Kaijuu 8-gou

Description

From Viz:
Kafka hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she’s out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out for the squad once more. There’s just one problem. He’s made the Defense Force’s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.

Note: Won the 7th Next Manga Award in 2021. Nominated for the 14th Manga Taishou Award and the Tsutaya Comic Award in 2021, the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia in 2022.

Official Japanese:
Comico, JumpTOON, Piccoma, Pixiv Comic, Shueisha, Shonen Jump Plus, Zebrack Comic

Official Translations:
Read for FREE on Manga Plus (English, French, Indonesian, Portugese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese)

English, Korean (Kakao Page, Mrblue, Mcomics, Naver Series, RIDI)

Type

Manga

Related Series

Kaijuu 8-gou: side B (Side Story)

Kaijuu 8-gou Tokubetsu-hen: "Hoshina no Kyuujitsu" (Side Story)

Kaijuu 8-gou: RELAX (Side Story)

Associated Names

8 No’lu Canavar

Kaiju No. 8

Kaiju No.8

Kaijuu #8

Kaijuu Hachi-gou

Kaijyu #8

Kaijyu 8-gou

Kaijyu No.8

Kaijū 8-gō

Kaijū Hachi-gō

Kaijū Hachigō

Monster #8

Monster No. 8

Кайдзю No. 8

Кайдзю №8

الوحش رقم 8

दैत्य #8

राक्षस #8

怪兽8号

怪獣8号

怪獣８号

怪獸8號

괴수 8호

Groups Scanlating

A pair of 2

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Latest Release(s)

c.129 by Viz & MANGA Plus 5 months ago

c.128 by Viz & MANGA Plus 6 months ago

c.127 by Viz & MANGA Plus 7 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

16 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 5, Chap 39 (S2)

Ends at Vol 5, Chap 38 (S1) / Vol 11, Chap 82 (S2) Partly skips Chap 79, Skips 80-81

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User Rating

Average: 7.6 / 10.0 (507 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.53 / 10.0

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Last Updated

December 20th, 2025 8:51pm PST - 2 days ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Sci-fi Shounen
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Category Recommendations

Hitsugi no Chaika (Novel)

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Kaijuu 8-gou: side B

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Recommendations

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Author(s)

MATSUMOTO Naoya

Artist(s)

MATSUMOTO Naoya

Year

2020

Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shounen Jump + (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

MANGA Plus (129 Chapters; Complete)

VIZ Media (14 Volumes; Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #202

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Monthly Pos #485

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3 Month Pos #494

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6 Month Pos #372

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Year Pos #298

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List Stats

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On 467 wish lists

On 455 completed lists

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Hoshinaa:33333

by Emopawpatrol
4 months ago

Rating: N/A

A shounen where they actually let their female characters have their own moment and not just some damsel in distress chara to emphasized on how strong their male characters, is immediately a 10 to me🫶🫶

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Pretty Generic

by Sniberus
5 months ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

I think this is for the people that want a quick read if they are bored and they just want to see some action. The plot itself is very simple and I think that there was not much depth nor backstory to the plot whatsoever. The characters are fine but once again are lacking in depth at times. The progression felt a bit straight as it felt like one really big arc past like chapter 20 all the way to the end. Overall, pretty mid ngl.

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In the end, it was merely fine.

by Anime_axe
5 months ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Being frank, it started out great. The issue is that it started to quickly lose steam in the final stretch. You end the series with the feeling that it needed like 5 more chapters for character interactions to actually tie it up.

It's not a bad series, but I can't rate it higher than 6/10, even though the first half was an easy 9/10.

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disappointing

by arkad
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Started promising, I even thought it is a postomodern take on Kaiju. But soon enough you realize this is extremely boring, uninteresting and repetitive battle shounen.

