Animation

Action

Science Fiction

アニメ『怪獣８号』第１期総集編／同時上映「保科の休日」

Production I.G

Shueisha

TOHO

Japan

日本語

Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon

Masaya Fukunishi

Wataru Katoh

Fairouz Ai

Tessyo Genda

Kengo Kawanishi

Keisuke Komoto

Kenta Miyake

Sayaka Senbongi

Asami Seto

Yuuki Shin

Shunsuke Takeuchi

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Naoya Matsumoto

Shigeyuki Miya

Tomomi Kamiya

Ichiro Okouchi

Yuta Bandoh

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“Kafka” had tried to join the elite Defence Force but had realised his own limitations and instead taken up a job cleaning up after them as they police a Japan frequently assaulted by deadly “Kaiju”. When his team gets a newbie, “Ishikawa”, this younger lad politely but pointedly stresses that he is aiming for more, but he understands why his new colleague “quit”! Subliminally provocative? Well as the pair start to work together, the former man starts to get a little of his mojo back and so when the Force extends it’s age limits, he decides to have another go. Meantime, his would-be colleagues are facing their biggest challenge ever as the mysterious and powerful “Kaiju No. 8” continues to evade them. Now we know a little more about that that the enforcers do, and that helps tee this story up for quite a dramatic ending that tests loyalty, trust and friendships across the board as peril ebbs ever closer and the monsters starts to acquire some distinctly zombie traits. This is a solidly executed and quickly paced adventure that spends a little time building on the characters (from a previous series) but for the most part  just engages us in an action-packed squash the baddies festival with plenty of squelching and loads of gunge and goo covering the streets as and “Kaiju” and the buildings end up collateral damage during the battles. There’s a bit of sarcasm hidden in the dialogue which I quite liked, and the messages of team playing, inter-reliance and of age not necessarily being a barrier to attaining your goals are here but not laboured. Stick around after the credits, there’s another twenty minutes or so (from the next series) that serves to humanise some of these folks, and if you’re looking for a colourfully vibrant series of shoot/slice/blow ‘em ups, then this is for you. Not quite sure how menacing the “sunflower thrust” would be, though…?

Chandler Danier

Main guy is so cool. I love the tears as he jumps out the building. Just looks so cool.

Cool ending. Man. Cool movie. Nice job. Maybe you can skip some exploding bodies and whatever but the exploding bodies are well executed.

The cadets are pretty funny. Bitching at each other about their stupid low attack power scores. High attack power score people are cool.

I guess I should watch the anime.

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Cast

Masaya Fukunishi

Wataru Katoh

Fairouz Ai

Tessyo Genda

Kengo Kawanishi

Keisuke Komoto

Kenta Miyake

Sayaka Senbongi

Asami Seto

Yuuki Shin

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