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• Spring Rain by Call_the_exorcist

  Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  08 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Hibino Kafka/Hoshina Soushirou
  • Hibino Kafka
  • Hoshina Soushirou
  • Ashiro Mina (Kaiju No. 8)
  • Shinomiya Hikari
  • Shinomiya Isao
  • Hoshina Souichirou
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Childhood Friends
  • Friends to Lovers
  • truthfully more like pet to friends to lovers
  • Alternative Universe - Non-Human Kafka
  • Eventual Romance
  • Slow Burn
  • Jealousy
  • Canon-Typical Violence

  Summary

  Under a cherry blossom in spring, a boy meets a beast. When the boy grows up, he takes the beast as his bride.

  (Not bestiality, Kafka does end up transforming into a human. Reverse kaiju-transformation?)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  114,840

  Chapters:

  25/?

  Comments:

  568

  Kudos:

  1,049

  Bookmarks:

  254

  Hits:

  25,799

• Full House by Call_the_exorcist, fend

  Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  30 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hibino Kafka/Hoshina Soushirou
  • Hibino Kafka
  • Hoshina Soushirou
  • Shinomiya Kikoru
  • Ichikawa Reno
  • Furuhashi Iharu
  • Kaguragi Aoi (Kaiju No. 8)
  • Izumo Haruichi
  • Minase Akari
  • Igarashi Hakua
  • Ashiro Mina (Kaiju No. 8)
  • Fluff
  • Found Family
  • Established Relationship
  • Engaged Hibino Kafka/Hoshina Soushirou
  • AU is kind to Kafka
  • this time
  • Illustrations

  Summary

  When life throws you a line, and a dream job, and a family, and a husband

  Alternatively, Kafka finally gets his flowers

  Series

  • Part 2 of Figuring it out

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,948

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  110

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  1,160

• Party of one by Call_the_exorcist, fend

  Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  10 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hibino Kafka
  • Light Angst
  • Pre-Canon
  • anxiety about the future
  • Illustrations

  Summary

  Kafka has failed the JAKDF exam for the last time, aging out of any possibility of enlisting. After the dust has settled back into the rote humdrum of mundanity, he takes a lonely moment to reflect, and worry.

  (A character study maybe, of a darker time in Kafka's life)

  Series

  • Part 1 of Figuring it out

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,188

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  40

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  432

• Birthday bash (emphasis on the bash) by Call_the_exorcist, fend

  Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  07 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hibino Kafka/Hoshina Soushirou
  • Hibino Kafka
  • Hoshina Soushirou
  • Ashiro Mina (Kaiju No. 8)
  • Ichikawa Reno
  • Shinomiya Kikoru
  • Furuhashi Iharu
  • Izumo Haruichi
  • Kaguragi Aoi (Kaiju No. 8)
  • Minase Akari
  • Igarashi Hakua
  • Birthday Fluff
  • Fluff
  • Found Family
  • Post-Canon
  • Illustrations

  Summary

  Kafka is cursed. He's sure that he is. Every time he celebrated his birthday, kaiju attacked. At some point, he stopped trying, to keep everyone safe. Too bad his new family won't let him go without anymore.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,410

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  11

  Kudos:

  338

  Bookmarks:

  52

  Hits:

  1,980

• We're here for the cult stuff by Call_the_exorcist

  Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  19 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Hibino Kafka/Hoshina Soushirou
  • Hibino Kafka
  • Hoshina Soushirou
  • Alternate Universe - Youkai
  • Mutual Pining
  • Getting Together
  • They go from 0 to 100 real quick
  • Physical Abuse
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Abuse is within the cult only
  • Not between Hoshina and Kafka
  • Religious Cults
  • Mild Religious Content
  • Implied/Referenced Sex Work
  • Implied/Referenced Sex
  • Smut
  • Praise Kink
  • Breeding Kink
  • I think?

  Summary

  Officers of the Defence Force maintain the delicate peace between humans and youkai. Occasionally, this means infiltrating a cult. Luckily, Kafka is not working with a partner whom he has a crush on. Not at all.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,105

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  17

  Kudos:

  108

  Bookmarks:

  15

  Hits:

  1,666