Chibi Godzilla Raids Again
Chibi Godzilla Raids Again is a Japanese short anime television series in Toho's Godzilla franchise. Produced by Pie in the Sky and Toho, the first season aired on TV Tokyo and on YouTube as a web series from April to June 2023 while the second season aired for one year from April 2024 to March 2025. The third season premiered on July 2, 2025. The show takes place on Monster Island, which is inhabited by small chibi-style kaiju from the franchise.
Characters
Per Comic Natalie and Hodgkins, except where noted:Main (Toho Big Five)
;Chibi Godzilla;Chibi Mechagodzilla
;Chibi King Ghidorah
;Chibi Mothra
;Chibi Rodan
Supporting
;Chibi Anguirus;The Shobijin
;Chibi Biollante
;Chibi Hedorah
;Chibi Minilla
;Chibi Gabara
;Chibi Titanosaurus
;Chibi Gigan
;Chibi Jet Jaguar,
;Godzilla
Production
The Chibi Godzilla character—who was created to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Toho's Godzilla franchise—first appeared in the 2018 picture book Ganbare Chibi Gojira by Chiharu Sakazaki. In March 2023, the character's first anime television series—Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, a title that purportedly references the second Godzilla film—was announced by Toho.The series comprises thirteen episodes featuring chibi-style kaiju characters,
and is a manzai comedy that is targeted more at an adult audience.
In an interview with io9, producer Go Miyazaki said that the show still appeals to children, but "we have noticed that they tend to prefer more sophisticated humor".
The series is produced by animation studio Pie in the Sky and Toho. Taketo Shinkai, who is also writing the script, is directing. Character design is provided by Sakazaki and animation production is done by Junichi Endo and Yuji Nikaido. The show stars Jun Fukuyama as Chibi Godzilla and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Chibi Mechagodzilla, with Sumi Shimamoto doing the narration.
The anime premiered on April 1, 2023, on TV Tokyo's programming block Iniminimanimo and began streaming internationally as a web series on the official Godzilla YouTube channel with English subtitles on April 11.
The first season ended on its original network on June 24. On March 8, 2024, it was announced that a second season would premiere on April 3, 2024 as a segment on TV Tokyo's children's television series Oha Suta, with episodes available on YouTube immediately after airing. The second season aired weekly for a year, concluding on March 26, 2025. Additionally, it began streaming on the official Godzilla YouTube channel with English subtitles from April 10, 2024. On May 31, 2025, it was announced that a third season would premiere on July 2 with Wednesday Campanella performing the series' new theme song "Monster Island" and Katsuyuki Konishi joining the cast as Chibi JJ.