I don't have much for a blurb this time. Episode 3 is my favorite of the whole series. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Chroniko :(
What is the community rewatch?: This is a place where /c/anime can watch and discuss older shows and movies on an episode by episode basis. Threads will occur every two days with the exception of movie episodes, which will have threads that span one week.
What are we watching: Kaiba
What’s it about: In a world where memories exist in memory chips separate from the body, death of the body no longer means death of the soul. It is possible for memories to be viewed, altered, and transferred between bodies. These memory chips are used by the rich to obtain eternal lives in carefully selected bodies, while for the poor, selling their own bodies and conserving their souls in the chips often become the only way to earn a living. An electrolytic cloud in the sky serves as a barrier between the heavens of the fortunate and the underworld of the destitute, making this social division impregnable.
One day, a man named Kaiba wakes up in an empty room with no memories, a mysterious hole in his chest, and a locket holding the picture of an unknown woman. After escaping an attack and stumbling upon a decrepit village of underworld residents, he begins his adventure across the different planets of this strange universe to find out more about his own identity and the woman he once knew.
Through a journey of self-discovery and acceptance, Kaiba weaves together tales of souls and spirits and explores the importance of memories.
Studio: Madhouse
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFI_Fl1sRWg
Where can I watch it: https://twist.moe/a/kaiba/1 https://9anime.ru/watch/kaiba.wr6/3rqplpy https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=1_0&q=kaiba
I'll be continuing to post as a stream of thought written out during the episode. Here's the previous one.
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Tanks? Good start.
Oh they meant a "memory tank"
I want some shabo. What is Shabo anyway?
Selling your body is a lot like sex work and feels like it ties into the highly sexual scenes in the last episode.
What a surprise, they lie and do what they want when they have a body in a space with absolutely no oversight.
Haunting and beautiful.
This is real transhuman hours. We switched genders!
Evil step mom and step-sisters are such a trope haha
Joker: "You get what you deserve!"
She was nice but became an awful person after her husband died? That's a bit sadder I guess. I'm not sure how she survived the explosion though.
This is basically a flying segway.
OHH she has robot arms. I saw those on the washing line earlier and thought it was odd to have robot arms on a washing line but I guess that was show don't tell. Neat.
I still don't see the exact thing that made her want to sell this girl's body when they had a seemingly good relationship, hrrm, just bitter twisted and trying to get by? I guess that's what this society does to a person.
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I really liked this episode, it was very compelling and told a really understandable story compared to the previous ones. Beautiful and had good flow, a very leftist tale. I can see why you chose it for this rewatch.
Hypersexuality and the male ego is a recurring theme in Yuasa's work. I believe it was that in your face in Tatami Galaxy as well.
That's not the vibe I was picking up from the mom. Chroniko probably viewed her positively because she didn't know any better, but that mother was incredibly abusive.
Ohhh I see. Chroniko's memories of her mother are completely distorted from the actual reality of her behaviour. That makes some sense, these are memory records and coloured by the perception of the person writing the memory. I hadn't even considered that would be the case here as I was treating it more as a factual flashback than a potentially warped memory.