June 15, 2024
Kaiju No. 8
It's such a cliche. It was inevitable, Kafka has to reveal himself to prevent everyone from being nuked after they've all been thoroughly trounced by a level 9 Kaiju. And when the dust settles, the captain doesn't recognize him as Kafka Hibino any more, only as Kaiju No. 8. And pulls out her sidearm to arrest him.
Mind you, he's been read as a level 9.8 Kaiju. He just STOOD there and shielded everyone from the equivalent of a 20 k-ton nuke. WTF is she thinking that popgun will do to him? Hurt his feelings? (Well, it probably would.)
Hey, lets ignore the fact that in every single sighting of No. 8 he has been benign, and has helped and rescued people. Let's ignore that he just saved all your asses. And lets ignore, Captain, that you personally knew him before this Kaiju ever appeared, which should make it clear that he's Kafka first.
Nah, we've gotta play it this way.
Seriously, at this point the cards are on the table, can people just TALK for once?
Oh, next episode is 11. Yeah, I guess they'll talk it out a bit, then a bit more, then have a bureaucratic battle with superiors who don't understand... and end episode 12 with a freeze-frame of everyone going into battle.
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Thought occurred to me: Does the Kaiju defense force even HAVE arrest authority?
Posted by: Mauser at June 17, 2024 08:47 PM (nk1Z+)
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The real-world JSDF can be granted police authority "when it is deemed that the public security cannot be maintained by law enforcement alone", so our anti-kaiju force would have that as a matter of course, and in any case she's a quasi-military officer arresting a subordinate who appears to be compromised by the enemy. Her choices are basically kill the monster, capture the monster, execute the spy, or go way out on a limb for him and treat it as an arrest.
The way that even Vice-Captain Slashy is surprised that a kaiju can speak strongly suggests that their standing orders do not include taking prisoners of war, just capturing monsters to experiment on.
-j
The way that even Vice-Captain Slashy is surprised that a kaiju can speak strongly suggests that their standing orders do not include taking prisoners of war, just capturing monsters to experiment on.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 19, 2024 02:39 AM (oJgNG)
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