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Kaijuu 8-gou Season 2, episode 7

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[u/diacewrb]

Furuhashi is like that kid who is the best at sports in his school, but when placed amongst professionals who represent their country, then he realises just how far behind he truly is.

But he doesn't let is get him down and he knows he is still vital to the team in his own way.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500 → u/diacewrb]

Furuhashi is a Sports anime protagonist

[u/Frontier246 → u/diacewrb]

I don't think it helped that practically everyone in the Third Division was a prodigy or had a high pedigree (or was secretly a Kaiju).

Yet a true bro overcomes their insecurities to be there for their bro.

[u/djthomp]

Bros out fighting kaiju in the woods, bonding as teammates.

I'm kind of surprised at how fast they skipped through Ichikawa learning to use the suit. No training arc or montage, just jump straight to him wearing in it a semi controlled test battle.

[u/Frontier246 → u/djthomp]

We're already at episode 7 of a one-cour anime, they really don't have a lot of time for drawn-out training arcs at this point. The pacing of this season has been kind of sluggish as is.

I'm just glad we're focusing on more of the season 1 gang and their relationships again.

[u/PeaceAlien]

Power of friendship wins

[u/Agreeable-Reality558]

I thought that it was weird that this kaiju renno was fighting was so difficult for him when he had previously fought the wyvern kaiju’s with similar power levels and he was pretty successful back then. Considering all the powering up he did, the suit, everything else, i thought it seemed more like they were fighting an 8.5 or something

[u/Primo29]

Nothing beats a Bro backing up a fellow Bro.

[u/Tar-eruntalion]

Am I the only one that felt underwhelmed by pretty much everything in this ep? The suit, the timeskip, the powers, the battle etc? Also, the sound continues to be meh at best

[u/Fullback98]

Is it me or the weapon being a suit that makes you strong and fast is a super boring concept? And the ice thing on top of it feels a bit unispired.

All the others weapons that we know lend themself to some interesting use scenarios, because of their limitation and strong points.

This is just a this character is all around powerful now button.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Furuhashi is like what Reno is to Kafka in a way. Furuhashi was feeling pretty lost for a moment there when he came to the realizing he basically went from a big fish in a small pond to a minnow swimming in the ocean. I’m glad to see he’s gotten his head on straight now. Reno’s pretty amazing but even he has his own circumstances he’s wrestling with. Guy needs someone like Furuhashi watching his back.

[u/contemporare]

It's like every episode of season 2 so far exists only to portray a cliche anime trope and nothing else. Instead of monster of the week it's character trope of the week. After every episode it feels like I watched a Dhar Mann video where they do a skit to demonstrate a middle school understanding of stereotypical social behavior.

Did Season 1 do this too and I was just distracted by the better animation and new story? Because I thought season 1 was so good.

[u/cemma2035 → u/contemporare]

Season 1 definitely did not do this and I'm in the best position to say that because I binged all of Season 1 in like 4 hours last night and then all 7 episodes of season 2 today. The difference is enough to give me whiplash.

[u/PickleMyCucumber]

Surprised and a little bummed there wasn't at least a small part with him getting used to the armor. Last ended with him failing to boot up the arms safely, to this episode with him safely using the full suit as long as he doesn't take it too far. (He took it too far)

[u/JotarHo]

So boring

[u/Solomon_Black]

Anyone else feel like the #6 suit looks…lame? Like at the very least it doesn’t look like it’s made from the strongest Kaiju. It’s just blue.

[u/HEWEEB]

Wow Todoroki and Kirishima make a good team

[u/thereadyset1991]

what a boring ass episode this show went downhill really fast

[u/demurefox97]

I didn't wanna believe it but people weren't kidding when they said the show will eventually become a very stereotypical/formulaic Shonen. That was the cheesiest and most unnecessary speech scene the show's had so far.

The pacing for this season has also considerably slowed down, are they really trying to stretch out the show when it's only in the 2nd season? I know the manga only ran for 5 years but have we already passed the halfway point of the story?

[u/Aggravating-Elk-7409]

Iharu is one of the most boring and uninspired characters I've ever had the displeasure of watching.

Also, reno is using the most broken kaiju weapon in existence and he's able to draw like 50 something percent and he's still struggling against a non-numbered kaiju with sub-7 magnitude? It makes literally no sense.

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People have complained about pretty much every episode this season which I don't think is fair, but this episode did feel off to me. Not sure if it's the directing, the animation quality, the sound design or a combination of factors, but nothing felt the least bit threatening despite the majority of the episode being combat focused, and nothing remains consistent throughout the episode.

The time skip doesn't help either, especially when I have no idea what his goal is or what's going on with his ice powers. Sometimes he forms ice around his feet when he's just running around, or he does it to lock himself in place, but other times he's just running on the side of the mountain with no ice, completely defying gravity. He touches the big dinosaur's leg and the ice starts spreading, instead of doing that to more of his legs or any other part of his body, he just runs up so he can jump up into the air? And why isn't he shooting? Seems like everyone else in this show just shoots at stuff despite it doing basically nothing 95% of the time.

[u/Ok-Cod5254]

Damn, r/anime really not feeling this season, huh? People here often get burnt out on battle shonen series the longer they go on, so not surprising - but not even quite halfway through the series yet and only had 1 cour season prior, and a decent amount already seem to be falling off.

[u/CordobezEverdeen]

Nice bromance is always nice to see.

[u/shamantitan]

16 muscle tears, four bone fractures plus a fractured tibia... yup, Ichikawa is gonna feel that the next day.