Kaiju No. 8 Chapter 31 Review and Analysis – So That’s What the Screaming Was All About–Such Awesome


Hello my wonderful viewers and welcome to another episode of Betty Adams overanalyzes. Today we are taking a look at Chapter 31 of Kaiju No. 8. I will try to keep my fangirl squealing to a minimum but I have not had this much fun with a manga since…I can’t remember when. I kid you not, there were three separate moments where I had to get up and leave my computer so I could run around outside squealing. It is a dang good thing that I have desensitized both my cats and my neighbors to this kind of behavior. It is one thing to have them know that I am a strange little fangirl and shrug and accept it, it is a very different thing when they come up to me and gently ask if I need to speak to the councilor like folks used to do when I was in Uni. This was just, this was just so good, so wholesome, so, so perfectly shonen manga.  

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 Humans are Weird – Bullwhip


The fact that there were two wing’s-worth of messages waiting for him in his message que when the silverwing finally reentered the range of the broadcast antenna was hardly surprising Five-Trills mused as he ran a winghook tiredly over his sensory horns. Their exploratory flight had been out for nearly a local day past their stated return time and on a planet that was only barely rated as safe, and that only with the obliging presence of the humans to offer advice and protection, the idea that they had all been messily devoured by some random plant was a worryingly likely suspicion. The fact that they had been sent to investigate some, “cool” carnivorousness plants by on the humans’ suggestion made it more so. However the humans had said that the plants seemed harmless for even a creature of the Wingeds’ size and despite the little incident with the mother-plant it had turned out to be so, for the most part.
Five-Trills shifted his talons uneasily in the soothing wraps the medic had somehow fabricated from their field supplies. Being trapped in a non-sentient, let alone non-sapient living organism that was trying to eat you in the slowest possible way imaginable while countless insects died around you was a rather unpleasant way to spend the greater part of a day, but he had eventually managed to claw his way up the slippery sides of the plants digestive chamber and had even managed to dry off his wings and fly back to the Silverwing under his own power. The poor fool who had, successfully, tried to eat his way out through the side had needed to be lifted aboard and was now quietly retching into the waste disposal unit. Though he had admitted that the inner flesh of the plant was pretty tasty.
“Nearly home,” Eight Clicks said from where he was slumped in the copilot’s hammock.
Five-Trills gave a grunt of affirmation.
“To bad Human Friend Esteban couldn’t have come with us,” Eight Click went on, his voice reanimating as they neared their destination. He had been nearly comatose with exasperation by the time he and climbed back into the Silverwing, “He could have rescued us all in a flight of wing-beats, and prevented any damage to the plants as well.”
“He is a little hard to fit in the Silverwing,” Five-Trills pointed out in a dry tone.
“Still,” Eight Clicks went on as he made another attempt to groom the bare patches where his back fur used to be, “I just feel safer with a human around you know.”
The sentence ended abruptly as the alarms on the Silverwing started clicking frantically, moments before a sonic shock-wave ripped over its sensor rich surface causing the craft to shudder.


