Funny / Kaiju No. 8

Ladies and gentlemen: meet the World's Strongest Kaiju.

When your badass, insanely powerful monster-slaying hero also happens to be a massive dork, funny moments are bound to happen.

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Volume 1

Chapter 1

• The very first chapter opens with Mina Ashiro one-shotting a Godzilla-sized Kaiju with a shot so powerful it punched right through it with enough force to blow its entire back open. Then we cut to Kafka's cleanup crew watching from afar, with one of them noting that they're about to do some serious overtime.
• While Kafka is working on dismantling the Kaiju's corpse, his boss comes to find him to tell him an understaffed crew needs reinforcement. When Kafka inquires what area of the monster body the understaffed crew needs help with, his superior tells him that it's the intestines... Cue Kafka being dragged kicking and screaming towards his new assignment, while one of his coworkers offers his condolences.
  • How gross are Kaiju bowels? They're gross enough to be censored, even though the manga doesn't shy away from graphic displays of bloody violence.
    Disposal Crew Worker #1: "I've heard people talk about it before but... Is intestine duty really that bad?"
    Disposal Crew Worker #2: "Take a sec to think about what you'll find in there, and you have your answer. Anyway, on the days you get intestine duty, you can kiss your appetite goodbye for a while..."
• Reno Ichikawa's first day on the job. At first, he's haughty, aloof, and rudely dismissive of Kafka... Then he gets assigned to intestine duty (much to Kafka's delight), under Kafka's supervision (not to Kafka's delight). Reno's attitude then quickly evaporates as he gets confronted to the reality of the much-dreaded intestine duty, and while he tries to put up a front at first, declining Kafka's help (handing him vitamines so he can get some energy without having to eat because, as noted above, intestine duty will absolutely kill your appetite, and nose buds to help with the smell), Kafka has none of it and pretty much forces Reno to accept, much to the amusement of their coworkers.
  Coworker: "Yup! That's how we all were at first."

Chapter 2

• On the first night of his transformation, Kafka quickly runs into a problem any Henshin Hero might come across when he realizes he needs to pee in a body that has no visible natural means of doing so. Cue the pee squirting out of his nipples.
  Kafka (after a Face Fault): Now I can never be someone's bride!! I'm gonna die right here!!
  Ichikawa: You could never be someone's bride anyway so it's fine!!
  • Consider how Kafka was so shocked at pissing out of his nipples that he momentarily forgot what gender he was.
• The beginning of the Running Gag where, upon being met with various citizens freaking out at the presence of a humanoid Kaiju, Kafka is advised to try smiling to show he's friendly. Cue The Unsmile. He tries it with an old guy passing by his hospital room and later a little girl. Both scream their heads off.