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Studio : Madhouse Studios
Length : 12 Episodes
Year : 2008
Genre : Fantasy - Adventure - Mystery
Synopsis :
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 his past life is a pendent with a picture of a girl in it. Without realizing it, Kaiba is thrusted into different worlds and manages to capture some of his memories. However, what he retrieves is a more distorted, more sinister world. A world which he does not want to face.
Added : 2008-04-20
Synopsis by : Himitsu
Last update : 2008-05-02
Last update details : Modify info
Score : 9.5
Number of reviews : 2
Link(s) :
Official #1 : Wowow's Kaiba Website (Japanese)
Song(s) :
Opening #1 : Seira - Never
Ending #1 : Seira - Carry Me Away
Release(s) :
2008-08-08 -- Episode(s) 12 by Froth-Bite & Ureshii. BT Link
2008-08-08 -- Episode(s) 12 by Froth-Bite & Ureshii. BT Link
2008-08-07 -- Episode(s) 11 by Froth-Bite & Ureshii. BT Link
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Posted by : du5k 
Posted on : 2009-09-20 
I wonder if’s right to call this an anime, because Kaiba is nothing like the usual Japanese animation style. Heck, it’s not even like the unusual Japanese animation style. Kaiba is really more of a cartoon… but don’t be fooled by the childish impression it gives, because aside the deep plot, it also features some themes that are more mature that what you’ll expect from a usual anime series.
Kaiba is also set in a very imaginative world, where personal identity is devalued since memories can be taken out, traded, bought and destroyed. One’s entire memories can be even transferred into another body. The protagonist of the story, who pretty much lost all his memories, now travels though the weird and colorful world in many different bodies, trying to find out what his real identity is.
The main plot aside, Kaiba’s short stories while the protagonist travels around the universe are incredibly touching, especially Vanilla’s story. The main story was epic, though I felt it kind of dragged out too long, and the ending could have been a bit more conclusive. A bit of “omake” about how their lives will go on would be nice, since Kaiba is a love story after all.
Animation-wise, I can’t say Kaiba’s animation is high quality, but it’s undoubtedly unique. I didn’t really like the OP and ED songs, but with the animation sequence it fits the series very well.
Overall, I find that Kaiba tells an amazing (and weird) story in a very different way a normal anime does. If you’re not affected animation style difference, it would definitely be a good watch.
Plot/Concept: Excellent!
Story Style: Excellent!
Audio/Visual: Special
Value: 10
Posted by : Scamp
Posted on : 2008-11-28  
You often hear the word ‘gem’ be used to describe anime. But what does a gem actually mean? It means: 1:You won’t hear of it often. 2:It will be difficult to find (a few years after its release) 3:It is very different to your standard anime and 4: It is very, very good!
Kaiba ticks all those boxes. Poke your head around anime forums and you will barely see it mentioned compared to Code Geass or Soul Eater. There is a very slim chance this anime will be licensed. The animation is far from what you would usually see; it looks like some kind of children’s show (though that is far from the truth).
And yes, it is very, very good
Kaiba is a story about a man called…oh wait, he has no name at the start. He wakes up with no memories and his only possessions are a pair of trousers and a locket with a picture of a girl inside. He also has a giant hole in his chest. But he doesn’t have a clue what's going on, where he is, or even why he looks like he has just been dropped into a Dr. Seass book.
In a certain sense, Kaiba is told in the second person. You are the person with the hole in his chest (whose name is Kaiba, for future reference), exploring this world and learning the traits of the various people here. One thing you will learn is that people can move bodies, which can get very confusing as you try to learn who’s who. Kaiba inhabits a few different bodies over the course of the show, including a mute hippo with an expressionless face.
Being told in the second person, Kaiba makes you feel the emotions that the hippo is not able to convey. There is no angst in Kaiba. Characters shoot each other down with little to no remorse, leaving you sitting horrified at what has just happened. What it does is it assumes you are intelligent and you don’t need to be spoonfed what you are meant to feel and to be told at every interval what exactly is going on. This means you will be confused on occasion, especially with characters switching bodies the whole time, but believe me - most of it makes sense in the end.
Ah yes, the animation. As you can tell from the screencaps, the animation is far from standard. It looks first off like some sort children’s show. It’s trippy and weird and very other-worldly. Either way, you will either be enthralled or completely put off. I was put off at first, but it did grow on me, particularly in episode 5 with Patch the body builder (and I mean this is the very literal sense of the word). If you decided not to watch the show due to the animation, I’d say you should go back and try it again, it will grow on you…eventually.
The real strength in Kaiba is in its story-telling. The first half of the show gets you used to the world of Kaiba while the second half gets down to the actual plot of the story. Many things in the first half that happened and left me in complete confusion were all explained by the end. From the weird one-eyed emu with the fish bowl on its head, to the little flying creature who could only say ‘Hyo’, even to that thing in the picture, it is all explained by the last episode.
At its very heart, Kaiba is actually a love story, a very weird and twisted one, but that’s only to be expected when lovers are constantly changing sexes (yes, that does happen) and even species. You will hate some characters one episode and love them the next, like our dear Vanilla. Others will shock you how evil and twisted they are, but every character has depth and conflicting goals. There is a memorable scene towards the end where people start killing each other like its some sort of Shakespearean tragedy.
Kaiba is one of the best, and also most obscure anime I have ever watched. While the animation may take some getting used to (the main reason I didn't give it a full 5 stars) and the story occasionally hard to follow, this really is a special anime, and IMHO the best anime 2008 produced
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