Kaijuu 8-gou
Kaiju No. 8

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This manga is incredibly mid, so why am I still reading it? Everything about this show is unoriginal and the only original aspect it has (Kafka being in his 30's) is never utilized to its fullest potential, in fact, everything about this story isn't used to it's fullest potential. Nothing is original, but it actually has some redeeming qualities. The action is very fluid, intense, and gripping. The action scenes flow very well and it's very nice to look at. And there are some HYPE moments, I won't spoil, but the Director General Shinomiya plot point actually had me shook lmao.

This series isn't bad, but ... it isn't very good. If you want a shonen that's barley competent with some decently hype moments every so often, then pick this guy up.

7/10 Good, not great. Action is epic, but story seems to struggle being original when using a concept that isn't original.

FULL REVIEW:

I really like this manga. It has all the right ingredients for your classic shounen. And that's what will hurt this manga if it continues down this path. We are now 37 chapters in, and while the story is good, it is still a very basic "I hate this, but then I became what I hate and will save the world" concept. We've seen it quite a bit recently.

PROS:
Characters are very likeable. MC isn't a child or teenager, but actually reaching his mid-30's which ... surprisingly changes the relationship dynamic throughout the story. While personality traits are similar to your basic shounen, it still gives off a more mature vibe.

The action is great. The dual-page panels are so full of detail, and it's a blast reading it. (Keep this in mind when reading my CONS list).

CONS:
Way too fast to read. Sometimes battle manga can be like that, though. The best comparison for me personally was Bleach: Reading a whole volume sometimes took minutes because essentially, each chapter was a picture-book. You can only stare at a picture for so long, I wish there was more story, which brings me to the next point.

The story can be better/more original. It is currently setting itself up for a big reveal eventually (Not going into spoilers, essentially there is more to the Kaiju invasion than humans think). For as much as I enjoy reading each chapter, I feel like the first few chapters were really strong, and it hasn't gotten better or worse, it's just plateauing. It needs to find its own personality. However this can be good as it may subvert expectation for what happens next.

VERDICT:
I have high hopes for this manga and I really want it to succeed. I can already tell that this will be as popular as JJK, MHA or Demon Slayer is at the time of writing this. Basic is always good, but it is at a point where it needs to stand out NOW before losing its dedicated readers.

Pretty generic as far as "metamorphosis subgenre" shounen manga go. Typical the protagonist gets transformed into a half-human, half-*insert enemy here* and joins a force to fight said enemy. The main character is pretty funny, but the only thing he has over other shounen manga protags is that he's not a teenager. The rest of the characters don't really have any rememberable things about them that make them stick out, even in their designs.
Kaiju designs are super cool
The fight scenes are easy to follow but they are lacking something.

Overall it's a 6/10, it's okay but could definitely be better.

I try my best to make Kaijuu 8-gou's review

If you are a fan of Shonen Jump manga type (the main character with unique power, character, and heroic) you will definitely like Kaijuu 8-gou.

STORY 8/10
The story is good and well made. It has a clear and well-paced storyline, and also comedy twisted. Not too long or too short for each chapter. But for some mystery things, for me who has read it until 44 chapters, it has not much mystery.

ART 8/10
I'm not an art expert, but for me, the art is good and clear. It has a lot of detail on the weapon and monster, and ... it had drawn in detail.

CHARACTER 9/10
I love the main character and all the support characters. Main and support characters develop with each other. They have happy friendship with each other.

ENJOYMENT 9/10
It only takes 3 hours for me to read 44 chapters. Quite a binge reading. Well, when I read it, I have some expectations for the story and the characters.

OVERALL 8,5/10
I hope this manga gets more readers. It will brr great if Kaijuu 8-gou gets an anime adaption!

