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Kaiju Girls (2018)

Kaiju Girls poster
Country
Japan

How it feels

Monsters from the Ultra Series are reimagined as cute anime girls. The web shorts follow these girl versions of classic creatures in everyday comedic situations.

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What happens

Kaiju Girls (Japanese: 怪獣娘(かいじゅうがーるず), Hepburn: Kaijū Gārūzu) is a Japanese series of web anime shorts that first aired September 27, 2016, provided by the Docomo Anime Store service. These shorts are part of the Ultra Monsters Anthropomorphic Project (ウルトラ怪獣擬人化計画, Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku), a moe anthropomorphism project made by Tsuburaya Productions based on past monsters/aliens that have appeared in the Ultra Series. Other than the short series, a manga series, a novel series and other projects are being considered in development. A second season premiered in 2018. A sequel film, titled Kaiju Girls (Black), was released on November 23, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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