Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 4 by Naoya Matsumoto

4 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review

hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

I was not expecting this plot point to happen as soon as it did so I’m curious about what the repercussions will be, with regard for the timeframe.  Overall, it feels like the weakest volume so far, though I can’t really explain why.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

apersonfromflorida's review

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Grief and Death of parent

spooderman's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Grief and Death of parent

rnbhargava's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This volume is nonstop action and intrigue. The supporting character on the volume cover really gets to shine. Also, the direction this volume went is somewhere the story had to get to pretty quickly but it still remained surprising with some added folds and repercussions going into the next volume. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Some of the Kaiju action could be grotesque to some. Everyone acts with huge emotions which could read melodramatic. Further, their decisions about what moves to do are all huge. That could lead to all sorts of potential questionable read too much into the text moments. That’s about all I can think of.