That's my hero!

It is a shame that a character like kikoru is stuck in whatever the fuck this series is.

>>281135380
That's the wrong kind of penetration.

You can skip the first two thirds of the episode and miss nothing of value.

when will they switch the artstyle?

>>281136714
>skipping the cute mom

God i wish the soundtrack for this didn’t suck so much that shit didn’t fit the fight at all

>>281136903
If only they didn't recycle the soundtrack from the previous season and keep repeating the same music

This episode was egregiously bad. The main lead is a wet blanket, the show is so bland and the music/sound effects are just awful. I usually like a lot of pure slop anime but I have to drop this series.
I dunno if the whole series has always been this bad or if I broke the slop conditioning

>>281137399
I said the same thing twice at the end of my blogpost, this episode really fried me

>>281135186 (OP)
this thumbnail reminds me of some webms I'd rather forget

>>281137152
>>281136903
>what the fuck is a leitmotif
Look, I'm not gonna defend the Kikoru flashback as anything but stalling for time and doing Abe's work, but why the fuck are you watching this season if you don't like watching Kafka wanpan something to that song

kafka being a little crybaby scared bitch for two episodes pissed me off more than i thought it would

Slopu N. 8 is so painfully mediocre and average that you can't help but wonder if anyone involved in this dogshit even gives a single fuck. It's actually impressive how dull and boring this whole franchise can be, it's like they consciously want to steal level ups title as king of slop

why make kafka middle aged if hes still going to be a sappy middle schooler? and everyone in the show just pulls shit out of their ass every fight. 8.0 rating on every anime site is crazy

Posting canon materials to scare kikofag
>>281137399
This season will be even worse, at least after this is over it will be just brainless fights.

>>281138099
They certainly are sitting next to each other.

>>281137399
I was thinking the same before I watched today's episode. Something somehow feels worse than the last season and I get the feeling it's a multitude of factors. I don't know if I'm going to make it to the next episode.

>>281138546
So we have
>Kafka X Mina
>Iharu X Reno
>Kikoru alone…?
Narumi might show up at some point though

>>281138546
>>281138853
>implying
Kafka is a pushover and Mina is an ice princess
Kikoru will bulldoze Kafka's resistance before either he or Mina works up the spine to confess

Made some stitches.

>>281135611
Many such cases! Only reason I stuck to this shit.

>>281136482
>slap

>transformation no longer works even though he was able to transform without even thinking about it when he first got the powers
It sucks how everything in this series operates on retarded "because the plot requires it" rules.

Kafka! You don't have to believe in yourself! Believe in the me that believes in you!

Last stitch.

>>281139661
he's traumatized from losing control in his fight with Isao, it's not exactly subtle, he gets over it in this episode

>>281139171
You wish.
Mina already melted in the final arc (actually spin off manga might imply even before with the whole chocolate arc), Kikoru is not even on the same team and will probably bulldoze Narumi

>>281139716
Thank you

>>281139743
Nah that's horseshit. His transformations happened basically without him even exercising any will over them at all, he had to fight to gain command over it. Complete horse shit.

ToT Adorable

Why do mothers always have to die man...

I find this frame was especially sexy

>>281139834
>that's horseshit
It's the explicit text
>he had to fight to gain command over it
and now he has it and is so afraid to lose it that he won't let go enough to transform

I'm not defending it as a choice for building tension here, it's cheap and essentially throws away the ability to have that fear as more of a growing undercurrent for the character, but it's not that ridiculous

>>281139916
Either the transformations are independent of his will or are dependent on it, it can't be both.

>>281140031
>he fought to control the transformations
>it's not dependent on his will
it can't be both, anon

>>281140089
He transformed whether he wanted to or not, even in his sleep. It originally had no bearing on what he thought or what he felt. It was only through concentration and effort that he was able to suppress the transformation. Now it is suddenly the reverse. The transformation is something that he has to instigate and force or it won't happen.

>>281140162
>It was only through concentration and effort that he was able to suppress the transformation
So he was using his WILL to control the transformation.
>Now it is suddenly the reverse
No, that's the fake-out. Kikoru thinks there's something suppressing Kafka but it's Kafka himself doing the suppressing.
I don't know why this is such a leap for you

manga spoiler here don't click it:
Has the father character died yet? That was so unimpactful in the manga I was like man I don't feel even 1% of what I'm supposed to be feeling, I gotta drop this at that point. I'm curious if they managa to inject some kind of impact into it in the anime.

