Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (TV 2023-)

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Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Season 2Season 1 Air date Season 1: April 1 - June 24, 2023 April 11 - July 3, 2023NA Season 2: April 3, 2024 - present April 10, 2024 - presentNA Directed by Taketo Shinkai Producer(s) Keiji Ota et al. Written by Taketo Shinkai, Yuki Hirokawa Music by Yoshitake Wada; Akira Ifukube (stock) Funded by Toho Production company Pie in the sky Inc. Channel(s) Television: TV Tokyo Eeny Meeny Miney Mo (season 1) OhaSta (season 2) YouTube: TOHO animation channelJP GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHONA Episodes 13 (season 1)

“	This is a story of encounters and counterattacks... (これは、出会いと逆襲の物語ー)	„
	— Season 1 tagline

“	They're cute and a little eccentric. (かわいくてクセが強めのヤツばかり。)	„
	— Season 2 tagline

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (ちびゴジラの逆襲,   Chibi Gojira no Gyakushū, lit. "Chibi Godzilla's Counterattack") is an animated children's television series directed by Taketo Shinkai, who co-wrote it with Yuki Hirokawa. Funded by Toho with animation by Pie in the sky Inc., it is the second series based on Chiharu Sakazaki's Chibi Godzilla character, after the two-season web show I'm Home! Chibi Godzilla. The series stars the voices of Jun Fukuyama, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Takuya Eguchi, and Rie Takahashi. Each episode is two minutes and 40 seconds long.

The first season of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again aired on TV Tokyo's Eeny Meeny Miney Mo timeslot every Saturday from April 1 to June 24, 2023. Episodes were also made available on YouTube for one week starting the day they aired on television, and permanently on several other platforms one week later. English-subtitled versions were posted on the GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO YouTube channel every Monday from April 11 to July 3. A second season of the show premiered as a segment of the TV Tokyo variety show OhaSta on April 3, 2024, and on YouTube immediately thereafter. Episodes will air every Wednesday for a full year. English-subtitled versions will also once again be posted to the GODZILLA OFFICIAL channel, this time on every Wednesday from April 10 onward.

Descriptions

Season 1

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One day, Chibi Godzilla, who lives on Monster Island, found Chibi Mechagodzilla washed up on the shore. The pair's meeting begins an everyday life beyond human understanding for these chibi monsters with abundant personalities! Don't miss the astonishing wars of words contained in these 160-second volumes! This is a story of encounters and counterattacks...

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Season 2

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The next Godzilla, which the whole world has been waiting for, is a short TV animation series that no one expected! With an all-star cast of voice actors, the series portrays the too-loose daily lives of the super-eccentric little monsters. Will Chibi Godzilla be able to become a great monster like his father, Godzilla? Brace for the impact of bite-size monster entertainment!

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Episodes

Key

†	Denotes release dates that are assumed but not confirmed

No.		Title	Written by	Air date
Overall	Season			Japanese	English
Season 1
1	1	"Chibi Godzilla of Monster Island"	Taketo Shinkai	04/01/2023	04/11/2023
2	2	"The Three-Headed Scary God, Chibi Ghidorah"		04/08/2023	04/17/2023
3	3	"The Resplendent Maiden, Chibi Mothra"	Taketo Shinkai, Yuki Hirokawa	04/15/2023	04/24/2023
4	4	"The Ruler of the Skies, Chibi Rodan"		04/22/2023	05/01/2023
5	5	"Monster Study Session"		04/29/2023	05/08/2023
6	6	"The Roaring Dragon, Chibi Anguirus"		05/06/2023	05/15/2023
7	7	"All Chibi Monsters Attack"		05/13/2023	05/22/2023
8	8	"The Sage of Grudges, Chibi Hedorah"		05/20/2023	05/29/2023
9	9	"The Bewitching Rose, Chibi Biollante"		05/27/2023	06/05/2023
10	10	"Chibi Godzilla's Second Form"		06/03/2023	06/12/2023
11	11	"An All-Chibi Monster Chorus"		06/10/2023	06/19/2023
12	12	"The War at Low Tide"		06/17/2023	06/26/2023
13	13	"A Mighty Monster's Instinct"		06/24/2023	07/03/2023
Season 2
14	1	"Shin Chibi Godzilla"	Taketo Shinkai, Yuki Hirokawa	04/03/2024	04/10/2024
15	2	"Chibi Minilla is a Big Girl"		04/10/2024	04/17/2024
16	3	"Smartphones Are Handy"		04/17/2024	04/24/2024
17	4	"The Monster Island Godzillars"	Taketo Shinkai	04/24/2024	05/01/2024 †

