@Nagato: hehe, you’ll be fine as long as you’re open-minded and willing enough to discover the world of Kaiba, explore humanity and whatnot.

@Kaiba: I wholeheartedly agree, the show not tell aspect of animes is what makes them genuine and un-pretentious too, so to speak. It’s just amazing

@lelangir: the oddities and fucked-up society in Kaiba certainly reflects harsh truths about our society, and that’s one of the things that makes it fascinating too… allows you to do quite some reflection~ :3

Having only seen 2.4 of the episodes it seems like a mix of BNW-ish and physically/Orwellian fucked up qualities. And so Kaiba may be quite metaphorical in nature – alluding to the state of the world – than “fantastic” (although it surely is in its own right).

You’ve obviously got the proles, but it’s not like they’re too stupid to understand their own position but they are swallow their disappointment (maybe not the huge-hip blondie) and are content – although not to the extent that they are biologically hegemonized to hate everyone besides their own class.

Nice post anyway!

I think many series with similar themes get bogged down in exposition and details while Kaiba just shows us what happens, almost literally as so much of what little dialogue there is is just plot-progressing conversation. I feel that it doesn’t want people to go so fully into the subtext and it is simply about following the story of Kaiba through this world with an ambience that is incredible.

What I think really makes these episodes great so far is that it took a policy that so many other serious series should use, which I think a visual medium should really be about: show don’t tell.

Just kidding. I’ve really been hearing good things about this, so it’s kind of nice to finally have an overall insight as to what this is about. I’m bumping this up right below Kure-nai on my to-watch list.

Before I saw it, i thought Kaiba was going to be some experimental anime or something, as I did with episodes 1 and 2, but to me, episode 3 was the episode that convinced me to continue with Kaiba.