From Viz:With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of ing the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight kaiju now that he’s become one himself? 5tc22
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.
15 Volumes (Ongoing)

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.
... Last updated 5 months ago
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.
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
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.
....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 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.
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.
I can't say much for the current development. The story most likely will much oriented, much narrower, with the troop's jobs on the field but it's still good so far. The most important is...damn, it has amazing action and satisfying wide-spread pages. The monster's protoype in this manga kind of remind me with Ajin. I don't really care about other criticisms—if any—but this is still the best choice compared to WSJ lineup which is too nakama power cliches.