The manga ended. So it's time to have a final dump before season two drops.
Spoiler alert for the most important part, he didn't end up with Kikoru

Chapter 129: The Disheveled Hero Makes His Return...

>>280659158 (OP)
He didn't end up with anyone. Absolute KEK ending. 0 romantic progress with Mina and 0 romantic progress with best girl Kikoru who he actually deserved to be with.

Should've at least hinted they were dating, or him being 3rd in command or something.
So even if they're not there YET, they will get there.

>>280659296
Mina didn't even have a decent line, the only thing she said in the finale was "Get in the car Kafka"

>>280659296
>>280659364
But anons, the heroism! THE HEROISM!!!

>>280659411
What a fucking dissapointment. Literally nothing changes between them romantically since chapter 1. It's always "wait for me mina"

>>280659296
>most romantic moment in the finale was with his bro

>>280659455
You can in fact be the hero and still get the girl.

It's always really confused me why people like this series. It's very clearly an awesome oneshot, that the author had zero clue how to manage as a series. Not only that, but the art is fucking HORRIBLE for a non-weekly manga.

k8 is 5/10 slop at its finest. I cannot think of something more 5/10 than it.

The fact that they're not even slightly HINT that they are dating is the craziest part. Cuck ending

>"Previously-established consequences?"
>"What's that?"

>>280659158 (OP)
>That spoiler
Yep, I always knew the MC was gay. I'm proud he came out of the closet.

For fuck's sake girl, can't you be nice for once?

>thisshitissoass.jpg

>>280659158 (OP)
>he didn't end up with Kikoru
If he had, it would have singlehandedly made this manga slightly above average if only because my expectations would have been subverted in a good way. Expecting any kind romance out of this is foolish though.

>>280659158 (OP)
>spoiler
What an absolute shame

Genuinely nothing meaningful happened the entire series, past the first handful of chapters.

>>280659158 (OP)
>Kaiju No 8
>Hero doesn't even go giant for the final battle.

so they defeat the big monster then back to the status quo? i left when 9 took over kikoru's dad.
did they reveal why kafka became kaiju no8? because reading the last two chapters feels like nothing happened

>>280659158 (OP)
Literally nothing changed, what a fucking hack

>>280659825
Honestly, that about sums it up. It feels like nothing was gained from reading it. The most non-offensive SoL feels more fulfulling to read.

>>280659158 (OP)
>spoiler
oof

>>280659896
Plot barely moved forward. Kaiju's still exist, Kafka still has to hide the fact he's a Kaiju, the side cast just got promotions, Kafka and Mina have 0 romantic progression and nothing changed between them, etc.

I dare you to name them all without looking it up
>>280659896
They did

>>280659702
>>280659746
>>280659802
>>280659854
>hey remember all these unimportant places? Good times, right?

>>280660037
and why is that? it's the only thing i am curious about

>>280660023
I assume we still got no fucking clue what kaiju even are or how they appeared in the first place.

If we got just one panel of Kafka banging Kikoru this could have been saved

>Mina and kafka have an entire boss battle trust each other both of them having flashbacks to their childhood promise
>Hitting the line of 'protect me while I charge my laser'
>Anon's bad they didn't explicitly bone in the wrap up.

Dropped the series a long while ago, was recently reminded that it was a thing and was thus mildly curious what'd happened since I left. Glad to hear that it's ended and that I missed absolutely nothing.

>>280660147
>>280660111
This is the most romantic part of this ending and it's with his fucking lil bro

>>280660180
get in the car

>>280659872
To scam Anno and Toho into funding this shit that's why.

This will look horrible in physical.
>>280660063
The small bug that went into him was the amalgamation of regret and anger from the spirits of former samurais who died after failing to protect their people from a kaiju's attack. That kaiju was inside of number 9 and was the final boss.

How did this get as much support as it did? It even had a Uniqlo collab. Other uniqlo collabs are: eva, gundam, pokemon, ghibli, etc.

>>280659635
>>280659667
whats the point of this character?

>>280660063
>Massive battlefield in ancient nip-land
>So many kaiju and humans die they start to mix
>Kaiju with the emotions of human become the HiveMind that later create, then become 9.
>Humans with the body of kaiju become the Grudge, seeking someone with big enough hatred of kaiju to bear their power.

This is definitely the most inoffensive unmemorable nothing manga I've ever read. I can't believe that I followed it from beginning to end.

Like seriously, who the fuck are Gukki and Tsukinoren?

>>280659158 (OP)
Why won't modern manga writers let their manga characters have relationships? Its baffling. Two 30 year old childhood friends, the entire motivation for both characters is to stand at each other's side. Abe's influence is waning.

>>280660325
To bait romancefags and waifufags

>>280660299
omg like kikoru, they are meant for eachother aftet all

>>280660357
kinda lame but ok

>>280660357
did they explain what kaijus are and where are they from?

>>280659158 (OP)
One of the manga of all time

>>280660203
Fujobucks 2 strong.

>>280660439
They're just a naturally accuring creature in theyre version of earth, they spawn at tectonic plates and underground volcanos eating geothermal energy and mutating till they are big enough to attack people.
They're like fucked up plankton.

this manga feels like a u19 plot wise.
>gets revealed as the kaiju in the first 10 chapters
>dad gets eaten in chapter 10 or so
>8 chapter fight vs the final boss

>>280660422
>3rd division chief actually got her harem of young men with interesting backgrounds.
This is the real love story.

>>280660511
well if they can walk out of the water they aren't plankton anymore

Kaiju 8 feels like a manga made by an editor. There's none of the creativity, vision, or idiosyncrasy that comes from an author with a vision. It was made by someone whose only concern was getting from point A to point B with as few complications as possible.

>>280659557
You don't undestand anon sex is bad

>>280660375
LMAO I thought the same
>"literally and who got married"

>>280660585
Fist of the North Star was made by an editor

Gotta make sure to setup for a potential sequel.

>>280660585
Yeah maybe a dogshit editor. The amount of times an editor has saved a series is pretty high, and that's even from our tertiary point of view. Naruto is a great example, kishimoto is a retard.

>>280660180
Anon at least they could have a better conversation than "get in the car"

>>280660625
Bro i tried to Google them and i still couldn't find anything

>>280660499
Unexpected promotion my ass. Kikoru is strong as fuck. Didn't they say she was compatible with like four of their superweapons? And she was even using two of them simultaneously.

>>280659296
>>280659646
>>280659809
>>280659755
>>280659991
Why would you think he will end up with girl half of his age?

>>280659544
As a 30 something, I liked the fact that the main character and his childhood friend were both in their 30s. But I ended up dropping it after about 50 chapters or so because it just became so fucking formulatic. Why make a manga with 30 year olds as the main characters while also trying to appeal to kids?

