Lost in a memory. Kaiba is a young boy that wakes up to a strange world. A world where memories can be stored outside of the body and mysterious hovering objects puncture you, steal these memories, and leave you lifeless. Kaiba is a victim and has lost all his memories. The only memento that hints at [...]
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Just a few items for your casual weekend reading and viewing...Number21Pix has a clip from a documentary called The Fragile Heart of Moe, which is due out this September. The clip features shoujo mangaka Eriko Takase, best known for her cute art style and the manga Rikei-kun (Science-kun), and Eiko Yonezawa, wife of deceased Comiket founder Yoshihiro Yonezawa.Unfortunately it's pretty difficult to read the subtitles on the video, because they're white and the contrast is very light, plus the video is small...but it's pretty interesting, they follow Takase-sensei to a doujinshi event where she sells her self-published works (although Rikei-kun was commercially published). Good stuff. Next up, Twitch faps all over Masaaki Yuasa's series Kaiba (pictured above), which I will second as one of the most amazing anime series-- or TV series, period –I've seen in years. Please, god, will SOMEone license this? It'd probably do okay in the art house theaters!... Speaking of reviews, over at the LA Weekly Liz Ohanesian talks up Detroit Metal City, VIZ's release of the popular death metal comedy manga by Kiminori Wakasugi. I haven't gotten around to picking it up yet, but I really should.Over at manga.about.com, Deb notes that even though Broccoli Books USA has closed down, there are still English releases of Cosmode Online available, and you can check out a free preview of issue 8 right here. Just in time for con season! And finally, how many Solanin fans do we have here? J-Film Pow-Wow has a first look at actress Aoi Miyazaki acting the role of Meiko in the live-action film adaptation of the popular manga.  (via AICN anime)
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At last!! I've been waiting for this for so long now... The Kaiba OP/ED Album is finally out. Back in October I wrote a review about them, stating that they were my favorite OP and ED last season (here). Finally I get to hear the full version of the Kaiba ED, Carry Me Away!The download links are posted in the "Anime Music Downloads" of my forums here. So please register here to download the full Kaiba OP ED Album if you haven't already joined the forums!Tracklist:1. Follow Me feat. Sound Around (Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari theme song)2. Never (Kaiba OP)3. roundabout (Noramimi ED)4. Kodoku no Hikari (Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro ED)5. Super Special (CHAOS HEAD ED)6. Carry Me Away (Kaiba ED)Listen to Carry Me Away here:<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="divplaylist" width="335" height="28"><param name="movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=6569007-bca"><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=6569007-bca" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="335" height="28"></embed></object>10/10 The full version is even better than I had anticipated... The song is really suited to the mysterious and sad anime that is Kaiba. It is beyond beautiful. I'm still not sure if I prefer the OP Never, or the ED. Both are so inspiring. Too bad, the rest of the OP/ED Album is just crap... I thought that Seira had a promising future, but maybe not. She's done mostly bad songs after Kaiba!
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As long as I’m logged out of wow, some more very quick links that I found interesting via katoyu– Cure Maid Cafe is running a Macross event from 2/7-2/22. From what I understand, Cure Maid Cafe isn’t really the kind of place that has their maids dress up for events like this, so I think it’s [...]
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In a future where memories can be downloaded, erased and traded, society as we know it has changed. Whilst the rich manipulate their memories and switch bodies as they please, the discontented poor can only look up and dream of such extravagance as they make do with what they have. Into this world awakens a [...]
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Wow, I’m surprised how similar Kaiba got to Evangelion (specifically, End of Evangelion) in its final episodes. The collective consciousness of the Kaiba plant and how it represented a sort of desperate salvation for some of the cast; the covertly omnipotent mother who watches and protects the main character; that serenely apocalyptic final scene where [...]
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I was always going to like Kaiba. Even before it started airing, I had, somewhat dangerously, convinced myself that it would be good. After all, with someone like Masaaki Yuasa directing, I had to expect it would special and well, some five months later, here we are again, I just finished Kaiba this weekend. Lets allay [...]
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Hey people. Sorry it took so long to get a second post out of me. I had this post about halfway done when the power supply on my computer melted down. I have obviously found another one, but the thing is that I can’t seem to track down a screwdriver here at school. So my [...]
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Hmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey that counts. Supposedly, anyway. It’s not as if the destination in this case is particularly bad, it’s just… a bit weird. Yup, I’m not totally satisfied with the way Kaiba ends. “What’s new?” I hear you cry. “It’s anime, most shows end weirdly!”. But [...]
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With the three elderly Copy Warps at heel and Kaiba apparently dead, Popo thinks he has the world at his feet and the monarchy in his grasp. However, his own recklessness proves to be his undoing in myriad ways as the chain of events that has led him here begins to catch up with [...]
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I’ve been putting off trying to write about these final three episodes of Kaiba for a while now. I’ve watched them a fair few times, both subbed and unsubbed, and I’ve generally just been trying to make sense of them all really. so I guess I’d better get started on that front then! Apparently [...]
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Chizuru directs Kouta to break out the Bio Concerto.
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        At the beginning of this episode we see the memory eating plant Kaiba approaching Warp’s planet. Then we get a narration from Warp about the history of that planet and how people have always strived to place themselves above other people and how the electrolytic cloud was placed to divide the upper dwellers from the people below.         Then [...]
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VS. Round 1: Character Design Kaiji: Ugly Kaiba: Hideous Advantage: Kaiji Round 2: Cast of Characters Kaiji: Devoid of women and children. Kaiba: More annoying than Raki, the Bleach arrancars, and SpongeBob combined. After watching the fourth episode, I spent a whole week suffering from erectile dysfunction. The episode was about an ugly old man who fell off a lighthouse. Nobody pushed [...]
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A very good show yes, but a difficult one nonetheless. Kaiba is a very intelligent show, but so are a lot of other shows. The difference, however, is that something like Crest of the Stars appeals to the viewer’s intelligence, but does actively try to challenge that intelligence as Kaiba does. Crest of the Stars will say, “I assume you to [...]
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I remember the first time I became aware of this show – I was reading THAT Animeblog’s spring preview - something about the picture drew my interest. I had a feeling it would be a good show but with little more then that feeling to go on I decided to leave it off my spring [...]
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Right from the get-go Kaiba proved to be certainly one of the most unusual but also one of the most thought-provoking shows of recent months. In light of Masaaki Yuasa’s penchant for the extremely odd (when I mean extremely odd I mean it in a Holden Caulfield-italicised extremely) I wasn’t sure if it would try [...]
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In the end, no words were necessary to bring this thoughtful, emotionally resonant work of art to a close. So much was resolved without words, but only gestures, looks, and the thoughts that have no need to be said aloud. I have become so conditioned to certain kinds of endings in both mainstream Hollywood film and [...]
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When we look back on a series, rationalising and explaining its appeal, we inevitably embrace the experience which surrounds it. Think of a Cowboy Bebop/Evangelion/Gurren Lagann review which doesn’t measure the show in terms of its popularity, or its ground breaking impact. To really examine the emotional experience of a story we have to be [...]
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Now 100% less spoilery, more vague Kaiba. Well, I’ve already hyped this thing a lot, so let me round out Kaiba’s awesome elements before I review: Cute animals! Crazy outfits! Funny old people! So cute! Fanservice! And it was all made by one of Crayon Shin-chan’s writer-directors, so you know it has to be fun! I was really going to do the whole [...]
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