{"id":377679,"date":"2026-09-13T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377679"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:40:33","slug":"kaiju-no-8-could-be-crunchyrolls-answer-to-solo-leveling-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kaiju-no-8-could-be-crunchyrolls-answer-to-solo-leveling-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiju No. 8 could be Crunchyroll\u2019s answer to Solo Leveling in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaiju No. 8<\/a> has turned into one of Crunchyroll<\/a>\u2019s big action series in 2025. That\u2019s true even with Solo Leveling putting up huge numbers: it became the first title on Crunchyroll to pass 1 million user ratings<\/strong> and ranked as the platform\u2019s most popular anime worldwide in Q1 2025, according to Crunchyroll.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not hard to see why Solo Leveling blew up. The fights are slick, the animation looks premium, and Sung Jinwoo is built around a straight-up power fantasy<\/strong>. It also arrived at the right moment, with Korean entertainment reaching wider audiences and the original web novel and manhwa already bringing in a massive fanbase.<\/p>\n\n

Kaiju No. 8 hits a lot of those same beats. It has big monster action, strong production values, and a premise you get right away. But it also has more humor<\/strong>, more warmth, and more room for its world to breathe.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re looking for a shonen series with a little more balance, Kaiju No. 8 is an easy pick. Kafka Hibino is a rare 32-year-old lead<\/strong>, a failed kaiju cleanup worker who gets a late shot at becoming something more. He survives on persistence, experience, and practical kaiju knowledge, not pure dominance.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s also the stronger ensemble, and that\u2019s showing up in the business side too. By September 2025<\/strong>, the manga had more than 19 million copies in circulation. A second season and a compilation movie arrived in 2025, while Solo Leveling is still widely expected to continue with a movie and probably a third season around 2027 or 2028.<\/p>\n\n

You can watch both series on Crunchyroll.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kaiju No. 8 has turned into one of Crunchyroll\u2019s big action series in 2025. That\u2019s true even with Solo Leveling putting up huge numbers: it became the first title on Crunchyroll to pass 1 million user ratings and ranked as the platform\u2019s most popular anime worldwide in Q1 2025, according to Crunchyroll. It\u2019s not hard … Continue reading “Kaiju No. 8 could be Crunchyroll\u2019s answer to Solo Leveling in 2025”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":377678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377680,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377679\/revisions\/377680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377679"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377679"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377679"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}