Comments on: Final Thoughts: Kaiba http://azureflame.dasaku.net/2008/10/12/final-thoughts-kaiba/ Fat cats make anime better Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:13:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Hige http://azureflame.dasaku.net/2008/10/12/final-thoughts-kaiba/comment-page-1/#comment-7371 Hige Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:03:37 +0000 http://azureflame.dasaku.net/?p=3372#comment-7371 I think the 'incidental' characters are really what I'll take away from Kaiba. I loved it in all the ways you've written about, but its crowning achievement for me was how it made us care about characters that only appeared on screen for an episode. Chroniko was particularly masochistic example in that her body lived on beyond her mind and we, the audience, held onto the nostalgia of her plight (and its brutal conclusion) all the while Kaiba inhabited her body. She as a person was only with us for a short time but her image and its associated pathos lingered for so long afterwards. I genuinely felt a pang in my stomach everytime Kaiba-Chroniko came on screen. I think Kaiba really seemed to relish hurting us as an audience in this way, but I loved and respected its methods wholehearted on the merit of they being so damn affective. A special show, definitely. I think the ‘incidental’ characters are really what I’ll take away from Kaiba. I loved it in all the ways you’ve written about, but its crowning achievement for me was how it made us care about characters that only appeared on screen for an episode.

Chroniko was particularly masochistic example in that her body lived on beyond her mind and we, the audience, held onto the nostalgia of her plight (and its brutal conclusion) all the while Kaiba inhabited her body. She as a person was only with us for a short time but her image and its associated pathos lingered for so long afterwards. I genuinely felt a pang in my stomach everytime Kaiba-Chroniko came on screen.

I think Kaiba really seemed to relish hurting us as an audience in this way, but I loved and respected its methods wholehearted on the merit of they being so damn affective. A special show, definitely.

]]> By: Machi http://azureflame.dasaku.net/2008/10/12/final-thoughts-kaiba/comment-page-1/#comment-7267 Machi Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:54:35 +0000 http://azureflame.dasaku.net/?p=3372#comment-7267 The series really is lovingly detailed in its story telling, and the way the earlier episodes which didn't make much sense tie in well with the latter episodes when it finally gets back on Warp, what the series lacks in animation "detail" it more than makes up for in its story "detail". Definitely one of my favorites for the summer, I have to admit the summer season had some pretty good surprise series (interestingly it was the shorter series that really held my attention). The series really is lovingly detailed in its story telling, and the way the earlier episodes which didn’t make much sense tie in well with the latter episodes when it finally gets back on Warp, what the series lacks in animation “detail” it more than makes up for in its story “detail”.

Definitely one of my favorites for the summer, I have to admit the summer season had some pretty good surprise series (interestingly it was the shorter series that really held my attention).

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