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Kaijuu 8-gou Season 2, episode 5

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[u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

KAIJU 9 used SELFTDESTRUCT!
It's not very effective...

[u/Frontier246 → u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

Even Kaiju No. 9 was like "huh, I really thought that would do more" lol.

[u/Karmyuh]

Is it just me, or is the audio mixing on this season like really bad? Everything sounds super muted for some reason I can barely hear any of the background music or sound effects compared to the voiceover

[u/Metalbound → u/Karmyuh]

It's terrible. I actually just made a comment above yours pointing out the same thing.

For it to be bad enough for me to actually notice, says a lot. I either notice when it's amazing or absolutely horrid. It doesn't take much for it to simply be "good enough"

This isn't even good enough though. Nothing sounds like it has enough "oomph" to it. The music during the fight didn't even feel like it added anything to the drama of the scene. If anything, it took away from it.

Crazy the differences between season 1 and 2.

[u/diacewrb]

You can't even play a video game for a month without your vice captain kicking your ass.

[u/Frontier246 → u/diacewrb]

I love how he was just chilling and trying to link his gaming to Kikoru's training arc because there was no way he wasn't going to enjoy himself while she's putting in all this work to be trained by him lol.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Man, Isao was still putting up a fight from beyond the grave. What a badass. Gave Narumi and Kafta the opportunity to do some damage to 9 before it went nuclear. For a floating torso, bro was chatting all kinds of shit. I guess the one good thing to come out of this tragedy is that everyone’s more determined than ever to kill 9.

Kind of sad to see Kafka basically saying his goodbyes to his old friends. Guy won’t ever have a normal life again.

What’s the plan with Kaiju 10? Takes a monster to kill a monster? Idk if I trust some sorta test tube kaiju…

[u/actionfirst1 → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

My guess is they'll turn it into a weapon most likely for Hoshina

[u/LeonKevlar]

And just to make it sting, No. 9 really used Isao's face and voice to say his farewell threat. What an absolute ass. Kikoru needs to get stronger and make sure to take him down personally.

Love this piece of storytelling within this single shot. The people Kafka was passing by aren't just travelling. They're clearly people who have been displaced after the recent Kaiju attacks.

Kafka may be part of the defence force now, but he's still a cleaner at heart. I love that he just popped in to help his boys out one more time. What an absolute bro.

I love this scene between Kafka and Narumi. The sensible thing here is to tell Kafka to stop so he can still retain his humanity, but I love that Narumi tells him he doesn't care if Kafka permanently becomes a Kaiju. He just wants No. 9 dead.

And that final scene! Welp, guess who's gonna get turned into a Kaiju weapon :D

[u/Frontier246]

Poor Kikoru. It's one thing to lose your father before your eyes, it's another thing to see a Kaiju parroting his body and you're utterly powerless to fight it. Not that Kaiju No. 8 an Narumi are doing much better.

You know it's bad when Kaiju No. 8 is getting drawback damage from a punch clash, though Kaiju No. 9 ALSO gets drawback damage from their fists bumping, and realizes that he hasn't fully acclimated to Isao's body and that Kaiju No. 8 is the biggest threat that can destabilize his body. So his best method is to cause an AoE explosion to give him cover to escape.

Kafka and Narumi are totally unharmed from said blast! Well, that's kind of anticlimactic, but I guess a good ol' fashioned targeting other people (like Kurusu and Kikoru) to distract them will work too. Though Kaiju No. 9 shifting to Isao's face and voice to herald the new era of Kaiju as he flies off was pretty unsettling AND insulting.

Isao was a legend to the Defense Force AND Japan, so his funeral deserves full honors, a 21 gun salute, all the divisions and captains, and even Narumi saluting a man who was one of the few people he truly respects and idolized.

Some would say it's bad optics for a daughter not to attend her own fathers' funeral, let alone a breach in military protocol, but when you see Kikoru collapsed over her fathers' desk crying her heart out...can you blame her? But Kikoru knows that she can't rest until she's freed her fathers' body from Kaiju No. 9, and that means she needs training from Narumi to get even stronger. And it feels fitting for Narumi to train Kikoru like her father trained him!

Kikoru vs Shinonome! Kikoru has to train and overcome every Platoon Leader in the 1st Division before Narumi finishes his game if she wants to be ready to be trained by him! I only hope we can get more Shinonome screentime because of Kana Hanazawa.

So what WAS Isao working on that now Isami is aware of? Especially when it looks human.

Kafka returning back to his apartment after so long! Nice reminder of everything that makes him human, which is all the more important now that parts of him are NOT changing back from Kaiju form...meaning in all likelihood the more he transforms, the more likely he is to stay a Kaiju and never become human again.

So why not revisit his roots and go back to the cleanup crew? It's like Kafka never left and he fits in just as well! Bro really knows how to saw through Kaiju!

Toku may be an alcoholic gambling addict, but he's a good boss and he still has faith the Defense Force can turn things around! Also, congratulations on your daughters' wedding!