Thank you for reading my review! Enjoy Kaijuu 8-gou!

very solid manga. interesting story, i really like the art, characters are kinda stereotypical but it does not bother. if you are looking for a shounen with a bit of humour give it a try.

what bothered me reading it is how the story unfolds. it really seems to follow industrial guidelines and the plot is more or less predictable. as the state of story is right now ( chapter 38 was the last one i read ) it is hard for me to imagine how the author is going to move plot forward after chapter 100 without making it really repetitive.

that said it was ... a really good read - i enjoyed it a lot and will be following next updates

Okay I have readup to chapter 29, and it has been great for me. If you like monster/alien vs human story like kaiju and Godzilla, this is for you.

art: 9/10
As a gun nerd, I can see clearly the guns used in the manga is based on real-world gun, and I like it (modified Glock and rifle inspired by Sig Sauer MCX Virtus). yes, they are modified but look really clean and the art always detailed.

Character: 10/10
The MC is really cool for me. Not Overpowered cool, but he started as a regular guy who fights for his friend while risking his life cool. The ... MC is also a middle-aged man not some teenager in his puberty, that's more realistic and most enjoyable for me (since I'm also not a teen anymore).

Story: 8/10
can't describe much without spoiler. but, it is good. basically, the earth is under attack, the MC was a regular guy and trying to join the defense force. before he joins, he was the "cleaning guy".

Something makes me unable to stop reading this ...

The characters aren't all unique, and the story felt a bit similar to one punch man's at the begining but as time goes on you get really attached to the characters and you're happy for every little progress they make to achieve their goal, and the chara design ... i just fell in love with it ...

This manga's universe isn't quite as dark as i was excpetcing it to be (compared to chainsaw man), but the comic side is more present and it makes for a perfect combination (in my opinion). I would say that ... this manga kind of feels like the son of Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man, pretty dark but also light hearted when the characters are not in the action.

I would reccomend it to anyone who read either Jujutsu Kaisen or Chainsaw Man.

I've read 20 chapters of the manga and hence I am writing this review.

8 Kaijuu is synonymous with problems that are to the point and have a fast storyline.

With a variety of unique characters, settings, conflicts, and good solutions, 8Kaijuu is very fresh for a shonen manga.

Similar to the concept of One Punch Man and Jujutsu Kaisen stories, creepy apparitions are also often shown.

Uniquely, the creepy appearance of the conflict in 8Kaijuu, changes drastically into silly things that make readers automatically think twice about reading the panel.

Actually 8 Kaijuu has a simple word order but, almost the average word written is very meaningful for a ... warrior.

Do I recommend this manga? Sure, why not

Legit Garbage Manga

how in the world did this get this much hype when its literal trash mind you the art is good and thats just about it , this was released with people were craving generic flashy shounens like jjk,mha, and demon slayer that significantly boosted its popularity anyway back to the main points.

STORY
so the story starts off as this realistic dark story with a middle age man going through struggles of life which is name Kafka the protagonist for this story , so kafka's main character story is that he made a promise to her childhood friend Mina to be the ... strongest,save the world you know the typical generic cliche trash plot then some bs happen he got a power up that makes all his character before that completely meaningless now that he can just use his op power which is also completely generic trash to beat all his problems

CHARACTER
the characters in kaiju 8 are utter trash they literally barely have any real character and its hilarious when the story takes itself seriously when it sucks at making characters

i could rant more but ehh ill just list off all the bad points this terrible manga have;

Characters yes all of them . recycled villain they literally recycled one villain for 3 arcs now that tells you how low the standards are for this manga . the power system is just bland af kafka power all it does is literally be superman just punch mosnters that it no flashy moves no weapons nothing else to add to his character . bruhh they literally replaced the main side kick Reno who was introduced early on the story to be the secondy protag but he was replaced by this blonde brat shinomiya which also replaced the main girl Mina . now the story is even hinting this releationship with kafka and shinomiya she is a minor btw so yea adds more how shit this really is . the background characters feels like npcs no depth at all . and it has like every cliche shounen trope you can imagine in fact that IS the main appeal for kaiju 8 its literally just an amalgamtion of every shounen cliche trope , the only good thing kaiju8 has going for is the good art, dynamic panels and nothing else

so to end this off...
KAIJU8 more like KAIJU SH8T

STORY :7/10
ART :8/10
CHARACTER :8/10
ENJOYMENT :7/10
OVERALL :8/10


(STORY) It is good. I really enjoy reading it. I thought the chapter gonna be longer, but its fine. At first, I thought Ichikawa is the main character, I never thought a 32-year old guy that will be the main character. It kinda similar to 'Kijiya' from Zint, or maybe it just my thought.

