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Kaiju Girl Caramelise #8
乙女怪獣キャラメリゼ 8 [Otome Kaijuu Caraméliser 8]
はるか遠く未開の島で、黒絵は自身の誕生の秘密を知る――。
大怪獣「ハルゴン」へと変貌する女子高生・黒絵は、東京に現れたもう一体の怪獣を退け、自身がハルゴンであることを恋人の新汰に打ち明ける。秘密が明るみとなる危険に晒される中、母・倫子が現れて……。
大怪獣「ハルゴン」へと変貌する女子高生・黒絵は、東京に現れたもう一体の怪獣を退け、自身がハルゴンであることを恋人の新汰に打ち明ける。秘密が明るみとなる危険に晒される中、母・倫子が現れて……。
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180 pages, Paperback
First published September 21, 2024
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November 4, 2025
I keep running hot and cold on this series and I literally managed the entire gamut this volume. It’s infuriatingly uneven or just in the habit of making poor choices, I’m not precisely sure which.
The first section is the best, as it focuses on what happened back in the city in the aftermath of Kuroe fleeing from it. We see just how many friends she’s made and they get to interact a bit, which is cute (that teenager sized young kid remains a misfire though).
I wish this was worse so I could use my snarky Godzilla Minus Substance comment, but it just hovers over this middle ground between frustrating and truly good that it has sat at for some time. Most of the time it makes a choice, I wish it made a different one.
Case in point, most everything involving the island that probably birthed Kuroe. Last time was the ridiculous stereotypes, this time… phew… okay, this is one of those things some people won’t bat an eye at, but it totally wrecked this for me.
Drago, who lost his family to a kaiju attack, goes in search of the beast for revenge. Sure, okay, fine. He stumbles across a humanoid child, obviously the offspring, and brings her back to the village. She clings to him constantly as they grow up and then they get married.
Oh, did I mention that he found her when she was eight and he was thirteen? Sigh. Lighthearted interactions just don’t look the same when the found family decide to get hitched at the end of it and I couldn’t get that out of my head the whole time. Whatever dramatics the mangaka attempts to wring from this never quite make up for that one.
It’s too bad this can’t manage to be consistently good. I’m not reading it because it’s bad; I want it to be better than it is. It has good jokes and sweet moments, but it also manages to inevitably shoot itself in the foot at some point.
The art is also pretty dang fantastic and Kuroe’s reactions are just deadly charming. This could jettison large chunks of its plot and be a slimmed down, far more romantic beast than it is. A lot of it has really found itself in the weeds and it’s a damn shame.
There’s also a super charming bonus story (and some very goofy 4-koma about weight issues, which feels dusty but still amused me) and the vignettes in the first story arc of the volume are chock full of melancholic happiness.
Wanting better hits different when you aren’t wholly satisfied with what you’re getting. This is so woefully inconsistent; I know that island stuff is vintage kaiju 101, but some things don’t need to be there just because it’s part and parcel of the genre.
3 stars - there’s just something about this series that seems to embrace everything it does poorly instead of what it does well. I keep reading for the good parts, but it stumbles as much as it soars.
The first section is the best, as it focuses on what happened back in the city in the aftermath of Kuroe fleeing from it. We see just how many friends she’s made and they get to interact a bit, which is cute (that teenager sized young kid remains a misfire though).
I wish this was worse so I could use my snarky Godzilla Minus Substance comment, but it just hovers over this middle ground between frustrating and truly good that it has sat at for some time. Most of the time it makes a choice, I wish it made a different one.
Case in point, most everything involving the island that probably birthed Kuroe. Last time was the ridiculous stereotypes, this time… phew… okay, this is one of those things some people won’t bat an eye at, but it totally wrecked this for me.
Drago, who lost his family to a kaiju attack, goes in search of the beast for revenge. Sure, okay, fine. He stumbles across a humanoid child, obviously the offspring, and brings her back to the village. She clings to him constantly as they grow up and then they get married.
Oh, did I mention that he found her when she was eight and he was thirteen? Sigh. Lighthearted interactions just don’t look the same when the found family decide to get hitched at the end of it and I couldn’t get that out of my head the whole time. Whatever dramatics the mangaka attempts to wring from this never quite make up for that one.
It’s too bad this can’t manage to be consistently good. I’m not reading it because it’s bad; I want it to be better than it is. It has good jokes and sweet moments, but it also manages to inevitably shoot itself in the foot at some point.
The art is also pretty dang fantastic and Kuroe’s reactions are just deadly charming. This could jettison large chunks of its plot and be a slimmed down, far more romantic beast than it is. A lot of it has really found itself in the weeds and it’s a damn shame.
There’s also a super charming bonus story (and some very goofy 4-koma about weight issues, which feels dusty but still amused me) and the vignettes in the first story arc of the volume are chock full of melancholic happiness.
Wanting better hits different when you aren’t wholly satisfied with what you’re getting. This is so woefully inconsistent; I know that island stuff is vintage kaiju 101, but some things don’t need to be there just because it’s part and parcel of the genre.
3 stars - there’s just something about this series that seems to embrace everything it does poorly instead of what it does well. I keep reading for the good parts, but it stumbles as much as it soars.
November 12, 2025
While this is still a good story, I’m going to have to stop reading it. I’m a bit lost at this point and on how this flashback moments connect to the overall story. That, along with the lengthy time between the publication of each manga volume, which also doesn’t help with my recollection of the volume, is why I’m not continuing this series.
November 4, 2025
Kinara and Drago’s story made my heart hurt!
This is such a great series with such beautiful art. I just wish it released at a quicker pace…
This is such a great series with such beautiful art. I just wish it released at a quicker pace…
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