“What-” the suddenly perfectly alert Eight Click started to demand when a second shock-wave hit them.
“-was-” he rather boldly kept trying.
A third shock-wave triggered the self defense protocols in the Silverwing and it dove for the ground. In a moment it had pressed it’s underbelly to the foliage of the ground-cover, giving them a fine view of the soft, ear shaped leaves, still trembling from the wind of their landing.
“-that?” the determined Eight Click finally got out.
“Silverwing why have you diverted from your landing instructions,” the curt voice of the air traffic controller suddenly pipped up from the comms unit.
“We were knocked out of the sky by some sort of sonic wave!” Eight Click snapped. “Three of them!”
“Injuries?” the air traffic controller asked quickly.
There was a brief murmur of negatives from the back of the Silverwing and Five-Trill raised a wing for silence.
“We are uninjured and undamaged,” Five-Trills said. “The force of the sonic blasts triggered the emergency landing protocols in our Silverwing. It does not look like they had power enough to actually damage us, but before I take us airborne again I would like to know what caused it.”
“That will be tricky,” the air traffic controller said after a moment. “We are reading the disturbance but, despite its intensity it is difficult to get-”
“Human Friend Esteban,” Five-Trills suddenly cut in.
“Oh don’t worry,” the air traffic controller said with a click of amusement. “We will certainly send the resident human after whatever the threat-”
“No!” Five-Trills snapped. “Assume he is the cause, and use his location to compare to your data!”
There was a moment of sudden silence and then the voice on the other end heaved a tired sigh.
“Your analysis is correct-”
Another set of three sonic waves swept over them and the air traffic controller waited for them to pass.
“He requested clearance to test the function of a tool he has been making from the skin of that predator he killed on the other continent-”
Three more sonic waves, faster now.
“His justification was desire to participate in his ancestral culture through the construction of and practice with the tool-”
Six sonic waves coursed over them in rapid succession.
“There is in fact a note about how the tool uses sound waves to direct the course of large, dangerous herbivores-”
Now nine sonic waves, with increasing power, ripped over them.
“Can you tell him to stop?” demanded Five-Trills.
“I have triggered the visual alert in the training field,” the air traffic controller assured them.
Three more sonic waves whipped past before the sound stopped.
“Human Friend Estaban is coiling up the tool and signals that he is returning to the base proper,” the now cheerful voice announced.
“Coiling?” Five-Trills demanded. “What is this thing exactly?”
“He called it a, bullwhip,” the air traffic controller announced. “Now I need to sign off. It should be safe for you to proceed to base.”
Five-Trills set about convincing the Silverwing it was safe to take off and shot Eight Clicks an annoyed glance.
“Always safer with the human around?” he demanded.
Eight Clicks shrugged.
“At least we are safe from large, directionless, herbivores,” he pointed out.




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 Humans are Weird – Milk on the Fire


