Del Toro broke the news via the official Legendary YouTube page and revealed that there is also going to be an animated series set in the Pacific Rim universe, which, honestly, has the potential to be either really, really good or really, really bad. Guillermo del Toro has confirmed Pacific Rim 2 for a release date of April 17, 2017, so we've got three years to get our Kaiju tattoos and start dying a blue streak in our hair. It's the moment that every Pacific Rim fan has been waiting breathlessly for since the first Pacific Rim trailer came out.