(ART) To me, the artstyle kinda looks similar to Boku no Hero's artstyle a ... little bit. But, its good. Have alot of details, also the angle looks great.

(CHARACTER) Each characters have their own looks, which is cool. I really like the characters' design. They have their own style and attraction.

(ENJOYMENT/OVERALL) Anyway, I hope it will keep getting better and get an anime adaptation when the manga have 50+chapters or finished.

When I first started reading this manga I was expecting your run of the mill Shonen with good art and an interesting concept but later on it has become something more. It shares a lot of similarities with Attack on Titan that being the world is being attacked by monsters and the protagonist gains the ability of these monsters to fight them.

You first think all of the enemies are going to be bland mindless kaiju who get beaten however this has been proven wrong with a kaiju not dying for over 40 chapters and becoming a bigger and bigger threat with a goal in ... mind. This has made the show a lot more interesting and some of the side characters show potential if they are developed and not just side-lined like in a lot of anime and manga.

definitely give this a read to see if you like it because the plot seems to be really coming together and this could be the next big thing.

I really don't understand all the hype about Kaiju8. 

What got me to read it in the first place was the incredible covers' art design. The author nailed it with the character and colors. 
As for the first chapter, I was enjoying it until the end. We got to see a different and interesting set up. Not a hero, but a man cleaning the hero mess. I was kind of hyped, actually. And then... I got to the end of the chapter and all these good elements were put away. It became just one more story about a normal guy who got powers and now is the ... hero of humanity.
After this, we got to follow our protagonist in his quest to become a great hero against the Kaiju, but unfortunately that's just an ok adventure. The characters are bland and generic, like we have almost a copy of Asuka from Evangelion. There is just action and almost no development even after more than 30 chapters. Even though I don't like his drawing style, there are MANY good action sequences and panels, probably the best point of this manga.

I can't recommend this manga, but I can imagine, and I know there are many of them, people who really liked it, so give it a try maybe?


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Realmente não entendo todo o hype por Kaiju8. 

O que me levou a lê-lo em primeiro lugar foi o incrível design de arte das capas. O autor acertou em cheio com os personagens e cores. 
Quanto ao primeiro capítulo, estava gostando até o final. Pude ver um mundo e um contexto bem diferente e interessante. Não era a história de um herói, mas um homem limpando a bagunça de heróis. Eu estava entrando no hype quase. E então... Cheguei ao final do capítulo e todos esses bons elementos foram jogados fora. Tornou-se apenas mais uma história sobre um homem normal que tem poderes e agora é o herói da humanidade.
Depois disso, seguimos nosso protagonista em sua busca de se tornar um grande herói contra os Kaiju, mas infelizmente isso é apenas uma aventura mediana. Os personagens são rasos e genéricos, temos até quase uma cópia de Asuka da Evangelion. Há apenas ação e quase nenhum desenvolvimento, mesmo depois de mais de 30 capítulos. Apesar de não gostar de seu traço, existem MUITAS boas sequências de ação e painéis, provavelmente o melhor ponto desta mangá.

Não posso recomendar este mangá, mas posso imaginar, e sei que há muitas delas, pessoas que realmente gostaram, então experimente talvez...?

As everyone is already saying, Kaiju number 8 is not precisely the most innovative manga out there. It takes obvious inspiration from acclaimed series like Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer or Jujutsu Kaisen.

The most criticized aspect by the majority of reviewers is that the plot is mediocre at best, with a cast of characters that lacks charisma. I believe this to be true, but that's not the reason why I read this series. The plot is predictable, the characters uninspired and there's no real sense of worldbuilding. However, the main focus of Kaiju Number 8 is in the action scenes, and at that is ... a really good and fun reading. Almost every action chapter is hype as hell and that compensates the mediocre storyline. Moreover, the art style is bland when it comes to human designs but is real good with the monsters.

