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| Kafka not being able to transform is a frustrating development. |
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| Kikoru cool asf! Oh no not this emotionally blocked superhero powers troupe..whyyyy |
| i feel like this is doing the basics so well it is starting to risk becoming nothing but that, hmm |
| 🌈 i just want gintama back |
| This is the most astroturfed show of all time. It does nothing better than anything else. It is average at best. The animation is like a slideshow but never gets called out. "Demon Slayer is carried by it's animation" yeah at least it fucking has animation. "Solo Leveling is just aura farming" yeah but at least he has aura. What does this have? Characters that you can't remember the names of? Blob character art style? I'm getting fed up trying to find why people think this is good unless you've just never watched other anime before. |
| Holy shit the OP and ED are WORSE than the first season. |
| Bro what, are we just starting the first season over with how useless he is again? It’s bad enough he can’t even do anything normally but now he’s got the yips? He better get over it at the very beginning of next episode. I was hoping this season would be about him improving his partial transformation and maintaining constant power output, but instead he had to relearn how to use his power from square one. |
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| Kaijuu no.8 never fails when it comes to delivering cool op and ed. The visuals were so good for the op just like season 1. Aurora for the op is a fine choice and One Republic again with such a beautiful ed. Never expected Kafka to fail at his transformation.. 😭😭 I guess it depends on his mental state. Kikoru's stealing the show yet again❤️🔥🔥🔥 |
Reply to prvttua
the op isn't that good tbh with cgi but the song isn't actually bad
why tf can't Kafka transform ? we need a good explanation tbh bcs I want to see Kafka besides mina but everything says no
narumi is a fucking beast, really excited to see him goes vs the 9th kaijuu it's gonna be a great fight
with that being it deserves 4 / 5 for me a good fs
why tf can't Kafka transform ? we need a good explanation tbh bcs I want to see Kafka besides mina but everything says no
narumi is a fucking beast, really excited to see him goes vs the 9th kaijuu it's gonna be a great fight
with that being it deserves 4 / 5 for me a good fs
prvttua said: why tf can't Kafka transform ? we need a good explanation tbh His mental state, I guess. His fear of losing control might be blocking his transformation. |
| Now we're getting some very tense fight against Kaiju n°9, it's exciting, especially to see Narumi in action ahah |
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HagePotPotato said: Serious question: do they do any quality control in the voice acting? In watching the dub and these characters sound noticeably different than season 1 I don't have anything against cgi, but those ants crawling out of the hole took me out of the immersion. Are they doing more cgi because they have a bigger budget? Or is it the opposite (since I thought chi was supposed to be faster to animate than 2d)? Are they doing different op/Ed every episode or...? I appreciated Kafka doing extra training. But other than that, I'm largely disassociated from this season. I have very little/no connection to almost all of them. None of them are interesting characters. Nanumi's VA sounds good, but none of the character's humorous scenes work. It's just not funny, and he's just not cool either (only when he's killing kaiju is he a decent character). Shinomiya talking shit to a superior officer? #9 is interesting. The finger bubbles are cgi now and fortunately they don't look so out of place like the ants. We saw him taking to somebody at the end of season 1. I'm guessing this #9.2 is that somebody. I wonder why there are 2 though. The reason could be rather good (or it could be unanswered/underwhelming... TBD) I don't mind that Kafka is afraid to be consumed by that weird kaiju thing again if he transforms again. My problem is... they never had Kafka transform into a kaiju in order to train? In order for Nanumi or hoshina or anyone to train against him. That's just illogical The biggest problem is the mostly new characters (no connections) , absence of prior characters we learned about and cared about, and the utter lack of humor (season 1 was hilarious and endearing) and high stakes moments (saving the "good kaiju" girl, saving kikoru, ichikawa saving Kafka right after Kafka saved him in episode 1) It's a big downgrade so far. Season 1 was an 8/10 (the ending was good but not great, which may be the only reason I didn't give it a 9/10). I gave season 2 episode 1 a 6/10, and I doesn't feel like changing it after this episode 2. But it's season 2 **only** 25% weaker than season 1? No, it's definitely more than 25% wise through 2 episodes so far. Therefore, season 2 gets downgraded to 5 or 5.5/10. Please get better soon Where did you get the new OP/ED every episode from? It's the same as for almost every single anime for the past decade or more. 1 OP and ED for 10-12 episode season/part. Only exception is having different EDs for each episode, but that happens rarely and in certain scenarios. |
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| Another attack by Kaiju no. 9. For some reason, Kafka is unable to transform to Kaiju No. 8. Kikoru comes to help Kafka. |
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Reply to G_Spark233
Kafka not being able to transform is a frustrating development.
| @G_Spark233 Hopefully does not last very long. |
| Lol, He can't transform into Kaiju mode. Seems like He's too holding back and not confident after what happened in the past. |
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| kafka back to mode useless again .. pretty sad |
| Why is Kafka suddenly having performance anxiety, is he afraid of losing control? |
| it's still a great show. I just don't feel OP and ED catch the atmosphere of shounen. but the art is nice, even paying homage to OP1. |
| “You are not alone, Ash. I am with you. My soul is with you.” - Eiji Okumura. |
| nothing to say about the episode, the animation remains the same, the character design remains rotten, the music doesn't liven up at all, following along just to have something to watch |
| hello, just a brazilian boy who likes anime |
| Of course they would add some impotence for him to overcome at the very beginning of the show. Predictable and boring. That also told us they were going to make this one an introductory episode and leave it hanging on a cliff. A setup if you like. And an obvious one. The moment he failed to transform I knew how the episode is going to end and lost the desire to finish it. Watched it anyway and was proven right. Someone should tell writers there are other ways of ending episodes than cliffhangers. It's an interesting show and doesn't need drum up drama right before they cut it off to get people to come back for next episode. Am fully expecting them to start clickbaiting with titles as well. |
| You've gotta be some kind of stupid to stand on the rim of a sinkhole. And an extra crispy idiot to see 2 eyes looking back at you still stand there. You deserve to be ant food. Kafka has a mental block because he's scared of harming a person. He'll get over it soon I hope. |
dragynfaerieJul 27, 4:12 PM
| Deep inside kafka hates being a kaiju and unconsciously suppressing it himself I think. Which is bs lol my man stop thinking you will be useful as human you fucking suck, just embrace your kaiju powers ffs |
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| Performance anxiety....happens to every shounen lead. |
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What does that even suppose to mean? |
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| You know it's pretty bad when i'm thinking "Panty dropper Jinwoo would've handled all those ants in 2 seconds or less." |
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