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Just watched this the other day with my girlfriend. It was quite the ride, but for all the lore about upper and lower classes, that really doesn't show much at all, aside from glimpses. That said, it was hard to put down, because you kept wondering what would happen next, which is absolutely a powerful selling point of the series. That said, half the runtime is spent on a side plot with an morally bankrupt ugly bastard who's obsessively trying to score with a dubiously legal girl who's clearly not into him. Then he pulls a last minute "I've actually got noble motives" right out of his pocket, literally, moments before biting the bullet. After which the side plot abruptly ends, and prooves to have had pretty much zero impact or relevance to the main plot whatsoever. Poor Chroniko. You deserved so much better! Then we go back to the original plot, and the show is absolutely amazing. Probably one of the best animes I've seen in recent times. In some ways it feels a bit rushed, and would have been better if all the episodes focused on it. I very much still recommend giving it a watch.
It's been ten years since I first watched Kaiba. I have watched it countless times and still notice things I didn't before. In a sense I'm a little upset because it ruined every other animated thing in the sense I'll never witness something as amazing as this again. I'll never watch Kaiba for the first time again
Kaiba was the last “great” anime series ever hosted on a tv screen. 14 years have gone by since its release and the void it left is impossible to fill in.
The most beautiful and most haunting animation. It would be a shame to give up watching it halfway through. When you watch the last episode, you will cry.
LMAO Except for the fact that the series has so many layers, starting with the cartoon look for an easy first view, and each subsequent viewing hits you on a different, deeper level. This series so densely packed with subtlety and nuance that even the first two complete views don't spoil the third watching.