>>280659158 (OP)
>Moral of the story is:
If you're 30+ and still single, you're gonna be alone for the rest of your life

>>280660778
I mean it's true, if you're so inept you've never found anyone by that point you probably never will

>>280660383
Magazine is afraid that if the protagonist have a gf a lot of the readers would stop buying volumes

>>280660828
It's SJ+ manga not printed magazine.

>>280659544
Too generous. Ever since it went full battle shonen for me it dropped to 3/10 and I prayed the next chapter will be the last one. I happen to continue titles after they fall off but this one takes the crown - wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

>>280660828
All japanese zoomers/Gen A need to be put into re-education camps then. Its the last fucking issues. Your telling me they can't even hint at them finally being in a relationship?

>>280660658
A good editor uses their outside perspective to help an author focus on what's important and give needed feedback, bridging the gap between the authors intent and the end product. A bad editor just looks at what's popular and tells the author to make that.
A manga that starts with the premise of a middle aged garbage man using his experience to get by turning into generic shounen battle slop points to the latter.

>>280660929
this is such a disingenuous and forced "callback"

>>280660920
>zoomers/Gen A
A lot of them don't want to see romance or sex in media

>>280660969
Hence the need for re-education camps

>>280660969
Source?

>>280660943
What point are you making here? My point was k8 had a bad author and bad editor, and made the example of kishimoto's author bailing him out of his dumbfuck choices that would have tanked naruto.

I remember thinking this would be something like World Trigger, i honestly can't remember when i dropped it but it seems like i didn't missed much

>>280660499
Best girl, they should have ended up together.

>>280660637
You're proving him right with your statement...

>>280659746
>>280659802
>>280659854
>Oh, all these fond memories of the past......
Other than the four-month coma at the end, how much in-universe time actually passed from first chapter until now?

>>280660983
I'll make the logo

>>280660920
You think this only happens in japan? Zoomers hate heterosexuality now

>>280660989
That the way the manga played out reeks particularly of a bad editor with too much control, and a spineless author. When it's the other way around, the result is usually a manga that devolves into unintelligibility. I don't see how the existence of a good editor on a different manga has any relevance.

>>280660943
Well, it still made money. So the editor did his job.

And done!
That concludes Kaiju No.8. The most whatever of whatever shounens. At least before season 2 starts airing and see what will change.
So my fellow anons, what did you learn from these 5 years of serialization?

>>280661237
>So my fellow anons, what did you learn from these 5 years of serialization?
That Jagaaaaaaaan is way better.

>>280661237
that doing the bare minimum can net you millions if you're lucky

Holy mother of Naruto aborted clone cringe

>>280661237
>final drawing has botched anatomy and the k8 classic - almost no texture/value

he should be ashamed

Aparently the author of the spinoff tweet something about a part 2

my theory is that the guy cooked up the first volume or so with a lot of smart advice and help with his storyboards, maybe he was an assistant on something that got help from real pros for that part. Then he was on his own and it was a shitshow

i shall now delete those kaiju vols i bught and delete this run from my memory.

>>280661237
Sometimes being a monster just means you'll end up working for a black company and it can't be helped.

>>280661304
Post it.

It is very rare to see a manga fall from grace at such breakneck speed. Goodby Kaiju #8, I won't remember you very often or fondly.

>Eeh? So you're a wizard, anon?

>>280661363
>"God, I wish he use my twintails as love handles!"

>>280661363
Built for hundred of oji-sans as she desperately tries to project her daddy issues onto them.

What's the japanese audience saying about this? Is this another one of those "Japan loved it while the west hated it" type of endings? Or were the elevens also disappointed?

>>280661375
Anon, that happened after few chapters, not even half way of this 129 chapter long manga. No one even bothered to dump chapters even after anime started

>>280661237
>Kaijuus are still around
>Kafka isn't banging Kikoru
>The status quo in general didn't change at all

>>280661505
They probably also stopped caring since manga sales declined fast. Does anyone have updated manga sales chart?

>>280661570
It sold 18 mil copies which is fucking insane considering how mediocre it is

>>280661357
https://x.com/kizuku187/status/1945869149315661993

>>280661237
When I first picked up this series I thought it was going to be something far different than what it turned out to be - actually focusing on monster cleaning so the transition to generic battle shonen was disappointing. Near the end there when they were saying
>oh x and y got married
I kept thinking who the fuck are these characters being mentioned? The ending is okay, could have been better. Forgot to wrap up regarding some characters, the childhood friend is just there barely interacting with him beyond taking him to the base and there was a heavily implied love interest there. Series overall was definitely meh.

>>280660732
>Why would you think he will end up with girl half of his age?
Shoujo/josei can do it

>>280660732
She clearly likes her daddy-types

>>280661570
>>280661601
Sometimes a masterpiece is mediocrity, humans are amazing creatures

>>280661237
What was the ultimate lesson of Kaiju 8?

Genuinely one of the most boring and by-the-numbers series I've ever had the complete indifference to waste time on. Literally nothing about this series is memorable other than how aggressively mediocre and bland it is.

>>280659872
It's Kaiju No 8, not Daikauju No 8.

>>280661616
Yes but they aim for woman who like romance while this manga aimed for boys, manchildren and fujos.
>>280661641
Doesn't matter, Jump+ editor wouldn't allow it.

>>280660929
>The curse is spreading

>>280661688
Don't have sex with your childhood friend, even when is evident that she wants to fuck with you

>>280661688
You know, the usual - be the chosen one to win the day.

>>280661688
Here >>280660778

>>280661688
"shonenshit is harder than it looks"

>>280661688
Not manhandling the blond twintails girl makes you uber gay.

>>280661688
Having adult MC in battle manga doesn't make the manga good.

>>280661688
Hate monsters.
Love your CF (platonically)

>>280661237
So nothing happened?
Hate endings like this. It didn't even end, just stopped

>>280661761
Maybe I can be

This is so fucking lame holy shit. I have no idea how this pile of trash sold gangbusters.

>>280661860
That is an important lesson

the ending feels like it got axed for some reason

>>280661698
>have the final boss be giant
>don't have the hero go big too
This is cope

>>280661954
It rode off the coattails of revived intrest in giant monsters in recent years.

>>280659296
It's because the author is catering to fujos, they ruin every fucking fandom they're in

>>280660111
This is why you need to gatekeep fujos from your series

>>280662114
>>280662196
Fucked with Mecha-ude too

>>280661954
It didn't after the first couple volumes. It dropped off so hard that when the anime came out almost no one cared.

What a fucking garbage series.
How did this superficial cookie cutter trash even become popular enough to get an anime?

