(CR) Kaiju No. 8

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Spoiler for final thoughts:

6/10

All in all, a generic patchwork of shounen stuff. I'm not going to bother pointing out the swiss cheese, but if there is one problem specific to this story, it's the bad protagonist
I get what the author was trying to do, a guy who chased a dream but failed, and to stress that, he made the protagonist older than normal.
The problem is that the thought process stopped there and he was otherwise written like any other shounen protagonist. Meaning you got a 30 year old acting like a kid whenever the show wasn't angsting about his dream

Also, I know stuff like Jujutsu Kaisen is popular, but you didn't have the rip off the ugly female leads part. You got plenty of shounen manga like Inuyasha with cute girls, didn't hurt them.
You're surely not gonna say its because you are hardcore, right? You aren't

Also, the antagonist not being attractive in either appearance or character isn't a good thing either. One of the sources, Parasyte, right? Hideo wasn't a popular character, right? Yeah?
And at least Hideo didn't look bad. But this! Mushroom Man! And he's not a one-off enemy either. Oh no, Mushroom Man is a reoccurring enemy. Whhaaaaat?

Also, it's Kaijin. Change your name.

[FlareKnight]

Oh boy, poor Narumi. That's another guy that really didn't get much benefit from this being animated. The animation is just fine, but the character designs are a constant string of "that's a disappointment" in terms of the adaptation.

Close calls. Kafka managed to keep his head on just enough to avoid things going any worse. All he really could have accomplished there was killing Kikoru's father and then probably getting finished off by Narumi and anyone else that was on hand at the moment. He probably wasn't surviving that.

I do like the character stuff with Kafka. His memories with Mina and his bond with Kikoru kept him from getting completely lost in the monster. Sure as heck wasn't going to kill her father in front of her if he could do anything about it. It's just that he barely had the option to do something about it .

Rough day for Kikoru. Dealing with her dad isn't the easiest thing anyways then she had to watch that freaking death match. She's growing stronger, but this wasn't something she could do anything about yet. All she could do was have faith.

Can't say I love that old guy, but at least he was one of the rare voices of reason. Certainly good at his job. Again, a crappy parent, but at least he's a good general. It should be obvious to anyone (minus the morons in that room) that there is a shift going on here. Kafka, 9, and 10 all showing up in pretty short order. There's a wave of powerful Kaiju on the move and frankly without Kafka/No8 being on their side they would have lost an entire division to 10 and probably to 9. Since Kafka both noticed the reproductive organs thing and forced No9 to run away. If nothing else Kikoru's dad realized that this is a situation where things could slide out of their hands in a hurry. They don't have time for precedent.

Right now Kafka is the best user of Kaiju No8 that they are going to get. The time it'd take to kill him, turn him into weapons, find and train someone to utilize him as a weapon is time they might not have. And even if all that works out it might still lead to a fighter less powerful than the one they can use right now.

Certainly a sad sight that humanity's survival and safety is in the hands of people that don't see the value in humanity's spirit.

The show was decent. 7.5/10 for me. I think it could have been better with just better overall artwork, but it was fine. Season 2 should be fun .

[Alchemist007]

Kaiju No. 8/10, pretty much shounen stuff but with an older guy who's perhaps too goofy for his age. The animation was pretty good.

[grecefar]

kind of late to the party but it was a nice anime, 7/10. I knew it was a test, this has all the cliche checklist but it still was good.

I'm glad for the second season, meaning more kikoru I hope.