at the end of the day kn8 is about finding a home in a division that will welcome and accept you no matter what anybody says and despite the last arc i’m glad we circled back right here for the final chapter
i was on vacation when the last kn8 manga chapter came out and i still haven't posted my thoughts on it lol okay here we go!!
First of all, the longer hair is a good look on Kafka!
Okay, anyway:
The heart transplant still doesn't make a lot of sense to me and does, in fact, feel underdeveloped - this is especially since Kaiju No. 8 is still living inside of him - but I'm going to choose to ignore it. For now. It will come up again later.
I'm a little disappointed that Mina and Kafka never got a chance to really talk about everything that's gone down between them. Their relationship has been one of Kafka's greatest motivations in the series, so to have Mina say nothing in the end feels... meh. Mina got the short end of the stick in this series.
Look at all these characters who never got any real development (aside from Reno)!!! I am still waiting for the tea about what happened between Haruichi and his dad. I hope the anime fills in some of the gaps because these characters deserve it:
Oh Gen, the clown you are. Glad to see that some things will never change lol. I hope Kikoru keeps him on his toes (and also that she surpasses him).
Okay, so let's circle back to Kafka's heart. This series has left me with a lot of questions:
Did the removal of his kaiju core/grudges affect his combat power at all? Kafka was the first 0% the DF had ever seen, but he was also the first kaiju to ever join, so it stands to reason that the two are connected. Did regaining a human heart raise him to a normal level? The chapter doesn't specify, so we can assume that he's still at a low level, so does that mean that it's the presence of No. 8 that's preventing him from gaining higher combat power? Or was he always going to be a 0% regardless of his kaiju abilities?
The series spent a lot of time focusing on this, so I do wish it answered some of the questions it posed. However, that being said, I don't think it detracts from the overall enjoyment of the series. I'm happy that everyone got their happy ending and I'm shocked (in a good way) that this series only had one death of a named character (kind of? Is Isao still kicking around in some form? No idea lol).
I'm going to miss this series a lot, but I'm grateful to have been able to read it and keep up with it as it was releasing <3
