Kaiba
| Kaiba | |
The Kaiba logo
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| カイバ | |
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| Genre | Science fiction, romance |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masaaki Yuasa |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Original network | WOWOW |
| Original run | April 10, 2008 – July 24, 2008 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Kaiba (カイバ?) is an anime series directed by Masaaki Yuasa that made its debut on WOWOW Satellite Network in Spring 2008. Animation by Madhouse, as a cyberpunk dystopian love story. The series received critical acclaim as an Excellence Prize for animation at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival.
In Kaiba, memories can be stored as information via a memory chip. When individuals die, their minds live on. This digitization of mental information allows both the transfer of one's mind to someone else's body, and the theft and manipulation of other people's memories become a norm. Society has fallen apart, as authority enforces law arbitrarily and has become stagnant. In the skies are electrical storms, which cannot be passed through without losing one's memories. Above them lies the realm of the wealthy and powerful, who barter others' bodies and memories for their own enjoyment and longevity. Below the clouds is a troubled and dangerous world where good bodies are hard to come by and real money is scarce.
The series begins with a boy named Kaiba as he awakens in a ruined room. He has no memories, but he has a pendant with a picture of an unknown girl inside. After being attacked, Kaiba escapes, and through his travels, regains his memories. Meanwhile, the girl from the pendant struggles with her own convictions and her past, which may be intertwined with Kaiba's origins.
Despite its appearance, Kaiba is in fact very much science fiction. Many powerful and futuristic devices are present throughout, creating a very different landscape of the possible vs. impossible than are present at the time of its making.
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