Kaiju Number 8 is not a series that will change your life, but it you doesn't matter that the plot is on a second plane and enjoy good action scenes it might be a fun experience.

7/10

I won't write anything overly long which I think highlights my issue with it. In that I actually don't have much to say. It's perfectly fine in every aspect. It's a fine story concept that is somewhat familiar. Good art, I suspect it's inspired by My Hero Academia. Character designs are very nice. But there's nothing that is hooking me to keep me going. I feel like the characters down to the world itself have done nothing to actually make me care for them. Even though a lot of them are cool in concept but it is very surface level. The story also might be ... a bit too fast like it doesn't wanna flesh anything or anyone out. Just to get to the point. Whatever it may be since I really can't say I care to find out.

Sometimes simple and straight forward can work and clearly this manga is liked by people. Sometimes I like surface level series because I don't always need things to be deep to enjoy. But I am getting nothing here to make this one of those manga for me.

Kaiju n.8 starts off with an interesting premise and some fascinatingly peculiar elements, but quickly plunges into a pit of extreme mediocrity due to its inability of taking those original concepts in meaningful, interesting directions. Character designs are pretty charming and variegated, but everything else about them is tremendously unoriginal: a cast of Shonen archetypes that we've already seen thousand of times interacting with each other in unimaginative and repetitive ways, without a glimpse of originality. The setting and worldbuilding are pretty shallow as well, with a couple of cool ideas scattered here and there but nothing deep or used in ways that are imaginative ... enough to be truly memorable. The story follows suit with a plot that doesn't explore any uncharted paths and remains on safe, typical Shonen territory, being functionally entertaining but not much else. So far, the only thing that holds some significant value are fights, as they got a faint but defined layer of strategy to them that makes their development a little more engaging. Still, as of 2022, everything about Kaiju n.8 is serviceable and entertaining enough, but that's about it. Just a decent, average, run-of-the-mill Shonen manga.

First ~40 chapters are quite good. MC has a goal, he overcomes hurdles, fights monsters. After that his presence diminishes somewhat, support cast start to get more time, and unfortunately it is always about same old monster-killing.

It feels like a story become just about monster-killing and nothing more. Lack of lore as to why these monsters even exist, why they attack, how humanity is not wiped out with such frequent and powerful attacks, as they usually happen in city limits, and how come they still did not figure out how to stop the attacks altogether. The situation in which characters exist feels too ... artificial and without any justification as to why it is so.

His aspirations get worse as time goes on and he gets the power to realize his first goal. From striving to become some kind of a "hero", he just wants to survive while trying to fit in as a human being to keep his promise, but the importance of such a promise was never really explained, so I fail to see how you can relate to it.

Also, there is not much of lore to their power ups: they fight strong adversary, they get stronger, repeat.

In other words, story becomes bland.

Knew about this manga for years but never got around to reading it, but when I watched the first couple of episodes of the anime I decided to pick it up. And wow must I say, this is one of the best, worst manga's I've ever read. The start is pretty engaging with small parts of story sprinkled in randomly that feels quite out of place? I don't know how to explain it but it feels as if parts of backstory were just thrown in for the sake of it. The arc where Kafka becomes a recruit is INCREDIBLY boring, he is a character that ... honestly could've been written by chat gpt, and his lack of this character really felt like this was a treck to get through. The only redeeming parts of this I found were the side characters growing as they at least have some sort of depth to them. As you come to the most recent chapters (and why I decided to write this in the first place) the writing becomes so bad to the point I actually had to read it a couple times over to make sure I was seeing it correctly. It is honestly some of the most stale, basic and unimaginary writing I've had the displeasure of reading in a while. We basically were given the same fight FOUR times as well, all to show that they reached a new power. Now like this this doesn't seem too bad, but when your reading it they are one after another and it becomes so stale and boring that by the end of this 25 chapter saga is over you cant wait to see something else.
However, there are definitely some redeeming factors, the fight scenes are really well illustrated and give you a real sense of scale and destruction, with your average "I have to get stronger" sprinkled around a couple of them (especially in the more recent chapters) which is to be expected from a manga like this. I believe this manga could revitalise itself if the story was to be worked on and given more depth, as right now, I'm seeing a lot of high highs and extremely low lows, but if you want something easy to read with giant monsters and a (sometimes) overpowered mc this is perfect for you.