>>280662406
It had a good sales pitch and first volume before immediately reverting to shonen slop. There aren't many modern shonen where the main character is a 32 year old fuck up.

>>280661363
You can tell she's just begging to get railed

>>280662114
They bring a lot of money though

>>280662114
fujos dont care the slightest about it, i ve never seen any decent fujo artist talk about this ever, let alone make good fanart of it

Did Kafka end up with Mina? Depending on the answer, I might read the chapter

>>280663415
No.
She has no good interactions. She's just there.

>Kaiju 8 went out with a wet fart
>Galaxias author has the nervous system of a wet tissue so the manga is on break more often than not
It's over for Kaiju manga

What an absolute letdown of a final arc. The only thing i liked was monster 8's backstory, and kafka sacrificing his own humanity for the sake of the rest of humanity, but even that was undone in the lamest way. The author clearly burned out halfway through the series and ended it just to nit have to deal with it anymore, unless he figures out a plot for a sequel.

>>280661698
Go suck my daichinchin 8 incher you disingenuous cunt.

>>280662114
this is just modern japanese writter not having contact with women or social skills in generals. in the pat people were forced to get out and have social interactions with other people, even the biggest of the nerds.
now the entire country is raised by the internet with barely any contact outside school or work

Kaiju N8?
More like...

CRINGE N°8 HAHAHAHAHAH

>>280659158 (OP)
a nice manga but glad it's over because it became a nothing burger the last 50 chapters.

>>280659544
A lot of shonens have a great hook only to fall off

>>280661363
This is the face of someone pent up

>>280661860
that's because kafka was written as a teenager after the introduction chapters

>>280661688
You can still achieve your dreams even if you're a 30+ year old bum

>>280659158 (OP)
You get cursed with writing the sequel, how do you save the trainwreck?
>With main conflict over plot goes back to kaiju corpse cleaning/rebuilding collateral damage.
>SOL where Kafka uses his kaiju form combined with his cleaning expertise to clean up kaiju bodies.
>More down to earth setting that focuses on the street level scale of the world, and how common folk have been affected by giant monsters wrecking their homes.
>Fodder kaiju still show up occasionally, but become so rare even the Defense Force ends up joining cleaning efforts to do something with their time.
>Mina's expiring eggs compel her to eventually jump on Kafka's monster cock.

>>280659158 (OP)
>Decuck didn't end up with ochuncko
>Better deku didn't end up with pop step
>Jjk mc didn't end up with nobara or the delicious tall flat that liked him
Why so many mangas recently refuse to give the mc a happy ending.

>>280664484
>how do you save the trainwreck?
Make it a survival series, possibly about a monster janitor and his childhood friend who are just trying to live after enduring monster attack after attack. That's what I thought this manga was gonna be about after all

>>280660741
As a 30 something, I liked the idea of the MC being 30 something, but in the manga itself he acted like a teenager 90% of the time.

>>280663608
On one hand I agree with you, on the other I think it’s funny that it was undone by a ghost simply telling the MC “no” after he makes a melodramatic internal speech about this being the end. It came off as self-aware, at least.

>>280660638
>When they need to go ask #9 for help in the sequel to deal with the GOD KAIJUU

>#9 ported in to finally fight in chapter 96
>Finally killed in 128
Is there a term for a final big bad fight that just takes way too fucking long?
Seems more and more common nowadays honestly.
>#9
>Sukuna
>Muzan
>AFO
Why do these authors feel like they need to have the final fight go on for like a year or more of the manga?

>30 year old Deku ends up looking like Deku
>Didn't even confess to the girl
I'm gonna keep making fun of that one faggot that tried to recommend this

>>280661237
>And the crowd goes mid.
Kaiju number mid was mid from the start to the middle and the finish.

>>280659158 (OP)
>he didn't end up with Kikoru
lol
>>280659296
>He didn't end up with anyone.
>0 romantic progress with Mina
lmao
I'm so glad I dropped this.

>>280664909
I blame Kishimoto. Naruto's final battle was like 200 fucking chapters and it took place over like 3 days.

>>280664909
>Is there a term for a final big bad fight that just takes way too fucking long?
Symptom of character bloat, especially when you don't make enough villains to match the number of heroes. When you don't have enough side villains, or memorable side villains (Kaiju no 8 had all the numbered kaiju #9 made for the final battle, but literally none of them mattered) your good guys end up having to share the final villain. Which means a hilariously drawn out fight where the villain endlessly tanks every side characters attacks as they each need to get their own "Moment", until eventually only the MC is left who proceeds to finish them off.

MHA is the best example of this, where the final arc is just side characters throwing their shit at Shiggy and him shrugging it off with regeneration until Deku punches him to dust. Still bad but slightly less than that is JJK, where Sukuna becomes a nonthreatening joke who can barely kill anybody as every side character gets away with taking potshots on him. Muzan is probably the least egregious case, since the upper moons manage to do some work and take out some Hashira's themselves, so the final fight isn't the entire demon corps taking turns fucking him up the ass. Still a major case of regeneration spam being used way too much though.

>>280661276
>Jagan
It became too dumb halfway through, and I'm not talking about the expressions or the quirks of the characters.
Parasyte is still the best alien invading human body story.

>>280659471
Bro will never betray you unlike a woman.

>>280661688
The path to success starts with getting mouthraped by a giant mosquito, except it does not.

what was the nip reception to the ending?

So considering this is a cash cow whats the chances they end up forcing a sequel of sorts?
What could they do with it?

>>280665314
That shit show all things considered spent years in introducing people to you and developing them. So they weren't strangers. t. I finished it reluctantly.

>>280661237
I swear the Pacific Rim sequel no one watched had better writing and ending than this

>>280660826
It has nothing to do with being inept or not, plenty of perfectly normal people end up single

What was the point of Kafka being in his 30s when he doesn't behave any differently from the average teenage shonen protagonist?

>>280666339
It ended on a cliffhanger anon

>>280666967
To make ramming Kikoru hotter haha

>>280666967
Ultimately nothing. If you recall him being in his 30s showed how he was left behind by Mina(?) and he was struggling to keep up, just trying to get by. He lamented that she became so powerful while he was a janitor. Then he became the chosen one and became super powerful yadayada.

The most nothing burger shonen, how the fuck they expected to go viral with this IP and the collab with Khara

>livestream on twitter
Christ, money laundry

>>280665336
Yeah, that makes sense.

I feel like the only time I can think of where it felt okay was Clear from Zatch Bell.
He was another case of "one villain vs the whole hero team" but at least in his case he literally branched off parts of his power into living super spells that acted as final fights for the supporting cast on the way to the fight, with only Zatch and Brago remaining when they got to the real fight.

