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Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 5 & 6
Keeping on with double feature seasonals, it’s time for us to actually get down to business with the Defense Squad.


Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 9 & 10
In this pair of episodes: Loads more fighting and a really pivotal moment that there isn’t all that much time to pivot on.


Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 3 & 4
With the pace this show is taking, I might stick to reporting in every other week. It’s a great ride, but it takes its sweet time to get…


Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 11 & 12
The trial of Hibino Kafka is on.


KAIJU No.8 – Episode 1
It’s worth following a few more episodes just to see what the hype is about.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 8
So, this episode is all pretty much ‘gearing up’ for what would seem to be a final confrontation. The Spearhead is down to five, and they’re being sent…


Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 8
And now she really is a main character!
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 8
So, for those who wanted a darker and more serious episode out of Shikizakura, we have this one And, compared to the bits earlier in the show that…


Kaiju No. 8 GN 1
After months of people begging me to get into Kaiju No. 8 and me dragging my feet, I can definitely say: they were all right, I should have…


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 1
I don’t remember this version of “The Metamorphosis”.


Kaiju No. 8 Episode 11 Recap: “Kaiju No. 8 Captured”
In Kaiju No. 8 Episode 11, General Director Shinomiya challenges the humanity of Kafka, Kaiju No. 8, who must prove he still human. But is he?
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 8
Uninvested fightsCyberspace looks like garbageSurprise villain why?! Ex-Arm once again screws up in ways I wouldn’t even have expected. Pretty much the whole episode is just a brawl…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 8
Kicking things up so many notches. We start at about the speed Chainsaw Man is used to, with a lengthy morning from Himeno’s point of view, leading up…


Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 8
Answers and purpose at last!
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 8
The daring rescue goes about like daring rescues do… and look at that! Answers. So, last week I mentioned that Kurokawa (the thug governor) needed a better explanation,…


Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 8
Wait, they all have faces?
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 8
Is that really plot? Answers in a hospital More in another Episode 8 is something of an exposition episode. It turns out shambling Nagi isn’t malicious as he…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 8
No Sagiri or Gabimaru today! Instead, we focus on the Emeshi girl, Nurugai, and the Executioners around her: Her assigned executioner, Tenza, and his blind mentor Shion. We…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 1
So, this season we’ll be taking an episode-by-episode look at 86. Because this choice was kind of last-minute, it’s not really a show I’ve researched or know anything…


Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 1
Let’s get freaky.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 1
Well, a new season is here and despite the fact that some previous Selections are continuing (namely Scarlet Nexus and 86), it’s time to pick one of them…


Kaiju No. 8
Kaiju No. 8 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....


Kaiju No. 8 Episode 7 Recap: “Kaiju No. 9”
In Kaiju No. 8 Episode 7, Kaiju No. 8,, Reno and Iharu encounter the powerful humanoid Kaiju No. 9.
Kaijuu 8-gou - Episode 1 - Kafka as Kaiju No. 8
Kafka turned into a kaiju after a flying, speaking kaiju flew into his mouth. Mysteries need solving in this show! Kaijuu 8-gou - Episode 1


Kaiju No. 8 Episode 1 Recap: “The Man Who Became a Kaiju”
Kaiju No. 8 is a manga series by Naoya Matsumoto, set in Japan, Kaiju rampage through the city, terrorizing the civilians.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 8
Well, that fight didn’t last very long.


Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 1
Our story takes place in the grungy, noir-ish cityscape of Mars, where humans and robotic persons live side-by-side in a setting that simultaneously evokes 1920 and something more…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 1
In a sharp divergence from last season’s chipper harmlessness, Spring 2023 we’ll be following Hell’s Paradise, which is anything but either of those if the first episode is…
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 1
I love JRPGs. I know as someone who is at least a bit of a gamer that I shouldn’t utter that sentence, but I do. I like it…
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 1
Well, I can’t say that this show doesn’t just throw you right into things. In one episode we’re introduced to a post-apocalyptic Japan with loads of details and…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 1
Yeah, I’m doing Chainsaw Man. What else could it possibly be with “more teeth” that I teased at the end of the last seasonal writeup? Often times, when…


Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 1
So we have a first episode that pitches Mirai Nikki by way of Bubuki Buranki. Done by Yoko Taro and Jin. This is, at least, going to be…


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 1 (First Impressions)
I don’t remember this version of “The Metamorphosis”.


Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 8
Sometimes an imitation can’t compensate for the real thing.


Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 8
After a week of hiatus in the programming itself, we’re back and ready for more Gene of AI


Kaiju No. 8 (Kaijuu 8-gou)
Is it different to a lot of supernatural/sci-fi/action shounen? No. Is it better than a dozen other recent shounen anime? Yes. For me, at least. Maybe it’s because…


Kaiju No. 8 (Volume 1) – I Found You
After being left on a church step as a baby, Asta has developed some wild ideas. Despite his inability to use magic, he is determined the become the…


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 10
Never doubt an anime episode title’s ability to spoil something.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 2
I guess heroes really do come in all shapes and sizes.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 2
I guess heroes really do come in all shapes and sizes.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 7
This is easily Kafka’s most entertaining fight so far.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 11
But did they figure out how Kaiju No. 8 uses the bathroom?


Kaiju No.8 Remembers Humanity
There are kaiju, and then there’s Kaiju No. 8, a thoroughly different existence altogether. From start to finish, I was ride or die for this show; it could…


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 4
I’ve liked Kikoru just fine the past two episodes but I’m definitely more interested in her character now.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 5
At long last, we finally see the main characters formally join the Defense Force.


Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 6
It’s cooler to think that Kafka’s greatest strength isn’t his kaiju form.


Kaiju No. 8: First Impression
Kafka once had a dream to join the Japan Defense Force and fight kaiju alongside his best friend, Mina. Now though, he cleans up the kaiju that she…