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Aug 18, 2025
I’m afraid to continue this anime for a variety of reasons. The first and most standout one is the English dub. I’m stuck watching it not because it’s the only language that I understand, but purely because I don’t understand how any of this would translate to the Japanese dub. I’m surprised this wasn’t totally written by a cast of American-only writers with how so much adult cartoon American slop is present in it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m American and I have my shows that I love in the states, but genuinely what place do some of these tropes have in an a Japanese
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animated show like this?
Why did we need an episode parodying Yu-Gi-Oh when this is Japan and they’re no stranger to card games.
Why did we need an episode parodying a samurai dojo when this is a Japanese animated show…
What are we to do with references to the Mandalorian, Instagram and Influencing, and Fast & Furious being a stand-in reference for sperm cells traveling through a woman’s innermost parts.
I understand the last P&S was crazy, but this is more coked-up randomness hoping that it puts you under its’ spell. Instead of jokes being allowed to be funny, every joke made back to back to back to back for the episodes’ entirety seems like it wants a laugh track to start blasting through for support. Those changed voice actors are the last of this new series’ issues but it’s still a very big part of the WHY it’s so bad. Their voices change with every line and you just can’t help but wish it was the old VAs again.
I’ll continue watching in case it starts to level out, but man did it start off kinda’ too westerny for my liking. There are a million American adult animations I could watch instead if I turned on Panty & Stocking to get that style of writing from. And can we please put a muzzle on Brief. Was he always this obnoxious?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 16, 2025
To keep this short, I suspect that Kaiju no.8 was meant to be longer. That could be pure speculation, but this now-completed story can easily be broken down into two parts: The Start & The End. It’s a fairly easy read all throughout and I finished it in under 24 hours because there’s not much here to sit with when all is said and done. I gained no new knowledge, I saw nothing new, I didn’t need to hold my breath at anything this manga threw at me.
What looked to be a promising power system on both the good and bad side was nothing more
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than the same-old, same-old. I’ll give it to the Numbers’ system. It was pretty damn cool, but then you can take notice of when the author threw in the towel so to speak, resulting in people having multiple numbers and other stuff that broke the rules. All while the Kaiju never deviated from the start. Sure, you have the one Shinomiya fought but for that, #10 and #9 to be the only sentient ones…? That’s a bit of a waste. This is more a generic monster manga, than “Kaiju” and what they intended to show. All the cool monsters are in the past and turned into numbers, so we’re left to guess how cool it would be if they were present in this story.
The Main Character is also pretty bland and cheesy. Dopey Older Guy with a heart of gold. That’s it. You think with all the sulking he did from not carrying out his dream, he would’ve been distorted in a way. He could’ve resented his childhood friend as an extension of his inability to accept his own failures in life, or something other than what we got. He’s just that lovable lug, always smiling and grinning, wanting to protect everyone!! And his powers respond to his emotional drive to protect his friend because what else would power him??? Skill??? A creative inversion of the already-established power-system from the perspective of a Human-Kaiju hybrid?? Nope! Let’s just waste the potential of pretty much the entire cast as we speed-run a shonen in sub-150 chapters. The title of the “Strongest”? Let’s just lend it to everyone when we need to, it’s no biggie!
Even though I say this, I don’t hate Kaiju no.8, I’m just disappointed. I really wanted to see cooler Kaiju, a more fleshed out and thought out depiction of the Numbers system, and better fights. Characters are set up to have the drive to get to their specific goal, but none of it feels like it’s deserved.
Another nitpick I have is that Leno was shown to be this cold, ruthless youngster but then got turned into your average sidekick. He still kept his cool factor, but it was watered down to feed him through this already rushed story. His earlier tenacity was seemingly rewritten to just be an unexplainable factor for why he could achieve the things he achieved and blindly supporting the MC all of a sudden. There could’ve been something interesting about the older guy chasing behind the younger recruits or teaching them a thing or two.
TLDR: Kaiju no.8 should’ve been longer. I almost wish it got cancelled some 5-10 chapters in and we might’ve been able to get a rendition of it with everything ironed-out and ready.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 2, 2025
Usogui is frustrating, to put it plain and simple. While it has a plethora of interesting characters, so much that ANYONE could find someone they resonate with, it unfortunately has to always revolve back around its’ main character, Baku Madarame. That’s not a complaint because of course a story has to revolve back around the MC, but what IS a complaint of mine is that Baku feels the one most distanced from the audience. I don’t really understand what his deal is at all. He just wins. That’s it. Why is he winning? Who knows? Where does he get his intelligence from? Your guess is
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as good as mine.
It doesn’t help that the entire world at this point has to scale itself to reach this ridiculousness. Now, you have bland villains in the middle section of the manga who for some reason are just as intelligent as they are hell-bent on violence. So not only can they beat Baku’s ass, they also can hang with him in a game of mind games… until plot tells them that they can’t. Honestly, I think that there’s way too much story potential here, that’s sucked up by Baku, the MC.