“Not now Trixy!” The human snapped without even turning to look at him.
Tcki’tx felt himself bristle with indignation and spun around on his center of gravity and stalked away wishing that his paws would make more of a stomping sound on the spiderwalk. Humans did have the advantage over every other species when it came to expressing passive displeasure. If a human was offended everyone but the Winged knew it soon enough from the shaking of the floor. Tcki’tx took the translation he had needed help with back to the main processing area.
The large circular space that had been arranged for the three human linguists now housed the offices of the Trisk, the Winged, and even had a kiosk for the occasional visiting Shatar diplomat, though Shatar linguists tended to be male and therefore preferred to share the workspace of a sister or cousin no matter what her specialty was, than to use the multi species spaces. Still there was the broad, low shelves that the Shatar preferred and it was here that Tcki’tx stomped and began the laborious process of figuring out how he had gone wrong with the translation of the archaic human poem without the help of a human.
“There is something here about a, I believe the translation is belt, but oh swarm that makes no sense,” Tcki’tx muttered to himself and he began to pull up the original text and overlay his notes on top of them, hoping to catch something he had missed.
“This shouldn’t be this difficult,” he complained to the world at large. “The language is well documented from a time well before the writing of this extract, it should be a simple matter of applying the rules.”
The nutritional anthropologist who had just transferred in, one Quilx’tch who was respected for being one of the first Trisk to interact with the humans and develop a working grasp of their language, entered the work space from one of the upper entrances on the spider walk and very deliberately positioned himself at a crosspoint of several walks. From the way he was holding his data pad he clearly needed help with a translation. Tcki’tx absorbed the movement around him and quickly realized that he was the least involved in his work. He finished setting up his notes then turned his body and waved up to the nutritionist. Come to think of it, he mused, Quilx’tch was a colleague of Human Friend Grover. Perhaps Quilx’tch would have an explanation of his behavior.
“Greetings Linguist Tcki’tx,” Quilx’tch said as he approached. “I trust that this day finds you...less stressed.”
Tcki’tx patted his hairs down with a wry set to his mandibles as he relaxed into the six pads of silence between question and answer. His discomfort was less well disguised than he had hoped.
“I am afraid I let myself be offended at one of the humans,” he confessed.
Quilx’tch politely patted down his own already smoothly laying hairs in sympathy with Tcki’tx while they waited the six pads. It was always so refreshing to speak to someone who didn’t expect you to respond to them in barely the time that it took your synapses to transfer the data.
“They are a boisterous folk,” Quilx’tch said with an amused set to his own mandibles. “I am much afraid I have taken offense for that is reasonable in my turn. Especially when they were hungry.”
Recalling that Human Friend Grover had been preparing food when he approached him, Tcki’tx felt his hairs twitch in unease. As soon as he had formed his question he asked it.
“Are humans prone to loss of social skill when they are hungry?” Tckt’tx asked.
Quilx’tch shifted his legs in a slow and amused confirmation as they both finished patting down their hairs.
“They call it being hangry,” the nutritional offered. “Mammals are notorious for being unable to maintain proper nutrient balances in their blood stream. Their metabolic demands mean that their purifying organs must be profoundly powerful. This among other things makes them prone to daily mood swings.”
“I do hope that Human Friend Grover was not offended at my offense,” Tcki’tx said.
To his shock Quilx’tch suddenly stiffened in horror and did not wait half of the six pads before demanding.
“You talked to Human Friend Grover?” Quilx’tch demanded. “Within the last hour?”
Tcki’tk stared at him in astonishment before answering.
“I did,” Tcki’tk answered slowly.
“He was not hangry!” Quilx’tch said his paws tapping in agitation. “I personally made sure he was nutrient balanced this morning. We are doing a complex experiment with bovine protein – oh swarm! If this batch carbonizes we will have to stop the experiment! Or beg the next system for protein! The only have Capra protein. Oh swarm, perhaps it didn’t carbonize! I must check!”
To Tcki’tk’s astonishment Quilx’tch spun and darted away without even a farewell gesture. Human Friend Léonie who had been busily typing away at a translation of “The Swarm of Mother’s Paws” paused and strolled over with an interested expression on his face.
“Yo Tcki’tk,” he greeted the Trisk. “What had our little food friend in such a flutter?”
“Apparently I may have critically disturbed a vital experiment in the nutrition department,” Tcki’tk replied.
Human Friend Léonie gave the polite pause and then shrugged.
“We’ve all been there,” Human Friend Léonie said. “They really need to get a work in progress sign up in the kitchens or something. Was that what got you all puffed up?”
“I was somewhat offended at Human Friend Grover’s rudeness,” Tcki’tk admitted.
“What was he working on?” Human Friend Léonie asked.
“He was heating bovine lactate protein,” Tcki’tk said.
Human Friend Léonie immediately started and only contained himself for the polite six seconds with visible effort. Tcki’tk felt a renewed twinge of unease, apparently his offense had been worse than he had thought.
“You mean you disturbed him when he, quite literally avait du lait sur le feu? Human Friend Léonie asked.
“It has a saying in your mother tongue,” Tcki’tk said, his body shrinking a bit with a sigh.
“That is does mon amie,” Human Friend Léonie said with a laugh. “Well don’t stress about it. You can apologize later and now you have a new phrase, as well as knowing not to bother someone while they have milk on the fire.”


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 Humans are Weird – Waaaow Waaaow Waaaow


