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I added another series to my watch list: Kaiba.
The art style is very misleading, whether you want to call it childish or simply strange. The series is not childish, though it is strange.
Basically, it takes place in a world where people's personalities and memories can be stored in chips and can be removed from and implanted in bodies. The rich buy bodies and live forever, while the poor are hunted for their bodies, or are forced to sell them to help their families get by. The story focuses on a boy (?) apparently named Kaiba (?) who wakes up with no memories but with a locket containing the picture of a girl who seems to be a terrorist trying to free the oppressed who have had their good memories stolen away.
So far, Kaiba has progressed by focusing on different characters each episode, none of them Kaiba himself. It's rather similar to a lot of shows that exhibit the depressing aspects of humanity, like Kino no Tabi and Hatenkou Yuugi, but deals with the themes in a much bolder way, I think. That's probably in part because of the style. For example, they can depict death with much more pathos because the body just melts into goo -- no blood and guts -- but when a personality is lost, you really feel the gravity of it.
I definitely recommend looking past the art style and giving this show a try.
[Random aside: the whole digitization of memories thing is almost exactly like Real Drive, another of this season's good series. But they take it in different directions. Real Drive is a sci-fi show, much like Ghost in the Shell with which it shares its producer. Kaiba, despite the unfamiliar setting, is, at its core, about something not unfamiliar at all: people.]
The art style is very misleading, whether you want to call it childish or simply strange. The series is not childish, though it is strange.
Basically, it takes place in a world where people's personalities and memories can be stored in chips and can be removed from and implanted in bodies. The rich buy bodies and live forever, while the poor are hunted for their bodies, or are forced to sell them to help their families get by. The story focuses on a boy (?) apparently named Kaiba (?) who wakes up with no memories but with a locket containing the picture of a girl who seems to be a terrorist trying to free the oppressed who have had their good memories stolen away.
So far, Kaiba has progressed by focusing on different characters each episode, none of them Kaiba himself. It's rather similar to a lot of shows that exhibit the depressing aspects of humanity, like Kino no Tabi and Hatenkou Yuugi, but deals with the themes in a much bolder way, I think. That's probably in part because of the style. For example, they can depict death with much more pathos because the body just melts into goo -- no blood and guts -- but when a personality is lost, you really feel the gravity of it.
I definitely recommend looking past the art style and giving this show a try.
[Random aside: the whole digitization of memories thing is almost exactly like Real Drive, another of this season's good series. But they take it in different directions. Real Drive is a sci-fi show, much like Ghost in the Shell with which it shares its producer. Kaiba, despite the unfamiliar setting, is, at its core, about something not unfamiliar at all: people.]
