Hmmm…. If you lived in worlds where Kaiju exists, your life must be stressful; having to go into lockdown every time it happens. And then there’s the aftermath of them being dead – someone has to clean that shit up.
It might seem like a high-paying job but also a life-threatening one.
This is Kaiju No. 8.
Director:
Shigeyuki Miya
Tomomi Kamiya
Series Composition: Ichiro Okouchi
Script: Ichiro Okouchi
Music: Yuta Bando
Original creator: Naoya Matsumoto
Character Design: Tetsuya Nishio
Art Director: Shinji Kimura
Chief Animation Director: Tetsuya Nishio
3D Director: Masaru Matsumoto
Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
Animation Production: Production I.G
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Plot Summary: Kafka hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she’s out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out for the squad once more. There’s just one problem—he’s made the Defense Force’s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.
First Thoughts: Yeah, I think having a job like that is very life-threatened especially if one of those things spill blood, which meant be acid and can burn a motherfucker, but you might get worker’s comp for that shit. Anyway, for this premiere being one of the most anticipated shows of the season, this is promising. Kafka is that one character that wants to be a hero, to fight the kaiju since he lost his home but instead, he’s just part of the clean-up crew. That hero role goes to his childhood friend Mina Ashiro, who’s doing the shit he wants to and then he has the new guy Reno, whom both of them has a run-in with a kaiju and Reno seems like a good dude and even saves his life… well, until one kaiju gets inside him and now, he’s on the run.
I don’t really have any negatives to say about that. Maybe one meh thing and coming from me, who also does a music podcast, is who they chose to do the opening and ending; those being YungBlud and OneRepublic, mostly Western music acts for those that don’t follow music, and while we only had the ending song from the latter (former is next episode), it’s kinda…. Well, an OneRepublic song. Very pop-rock and something I don’t give two shits about.
I know some JPN productions often get musical acts like Franz Ferdinand and apparently Maneskin to do anime openings and endings but this is meh.
The show itself, it’s CONTINUE WEEKLY… WITH THE DUB. Yes, there’s a same-day dub with this and the only good show with a same-day dub, mind you.
I’m MAK2.0 aka The Blue Hybrid and what’s next, Code Orange doing something for DANDADAN? And if Rob finds out I said that and if it comes true, he might kill me. Well, that or having Maneskin doing something for BEASTARS.
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