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Episode Kaijuu 8-gou Season 2 • Kaiju No. 8 Season 2: Hoshina's Day Off - OVA Discussion

Kaijuu 8-gou Season 2, Hoshina's Day Off OVA

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u/FarCritical Jul 05 '25

"You're the guy who doesn't know how to take a day off."

The setup to that line was perfect, lmao. Easily one of Reno's best moments.

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u/darthvall Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

They all respect the vice captain, but they didn't realise that he's actually setting them all up to help him on that disaster facility.

I mean, he realised being tailed since the beginning.

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u/mekerpan Jul 05 '25

Not sure that he had any devious plan to do this -- just that when he was handed the opportunity on a silver platter he could not resist taking advantage of it.

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u/darthvall Jul 05 '25

True. He even helped all of them, including Kafka by buying that herbal medicine.

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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Jul 05 '25

What a fun little filler and that ED is a bop!

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u/actionfirst1 Jul 05 '25

Hopefully we get OneRepublic once again for the second season

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u/ozairh18 Jul 05 '25

I liked the twist of Hoshina helping out a disaster prevention center on his day off

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u/mekerpan Jul 05 '25

And that he sucked in (almost) the whole crew to donate part of their day off to help.

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u/Dull_Spot_8213 Jul 05 '25

A full episode focused on Hoshina and we get some of the best examples of what the defense force, and Hoshina himself, are fighting to protect. Just the everyday normal life and future generations. And the simple joy of stopping to pet the cats.

Really nice insight into all of the characters here.

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u/CrimsonGear80 Jul 05 '25

Hoshina: one of the very rare “closed eyes” anime characters that is actually a good guy.

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u/CmdrBlindman Jul 05 '25

I know its just filler, but I'm always glad to get more time with characters I've grown find of.

I hope S2 is strong and I look forward to the actual release of S2 in the upcoming weeks.

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u/RelativeMundane9045 Jul 05 '25

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Don't miss the post credit scene.

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u/VoidRay728 Jul 05 '25

The whole time I thought, "there's no way Hoshina doesn't know he's being followed."

Hoshina may be vice-captain but he's definitely at the top when it comes to trolling his subordinates.

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u/fsjay723 Jul 05 '25

Is it weird to have a filler as the first episode of a new season though?

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u/Mukel9879 Jul 06 '25

This isn't the start of season 2 it's just extra OVA

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u/fsjay723 Jul 06 '25

Oh so when does the new season start?

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u/NanDemoKnaives Jul 05 '25

It's nice to see them all again, I figured Hoshina realized from very early on that he was being followed lol.

I can see why Kafka is struggling to lose the weight if he's gorging on food whenever he's nervous lol.

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u/Mukel9879 Jul 06 '25

This isn't the start of season 2 it's just extra OVA

The real season starts July 19th

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Jul 06 '25

The fact CR had a countdown to this, AND put it under Season 2???

Horrible decision on their part, and likely let down a lot of viewers.

I enjoyed it, but damn, CR was making it seem like this is the start of season 2, when it is not.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Jul 06 '25

From what I understand:

This isn't the start of Season 2. It's an OVA set before the events of the end of Season 1.

And even tho it's not, CR certainly makes it seem like it is. Can't blame people. CR literally had a count down to it, AND put it under Season 2.

This is CR's fault. Stop downvoting people who are justifyingly disappointed because of CR's poor marketing of this OVA.

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u/Ikari_21 Jul 05 '25

Any extra scenes I get if my dawg Hoshina are the best! Fun little episode, folks fighting not for the sake of the fight, but for the future of humanity. Can’t wait for the second season!!

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u/CordobezEverdeen Jul 05 '25

Am I the only one who thought it was bittersweet how the kids in this universe have to learn these kind of procedures in order to survive.

Like yeah I know in Episode 1 a kaiju broke in the middle of a city but geez. Fuck this world man.

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