>>281140495
I'm anime only but that spoiler is so incredibly predictable that I have no idea why you would bother hiding it

>>281140524
I feel pretty alienated from people that like Kaiju 8 so I don't know what they'd care about.

>>281141142
It's the same appeal as Demon Hunter, really:
big cathartic moments

Wasted potential, the series.
And they cannot even do their own thing now with adaptation like they did in early anime adaptations?

Boring, sadly author ran out of idea/took the safe route/wanted out of it.

There is no world wide Kaiju hunting, not explanation how they came to earth, no intriguing plot.

>>281141767
I normally like that kind of thing but all the times K8 tried it just didn't make a dent. But I don't want to go in threads and shit them up in case they are landing for someone else.

flop

Kikoru LOVE

>mom brutally mogs her daughter
>mangaka kills her to try and make you care for the daughter
not falling for your tricks

i kekked at fairouz ai flexing her arabic

>mother - ponytail
>her daughter - twin tails
>daughter's daughter - ???

>>281145110
Need many generations to reach the mythical 9-Tails

This is just ok in my opinion, you watch it for the fights and the funny moments

>>281144237
>Perhaps she was just as aggressive in romance considering she married Isao, who seems passive about romance in general
Author's foreshadowing.

>>281138651
We told you morons this show was even generic than black clover

>>281144381
Now I want anime with that focus

They believed this was going to be the next mega big hit outside of japan

My fucking HERO, Kafka Hibino

>>281146036
Not canon

>>281146036
>Thicckoru isn't real

>>281138099
>>281138546
>>281138853

Kaiju no. 8 is good. The anime is good. I believe this and say this.

>>281146785
Lol, they thought author would have a plan, would give a shit.

Many already thought it took the wrong direction when Kafka's identity got exposed and he basically got away with it like it was nothing.
And they were right.

>>281147744
I don't believe this man's statements. I assert that he is in fact telling lies.

>>281137558
I hope to G*d my posts never get capped and spread on Reddit and Discord like this poor bastard's

>>281135186 (OP)
>Mina
or
>Kikoru
Who's the best girl and who should MC end up with?

>>281148779
The one who waited. Spoiler sexy Kafka from last chap.

>>281147744
I only started the manga yesterday, haven't watched the anime, and am only up to chapter 60, but I agree, I've been enjoying it a fair bit. I didn't think about this while reading it, but on reflecting thanks to this thread, the one thing I dislike about the dynamic post-identity reveal is the fact that kafka hasn't interacted with mina. her smiling at him being himself and not having any regard for protocol was really nice and I want more of that, not less. sure, it makes sense for him to go to first division, but I wish the reveal had happened in a way that only mina and hoshina found out at first, and they struggled with what to do about it

>>281149152
Sadly the lack of slice of life scenes makes the manga a lot wasted without proper character development. At least in other media they try to make up for it.

>gay OneRepublic ED
>gayer chibislop omake

all the shonen shows this summer are just flopping in their second season

I still don't know what about this anime makes faggots seethe so much that they have to come shit up the thread every week.

>>281135186 (OP)
When Kaiju no.8 started serialization I thought (and desperately prayed) that it'd be Kafka hiding as part of the clean-up crew, getting info on how to fight different kaiju and their weak points by breaking down their corpses as part of the clean-up operations all while hiding his identity and making connections with the little guys and unsung heroes of modern day.

I was so fucking disappointed to keep reading only for it to devolve into the most generic shounenshit imaginable.

>>281144381
Was it actually fluent arabic?

>>281137399
Almost all episodes were bad

>>281150198
we help keep your shit thread alive you ungrateful retard

>>281150198
sunk cost fallacy

Good episode

>>281150198
Manga is shit and so is anime. Kafka being 32 doesn't matter he still acts like teenager. Zero development. Zero stakes. Only character that dies is Kikoru's father.

>>281138546
OUR HEROES
...and Iharu is there too i guess

>>281152322
>this

all the faggots complaining about the show are retards. if you don't like it don't watch it nigga

I do not care for kikoru

>>281135186 (OP)
So is it just me or the OP fucking sucks, and I mean, not even a meh, is just awful, and I really liked the first OP, don't tell me I hate the whole show just because.