“The critical point is that we maintain the proper moisture gradient for the other species,” Gesturesoddly said as he held up the data pad. “Even a human’s native micro-fauna is insufficient to defend them from the fungal growths on this planet if their feet are not kept in an exactly balanced moisture environment.”
The new quartermaster who was to replace Gesturesoddly was trying very hard to attend to what the older quartermaster was saying. However several of his appendages were drifting around trying to find the source of the pulsing sound that bled down from the atmosphere into their aquatic habitat. Gesturesoddly considered taking pity on him but decided that it would be counterproductive. If the new quartermaster was to be successful in his post he would have to learn how to deal with humans. The sooner he learned what input was safe to filter out and what was not the better. Gesturesoddly tightened his appendages a bit and continued to discuss the reasons that they maintained such an abrupt moisture gradient in the main base.
When the new quartermaster did finally interrupt he seemed to have taken the hint that the noise was unimportant and only asked about the Shatar.
“Yes,” Gesturesoddly said, letting his appendages twitch in discomfort. “That was our hubris I am afraid. Normally no hive would ever allow even a twentieth cousin to risk herself on a world this hazardous. They really have no defenses worth mentioning on the surface of their outer membranes and such a damp base as this would be off-limits. However we had been so successful with the humans the university sent us a Shatar biochemist. She got a mild abrasion on her foot, mild even by their standards, and the infection set in quickly. Very odd that, it wasn’t a fungus, it was a plant. The hive naturally snatched her back so quickly that we barely had time to finish sending them the report on her health. I hear they had to amputate the leg. The first medical amputation they have had to preform in generations. It was quite traumatic for the entire hive.”
The telling of the tragedy had almost distracted the new quartermaster from the sound but they were reaching the part of the briefing where they had to go and inspect the giant fans that were used the circulate the air past the dehumidifier systems. The new quartermaster posed the natural question about using such inefficient circulatory systems in favor of passive and thermal designs and Gesturesoddly gave a hum of approval.
“We want a lack of efficiency,” Gesturesoddly said. “The passive systems have no vibration. In the moist sections the fungus grow wild. In the dry sections the lichens latch on and grow constantly. The vibration keeps a large percentage of the biomatter from finding secure holds and that added to the chaotic air movements saves us hundreds of hours of cleaning. Even so we have to send in rotational scrub bots to scour the walls and treat them with elemental antibiotics on a regular basis.”
The new quartermaster asked about the human rumors and Gesturesoddly jiggled in a fit of humor.
“Oh, yes that is all quite true,” he said. “The humans get so attached to the cleaning bots. They have named the ones on this base Spinny MacSpinface and Ever Spinnin. Supposedly these sound patterns have ancient cultural meanings.”
They were reaching the source of the odd pulsing sounds and Gesturesoddly could tell that the new quartermaster was about to ask about the clearly non-mechanical noise. However he had timed their swim precisely and they came up just by the main vents where the giant circulation fans were placed. The fans were set into the wall on one side of what looked like a comically oversize dehumidifier system. The air was pulled in from outside through the side of a barrel and the centrifugal force of the air movement caused most of the particulate matter, seeds, spores, pollen and the like to fall to the biomass collectors below before the air was pulled through the fist of three filters. Then the are was dehumidified mechanically by a temperature gradient, passed through another filter for finer particulate matter, was dehumidified chemically, and passed through an activated carbon nano-tube system that worked on a molecular level before being re-humidified from the now clean water and forced out into the base through the three fans each with the diameter of a large Undulate with all his appendages spread for open ocean swimming.
“Of course,” Gesturesoddly went on, switching entirely to their native language of gestures and touches as the pulsing sound overwhelmed them in the open air, “it is all terribly expensive, but the main problems it counters are mostly long term so we could shuffle on for several weeks if it had even a catastrophic failure, and the humans assure us so long as the chemical dehumidifiers could be arranged in the inner rooms they would be fine.”
“Are they,” the new quartermaster asked tentatively as they observed the three humans hunched in front of the fans, “are they quite fine now? That is not, that cannot be any language.”
“Waaaoooowwww, waaaaaooowwww!” the humans chanted into the fans.
“They find casting sound at running fans and feeling the resonance it throws back entertaining,” Gesturesoddly said with a nicely human shrug. “It is one of their more harmless forms of entertainment. At least they have not strapped any knives to the vent cleaning robots.”
The new quartermaster stiffened in confused horror. Gesturesoddly waved his main appendages fondly at the chanting humans.
“Yet,” he finished.  






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After nearly a week stuck in the Suez Canal the Ever Given's aft end is finally floating and free of the canal bank. Now they just have to free the bow end which will take some time still. 
Good work little tugs, dredging machines, and of course that brave little digger!