I can sit here all day typing a list of background characters I would much rather be shown than yet another game in which someone plots against Baku, he plots on their plot, the opponent plots on his plot on their plot, and then Baku has been plotting 20 days before the match was even thought of and now the enemy will lose. Or the other trope where they’re not really gambling at all because they’re cheating and the referees are standing their presiding over NOTHING, officiating NOTHING, save for a few minuscule times where they decide if something is fair or allowed. I feel like this is a product of too many eggs being in the proverbial basket. The fights are cool, the philosophical quotes are cool, the gambling has the potential to be cool, but the explanations and different thought process are so damn boring and confusing to read I found myself taking longer and longer to even get through one chapter in a day before I found literally anything else to do with my time.
The consensus is to read however many hundreds of chapters in and it “gets peak” but what kind of task is that???? Fortunately, the first hundred chapters and so aren’t too bad in terms of getting you to push through, but enough was enough for me. As the nature of this manga is high stakes and that inevitable BIG REVEAL every time, it hurts it in both the games and physical fights. The Audience is all waiting with bated breath for some new background info to come in on a fighter and suddenly pump them up to be top 3 strongest in the verse, or some super secret tiny oversight that allowed a “good guy” to beat his adversary. I bet the author could turn a game of hopscotch into the next Star Wars trilogy.
I genuinely could not bear through any more explanations explaining the explanation of an explanation to an explanation. Seriously, how did this glaring issue get past an author and editing team? It’s very telling when you have to be told the story through Fans & Youtubers who have spent countless hours analyzing and understanding YOUR work.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 20, 2025
Five chapters is a little too early to be dropping this, but I kinda’ stopped caring about it on a week-to-week basis pretty quickly. I’m not sure what the power system— if any at all, is. Fights kinda’ end as quickly as they start. But take this with a grain of salt, the manga could become the best thing since sliced bread in the future chapters. I just know that for myself, I don’t really care about the characters, the journey, the fights, and Harukawa’s art style— which isn’t bad, but it doesn’t really emit any particular energy. Everything here is just standard.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 24, 2024
Yongbyeong has great art, pleasing action sequences which surpass a lot of today’s status quo but that’s about it for its’ positives. The reason I dropped this so early on was because it was difficult to keep up with.
The story progresses so fast, not to mention that the arrangement of pages seems to be conflicting at times. Perhaps this is a matter of where I decided to read this, but I couldn’t really connect with any characters as they would act differently than the previous chapter, in no time at all.
And while I said the action sequences are pleasing, the power system seems to be
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random. Skipping through a few chapters, I’ve found that magic is somehow plunged into the world which was not spoken about anywhere in the sub-10 chapters I’ve read. Pretty mediocre manga/manwha that doesn’t really know its’ purpose and it shows.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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May 12, 2024
Suicide Girl mixes the hopeful and inspiring genre that is the “Magical Girl” trope with the existential and heavy-hitting themes of s—cide. From the first chapter, I was admittedly interested in the premise, but quickly lost said interest as I read on. Not only does its’ knowledge of s—cide seem to be scrounged from a few Google Articles, it instills the false notion that those who are dead can be revived. Now, this is to say nothing of the manga’s quality, as it’s a personal nitpick, but it’s quite the distasteful one. As long as you defeat the big scary monster, those who have rather
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violently committed s—cide will magically come back as if nothing happens. This isn’t hopeful, or inspiring, it’s not addressing the core of why people choose to commit— much too focused on meeting the quota for its’ other genres, instead.
The art is also pretty jarring and not in a good way. It’s hard to make heads or tails of what’s going on in the fights, as every monster seems to be some ghoulish, phantom-like figure who just throws out volley attacks before being defeated.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 4, 2023
As a Super Sentai Enjoyer and before that; Power Rangers, this manga immediately displays an interesting take on the many prevalent themes present in those shows. Offering interesting commentary and character studies, in preparation of what could possibly be a riveting story.
However, 10 chapters in and I am quite honestly bored out of my mind. The supporting characters are random and uninteresting, often rambling about who knows what and why. Solely created to be an obstacle for the equally uninteresting main character.
If you’re looking for flashy fights or intriguing combat sequences, don’t bother. I skipped ahead to the most recent chapter ( 100 something at
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the time of me writing this ) and it appears that there is still no evidence of the MC having anything else going for him besides an immortality factor and shape-shifting. What little fights do happen to occur are not enough to make me continue reading from where I left off at, as everything seems to be pretty minor in scale until the plot calls for it to be ridiculously overpowered to impede the MC who has to play 5D Chess in order to finagle a win.
The Art isn’t bad, but it’s nothing to write home about either. Pretty standard stuff and just about the only thing you can latch onto, since the dialogue itself isn’t doing the story any favors.
I really wanted to enjoy this, so a piece of me is disappointed. Ironically, the trite and cliche themes enveloping Sentai, seem to also restrict this story from standing out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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