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Action-Shounen That Does NOT Deliver On Its Name

by flesh_labyrinths
1 year ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

What is the first thing you think when you read "Kaijuu"? Probably Godzilla. And what is Godzilla? Massive, gargantuan monstrosity that wreaks havoc and utter destruction. And Kaijuu#8 never quite delivers that feeling of scale and mass, instead opting to go onto the regular shounen rails.

It started promising enough - with mc being part of kaijuu disposal team - and interesting concept that would've made for much better manga - but after the typical shounen "hybridization", the tropes start piling up and the story looses any initial energy it had. After 7 volumes there was simply nothing worth sticking around for - lackluster battles, large cast of characters devoid of any development, bland main plot. Worse yet, i've seen it all before in other series, done better.

To summarize - if you're looking for kaijuus - you won't find many of them here. If you're looking for your next action shounen series - this will definitely scratch that itch, at least for a time.

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Good but...

by RandyRanda
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

As in itself it's good.
But when you read mangas for quite some time. This is too basic, boring and whatever.
Everything is preddictable and I can't be bother to read a long ass mid shonen when there are so many better shonen.
Dropped at 67

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Strong start, quickly devolved into a slew of generic, predictable, and boring developments

by Lokin
2 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

The main good consistency about this is the inking, I really love the clean inking and the monster designs.

It had an unique cast and development going for it in the beginning but then 10-20 chapters in it became a snooze fest, I regret giving this series 70-80 chapters a chance before dropping it.

The author doesn't bother developing the characters past their initial state, the choreography sucks and is bland, just shoot shoot shoot dodge dodge dodge with no strategy and tension whatsoever even when there's a shit tons of "stakes" and environmental destruction. I think the biggest issue is its blandness if the reader read this type of series before---it's like eating white bread for breakfast, brunch, lunch, then supper. It'll get old REAL FAST.

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Generic shounen huh...

by himemai
3 years ago

Rating: 8.8 / 10.0

....I rarely wrote in Baka since I have new place for writing review. I even delete some of my old review. But I think I'll write for some review again in here, including this title.
Someone said it's good at beginning at later become generic shounen. Well. I didn't really agree. I think it's very shounen from the beginning cough XD.

At the time first discovered this manga, I really like the kaiju side of main character. Like most, it's what attracted me.

It just too bad it didn't explained well. How long it will kept unexplained? Maybe because I'm a Parasyte reader, I hope the explanation come in an instant. Or least- not taking this long (as far as I read right now, which vol 7).

I like the pace of the story. There might be a plot that felt rough (for me), but overall the story rollin' and make the character able to shine bright. I guess I'm pretty easy to please reader.
And yes. The power of friendship is real. I remember the bitter taste from the Blue Exorcist that I drop. And thank gudnes this won't be likenthat. Hopefully no more shounen reminds me of that XD.
I actually can be fangirling with many characters in this manga including-- obviously the vice capt' XD.
Anyw.
Though I like it, I always prefer if some story end while still shine bright. Like Ajin. It doesn't take too many arc and loads of unbelievable volume to wrap the story.
I might someday edit this review based on the ending and progress.
....or maybe not because I'll write that on other place! Lol.

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slow pace and art kind of putting me off

by wansmor
3 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I have been a fan of the monster genre tbh (Claymore, Berserk, Gantz, Freezing I have all read to various degree) and actually I kinda agree with some other reviews here in that K8 popularity feels weird. As @Tremofx said, K8 is pretty generic in it's MC background. And progression is, in my humble opinion, slow. There's really not much you can get from a chapter (even when it is an action chapter) and it has also been a source of my frustration. Another point is less realistic art -while I'll let any reader judge to their own standard, personally I like when the monsters are more 'alive' looking.

Well it's not like it doesn't have a future. I feel the fact that MC transformed because of some germ infecting him is an interesting plot tool, in which we have yet to know whether the Kaijus are of divided faction or MC has actually some hidden background of whatever. However, I kind of feel it will just be another story for me.

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only good at the beginning, later part become you generic shounen manga

by naafx8
4 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

meh

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