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| Can this show get any better? :P Great drama and music. Where the hell is soundtrack..it should've been released with Kaiba vol.1 in late June. 5/5 |
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| I agree great episode. But i had a lot of problems remembering all the plot advances made in the previous episode. Thus i was anxious the whole time wanting to know what was going on. Finally Kaiba (his real name) appeared again and didn't have to say many words to express all what hes gone through in his travels. I have some problems remembering why it is that Popo wants to own the world.. something to do with his sister... I thought in the last episode he ended up being a good guy.. Well in this kind of series there is no good and evil...But, like I said, what for is he doing all this things? And whats up with the freak brothers.. what is their background. For what i know, the sister with the coat is a sex fetishist or something like that. °_° Anyhow, cant wait for the next episode!!! |
| Kirameite, yurameite, aoki yumi, maihanatsu, hana mo-e yu-kuuu!!! |
| excellent episode, though from watching this I suspect that in the last few episodes Kaiba is probalby going to go through "Trippy Finale Syndrome"...it'll be intresting if it does! |
| Awesome episode mainly on Neiro, This anime is really fantastic, the start was already nice, but from episode to episode it's better :) |
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| OMG, this episode was simply brilliant! I'm at a loss for words that can really describe the epicness of this episode (and the series overall). Btw, must get hands on Kaiba soundtrack asap! =P |
| I am still amazed that the average score of this series overall on MAL has not even exceeded an 8 yet. This was probably, the best episode so far. Neiro is totally awesome. And Kaiba isn't dead, that's obvious. Agreed about the OST, i reaaaaallly want it. |
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| Fantastic plot and characterization for a truly wonderful show. I'm impressed, and depending on the end of the series, it could get a late 10 after the last episode ;p |
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| Beautiful episode! |
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| From episode 1 till now ep 9 this anime this anime keeps changing of how I used to thought of what this anime supposed to be and it never failed to impress me every episode I go through it. |
 "A Legend is but a tale of a beautiful lie." |
| Wow, this was probably my favourite episode yet! This series is definitely one of the best out there! |
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| Great episode - I'm glad I don't do drugs or this series would completely blow my mind. Each episode just keeps getting better and better. |
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| Spectacular episode, and I can't get enough of the BG music, it really helps make each scene even more amazing. |
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| Do we have to remind people that single word replies are spam? At least say something more than one word about the episode if you bother to post. I deleted some posts. |
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| Wow, really fantastic episode. This series just keeps getting better and better, it's an amazing series. |
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| Breathtaking, man I enjoyed the memory bit with the covered faces. |
| At the moment when it comes to talking about the best anime of 2008 there's Kaiba and then there's everything else. Spectacular episode in every aspect that once again shows that Madhouse and Masaaki Yuasa are at the forefront of creating excellent anime nowadays. |
Absolutely_Steve said: Agreed, this is easily the best show of the season, by far. This episode was amazing. Hyo Hyo turned out to be Neiro after all. Awesome character and plot development, looking forward to see how this ends.At the moment when it comes to talking about the best anime of 2008 there's Kaiba and then there's everything else. |
Absolutely_Steve said: There's Kaiba and then there's everything else. No better way to describe this.Every single episode has been absolutely wonderful in it's own right.Not much else to say, Madhouse is really something, can't wait for the OST! |
| And now, even Yoshi has caught up to the rest of you guys, and I'm not going to fall behind again. This anime is just too good. Definitely the best episode of the series so far. Things are finally starting to make sense, and the next episode will probably answer some more questions about Neiro's past, so hopefully that will give us some needed answers. I almost feel as if it's a crime if we don't get the OST sometime within the next few weeks. |
| aaa this anime is awesome.....pure madness. it is alwasy refreshing to watch a well made work like this. |
| That's better than saying something like: Nice. And I was more or less only talking about people who always post like that in the episode discussions. |
