Such is also the case in Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8, which is set in a world where monsters named kaiju regularly trigger disasters. Apart from the kaiju themselves, we have to take the Japanese Anti-Kaiju Defense Force into consideration, as these skilled combatants are specifically trained to keep kaiju in check. The story follows Kafka Hibino, whose body is hijacked by a parasitic creature, which grants him the ability to transform into a humanoid kaiju. Concealing this aspect of his identity, Kafka enlists in the Defense Force to fulfill a childhood promise.