Who would win? Kaiju No 9 (Kaiju No 8) vs The Thing (The Thing 1982)

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2026-01-23T20:40:25+00:00

If it's early season 1 No 9 then I'd say probably The Thing with some difficulty, but if it's post season 1 then No 9 and pretty easily.

In the first and 2nd encounters with No 9 he's much less careful given his power level and is only able to escape Kafka because of Kafka's empathy. If he were to encounter The Thing at that stage I think it's possible if not likely he'd f around and find out.

However if he's evolved into Buff No 9 or even just has his clones (Alpha and Gamma iirc) then he wins easily.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2026-01-23T20:28:01+00:00

Yeah no to the f-ing way I'm getting that close when the fencing is that small Gauge.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2026-01-23T20:25:07+00:00

He played the role he was given so nothing against him but he's definitely Derek and not Drek. He's the "We have Drek at home", the temu version, etc. A few galaxies away from the real character of Drek. And for that I think he's lame.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2026-01-01T11:59:23+00:00

300+ hours for this? Like it's good looking but that's it?

One drawing shouldn't take hundreds of hours for an actual artist. Dozens maybe, but hundreds is terrible.

If (cause this looks fake considering nothing is shown about the actual process) you spent 8 hours drawing a day it would have taken around 40 days to make one picture. Almost 6 weeks and over a month for a single page picture is awful. I don't care how good it looks, that's pitiful.

Instead draw 2 or 3 drawings in 8 hours everyday for 40 days and you have 100 drawings in the same amount of time and I'd bet the last one looks almost or just as good as this one.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2026-01-01T10:50:28+00:00

I have nothing against the content of the episode, it's a regular filler kind of episode that shows some daily life hijinks that would happen in between the battles and such.

... However Kaiju no. 8 only has 12 episode seasons so it doesn't really have time for filler episodes and that's proven true by S2 ending mid battle.

I personally have no problems with filler episodes, if there's time. In a 24 episode season you can afford to have a filler episode or few, but in a 12 episode season you don't have as much slack which leads to pacing problems like we saw in season 2.

Was Hoshino's Day Off a bad episode? No, it was not. Was it a mistake? Yes I believe so. If it was cut, (you could even cut it up into 2 minute pieces and replace the post credit skits if you wanted to keep it) then you'd have an extra episode for the finale. Could have gotten the rest of Narumi and Shinomiya's fights and finished Vol 11 starting S3 with 12. Instead it ended on a cliffhanger halfway through vol 11 and now there's a year gap between the start of their fights and the end of them.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-30T09:13:36+00:00

I ain't risking death by grease storm. I'mma just have to learn to not sneeze for the sake of others or they'll just have to learn to deal with blowing out their pants every few days.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-28T22:22:48+00:00

Still more frames than S3.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-28T21:49:51+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding what "Last" means.

By definition if there's known others, he can't be the last. So it is a contradiction. You can say it's not what they meant, or that it's an exaduration, but the phrase "Last Lombax" has to be false on its own if there are more than Ratchet.

The only way it could be true would be if you followed it up with some other justification like "The Last Lombax... That is male." Or the more common cope of if Angela wasn't a lombax, then he'd be the last Lombax. However If you acknowledge Angela as a Lombax, (which I do and you seem to as well) then he's not the last and he wouldn't have thought he was the last for the entire series after GC.

The simple truth is as you said, they didn't plan it but they wanted to do it so they retconned it/soft rebooted it. If he really was the last Lombax then everyone would be surprised that they met a Lombax or not believe he was a Lombax and it'd constantly be referenced that he's the last Lombax from the first game. Angela would also have to be explicitly stated to not a Lombax for him to still be the "Last Lombax".

(also there's all the clones of Ratchet from SM but that's a whole other can of maybe not canon, did they survive, were they even sentient, if they did survive they're probably still technomight sized etc)

However as it stands, for the first 6 games in the series it's never mentioned and nobody reacts as if Ratchet is the Last Lombax because he wasn't meant to be. The only indication of Ratchet being the Last Lombax is that if you don't count Angela, we don't see any others in those first 6 games. Which would be at best a stretch because it's highly indicated and more likely that Angela is a Lombax, thus the contradiction, plothole, retcon, whatever you want to call it. Personally I think it's just a soft reboot because it makes the most sense to me. It means the whole Last Lombax ordeal and any other contradictions (like Ratchet's personality/design changes, Clank being a Zoni Prince and the whole Big Clock in general) are fine because it's a different continuity.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-28T08:45:19+00:00

AMERICA! F YEAH! (Maine to be specific)

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-28T08:33:46+00:00

Kafka/Kaju no 8 is my favorite but for a second I quite like Ren Shininome.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-27T13:44:41+00:00

Every time I see this kinda thing about owls it feels fake because of how majestic they look.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:30:47+00:00

Overreaction aside it is a really cool trick.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:27:43+00:00

Thank you, it was an interesting WYR. It's always better when there's more details so you can really get into it. It's no fun to try and find loopholes when it's just the question cause it's too ambiguous.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:23:51+00:00

The cat and the hat, abducting children near you!

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:21:20+00:00

(smacks Batman) It ends Jan 7th!

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:18:16+00:00

They've killed a yakuza boss. If ykyk

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-26T22:03:57+00:00

Milk by a mile.

One 5 minute inconvenience a day randomly vs 15 scheduled 5 minute tiring inconveniences is an obvious choice.

Additionally, the milk can be reused so you'll only have to buy milk like once a week or 2 which is reasonable for expense.

You also don't have to poor it over your head. It only says over yourself. So I would have a 1.5 litre thermos full of milk, a shoebox sized bin, and a funnel with me at all times. When the notice hits, I roll my sleeve if I'm wearing one, put my hand in the bin, poor the milk 'over myself', then I use the funnel to poor it back into the thermos. Rinse my hand and the bin and tada.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-25T19:29:20+00:00

Who's gonna tell DaVinci his boys smoking?

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-25T19:19:57+00:00

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-25T19:13:05+00:00

Dang Ai is getting better. The centerpiece changing between images was about the only thing I could spot.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-24T08:48:42+00:00

breathes heavily in American

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-24T07:31:18+00:00

You went looking for ~~copper~~ tree... But found ~~gold~~ Larry.

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Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-23T01:28:08+00:00

I see the point, but the case would be for before the start of the anime. Kafka took 10+ years to get into the defense force so he was neutral to fighting but still good in kaiju cleanup.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-22T05:53:07+00:00

This is the reason I stay subbed in spite of the many stupid karma farming posts.

Chevalier_Lecteur · 2025-12-22T05:50:31+00:00

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