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| The unique, creative, melancholic, thought-provoking, and emotional content that made everyone pay attention to this series in the beginning has now completely given away to a type of storytelling that we see everywhere we look; that's full of exposition and generic character interactions and plot. It's soiled this anime. No way I can give it a 10 now. Popo is a lame villain and the brainwashing of Neiro is tiresome. I'm not against heavy plot driving the show, this show especially which has lots of potential for interesting avenues to go down, but if the plot is not interesting or creative then dont bother. At all. I know personally how hard it is to write the last half of a story, it's the bane of every writer out there, but damn man, why do so many produced stories, which go through so much pre-production and have ample time for redrafts, always end up like this? I recently finished Kemonozume which started strong and went off the rails spectacularly, and now Kaiba is looking more and more like any other mainstream anime churned out by Anime-Land, and who would have thought anyone would say that after watching the first few episodes of this series? |
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Cihan said: The unique, creative, melancholic, thought-provoking, and emotional content that made everyone pay attention to this series in the beginning has now completely given away to a type of storytelling that we see everywhere we look; that's full of exposition and generic character interactions and plot. It's soiled this anime. No way I can give it a 10 now. Popo is a lame villain and the brainwashing of Neiro is tiresome. I'm not against heavy plot driving the show, this show especially which has lots of potential for interesting avenues to go down, but if the plot is not interesting or creative then dont bother. At all. I know personally how hard it is to write the last half of a story, it's the bane of every writer out there, but damn man, why do so many produced stories, which go through so much pre-production and have ample time for redrafts, always end up like this? I recently finished Kemonozume which started strong and went off the rails spectacularly, and now Kaiba is looking more and more like any other mainstream anime churned out by Anime-Land, and who would have thought anyone would say that after watching the first few episodes of this series? I've been reading through your posts (from the Ep 1 thread all the way to this thread), and I knew that you wouldn't like how things are turning out. Didn't have a chance to warn you. You breezed through Ep 4-9 so quickly. |
BlueYoshi said: I've been reading through your posts (from the Ep 1 thread all the way to this thread), and I knew that you wouldn't like how things are turning out. Didn't have a chance to warn you. You breezed through Ep 4-9 so quickly. Lol. Whats it like seeing someone's enthusiasm slowly seep away? :D I liked the beginning of the series because it wasnt like most other anime, we were all like "woah", and just thrust into something exotic and compelling. Those 'stand alone' episodes with sad resolutions were really good storytelling. Now though, its just something ordinary, the plot developments and character interactions are all predictable, and I'm sad about that. I seem to be the only one who currently feels this way though, not that there's anything wrong about that, but oh well! |
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Cihan said: BlueYoshi said: I've been reading through your posts (from the Ep 1 thread all the way to this thread), and I knew that you wouldn't like how things are turning out. Didn't have a chance to warn you. You breezed through Ep 4-9 so quickly. Lol. Whats it like seeing someone's enthusiasm slowly seep away? :D I liked the beginning of the series because it wasnt like most other anime, we were all like "woah", and just thrust into something exotic and compelling. Those 'stand alone' episodes with sad resolutions were really good storytelling. Now though, its just something ordinary, the plot developments and character interactions are all predictable, and I'm sad about that. Not surprising. It's happened before with another friend when he watched through Higurashi Kai. Kinda depressing that was. When ironically the end of Kai was the opposite of depressing. Perhaps most of us here are still rather confused with the plot and its setting that they are just sitting back and 'enjoying' (this was mentioned in the Ep 8 thread) the show and not trying to pinpoint the flaws. Eh, I don't know. This is one of my sleepy Yoshi replies. I don't feel like watching Episode 10 in this state. |
| This whole series is great. The art style is like anime on an acid trip. Coming into this episode I was looking forward to seeing what happened to (the real) warp/kaiba, and at the same time feeling bad for vanilla. Sadly, the ostrich with the space helmet didn't make an appearance in this one. I'm thinking episode 10 will probably clear most of this up. As far as episode 9 goes, I watched it last night and while i can't exactly remember everything, it seemed like more emphasis was put into putting the pieces together than the previous episodes. The only thing that bugged me was every time Popo mentioned Neiro's parents she suddenly forgot everything up to that point.. like the fact that the same thing had happened 2 minutes ago in a similar context with the same result (rage). Even so, it was still a great episode. I look forward to the last few episodes. |
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| I love this. |
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| Everything (somewhat) makes since now. That's all that matters to me. XD I don't feel like I'm lost in an abstract painting anymore. |
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| I still don't understand why Popo want Neiro kill Varp and didn't kill him by himself. Then there is no use in changing her memory. |
