Kaijuu 8-gou

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Synonyms: 8Kaijuu, Monster #8, Kaiju No.Eight

Japanese: 怪獣8号

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Apr 13, 2024 to ?

Premiered: Spring 2024

Broadcast: Saturdays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Khara, Nippon Columbia, TOHO animation, Shueisha, Sonilude, Toho Music

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Theme: Military

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.24¹ (scored by 23,096 users)

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Ranked: #324²

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Popularity: #1179

Members: 203,363

Favorites: 1,120

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Synopsis

Grotesque, Godzilla-like monsters called "kaijuu" have been appearing around Japan for many years. To combat these beasts, an elite military unit known as the Defense Corps risks their lives daily to protect civilians. Once a creature is killed, "sweepers"—working under the Professional Kaijuu Cleaner Corporation—are left to dispose of its remains.

Kafka Hibino, a 32-year-old man, is unsatisfied with his job as a sweeper. From a young age, he has aspired to join the Defense Corps and kill kaijuus for a living. After a few failed attempts, however, he gave up on his dreams and resigned himself to the mediocrity that provided a decent paycheck. Nevertheless, when an ambitious, 18-year-old recruit named Leno Ichikawa joins his cleaning team, Kafka is once again reminded of his desire to join the military.

Following a chain of unfortunate events and an interaction with the junior sweeper, Kafka encounters a parasite-type kaijuu that forces its way in through his mouth—turning him into a humanoid monster. With his newfound powers, Kafka aims to give his lifelong dream a final try.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Hibino, Kafka

Main

Fukunishi, Masaya
Japanese

Shinomiya, Kikoru

Main

Fairouz Ai
Japanese

Ichikawa, Reno

Main

Katou, Wataru
Japanese

Ashiro, Mina

Supporting

Seto, Asami
Japanese

Hoshina, Soushirou

Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo
Japanese

Furuhashi, Iharu

Supporting

Shin, Yuuki
Japanese

Okonogi, Konomi

Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka
Japanese

Tokuda, Masahide

Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka
Japanese

Izumo, Haruichi

Supporting

Koumoto, Keisuke
Japanese

Kaguragi, Aoi

Supporting

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
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Morihiro, Fumi

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Takei, Katsuhiro

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Yanagisawa, Shunsuke

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Hashimoto, Ryuu

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Opening Theme

"Abyss" by YUNGBLUD (eps 2-)

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"Nobody" by OneRepublic

Reviews

Apr 27, 2024

Ellenwitch

Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

I'll say it season after season. But when silliness hits well, it hits hard.

Kaijuu on paper looks like the kind of show, that will fill your action serious bubble, and more so. But when you actually watch it, there is more to it. Given it's fun, and comedic reactions. It kinda gives me Little Witch Academia vibes in that sense. Having a serious idea, a serious setting. But go at it with a mix of that tone of seriousness, and general fun. A mixture of styles and tones, that'll carry the series through out.

Story and characters: 8
Where it gives me same vibes too with LWA ...

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Apr 27, 2024

Seansy

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

Man, after so much promise in the beginning the growing number of red flags is becoming concerning for me. Hopefully things turn around going forward because I really enjoyed the premise that was set up initially. Unfortunately, reading the reviews for the manga has left me feeling uneasy for what is yet to come.

The biggest red flag for me is Kafka potentially devolving into a stereotypical middle school male shounen MC with all of his yelling. Part of my interest in his character was seeing a middle aged guy get a 2nd chance at his dream after giving up. If he continues acting too ... much like a child going forward I might not make it through to the end of the season. Children acting like children can get old fast, but having someone that old acting like that is going to get old REALLY fast. He should act more mature than the younger characters, not less so.

I'm also getting more concerned about the world building. Especially that the need for these super soldiers to take out Kaiju won't be adequately explained. Why can't conventional weapons be used against Kaiju more often while being augmented by Kaiju parts? It's still early so an explanation can be coming later, but unless these Kaiju are appearing by magic, or possibly underground, the larger ones should be detected much earlier to prevent them from causing devastation to cities. The only reason these soldiers would be necessary for urban landscapes is to enter areas not easily accessible to helicopters, planes, tanks, etc. that smaller Kaiju infiltrate into. Large Kaiju coming from the sea are easily detectable by sonar and should be intercepted long before they enter a city, same for air based Kaiju via radar. The first Kaiju in episode one literally appeared from a waterway and it was the size of a multistory building. Not exactly undetectable!

Did I mention there is a large domesticated tiger that attacks a Kaiju as big as a house in episode 1? I was hoping it was some kind of domesticated Kaiju they kept locked away, but nope, it just lives in the apartment of the female love interest. Yeah...

Anyways, there is still time for these things to receive an adequate explanation. It is just concerning that the number of questions without answers are rising so fast while the number of questions answered thus far is comparatively low.

Let's do a few positives quickly.

Kafka was mostly good thus far except for the recent aforementioned immature yelling. Ichikawa Reno has been a likable friend thus far. As expected, Production I.G is delivering on the audiovisual aspects of the show. Everything else is mostly still too early to tell right now, so it's not like it's all bad by any stretch. I'm just feeling much more mixed about the series after the 3rd episode compared to the first 2 episodes.

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Apr 27, 2024

Xaxas

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

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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 ... 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.

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