Just kawaii. When I heard of this anime and watched the preview, I honestly thought that it was going to be a load of bullshit, but other various bloggers have been giving it good reviews and have complimented on its story and animation, so I wanted to see how “brilliant” it [...]
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            Note: (for those new to this series, Kaiba is the name of the main character in this series, Warp is the name that Popo give to Kaiba in the first episode, and Chroniko is the name of the female body that Kaiba’s memories now inhabits. Vanilla only knows Chroniko as a cute girl not [...]
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Click pictures to enlarge them. Spoilers ahead so please be cautious. This was by far the best episode of Kaiba. Not only the animation looked stunning, but the episode was emotionally moving. I don't really like Vanilla, but you can see how much he wa..글 전체보기
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      This episode begins with the ship stopping at a new planet called Abipa the Utopian Planet, the place where it is advertised that you can get the body of your dreams. Once on Abipa, Vanilla and Kaiba who is still in Chroniko’s body take in all the weird sights and the free food (all [...]
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Commodity bodies galore, in this long awaited episode of Kaiba. I am beginning to see where some of the Marxist overtones that Hige identified early on in this show are beginning to come in. One of Marx’s key critiques of capitalism was that intangible goods like labor, time, or even human life itself, would eventually be [...]
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After a shaky start I’m finally beginning to warm to Kaiba. I was initially disappointed with how it took a similar tack to Kemonozume in that it relied rather heavily on its superficial quirkiness when other aspects were all those we’d seen in the genres before. Kemo was a fairly straightforward show conceptually but its [...]
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Thanks to my recent enlightenment on Kaiba and some inspiration from the great coverage it’s getting from the blogosphere, I finally decided to hop on the Kaiba-ndwagon~ :3 Lengthy introduction ahead! Kaiba easily stood out among the Spring animes for the simplicity and uniqueness of its visuals, and utter complexity of its storyline. This served as an open invitation for the audience to swim through its depths, with some people ending up with a moment of epiphany, and some disgruntled ones who drowned in despair, unable to grasp the seemingly incoherent ideas in the show as well as the hype behind it.　There’s also a bunch of pretentious ones who convinced themselves to have understood the show even if they didn’t, the category which I belonged to weeks before I wrote this post. It’s not that only a privileged few can understand Kaiba; everyone can actually, so long as they’re willing enough to plunge into this world and explore it to its very depths, and become one of the enlightened ones.
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Really, is there no end to this series awesomeness? This was quite possibly the best episode of Kaiba yet, for very obvious reasons. For the sake of spoilers showing up in the blog-aggregators like animeblogger antenna, this sentence is meant to fill up space. This one is meant to fill up space as well. So, [...]
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Click pictures to enlarge them. Spoilers ahead so please be cautious. Kaiba...;;; It turns out that the name "Kaiba" is a name of a legendary plant that sucks out human's memory. WTF... So FINALLY, Neiro woke up. However, it seems like her personality..글 전체보기
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Hige reviews episode four of Kaiba and gets all inter-community on yo asses.
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Hige reviews episode three of Kaiba and, surprisingly, isn't too much of a pretentious fanny about it.
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This entry is also cross-posted on my own blog: http://itsubun.dasaku.net/ Before I start, I would like to thank all of the people who commented on my KnJ post. First time trolling on my part and it was awesome. You guys have given me much to think about and had me going “Woah!” in response to some [...]
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  For a review without the spoilers scroll past the episode content.      This episode begins with the ship stopping at a planet with 1/2 the normal gravity, Kaiba/Chroniko start exploring the planet with Vanilla chasing close behind, Kaiba jumps back into the hippo’s body to give Vanilla the slip for awhile. A short while later an old woman finds Kaiba/Hippo [...]
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Click pictures to enlarge them. Spoilers ahead so please be cautious. Another episodic episode. I already said enough about short episode counts and not sure what the director is thinking countless of times so I won't mention it again. I enjoyed the st..글 전체보기
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This episode was surreal, even for a Kaiba-episode. I think it has to do with a guy named “Jamie Vickers”, who was listed in the end-credits. His previous work includes a few episodes of Kemonozume, and the animation of the ED of Tokyo Tribe 2. This guy’s sense of style is even messier than that [...]
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I was trying to figure out why, with this episode in particular, this series felt strangely familiar. That’s when it hit me: structurally, Kaiba is beginning to resemble Antoine de St-Exupery’s fable, The Little Prince. (Full text and illustrations of The Little Prince can be found here.) That would help explain the increasingly episodic feel [...]
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Click pictures to enlarge them. Spoilers ahead so please be cautious. To be honest, I wasn't too fond of this episode. The story of grandma wasn't all that interesting to me. I mean, it was too predictable. The fact that it is already episode 4 and we..글 전체보기
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Click pictures to enlarge them. Spoilers ahead so please be cautious. Sigh... This really was a depressing episode. I'm not sure what the director wants from this series. It is already episode 3 and yet, all we see is Kaiba traveling. Might as well nam..글 전체보기
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Kaiba was not originally on my list of shows to watch this season. I admit, I saw a couple of screenshots, dismissed it as a simple Japanese kids’ show and went about my business. How wrong I was. Kaiba is now the second star of the season in my opinion. A tale about an amnesiatic boy [...]
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This astonishingly affecting and effectively told episode of Kaiba shows that the issue of memory and identity isn’t just something that tickles the intellect. It goes straight to the heart of who we are as humans. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with [...]
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