Beatnik said: BlueYoshi said: I've been reading through your posts (from the Ep 1 thread all the way to this thread), and I knew that you wouldn't like how things are turning out. Didn't have a chance to warn you. You breezed through Ep 4-9 so quickly. Lol. Whats it like seeing someone's enthusiasm slowly seep away? :D I liked the beginning of the series because it wasnt like most other anime, we were all like "woah", and just thrust into something exotic and compelling. Those 'stand alone' episodes with sad resolutions were really good storytelling. Now though, its just something ordinary, the plot developments and character interactions are all predictable, and I'm sad about that. I seem to be the only one who currently feels this way though, not that there's anything wrong about that, but oh well! I feel the same way actually. This anime had so much potential, it could have been another Kino's Journey. Hell it couldve surpassed Kino as well... :S |
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| Well, well, Popo isn't like we thought he was, apparently he is really manipulating everyone. Wonder why he changed Nero's memories and what happened exactly. I like the main plot, revelations are really well used, the whole thing with the amnesia bring out a big puzzle. And it become more and more captivating. I also liked the episodic stories, but it's time to get back to the main story. |
| Thats not his point. If you read some of his comments later (and I agree with him 100%) its not the fact that there's some plot in it that ruins everything; its just that the plot is ridiculously redundant, cliched and predictable. If the plot was actually good then that would have been great. But if they cant get a good plot going then its better to stick with the episodic format. And about the questions that were raised in the beginning, I think they couldve still handled all that without all the mindless crap they throw at us at the end of the series. They could have come up with a different explanation, and still keep the episodic format intact, just like the whole vincent thing in Bebop. I'm not saying they should have done this. Just that you're wrong that they needed this particular plot to explain the loose ends. There could have been other alternatives. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
thatguy said: koreye said: Thats not his point. If you read some of his comments later (and I agree with him 100%) its not the fact that there's some plot in it that ruins everything; its just that the plot is ridiculously redundant, cliched and predictable. If the plot was actually good then that would have been great. But if they cant get a good plot going then its better to stick with the episodic format. And about the questions that were raised in the beginning, I think they couldve still handled all that without all the mindless crap they throw at us at the end of the series. They could have come up with a different explanation, and still keep the episodic format intact, just like the whole vincent thing in Bebop. I'm not saying they should have done this. Just that you're wrong that they needed this particular plot to explain the loose ends. There could have been other alternatives. I never said the story needed this exact plot just that it needed to answer the questions that it brought up in episode 1. Whether you like the story or think is cliched is your personal opinion. Whatever. But writing a story dropping the viewer/reader in the middle of something with tons of concepts thrown around and never going back and dealing with them will just lead to unsatisfied people. I never said anything about dropping the story. Like I said, there could have been other plot alternatives, not just in the last half but even before the 'story' began |
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| Wow...breathtaking indeed...ended up watching episode after episode |
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| holly jesus and heavens O.O this was...perfect...i just can't belive what happened this is like death note lol...but why does popo toy around with them?:( 5/5 although i wish i could give it more |
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| I have kinda mixed feelings about this ep. First is that I'm glad the confusion it accumulated from the start of the series till the last ep are mostly cleared up. Second, the brainwashing/manipulating thing seems cliched and predictable to me but how it all began definitely grabbed my attention. Also, DAT OST!!! |
| A good episode, but honestly? The story seems rushed now and it's getting easier to guess. 4/5 |
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| Honestly though I think it's kind of sad when people can't even enjoy a plot like the one in Kaiba just because a part of it is 'cliche' or has been done before. Guess what guys, nearly everything has been done before. It's all about the delivery and execution, and to me Kaiba was handled masterfully. |
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| 5/5 One of the best episodes I've seen in a while. |
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| Amazing character development, really liking it so far! |
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| Wow when Neiro started crying and she didn't know why and wanted it to stop, that was a really sad moment ;_; Popo manipulating everyone and causing pain everywhere. |
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