Apr 27, 2024
This series is not about Kaijus, seriously, if you are a kaiju fan, turn around, this is My Hero Academy with 2000's shounen paint.
0 characterization, Kafka is your cringe shouty shounen protagonist whose age is only relevant to make jokes about, otherwise he's a manchild that acts exatly like Asta, Midoriya, etc... I hit 30 recently and low key fell offended lmfao; Sidekick is... Just the sidekick, there's also Bakugo with pink hair, the snobby blonde rich girl, the cold strong dude that doesn't talk much, confident chill guy, childhood friend love interest that's mc's goal to defeat and has the personality of a wet
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tissue, no scratch that, it has the personality of an honest politician, it doesn't exist.
0 stakes, in the first 3 minutes we learn that kaijus are not a threat but barely a nuisance, they only cause destruction while the extermination teams get there, so there's absolutely no point for this story to even take place, mc won't be a paradigm shift or affect anything, heck the closed down an entire district and put kaiju in it to have the superpowered 16 year olds try their powers on them, Hero Exam much?
0 humor, no, shouting and goofing around all the time isn't humor, but if you enjoy the forced goofing all the time and scripted Marvel humor then good for you, or I'm sorry I guess.
0 logic, the kaijus explode and blow up when being shot with 1 bullet, ok??? MC can outrun a 6 legged kaiju, but then can't keep up jogging vs other people, but then can go around running in a battlefield??? Sidekick can lift and swing a stop sign (they weight around 80 lbs btw) and take down a kaiju with a blow, and also deflect a swing from it??? MC also gets his power by eating the hair of the #1 kaiju in the world, sorry, a random fly goes inside his mouth, he transforms and sidekick is just ok with it??? 3 months pass and they don't ever get to question what happened, what's going on, dig deeper into the mystery, nope, MC gets powers and that's it, continue as normal??? Kaijus never threaten anyone, they're just there to open their mouths for a few minutes to somehow try to make you think that they are indeed dangerous and do nothing else, they don't have unique behaviors or opportunities, chase, get to target, open mouth, get killed.
The production quality is pretty good though, art and animation is amazing, OP is unique and good and the music is ok-goodish, doesn't stand out but gets the job done.
This series is only remotely popular because CR is pushing it real hard, if you are the pointing in shock wojak who gets exited because another battle shounen dropped and somehow think it's the best thing ever because "the fights" and don't care about anything else, then you will enjoy it, I'm not one to judge, I have a shit ton of generic isekai under my belt, you can stop browsing through my list trying to find some reason to discredit me, but as a general kaiju and monster enjoyer, this ain't it, I unironically think that if it were a series about Kaiju cleanup, it'd be up there with Dungeon Meshi because that was the only time I felt like there was a thought out world when explaining the characteristics of each kaiju's anatomy and how to deal with it during the cleanup.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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