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Episode 8: Graftage

Admittedly I'm not the most well versed in terms of Godzilla lore.

But despite that, I still feel like this is an overall unique take on both the character and franchise?

It's a really interesting decision to make: Having Godzilla show up only to then immediately cocoon itself without much of a fight. And ontop of that, this one breathes gas rather than Godzilla's' signature Atomic Breath.

Past that, Mei gets ahold of Ashihara's' research notes, and surprisingly comes to understand them more or less. The big reveal being that it was due to Ashihara's' being able to see into the future that spelled the end for the universe as a whole, with a hint that Mei might be going just as mad as he did.

But the big takeaway for me was of course the exploits of the Otaki Crew; This time fighting against a legion of Spider Kaiju who can manipulate their own blood to keep moving even after being chopped in half. And man, I already don't like spiders. A sight like that would send me over the edge easy. Still, the Spear of Anguirus certainly puts in work.

And that's about all there was to this one really. It was fun, but it was very much just a sort of stepping stone type of episode. The big deep question from last episode is still left unanswered unfortunately, though in a very quick line it's established that Yun's' AI has 5 siblings of sorts, so maybe that'll go somewhere? Speaking of which, I think this is the first time we actually see Mei and Yun's' texts in real time rather than in a sort of montage? Kinda funny seeing the texts pour in during the Kaiju attack, especially fresh off of a show like Samurai Flamenco. (If you know, you knw.)

But yeah, Spider Kaiju! Looking forward to seeing how Yun's' genius is gonna get the crew out of this one.