>>280660037
I only know Kafka and Kikoru

>>280661688
Go for your bro who helped you reach your goal instead of your ice cold childhood friend.

>>280667310
In both Gash and Demon Slayer the tension upped as the allies could and were killed( yeah Gash is cheating but emotional impact was there at least), Kaiju just didnt have stakes and I felt it tried to pull what Demon Slayer did(kind of early boss rush to the end) without success maybe it needed an extra arc to hype up the sub-bosses, but who knows.

>>280660037
I can't get over how they made such a cute nerd support waifu and then did NOTHING with her at all besides just saying what's on the computer.
Look at her standing in the back there like she matters. She even got the focus of the first season ED. And I have no idea what her name even is.

>>280667310
It wasn't that long either. Like what, 20 chapters in all, for what functionally amounted to several different fights?

>>280661688
I should start dating now so I won't be alone at 30

>>280667244
you forgot this

>>280667543
Yeah, the lacking buildup is a good point.
I think another big thing is that we know basically nothing about #9 on a personal level. He's been in the series basically from the start, but we never really get to know anything about how he came to be. We don't know anything about the kaijuu in general honestly. And then #9 himself is basically dead halfway through the final fight and replaced with the mega kaijuu thing that is shooting magic symbol slices and shit without any real explanation as to what the fuck it is or how it's doing all this.

That's kinda what makes the status quo ending feel so shallow here. It all just amounted to another big ass kaijuu without explaining anything about why it's so special.

>>280661688
Your childhood friends will ultimately abandon you and achieve greater things without you and won't bother to reconnect. Unless you are willing to become a mutant and sacrifice your life for them, you are better off using tinder or going to bars to find new friends/lovers

Is it just because the MC lost weight from being in a coma for 4 months or is he a different character from chapter 1?

>>280667748
Tinder and bars don't work anymore

So did he get to fuck that one bitch or what?

>>280667767
Comparison from this final chapter. He looks like Deku now?

>>280667767
He didn't progress with anything

>>280661860
especially when he acts like a fucking child anyway.

>>280659158 (OP)
Did Mina at least do anything cool?

>>280664484
>Mina's expiring eggs compel her to eventually jump on Kafka's monster cock.
She is only 27 there is still room for Kafka to stop being a dense retard

>>280667664
Also a fucking pso2 collab
I swear only faggots like this

>>280667826
I think the author has had him in his monster form for so long he forgot what the MC is supposed to actually look like.

>>280664521
Because having sex is bad, You could use that time working instead

>>280663198
Lol bullshit, fujos are the only ones who care about this garbage

>>280664521
Why are expecting romance from battle manga with zero romance? Why did you expect UG to end up with girl that didn't appear for like half of the manga?

>>280668033
If FMA can end with the main character marrying his childhood friend 20 years ago and having a happy family then why can't modern manga do the same?

>>280660383
They either don't know how to or aren't interested in writing it.

See: Toriyama. He was absolutely terrible at writing romance by his own admission, so he didn't.

>>280668075
1. Written by a woman. 2. They actually interacted.

>>280667748
The childhood friend was waiting for Kafka to man up

>>280668116
Fair enough especially on that second point. Whereas Winry was integrally woven into the story Mina was a weak plot device for Kafka to overcome and then when he overcame her she was irrelevant for 60 chapters until she was remembered to be some crazy strong fighter and had to be shoehorned into having to be rescued and also barely providing support in the final naruto style battle at the end.

>>280668104
Based Editor wanted Bulma and Goku to be a couple

>>280667816
He lost muscle mass and weight and didn't get a hair cut due to his coma.

>>280659158 (OP)
It ended? Dang, I've not been around for a while. I stopped reading around the time Kikoru defeated that kaiju that looked like her.
Is it worth picking up? Did they put Kafka back into the protagonist seat or did they keep neglecting him to wank the fujobaits?
Also, most importantly, did they have the balls to make Kafka end up with Kikoru or did they chicken out like I expect them to have done?

>>280668777
Just go ahead and read the chapter dump in this thread. No, he didn't end up with anyone.
Some literally whos got married, though.

>>280668777
>did they have the balls to make Kafka end up with Kikoru or did they chicken out like I expect them to have done?
J-Just wait for the extra epilogue chapter in the f-final volume release.

>>280668846
I don't want to read the last chapter if the rest is worth reading but I pretty much hated everything about the manga after he revealed himself to everyone.
That said, if he doesn't end up with Kikoru I don't really care that much lol. Did they at least leave the possibility open or did they completely shut it down?

>>280669013
>Did they at least leave the possibility open or did they completely shut it down?
It's over, bud.

>>280669009
Anon epilogues in the final volume release are the norm now

>>280667019
Unironically this. I want to see Kikoru get manhandled by a bull in his 30's

>>280669013
>Did they at least leave the possibility open
Barely anything changed, it's open as fuck

Okay, if kaijuu are still coming, then what the fuck even was this thing in the end?
It literally had magic billshit and held it's hands in some kind of prayer formation. And it got no explanation at all except for this shit Kafka said here.

>>280669013
>Did they at least leave the possibility open or did they completely shut it down?
Nothing has changed. In my headcanon Kafka is railing Kikoru behind the scenes tho

>>280669260
In this world, kaiju have just always been a thing
9s whole thing was that he was the intellect guiding them
They're back to being regular monsters now

>>280659158 (OP)
>>280661237
I honestly felt nothing about this series, if you told this get axe in 18 chapter, I wouldn't care.

Plus, I can't stand MC act like a teenager when he is 30 years old! Why not make him 18 years old at this point?

>>280659158 (OP)
>he didn't end up with Kikoru

We cant have shit

https://may.2chan.net/b/res/1336298329.htm
https://may.2chan.net/b/res/1336258054.htm

2ch thread

>>280667244
It had the makings of something great but after Kafka revealed himself to the military, he completely lost his autonomy as the MC becoming a side character in his own story while the author was busy pandering to an irrelevant popularity poll that ended up killing the momentum of the series.

So, how's rairairai doing

>>280664909
Muzan was less two volumes long, and it was s fucking all out brawl against an immortal cunt.

>Action series ends
>Cry about romance
The tranny fujos were here all along

>>280659667
Her role is done just like that.
Really?

>>280668033
All shonen mangas have romantic subplots retard.

>>280669689
>Cool and interesting setting and premise.
>"Here's your generic good guy organization with rankings that the MC will now be obligated to work for and be loyal to."
I get that nips can't help but write after their own soulless workplaces but it really gets annoying after a while.

>>280660358
Yeah, it's honestly amazing in a way.

>>280669829
This. Ultimately the series was about a guy trying to catch up to his childhood friend and fight alongside her, and that's what he did. There was never any romantic buildup so this ending doesn't surprise me too much

>>280661237
Meh, but worse because he didn't even have a proper conversation with Mina.