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

• Directed by   Taketo Shinkai
• Written by   Taketo Shinkai, Yuki Hirokawa
• Executive producer   Keiji Ota
• Animation producers   Junichi Endo, Yuji Nikaido
• Music by   Yoshitake Wada
• "Godzilla's Theme" and "Battle in Outer Space" composed by   Akira Ifukube
• Music produced by   Tateki Kobayashi
• Sound production by   Takuro Okada
• Edited by   Mahiro Oyama
• Opening animated by   Hironobu Sakai
• Character designer   Chiharu Sakazaki

Season 1 only

• Co-executive producer   Kazutaka Yamanaka
• Chief producers   Atsushi Takahashi, Katsuhiro Takei
• Produced by   Masaya Saito, Go Miyazaki
• Advertising producer   Kosuke Doi
• Godzilla Strategic Conference   Akito Takahashi, Tetsuya Yoshikawa
• "Mothra's Song" composed by   Yuji Koseki
• Key animation by   Kakuji, Ari, Haruka Suzuki, Marin Sasanoike, Yuki Morita

Season 2 only

• Co-executive producers   Akito Takahashi, Hidehiko Hotta
• Chief producers   Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Michiaki Yamasaki
• Produced by   Go Miyazaki
• Co-producer   Masaya Saito
• Marketing by   Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Hitomi Komine, Rika Kaneko, Tomoko Usui
• Licensing by   Mitsuo Kanno, Kyohei Tabuchi
• Merchandise planning by   Yosuke Kurihara, Hiroto Mamiya
• Key animation by   Kakuji, Ari
• Trailer production by   Makoto Susaki, Aki Tsutagawa

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

• Jun Fukuyama   as   Chibi Godzilla
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka   as   Chibi Mechagodzilla
• Takuya Eguchi   as   Chibi Ghidorah
• Rie Takahashi   as   Chibi Mothra
• Hiro Shimono   as   Chibi Rodan
• Reina Ueda   as   elder Shobijin
• Akari Kito   as   younger Shobijin
• Miyuki Sawashiro   as   Chibi Biollante
• Fumihiko Tachiki   as   Chibi Hedorah
• Maaya Uchida   as   Chibi Minilla
• Sumi Shimamoto   as   narrator (episode 1)

Appearances

Monsters Chibi Godzilla Godzilla Chibi Mechagodzilla Chibi Ghidorah Chibi Mothra Chibi Rodan Chibi Anguirus Chibi Hedorah Chibi Biollante Chibi Minilla Chibi Gabara Chibi Titano Chibi Gigan Mechagodzilla (poster, toy) Godzilla 1984 (photo) Godzilla 1994 (photo) Godzilla 1999 (photo) Godzilla 1995 (photo) Mothra 1992 (photo)

Weapons, vehicles, and races Shobijin

Development and production

According to its trailer, planning for the first season lasted 10 months and production took about half a year.

Marketing

On March 1, 2023, the Chibi Godzilla Twitter account posted a series of teasers with the phrase "Raids Again!!!!!!" and a date of March 2. The announcement of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again followed the next day, along with key art, comments from the cast, and a final teaser video. A promotion was also launched until March 9 for five participants to win a B2-size poster autographed by the cast. The Chibi Godzilla Twitter teased another news drop on March 16, leading to the release of a full trailer the next day.

From March 20 to 26, a 10th anniversary TOHO animation banner including Chibi Godzilla Raids Again was hung in Akihabara Station. Yet another Twitter teaser was posted on March 23, revealed the next day to be an interview video with Chibi Godzilla voice actor Jun Fukuyama. A short promotional animation was also screened in TOHO Cinemas beginning March 24. From March 25 to 26, Chibi Godzilla Raids Again had a presence at AnimeJapan 2023, including a greetable Chibi Godzilla mascot, a screening of the main trailer, and a large display alongside Godzilla Battle Line. Following the series' premiere, a Twitter campaign was launched from April 1 to 11 in collaboration with the Okashi no Machioka candy store for five participants to win an assortment of confections and a copy of Do Your Best, Chibi Godzilla. The Chibi Godzilla Twitter also launched its own campaign from April 2 to 9 for one participant to win an autograph from Fukuyama.

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again-related social media icons were made available for download every Monday after an episode aired, and phone wallpapers every Tuesday after an episode aired.

