Kaiju No. 8 - Ch. 129 - The Disheveled Hero Makes His Return ...

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Well that was kinda wack...i guess we can only hope the anime improves on it or something.
It was fun but this feels like an ax ending
 
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Well, this was a story that existed.

I think I initially got into it through Supereyepatchwolf's recommendation when he complemented the use of an older main character chasing old dreams. And I got to say, that hardly came through, Kafta's age feels meaningless. You could have just as easily say he was just weak or inept and it doesn't really change much. He acts like a teenager/young adult.

I don't feel any of the relationships and characters feel truly realised. And the worldbuilding was never really all that interesting.

I feel like I've watched a generic action movie. It just had some cool fights and art, but I never really felt that same hype as the first arc.

I feel like for this story to really carve its own identity, it needed to dwell on the time before Kafta applies to the defence force. Delving into things like his time as a cleaner actually gave him a good understanding of monster biomechanics and his demeanor when he approaches fighting and how to minimize damage. Show more of the public and the city he lives in. The technology level of the world and so on.

As it stands it feels like scifi things smashing each other cause it's cool. Maybe that's all it set out to be and that's fine, I guess, but does that make this series worth revisiting all that much.

Maybe this is all a prologue for Kaiju n8 2 and then the mangaka will get his A game out but I feel I'd have seen that already.
 

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