How generic is this shounen?

>tranny fujos
Are we just stringing together nonsense now?

>>280665314
>>280665875
Naruto's final battle was Sasuke and only took 10 chapters. even if you consider Kaguya the final battle that was only like 15 to 20.
Madara battle was fucking long though.

>>280663592
Hasn't the mangaka for Btooom! been writing a Kaiju manga for a few years now?

>>280665314
The war arc was a series of battles, the final battle (Naruto VS Sasuke) was pretty short

>>280670731
Only thing that stands out is the protagonist being in his 30s, but that gets dropped pretty early in and he acts just as if not more immature as most teenage shonen protagonists

>>280659544
I liked the initial undercover vigalantism. Even if it went dark shonen later, not having to go through the absolutely awkward entanglement with the government would make it so much better.

>>280669751
fighting some muscle hag in dbz battle.

>>280659635
>>280660375
The fucking glasses girl was more emotive and I have no idea who she even is.

>>280661237
A better ending compared to snk

>>280659544
It was 10/10 until he revealed himself to everyone.

>>280669663
Wow, Japanese fans are very vocal and they are NOT happy

>>280671861
I hope they throw a massive shitfit over Kafka and Kikoru not ending up together.

>>280671835
So like 30 chapters in.

>>280672118
Yeah, but those 30 chapters were fucking great.

>>280671950
They don't seem to care that much. Only seeing comments about how slant eyes is the true best friend compared to his own CF. Not because they don't like it but because they already expected it.

>>280659158 (OP)
Lol people actually read those psyop?

>>280671950
I find it weird that people have shipper opinions about manga they actively hate anyway
just stop reading it bro

>>280660943
>>280660989
>>280661171
That is not actually how a editor works. The author usually use the editor as a wall to bounce ideas and receive feedback. It's not a rigid system, that is a reason why mangaka change often of editors because at some point the editora became more permissive or afraid of the status of the mangaka.
Editors are part of the collective process to create a manga, a process that also includes the assistants, but the final decision always fall on the author.

>>280672421
Where's the psyop

>>280668319
>doesn't get a haircut for 4 months
>Hair style in middle of forehead changes
And then he returns seemingly to normal in the last few pages. I think this final chapter was rushed.

>>280659158 (OP)
Well that was fucking anticlimactic.

I can't say it's shitty because I've been burned by too many axe endings and "Subversion" endings, I know how bad it gets, but it feels like we just met everyone and then the story ended after dragging out one hit for 3 chapters and it's just another "Whelp, back to the status quo" deal. It's not a bad-end, but it's not an end that makes you feel happy for having gotten here. This is like 1 early arc of a better manga. Its not shit it's just a disappointment.

>>280659158 (OP)
Oh it ended already? I remember when this series came out and didn’t even try with it since it looked like a shitty AoT rip off, but I guess Shonen in general is pretty derivative nowadays, people will read anything.

>>280672849
It has more in common with early Bleach than AoT

>>280663592
Didn't Snowball Earth is also a Kaiju manga? Maybe with the anime announcement the scanlators would catch up

>>280672907
Still derivative then

>>280672849
The good news is that it's nothing at all like AoT.

>>280672987
Everything has always been derivative, that's how media evolves

>>280672464
Most retarded thing I've read in a while. Congrats.

>>280672364
> Only seeing comments about how slant eyes is the true best friend compared to his own CF
I don't know how any of you guys remember the characters in this. There were new ones being introduced left and right with nothing memorable about them.

>>280673006
Then why read it if you’ve seen it before?

>>280673006
>Implying that Kaiju no8 is evolved media
I hate /a/, Its my favorite board.

>>280673113
Slant eyes is the twin sword guy who is CF's number 2. I remember him by virtue of the fact that he actually does things and keeps showing up periodically.

>>280659422
>The fucking Phantom Pain meme
God damn it, this series basically coasted on its own popularity but the charm is there

>>280673194
Oh yeah now I remember. The series was a little more interesting when this guy was more prominent.

>>280659158 (OP)
I still feel disappointed it just turned into a "punch harder" type manga, instead of having the MC take advantage of his knowledge on monster biology from all the cleanup he did to try and circumvent situations where simple infantry knowledge doesn't hold.
That and I still don't get why this seemingly got decently popular early on, it wasn't anything particularly interesting or even unique.

>all those shitposts of Deku being a cuck at the end of Hero Academia
>we get this shit
Turns out Kafka was the true cuck in the end.

Hasn't been "good" since the grandpa guy died, but even then, I think calling the stuff before that "good" is being generous. Its major problem is that Kaiju 9 feels like an arc villain (who serves to introduce the concept of intelligent kaijus into the story), and yet he somehow lived past that and became the main villain. All without changing and just staying as bland and personality-less as ever. Add in an extremely undeveloped side cast, and absolute glacial pacing, and it's no wonder that the love for it kind of went away.

>>280674621
Feels like the guy behind it had more in mind but got cut short for some reason.

>>280674519
I don't give a shit about any of that, but nice ass.

My Attack on Titan Academia

>>280660732
Have you ever met a rich person before?

>>280674970
Or any straight guy who isn't in denial

>Director Shinomiya's losing his shit in the afterlife because Kafka still isn't fucking his daughter and continuing the bloodline.
When will Kikoru start adopting cats?

>>280664521
Cuckoichi is only better at sucking dick

>>280660943
>>280660989
>>280661171
>>280672595

So...in the end he didn't even made any progress with the CF who was his whole motivation?
I'm not even talking romantic, but like just as a personal connection or friendship.
Like why does she still pretty much treats him like a total stranger like at the beginning and is still a total bitch to him after everything that happened?
This has to be the worst shonen female lead, right?

>>280675403
Didn't Chadichi end up with Makoto?

>>280675545
Nope, just sort of implied she followed him to America

>>280675499
B-b-but not everything is about romance. T-t-they can be platonic

>>280659158 (OP)
The entire build up with their backstory and they have no real moment together even at the end, utter shit writing.

>>280672987
Well since early bleach shares a LOT with early Yu-Yu Hakusho, it makes sense someone would curb notes from it too.

>>280675499
I guess she just must be autistic.

>>280675157
I wouldn’t expect him to hear about average middle-aged men fucking young girls but rich people are always married to a girl a 1/4 of their age

>>280675764
After a certain point why even bother if everythings gonna bleed into each other?

>>280675499
She got demoted to mob status. The moment you see the glasses girl in the background you can pretty much bet nothing is going to happen. Even the most important heroine ending moment is by his bro instead of her.

