Kaiju No.8‘s anime was off to a great start in adapting a manga series filled with way too many monster intestines to even think about animating and soldiers with incredible capabilities, whose movements in battle against said creatures were physical feats astonishing to the eye even in a work of fiction. Riding the high of success, the anime may have grown complacent with one of the most highly anticipated arrivals of one of the esteemed captains from a different division.