Kaiju no.8 had an interesting premise . The Mc is a 30 year old hard working janitor in a world where Kaiju , giant monsters like Godzilla , Gamera and many other Tokusatsu icons that this manga pays homage to , run rampant and are taken down by the obligatory Defense Force . I thought that having the main character , who gets to transform into a monstorus hero , NOT being a part of the main organisation , and basically still being an underdog would be a breath of fresh air . But as soon as the second chapter passes , all that is ... thrown out the window , and becomes one of the most generic shonen manga I have read . I am not kidding when I say every character besides Kafka and to an extent Reno is literally just every common anime character archetype you have ever seen . They are just not interesting . One thing I did like however was that one of the first villains was actually intimidating and charismatic , however that plotline ends just when it starts getting interesting . And the concept itself is literally just any Ultraman show , and being a fan of that , there is just nothing here that makes me raise an eyebrow , it has all been done to death . And I really wanted to like this manga , I even got to chapter 60 , but at that point I just let it go because I realised there is nothing else left to interest me .
As you see this review is mostly subjective , so yes , by technicality this manga is not BAD . I just don't find it interesting at all . I know people who love it , and honestly , that's great . Don't take some rando's words as gospel , if it grabs your eye go read it . I feel a 5/10 is fair . Average is the right word for this manga . Average at everything .

As of writing this review, there are 15 chapters out and I think there is definitely a lot of potential for this manga. The characters don't feel like they are designed around a cliche blueprint and they feel like they have more autonomy. The characters are allowed to make decisions, rather than doing what the plot demands of the character. In other words, they feel like real people with emotion. The manga doesn't try too hard to make a particular character a rival or the main character unnecessarily charismatic so we can relate to him and love him as we do with a lot of ... other shonen protagonists.

The story so far hasn't done anything groundbreaking, but it has done a good job of setting the general foundations for the society and worldbuilding, without feeling like you are drowning in exposition.

The art is definitely good quality and the character designs feel original and diverse enough that you can remember the characters easily. In terms of the art style, it does feel reminiscent of other artists like Atsushi Ōkubo, but not to its detriment.

The manga so far is highly enjoyable and has good pacing, as you can begin to feel invested early but it doesn't feel like the author is rushing to give you as much of the story as possible so you don't drop it. It is confident in its ability to keep readers enticed. As of Chapter 15, the manga has also presented more questions than it has answers and it seems that Kaiju 8 is going to provide us with a unique spin on the Kaiju genre, unlike anything we have read previously.

At the time of writing this I've caught up to chapter 60, the latest released chapter.

Short answer:
Kaiju 8 is a great series to read for your overall enjoyment. The story isn't as average as your usual shounen but it's quite more adapted to the point where you'd still want to binge read it. The art is insane and the characters are very intriguing. Overall enjoyment is a 10/10.

Story:
First off story. The story is quite simple as a man who aspires to be part of the Defense Force where he is trying to be on par with his childhood friend with who he had made ... a promise with. The MC itself is not overpowered but instead very knowledgable. This could be sounding like your basic average shounen which, in big lines, it is. However the story does a perfect job to adapt certain aspects to make this ''average story'' more justice and interesting. Overall nobody cares and we just want to watch a show for its enjoyment.

Art:
The art is insane and in my opinion, as the chapter count increases, the art becomes more astonishing. Well worth it to just appreciate the art of a page once in a while.

Characters:
Main character isn't your young typical MC which is to be fair rarely seen in shounen. It revolves around a 32 year old as the main character. The side characters designs are looking great. Some character background stories may sound like your average one but who cares honestly, its very enjoyable to be re-reading the same story on a different put together character.

Lastly, enjoyment. Overall you could just ignore the previous made points because the manga is just very enjoyable to read. No need to be nit-picky and just appreciate the story.