>>280675499
>>280675774
I thought she was a bitch to him and acted like she didn't recognized him because she was mad at him for not being to get in the same organization as her, but it turns out she was just retarded?

>>280675499
>female lead
She's definitely not the female lead, the blonde was/is sort of.

>>280675897
Mina doesn't pay the bills anon, only the underage blondie can have the spotlight

>>280676174
It can't be helped. Kikoru is simply superior.

>>280675847
>Even the most important heroine ending moment is by his bro instead of her.
It's very clear which pairings he prefers.

>>280675499
>but like just as a personal connection or friendship
Did you miss the entire "i can finally stand at your side" schtick???

Looks like you skipped the last arc and just read the epilogue chapter

>>280659158 (OP)
I dropped this relatively at the begining when it was clear that they were putting the gimmick of the MC being a monster janitor aside to focus on being more generic. Did he at least tried to stay with the childhood friend? That was most of his motivation at the start.

How do you only have 129 chapters and still feel like a drag?

Illustration by the author to mark the ending

>>280660499
>>280661154
>Promotion
We all know what happens next

>>280676903
That was the entire theme of the last fight

>>280661237
>So my fellow anons, what did you learn from these 5 years of serialization?
That J.J. was right and any retard can mystery box their way to success with a single cool concept.

>>280671950
He's literally a supplemental father figure for her now, and has been for awhile, but he LITERALLY has her dad's heart and soul inside him

>>280659158 (OP)
the series was the golden standard of mid

>>280677122
"Mystery box" just means "make it up as you go along", which is what battle shonen authors have been doing since Dragon Ball

>>280677164
It's more than just making things up. The key of the mystery box is to present a important, tension driving mystery in order to trick the audience into getting invested under the illusion that there is an answer already in the box that will be revealed.

It's the appearance that there's been some thought put into the story, where as in truth it's only the appearance with no substance behind it. But by doing this and playing on the audience's gullibility, it provides justification for them to read into every little thing under the belief that it must all fit together. Obvious this then feeds into making it up as you go along, but by pretending there's some secret behind everything, you trick people into taking it as if it's not.

Dragonball made shit up as it went along, but it was never a mystery box because it was never hyping up some mystery or secret and promising that there was a proper answer already developed for it.

>>280665336
Eh, I think in Muzan's case it makes sense, since it was made clear that it was a battle of attrition until the sun comes up.

>>280659158 (OP)
>Cuck No. 8

>>280659158 (OP)
yeah, i'm thinking 6/10

>>280674519
What are you talking? Kafka and Ichikawa are still together at the end. The true love between bros won.

>>280677398
>Eh, I think in Muzan's case it makes sense, since it was made clear that it was a battle of attrition until the sun comes up.
True and that's why I think it's an example of this type of final battle being done well. There's a clear win condition and end goal in mind, compared to JJK/MHA where the final villain constantly regenerates until the mangaka feels like ending the manga. Plus there's also the fact that Muzan actually kills and maims most of the people who go up against him instead of acting like a punching bag.

I thought the author was a newbie, but no, he's been making manga for 20 years

>>280661604
>https://x.com/kizuku187/status/1945869149315661993
he's referring to the 2nd season, which starts this saturday

>>280660383
meanwhile in TES tokiyuki fuck his 3 (three) wives as his training arc

>>280676987
GAME FOR READERS. DO YOU REMEMBER NAMES OF 3 CHARACTERS THAT ARE BEHIND NISHINA/KIKORU/RENO ROW?

Wow, Kikoru's father was only major character that died
https://kaiju-no-8.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Deceased

>>280678447
Wasn't Pochi Kuro popular on /a/ back then?

>>280676764
but kafka's in all three of those pics

>>280678447
>>280678861
I remember people thought he was a woman because Pochi Kuro feels like it's written by one (though "normal girl meets abnormal guy" is a common shounen set up)

>>280661237
I dont feel a thing.

>>280661237

>>280659544
The series should have stayed being about kaiju jannies and the MC should have stayed a normal human. Reno should have been the kaijuman instead if the manga really has to have le ebin shonen battles, but the main plot focus should have stayed around how a loser like Kafka and the rest of society realistically deals with the manga's premise of the kaiju threat. If being around Mina really had to be Kafka's final goal then why not have his development be constantly finding ways to support the Defense Force as a civilian until he becomes something they and Mina eventually can't do without, like ending up as their major supplier or something. That would have been something truly original. I can't think of a manga I dropped faster than Kaiju 8 once the organization arc started, other than perhaps Sentai Daishikkaku.

>>280679106
>Sentai Daishikkaku
absolutely filtered

>>280679106
>I can't think of a manga I dropped faster than Kaiju 8 once the organization arc started, other than perhaps Sentai Daishikkaku.
What a faggot

>>280679106
>The series should have stayed being about kaiju jannies
that's reddit garbage

wtf khara were thinking with a collab with this series fucksake

>>280659158 (OP)
Anyone here gonna play the upcoming gacha?

>>280679106
Original doesn't mean good

>>280679106
>I can't think of a manga I dropped faster than Kaiju 8 once the organization arc started, other than perhaps Sentai Daishikkaku.
Isn't that an example of the trope being used well though? D only joins the organization because he's a shapeshifter and it's the best way for him to kill the Dragon Keepers by finding a chance to stab them in the back. D only "joins" them to further his own goals while Kafka basically get's strong-armed by the plot into losing all his autonomy.

>>280680273
Visuals look good. Crazy that its introducing an adopted older sister for Kikoru that's part of the American Defense Force.

>>280679322
>filtered
Daishikkaku is for midwits who think muh deconstruction is intellectual, and its threads are a good containment area for pseuds like you so I'm not sure what you think he was filtered from.

>>280676764
3P with Reno and Mina? These are just new year pics where he just rotates characters

>>280675499
Like >>280676825 says something happened, but this manga has 0 character progression outside battles.
In the spin off Kafka even managed to get Mina’s Saint Valentine chocolate, and she was blushing.
Author just went with basic nakama ending (Luffy will probably be the same)

>>280682076
They are pretty much a thing*, author just went with basic nakama ending (Luffy will probably be the same).
Forgot to write the first sentence.

>>280659158 (OP)
So who did Kafka end up with?

>>280682076
Well the spin off is really cute and fun, might post other panels

>>280682162

>>280682175
(Double) Beach Date!

>>280670277
Unrelated but it’s interesting to me how another Jump+ manga, Hero Organization, took the exact same premise but pivoted so hard in the opposite direction that it almost comes off like a direct parody of K8
>Basic premise is that monsters are attacking humanity and the military needs to fend them off and shit
>MC is a guy in his 30s who is given a second chance to be a soldier like he dreamed of as a kid
>Is immediately fucking murdered by his commanding officer to turn him into a martyr / PR darking
I get that the “good guy” organization turning out to be fucking evil is nothing groundbreaking, but it really took me off-guard

>>280660180
Seriously, nowaday the average anon only asks to be spoonfed.

