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Coffee Spoons» Blog Archive » Kaiba [01]: this is how we operate — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:58:49 +0000

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Kaiba [01]: this is how we operate at itsubun — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:46:38 +0000

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By: kayxice

kayxice — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:18:22 +0000

I’m up to ep3 and its the most soul touching yet…
kaiba is godlike

i’ve watched mind games and kemonozume also by Masaaki Yuasa and this yet another success by him IMHO

By: DrmChsr0

DrmChsr0 — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:19:46 +0000

Ow my head hurts a bit.

But a couple of bits of info.

Purple was traditionally the color of the royals and the rich. Dunno about most of the East but in the West, purple used to signify royalty and the rich because of how hard it was to procure the dye.

Slavery may seem unnatural and unconstitutional now, but slavery before the 1800s was not just accepted but also a booming business. Rock and Roll may be accepted now, but in the 1980s people wanted rock and roll outlawed. I’m just saying.

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Kaiba [01]: this is how we operate « itsubun anime blog — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:29:18 +0000

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By: itsubun

itsubun — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:40:26 +0000

Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment with your kind words.

@Impz: Oh, Impz. Your relentless pimping of my soul has made me lose all my self-respect and pride as a writer. Now I really am part of THAT.

By: Hoshi

Hoshi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:13:07 +0000

sweeet. a blurb on Kaiba. Loved it from episode 1. (and the OP. since I’m so crazy about OPs, this one blew me away)

Looking forward to your posts in the future!

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:32:34 +0000

“What a mind-fuck.”

It gets better in the second episode.

It does seem that the idea of what it means to have memories, identity, and life, especially when it seems that all can be changeable, will be very important throughout the whole series.

A nice start at THAT.

By: Calaveth

Calaveth — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:03:21 +0000

I watched the first episode of Kaiba and was fairly stunned by it. It reminds me of old art-house animation, of old films like Metropolis etc, so ripe in symbols. No doubt it’s a fantastic piece of animation. I just don’t know if I have the stamina to digest it, episode after episode of this. I would have preferred this as a feature length film instead, watch it in one go and then had the opportunity for lengthy analysis.

I’ll be following your comments on the show with great interest.

By: GARLolicon Extrange

GARLolicon Extrange — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:58:34 +0000

@IKnight: Speaking of the matter of Lelouch’s eye color
?

By: gaguri

gaguri — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:06:29 +0000

I hear you like raving about Kim-Ki-Duk. For that you are officially my fav blogger here.
Well, that and you actually touched on aspects of visual language used in the show (but I suppose one like Kaiba demands it). I don’t think people needed to be aware of the obscure symbolic value of purple in Japanese society (definitely the first time I heard about it), because like you’ve already mentioned, the juxtaposition of two colours used to depict two separated societies were incredibly strong. I imagine that bizarre sense you get when entering the whole place painted in purple is still achieved regardless of its symbolic value, because the bright purple and subdued green and gray have those associations with radical/poor to some degree, especially if they’re juxtaposed with each other in such a manner. I loved the first episode but I’m currently considering to patiently (with great pain) wait for it to finish first, so I can enjoy the whole series at leisure. I found that this approach works better for a series like this, well, for me anyway.

By: Impz

Impz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:54:51 +0000

OH MY GOSH, no wonder you reacted so happily when I said I was eating pancakes with Nutella for tea break.

Nutella = goodness. Cheddar Cheese with anything = heaven.

By: KaeBoo

KaeBoo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:40:00 +0000

Hey, great entry! nice analyses, and oh, I love nutella as well.

looking forward to more of your posts…

By: IKnight

IKnight — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:51:14 +0000

Nice one. I didn’t know purple was assoc. w/ wealth and royalty in Japan too; add another item to my collection of ‘things to argue about Lelouch’.

By: Riex

Riex — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:16:24 +0000

Just wanted to mention:

Thanks to your post title I now have ‘Feel Good, Inc’ by Gorillaz stuck in my head.

Watch the way I navigate hahahahaha…