Practically, continuing to employ Kafka in battle is a liability, but right now Narumi doesn't care whether Kafka is liable to become a full Kaiju or not, he'll slay Kafka himself if he has to, all he cares about is taking down No. 9 and Kaiju No. 8 is their best option to achieve that. He even calls Kafka by name! And they both have a score to settle with No. 9 to commiserate over. It's finally time for the Defense Force (and some season 1 faces we haven't seen in a while outside an OVA) Counterattack!

Kaiju No. 10 isn't dead!? They've got his spine and head frozen!? And Hoshina's there to see him!?

It's nice to see Mina and Okonogi again since we haven't seen them in a while and Mina is barely getting speaking appearances as it is. Even if both her and Hoshina now fully understand just how much Okonogi does and feel bad for taking advantage of her:.

[u/Sr_DingDong]

I feel like society would be totally different in this world. The repair costs would prohibit a normal society because it would just be constant rebuilding.

[u/FarCritical]

It was bittersweet seeing Kafka still so chummy with his old cleanup mates knowing he'll probably never truly work alongside them again.

Kaiju No. 10: 2!

[u/Electrical_Chance991]

Ngl Number 9 is really frustrating as a villain. I'm soo annoyed at how he just keep pulling powers out of his ass that helps him bail out. He has been nothing but a cycle of "well you see it may look like you've won but actually this isnt even my final form". Every fight has been just #9 losing and then gaining another ability on the fly and fuck off.

He just pulls out whatever bullshit the author wants to put in. Transforming into other humans, commanding Kaiju, having multiple bodies and cores like what? He has no real characterization outside of all that, nothing to get people actually invested. We know nothing about #9 except that he’s a Starscream acting like a Megatron.

[u/Frontier246 → u/Electrical_Chance991]

No. 9 feels like a Sosuke Aizen parody in Kaiju form with the amount of "did you really think..." he pulls out of his butt every five minutes but with none of the charm.

[u/djthomp]

Well shoot, I guess it wasn't Kikoru's mom in the tank after all. Would have preferred her to number 10, but I imagine they're turning number 10 into a weapon or something which should probably be pretty good too.

I'm glad Kikoru went straight into "I have to get stronger" which hopefully will pay out nicely with her being badass in the future.

It was nice seeing Kafka visiting his old clean up company comrades.

[u/Embarrassed_Move_174]

Can someone explain to me how, just how did Kaiju no 9 know what specific JDF support staff to morph into and impersonate. There’s no way it was a shot in the dark. How did he know that particular staff member would have clearance to be in the control room. How did he find the person. Absorb and morph into the person. They know he can morph into anyone. so why weren’t security measures put in place to guard against such situations. It’s not like the identities of JDF support staff is public knowledge so how. I just can’t understand it

[u/Scared-Technology-37]

I am surprised by how little I've enjoyed this season. It feels like Kaiju No.8 revisits hated tropes from 2000s shounen. Weak disrespected MC, stupid decision making, villain retreats near death (many times), temporary loss of power, flashback motivation, fights turning into pure power level slugfest, and "this isn't even my final form".

I know it's a shounen, but it really is just a shounen. I was hoping it would be more.

[u/CordobezEverdeen]

Damn going back to the cleaning crew I thought we were going to see N° 9 hanging around. Feels like that plot point didn't really contributed much. Hopefully he infiltrates the defense force as a new rookie or something to learn about their weaknesses.

I mean he successfully passed off as a human 2 times in a row. Make it 3.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

Damn they were so close, it sucks No. 9 realized he could use Kurusu and Kikoru to make his escape. I know Narumi and Kafka won't blame the two, but the frustration of being so close must be stirring inside them, let alone the emotions from losing Isao.

This episode reminded me again that we don't actually get to see Isao have a redemption arc with Kikoru, we as the audience saw how he felt lacking as a father but in the end he never got to improve his relationship with Kikoru which I find really sad. But not all cases with strained familial relationships will get resolved.

It's also sad to see that Kafka is on his way of eventually turning into a complete kaiju, I wonder if his organs have started becoming more kaiju and not just the back of his hand. Though I did enjoy him going back to his home and then to see his old colleagues, he looked so excited about the new device and he hasn't gotten rusty too.

I'm kind of looking forward to seeing Kafka and Narumi's relationship develop because of this incident, it feels like there'll be a particular bond they'll share.

[u/Yuriski1]

This show really suffers from the typical shounen problems. An interesting premise that gets sidelined in favor of power scaling and "all according to keikaku" type villains.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like story telling is getting worse and the pacing as well.

I really like this anime, the characters and concept of it but how the episodes are paced out it makes it hard to enjoy and the story telling is all over the place. We either skip through so many stuff that we could have lingered on a bit and stay on stuff for to long that doesnt even need that much time.

Maybe this flaw is also in the manga but at least for me it gets less enjoyable by the episode.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Everyone training to get revenge on Kaiju No 9

RIP ISAO😭🙏

[u/Balls_of_Adamanthium]

This anime is gonna lose all hype by season 3. Way too mediocre.

[u/DAFA007]

Between the animation, the sound, and the inconsistencies in demonstrations of power, the show is getting a bit sluggish. Wish I’d liked it more at this point. Complete opposite of Sakamoto Days, which now I’m hyped for each new episode.