godzilla character, YouTube channel in 2020.

Chibi Godzilla debuted in Chiharu Sakazaki's Ganbare Chibi Gojira (Do Your Best, Chibi Godzilla) picture book in October 2018. Sakazaki launched a second picture book Nakayoshi Chibi Gojira (Close Friends, Chibi Godzilla) in May 2019.

The Chibi Godzilla project celebrated the 65th anniversary of the Godzilla franchise. The project launched in July 2018, and it has since appeared on a wrap of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, as a kigurumi character at 2018's "Gojira Fes" (Godzilla Fest) event, in animated shorts during theater intermission, and for other projects. Before deg Chibi Godzilla, Sakazaki was known for deg characters such as the Suica commuter card's penguin and Chiba Prefecture's official mascot Chi-ba-kun.

Sources: Chibi Godzilla Raids Again anime's Twitter , Comic Natalie


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