{"id":1989,"date":"2022-01-12T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:51:44","slug":"manga-kaiju-no-8-by-naoya-matsumoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/12\/manga-kaiju-no-8-by-naoya-matsumoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga: Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the cover for the compilation of the first 7 chapters. And it’s COOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kaiju No. 8
<\/strong>by Naoya Matsumoto
published by Viz, San Francisco
<\/a>2021 (ongoing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kafka Hibino has a dirty job: cleaning up the mess after giant monsters (kaiju) that attack his home city are violently “neutralized” by the nation’s Defense Force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kafka didn’t PLAN to be cutting up monster guts: he planned<\/em> to fight against the kaiju directly at the side of childhood best friend, Mina Ashiro. But his plans went sideways, and decades later, he handles sanitation, while Mina leads the Defense Force’s third division as a national hero(ine), using weapons made from previously killed, powerful kaiju.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But… one day, things go very wrong, and Kafka becomes a part-time kaiju himself. Which is… SO AWKWARD.<\/strong><\/em> How will he ever get into the Defense Force and work with Mina if he is the enemy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a charming adventure with dangerous monsters, dangerous humans, loyalty, teamwork, men gossiping in bathhouses, monster intestines, secret identities, partial kaiju transformations, very sharp blades, unexpected alliances, and fun illustrations between chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I subscribe to Viz’s Shonen Jump<\/em>,<\/a> so I have access to all available chapters (1 through 54 as of mid-January 2022), and have been delighted by the story so far! Chapters 1-7 are available in book form, and I imagine the rest of the story will be bundled and released in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m looking forward to future issues!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumotopublished by Viz, San Francisco2021 (ongoing) Kafka Hibino has a dirty job: cleaning up the mess after giant monsters (kaiju) that attack his home city are violently “neutralized” by the nation’s Defense Force. Kafka didn’t PLAN to be cutting up monster guts: he planned to fight against the kaiju directly … <\/p>\n

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