>>280664623
The anime baited me hard into believing it was gonna be about monster jannies. Man, what a letdown.

>>280678839
I remember during the beginning of the final battle, Kikoru's lookalike kaiju was the only one to kill fodders on-screen. Like, in the entire series.

>>280675499
That's because Kikoru was the main female lead and she was actually one of the few good and memorable characters.

>>280677066
This is canon to me

>>280660299
Kafka always looks cute when he's sniveling like a little bitch he is

>>280683470
After her arc resolves she only had the battle with her lookalike.
Mina always was the aim of the series.
Clara:Kikoru=Ameri:Mina
Hope this will be better delivered tho

>>280682143
Anon don't you understand? Once you're past 30 and still without a girlfriend you're destined to be single for life.

>>280683515
>>280677066
It’s more probably Kikoru will dethronize Narumi and then peg him. She didn’t rejoin 3rd unit.

>>280667969
What if they're not fujos but actual gayfags?

i genuinely can't believe people read/watch this
i watched 1 episode and was cringing out of my clothes
it's like the author is forcing tropes down your gullet, poorly

>>280683626
I think the same about the dogcrap /a/ shills on a daily basis

Nobody probably remembers when Kafka once used his experience as a Kaiju Janitor to find the weak points specific to every Kaiju. I thought it was something unique that gave reason for the author making him a 30 yo character by allowing his experience to matter and give him an edge that a 14yo protag wouldnt have

Except this only lasted for like the first few chapters or so. After this every Kaiju was defeated by doing a larger and larger punch or slash to its "core".
It seems the author either got lazy or lacked imagination to think of weak points for every single Kaiju

>>280661237
genuinely killed any desire to watch season 2 what an absolute nothing burger

>>280683626
Seriously I watched a few episodes back when it was airing and it was really awful.

>>280659544
That's too generous, I'd give it a 3 or 4/10

>>280684139
>lacked imagination to think of weak points for every single Kaiju

this would cause the organization to be bunch of useless idiots if a janitor knows all the weak points.

>setting could have at least made for a cool Monster Hunter/Lost Planet/Earth Defense Force type game
>just gets a gacha that will probably EoS in a year instead
Sad

So what the fuck was this thing even? Is it made up of the souls of dead Nippon Samurai donos? How was it created?

>Mina Ashiro
>Hot
Nah.

>>280675499
It's a curse left behind by the seething of thousands.

>>280685880
How is any kaijuu created?
We learned basically nothing about them over the course of this series.

I respect this mangaka's hustle. He tried to get into shounen jump a couple times from what I've read. He then made the most generic tropey manga known to man and finally got in. Got a TV anime too, and then finished up and dipped.

>>280683550
fuck you nigger, Ameri is a thousand times better than Mina
don't you DARE try to compare them
also iruma is set for a harem end because the demon lord does what he pleases

>>280686762
They just...show up and apparently have showed up for thousands of years. I don't remember there being an explanation on what they are in the flashback either.

>>280661237
It was such a meh ending but it's gonna get "hype moments" and "aura" in the anime so zoomies are gonna love it

>>280687374
Maybe it will get an epilogue that wraps up all the loose ends. Like how Bisque Doll got an epilogue showing the two of them married with a kid

>>280664641
THIS. What's even the point of making a 30yo protag if you're gonna make him act exactly like a 14yo teenager? the ONLY time Kafka acted like an adult was in the very beginning where he almost sacrificed himself to save Ichiru

>>280687520
>What's even the point of making a 30yo protag if you're gonna make him act exactly like a 14yo teenager?
It's a reflection of Japan as a whole and the author's life experiences of peace and complacency. I don't think that he consciously thought
>Today I will set out to make a story about a 30 year old who is the exact same as the 15 year olds who blush at seeing some underwear
These guys grew up on this kind of stuff themselves which then shapes and defines their writing, either because he is chasing trends to appeal to other people who are young or due to the wrong influences. It is going to be a horrible feedback loop until something terrible IRL breaks it.

>>280682244
even the ranking thing is done better. "Kids in a military academy competing to top the ranks" is the most generic shit you can get, but the manga subverts it completely by making the MC not give a fuck about ranking at all and instead trying to figure out who killed his dad

>>280661237
sounds like it will get a sequel, won't it?

>>280687747
That sounds like the plot to unbreakable machine doll but too bad it's garbage except for the ED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFVzZtjz3aA

>>280687501
Most mangas get epilogues in the final volume release this days

>>280664909
>Why do these authors feel like they need to have the final fight go on for like a year or more of the manga?
Faggot.
This is a great trope, read Ushio no Tora, the whole manga is about fighting Hakumen no Mono, and the final battle is incredible (and like 20% of the manga).

>>280661698
Odds are that's the name of the sequel.

>>280685157
Well all the organization relied on before was brute force. Not a useless approach but it is a simple one yes. The problem became when Kafka relied on it too.

>>280661237
Thank you for posting.

This feels like someone read Jagaaaaaan and decided to remove anything that was good about it

https://may.2chan.net/b/res/1336536972.htm

2ch

>>280694389
Lmao, nice catch

>>280684139
Given earlier good ideas (also the fact that Kafka was uncovered relatively soon) it’s probably the author had ideas for a cohesive story, then the success brought him to add more characters and tried to expand things, failing.
Blame nips and their love for every giga monster.
>>280686959
Yeah, it’s done way worse, but as Iruma wants to improve to stand with Ameri, so does Kafka.
Of course demon lord is more based.

>>280672793
as someone said, it feels like an early axed manga but stretched over 200 chapters

>>280688874
>mangas

>>280691490
nobody trying to study dead monster bodies is some horseshit, even Independence Day got this right

the premise and execution somehow managed to be even more generic than demon slayer

it will sell 10 billion copies

>>280695810
>>280686959
Lets not forget that Ameri actually made a move on Iruma last month

I feel conflicted now about continuing the anime

>>280696214
That made the obvious blueball more annoying

It's over? Did they really only fight one guy?

>>280661688
You actually can't astroturf a shonen into popularity even in a age that favors style over substance

>>280696627
ummm they fought like TWO guys ok, it's different.

What a waste of a great design.
Mina was a real cool beauty

>>280695466
Holy shit

>>280695466
What am i looking at?

>>280697063
The characters looks the same but mirrored. Maybe they are implying the artist did a shoddy copy paste.

