The official website for Kaiju Decode: The Ring of Aidara (Japanese title: Kaiju Decode: Aidara no Yubiwa), a CG anime collaboration between Tsuburaya Productions and Toei Animation, has released a teaser trailer, a new teaser visual, and confirmed a 2027 debut for the project.
Setting and Concept
The new anime is set in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. The project’s central theme is described as “a story about kaiju and girls,” with both studios aiming the title at a worldwide audience.
Cast
- Aya Yamane — as Maru, a boy from the City
- Karin Takahashi — as Coco, a girl of the Aidara tribe who lives in the dangerous Zone where beasts roam
Staff
- Katsuie Shibata (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Isekai) — screenplay
- Masayuki Gotou (SSSS.Dynazenon) — monster design
- Sei Nakashima — Hollywood CG art director; known for the end-credits illustrations of Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution and as a concept artist on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; serves as character designer for Maru
- Masatsugu Saitō (Cyborg 009 Call of Justice) — character designer for Coco
- JNTHED (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) — teaser visual illustration
Producers
The project is produced by Kōichi Noguchi and Masahiro Onda. Noguchi’s credits include Expelled from Paradise and KADO – The Right Answer, while Onda is a veteran Tsuburaya Productions producer whose work spans Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial and the role of executive producer on SSSS.Gridman.
Project Background
A full anime short for Kaiju Decode streamed in December 2021 on the Tsuburaya Imagination website. On the same day, the companies released a VR anime short titled Kaiju Decode: First Contact for Oculus Quest. Both works are designated as the “first part” of the overall project.
That earlier short was directed by S/N at studio Arect, with a script by Tetsuya Yamada and music by Tadahiko Inoue. The cast featured Nobunaga Shimazaki as Rei, Marika Kōno as Miru, Mayumi Shintani as Zora, and Aya Yamane as Real Rei.
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