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Soundtrack

Main article: Chibi Godzilla Raids Again/Soundtrack.

Streaming

Episodes of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again are made available to stream in Japan on the following platforms, one week after their television airing:

Purchase

• ABEMA
• Amazon Prime Video
• Anime Hodai
• Bandai Channel
• d Anime Store
• d Anime Store Nico Nico Branch
• d Anime Store for Prime Video
• DMM TV
• Flat Douga
• FOD
• Hulu
• J:COM On-Demand
• milplus
• Nico Nico Channel
• TELASA
• TELASA (au Smart Pass Premium)
• U-NEXT

Rental

• Amazon Prime Video
• Bandai Channel
• HAPPY! Douga
• J:COM On-Demand
• milplus
• music.jp
• Nico Nico Channel
• TELASA
• Video Market
• VIDEX

Chibi Monster Karuta

As a promotion for the show, a series of short videos entitled Chibi Monster Karuta (ちび怪獣かるた,   Chibi Kaijū Karuta) began being posted to social media. Each one is in the style of a Japanese karuta card, representing a different kana from the Japanese syllabary and containing a Chibi Godzilla-related phrase that begins with that syllable. The monster represented on each card varies, and each video is narrated by that monster's voice actor from Chibi Godzilla Raids Again.

Cards

Kana	Monster	Phrase
"A" kana
あ (a)	Chibi Godzilla	Angirasu moshi taberu nara miso nikomi "If you need to eat Anguirus, stew him in miso."
い (i)		Ikkai, moe to kokka? "Can we burn something down, just once?"
う (u)	Chibi Mechagodzilla	Uso ka makoto ka tanni denchi de ugoiteiru yo "True or false: I run on C batteries."
え (e)	Chibi Godzilla	Eigaka! ...Kato omoi kiya shōto anime da!! "A movie! ...I thought it was just a short anime!!"
お (o)		Ōkina kitai ha shinai de ne "Don't have too great of expectations."
"Ka" kana
か (ka)	Chibi Godzilla	Kanari semeteru jikaku wa aru yo "I'm aware I'm pretty aggressive."
き (ki)	Chibi Biollante	Kirei da ne, nante uso osshai "I'm beautiful? You must be lying."
く (ku)	Chibi Mechagodzilla	Kuriketto kyōgi jinkō san'oku nin "There are 3 million cricket players."
け (ke)	Chibi Mothra	Ke ga… ke ga… detemasu…. "My hair… my hair… is sticking up…."
こ (ko)	Chibi Hedorah	Kōni no natsu ga ichiban tanoshī rashī nō "Your second summer of high school seems to be the most fun."
"Sa" kana
さ (sa)	Chibi Ghidorah	Sā kono keiyakusho ni sain o shite... ne? "Now just sign this contract, okay?"
し (shi)	Chibi Godzilla	"Shio Radon" "tare Radon" nara "tare Radon" "Between 'salty Rodan' and 'tare Rodan,' I'll take 'tare Rodan.'"
す (su)		Sumiso de aete miyō kana "Maybe I'll try dressing him with vinegared miso."
せ (se)	Chibi Hedorah	Sekushī satte no wa naimen kara detekuru nja "They say sexiness comes from the inside."
そ (so)	Chibi Mechagodzilla	Sore ga Kaijū-tō no yarikata ka-! "That's the way it works on Monster Island?!"

"A" kana collection "Ka" kana collection "Sa" kana collection

Videos

Main article: Chibi Godzilla Raids Again/Videos.

Trivia

• Chibi Godzilla Raids Again takes its title from that of the second Godzilla movie, Godzilla Raids Again, released in 1955.
• This series premiered on the 10th anniversary of animation studio Pie in the sky, which was founded on April 1, 2013.
• Reina Ueda, who voices the elder Shobijin in this series, previously voiced Mothra's priestess Maina in the GODZILLA anime trilogy.
• Four of the show's voice actors—Rie Takahashi, Fumihiko Tachiki, Jun Fukuyama, and Maaya Uchida—were later cast in the the Japanese dub of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
• Chibi Anguirus is the only character in the series without a voice actor. He instead uses Anguirus' roars, with his actor listed as "?".
• Chibi Biollante is the only character in the series to be based on a kaiju who did not debut in the Showa era.
• Chibi Godzilla Raids Again marks the first appearance of Titanosaurus in Reiwa-era media, although Godzilla Aquatilis from Godzilla Singular Point was heavily based on him.

External links

• Official website
• Chibi Godzilla Twitter, used to promote the show

References

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