[June 24 : Day 1] Body Switches

Sadly, the day did not go as I planned it would. My mother had other plans for me and the rest of the fam­ily. I at least was able to get in 8 epis­odes (in total).

Kaiba ended up being my favor­ite between the two shows I watched so far (the other being Tatami Galaxy). I felt the epis­odes went way too fast for me! I guess that shows how much I wanted to keep see­ing more. At first I wasn’t really inter­ested because of the fact that Kaiba was a boy who had lost his memor­ies and that whole amne­sia thing felt too over­used. I quickly got passed that and the hole in his chest (which is much like an Arrancar’s).

I found the first epis­ode to be extremely odd but at the same time I thought that it actu­ally may have mean­ing. Now I’m not sure if I’m over think­ing this but when Popo talked about the cloud sep­ar­at­ing the poor and the rich I imme­di­ately thought about the caste sys­tem and the inab­il­ity to freely climb up. Also, only the rich are priv­ileged to buy bod­ies. This made me think of slavery. It sorta is, in a sense. But other than that, there’s prob­ably more to the idea of exchange­able bod­ies. Any­ways, more import­antly, I think the big thing is the strange mark­ings on Kaiba. What does it mean? It’s not bright and it’s not vivid… so double rain­bow is out of the question.

After the first epis­ode, there was an intro­duc­tion in the epis­ode that made sense of everything. I like the fact that it keeps you updated on which body Kaiba is in. Now I actu­ally need help on some­thing… how did Kaiba get into the hippo body? I’ve checked a few times but I don’t see how he got there (unless I keep miss­ing the reason).

Now, one of the weird­est things I found was in the second epis­ode. Kaiba’s ori­ginal body had so much sex with this lady that the lady exploded! I guess here’s where they say: Too much of a good thing is bad. Sorta on topic, I was really sur­prised with size of that lady with the massive boobs (you know, that lady who was the mis­tress of a guy who looked like a monkey).

I really don’t like the sher­iff. He is extremely annoy­ing. Not only is he a nuis­ance but he is also cor­rupt. The only time I did like him was him toy­ing with Cloak at the end of epis­ode one. But he ended up killing a couple and let the massive-boobs lady go because of her adject­ive. But with the killing of the couple, it showed that not every­one has a memory chip. You need to con­vert for that. I hope this is explored more in the future. The sher­iff ends up help­ing Kaiba only because he doesn’t know the body was taken over by Kaiba. Kaiba takes Chroniko’s body and because she’s so cute the sher­iff decides to be helpful.

As for Chroniko, she was a very good girl doing what she thought was best for her fam­ily. But there are many cor­rupt people in the world and one such per­son took advant­age of her and took her memory chip. The only good that came out of that was that Kaiba was now able to use her body, at least it was bet­ter than her being sold off to a pedo­phile. We were at least able to see her mother and broth­ers and how her mother worked so hard to make her chil­dren happy, to the point of doing extremely dan­ger­ous jobs (which caused her to lose her arms).

So yeah, I got used to the anim­a­tion style pretty quickly. But I have to say, dur­ing the 4^th epis­ode, the light­house scene (when Kaiba was first brought in and the grandma fixes him up) looked pretty ugly. All the move­ment just looked dis­gust­ing. Focus­ing on the story, the grand­sons only cared for the treas­ure and not for their dead grand­father and, later, their dead grand­mother. This series really does have some moral to it. After they found the treas­ure, they real­ized it wasn’t of much worth to them but it was too late: they were left all alone.

The girl in Kaiba’s locket turns out to really be his girl­friend. That scene of them kiss­ing proves it. Find­ing her will prob­ably trig­ger Kaiba’s memories.

Watched: 4 epis­odes out of 12