After a good first season, Kaiju No. 8 returns not with an all-out roar, but one that ends with a slight whimper. It certainly does not help that the second season comes at the backend of a blitzkrieg of other high-quality anime films and TV shows, making comparisons inevitable.
Following the explosive season one’s finale, Kafka Hibino (Masaya Fukunishi) has been inducted by the Japanese Anti-Kaiju Defence Force (JAKDF) beyond being a standard officer and is now recognised as one of the organisation’s biggest assets due to his ability to turn into a kaiju.
Due to the growing threat of kaijus becoming more powerful with each invasive wave, the JAKDF begins to train Kafka and its other new officers such as Reno Ichikawa (Wataru Katoh) and Kikoru Shinomiya (Fairouz Ai).