>>280697145
this is incredibly common in literally everything

>>280696685
but they did

>>280697230
yeah but it's pretty lazy to do it at the last chapter

i did my part by telling my friend to avoid this very below average manga when he asked me about it

I regret buying the manga. I'm gonna go sell it now lmao

It was a painfully subpar manga but I still bought the merch because Kafka is really cute

>>280660583
Yeah, they're kaiju.

>>280660725
Wasn't she using 3? The gimp suit, the axe and the eyes.

>>280660958
What does that even mean?

>>280673038
You should start proofreading your posts then.

>>280698948
yeah, but the axe was a regular kaiju weapon iirc, not one of the numbers (the superweapons). I think they said she could use 4 of the numbers, and yeah she was using the suit and the eyes simultaneously.

>>280699387
The axe have 003 written on it, like all number weapons.

>>280682175
Yeah, they're pretty cute.

>>280686783
Yeah, he's been a mangaka for a couple of decades so let him have some success.

>>280691490
Ah, the classic "everyone else is stupid so MC can look smart" setup

>>280661237
I liked it, it's not the best seriex but I had fun reading it, even if it dropped the better initial concept, it was entertaining.

I liked the clean / anime like art as well. If there is a continuation / part 2 I hope it dwelves better into the world, the origin of kaijus, etc...

Not going ot miss it Like Ron or SKK Girls, for example, but it was nice.

>>280699546
Alright then, guess I blanked on that. Thank you, anon.

>>280702963
I don't think they ever elaborated on the special property of the axe.

I want to enjoy every inch of Kikoru

Kikoru is discount Konami, change my mind

I unironically enjoyed this series. It's a battle shonen, and nothing can be as bad as Naruto or SOA.
It had hype moments and aura that was decently effective, and my only complaint is Kafka's secret was revealed too early in the story and had almost no impact.
But aside from that it's a generic satisfying ending. For me it's a 8/10, it did it's job and it did it in a fun way and thats all I can ask for a battle shonen
and i want to fuck Kikoru so badly its unreal

>>280704281
It took until Naruto's final arc for it to get irredeemably bad

Kaiju No. 8 was mediocre from start to finish

>>280704117
I'm hitting you with my best telepathic waves.

Season 1 was good so will keep watching.

It’s remarkable what the anime managed to do with this. No story at all, though it’s also kind of based that nips fell in love with this for absolutely no other reason than dakka and gas masks

>>280660037
I’ve already read the chapter and I’ve already forgotten most of their names kek

>>280675499
I picked this up for her. And also dropped it over her, but still, I feel pretty fucking cheated.

>>280661154
>Finally think of a tactical forensics squad
>On one panel in the last chapter
Could’ve had an actual plot before the imprisonment nonsense. Could’ve showcased actual varied monsters of the week and turned them into battle suits and war hammers for backgroundies’ characterizations. What was this manga even about

>>280667244
With how much marketing they pushed on it I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't actually as profitable as it comes off. Shueisha invests a shitton of money to make upcoming series they're investing in seem like the next big thing. Sometimes it works things really do go uber mainstream like Spy x Family and JJK and sometimes it doesn't really work with Kaiju #8. It's like how people will think a 300 million dollar box office sounds like a lot of profits but it could actually be a loss if the studio spent 150 million making the movie and 150 million on the marketing.

>>280674519
These individually gauging mook suits made with monster cells were the only good contribution of this manga to fiction. Cool concept.

>>280659544
For me, it had great delivery on the fights, but I read the series starting in December and didn't run into pacing issues/gaps between chapters until then. If you just wanted something quick to read for interesting fights it was perfect for that, which was its intention, since the mangaka has said he's drawn itto be easy to read on mobile, and that's likely why it's so popular.

>>280675499
Honestly thought it was fine since she was blatantly shown to be mindbroken by the job and years of grizzled leadership just made her a stoic boss. What we should've seen was a smattering of private life moments with Kafka. Why the heck was this guy spending a day off at the grocery store instead of wine and dining his osananajimi?

>>280665314
The war arc was a ton of fights that was properly built up with a large cast people cared about, and it also dropped an antagonist that made the readers excited for the first time in a while.
The actual final fight was the Sasuke duel, but even the one before that (Kaguya) wasn't that long. I would say that KnY's final fight was closer to that than JJK, but it is a fact that these two series (and now Kaiju No. 8) spent a lot of time on basically one actual fight, with the chief villain. Naruto didn't do that.
Bleach didn't do it, either, TTYB lasted a long time but Yhwach's actual fight was like 2 chapters.

>>280706360
the fights were awful, the mangaka can't draw action

>>280664054
>this is just modern japanese writter not having contact with women or social skills in generals.
Let's be real here, modern women will always make you regret having contact with them.

>>280660732
He didn't end up with ANY girl, that's the point.

>>280659667
>Get in the car
>>280660111
>Welcome home uguu~
I hate faggotshit man. Disgusting fujo trash. They ruin every series.

kek

>>280708230
During the final battle it seemed pretty much clear for Kafka and Mina to be set together (him saving her, her displayed jealousy, their duo being labeled as the strongest in the world).
But then in the final chapter the best we got was that small talk at the hospital, where se was trying to say something but stopped.
This author really couldn’t handle characters speaking outside battles, relax spin off managed to do a lot better with little
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>>280682162
>>280682175
>>280682212
Also would have been nice if she got to catch Kafka to subvert picrel.

>>280679639
Yeah, but it would have been more interesting than another Naruto rehash.

>>280708654
There would probably be some tease at their relationship in Relax, or maybe if another spin off comes out

>>280678569
Doesn't sound like it

>>280708697
NTA but that's true. It wouldn't have been as recycled.

who's the biggest fraud in this series?

>>280678715
matsui get away with a lot of shit (literally)

>>280682076
>>280682162
>>280682175
This in the main manga would have made it so much better.

>>280660375
Who the fuck are Gukki and Tsukinoren?

i feel like this manga should have been longer. it could have benefited from an extra 100 chapters to flesh out some of the other character, do some more world building, and explore more of the kaiju.

maybe they'll make a sequel or prequel.

>>280715862
It was funny watching the Hoshina's Day Off ova since a retired Defense Force soldier brought up hoping the kaiju threat comes to an end eventually so that the next generation of children don't have to battle them and that clearly is not the case with how the manga concludes.

>>280685880
Your interest in answers you were meant to be interested in makes writing very difficult. Stop it.

>>280687024
Seems like retarded worldbuilding for humans to stand any chance against Kaiju before heavy powered weaponry.

did this get axed? I can't imagine this being super popular with such a horrible mc

>>280720517
129 chapters and a SoL spinoff seems like a pretty decent run

anime thread where

>>280720987
guess so. I'll never get nip taste

>>280721053
Soon.

>>280708461
It keeps happening.