Mugen Monday - 28th Edition

Have you ever wondered how cool it will be to have Monsters from another dimension roaming your country and a quick-shift bad-ass super paramilitary composed of elite commandos working to sweep these bastards off their ground? That is roughly what the recent Kaiju No.8 Anime which premiered few days prior to this writing, looks like.

Pacific Rim fans are in for one hell of a haul, given that this is everything they may have ever wanted - a PR Anime. (Although the Anime is not an official PR Anime adaptation, mind you).

Ever since the monsterverse expanded from being a Japanese franchise and rights got shifted to our friends in the Hollywood for films such as the 90s Godzilla, the famous first King Kong, Pacific Rims series’, and the recent Monsterverse reboot - the latest of which is Godzilla x Kong movie which is still seeing the light of the day (or is it dark of the cinema theatre?) currently.

Kaiju No. 8 may feel like an amalgamated chemical mess out of Tokyo Ghoul’s cool ghoul elimination unit, Parasyte the Maxim’s alien got into my hand, Neon Genesis Evangelion’s battling the ultra-terrain-ian monsters, and a few more other tropes.

And honestly, I like it. It mixes and matches different elements from stories we have already seen.

💢Gigantic ‘titanous’ monsters? Check.

🉐Super military that fights them? Check.

🎌Protagonist gets powers from the very villainous power that he has to contend with? Check.

🎌A possible school/police/institution where the protagonist will find Nakama and grow? Check.

The Japanese Manga which the Anime is obviously based on is a critically well-received work of Mangaka Naoya Matsumoto, who both wrote and illustrated his work.

With the first episode already out, what are our expectations from the anime?

- From the Editor’s Desk

Rhytham Das, Editor-in-Chief, Spiel Anime