Comments on: Spring 2008 first impressions #3: Kaiba, Kamen no Maid Guy, Kanokon

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Tue, 06 May 2008 06:59:00 +0000

[...] Impressions: Kaiba – somewhat better than five fingers and a palm Oh Kaiba… how people will lavish over you. How you will stroke people’s brains and make them think about things. How you will bring together people. [...]

By: Owen S

Owen S — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:53:48 +0000

I really, really don’t know what IKnight’s talking about, because Kaiba’s been delivering (in truckloads) ever since the first episode, but maybe it’s a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. bateszi has been curiously silent so far. I wonder what you’ll make of episode 03 now that we’re up to date with the subs… well, almost. Hope to see you blog more about this. (:

By: Peter S

Peter S — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:53:23 +0000

Hey, Martin, thanks for the link, but alas, I’m running a Linux system. I’m just going to have to hunker down and solve it the hard way. I used CCCP back when I had a win system, and it saved my life!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:09:07 +0000

@IKnight: I just love the sharp wit and incomprehensible plots of Chandler’s work - often imitated but IMO never bettered. As for Kaiba, I’m hoping the substance can match the style. Aside from the bizarre art, Kemo was fairly straightforward in what its underlying themes were; Kaiba shows more potential in the philosophy side of things. I hope it delivers.

@Sasa: How Kanokon can get away with what it does I’ll never know - TV censoring is a funny thing. That scene with the twins was hilarious though. I want to like Kaiba but it’s proving to be a challenging piece.

@Peter S: agreed. On a technical note this is what you need - I’m no expert and I’m not sure what you’re using right now but it’s a fair bet that Windows Media Player can’t cope with the format that fansubs are in. I’d recommend .avi files over .mkv when there’s a choice between the two, or just heading over to the animeblogger.net IRC channel since many of the people who helped me out in the past are often online there.

Forget Kanokon? I’m trying already!

By: Peter S

Peter S — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:56:01 +0000

I’m torn with Kaiba. I love eccentricity but part of me wants the story to become clearer, while another part wonders if that will hurt the eccentricity. Do I really want it to have a traditional storyline dressed in odd fru-fru designs? If not, will I get bored and confused?

I’m struggling with mkv issues for Maid guy (and other shows) because subtitles are messed up at times (I don’t know whether to blame my Ubuntu-based OS programs, my total ignorance of VLC, or the fansubbers or … what exactly). Ep 3 seemed flat to me. Maybe I’m getting over the happy surprise of discovering this maligned series could make me laugh. The inheritance countdown at least suggests an ongoing story …

Kanokon? Forget it.

By: Sasa

Sasa — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:35:20 +0000

Really, how in the world is it possible to respect Kanokon besides the fact that the uniforms and character designs actually look cute?

I was more than positively surprised to see that you mentioned the only scene in Kanokon that I found funny. Maybe my sense of humour is not so off?

Kaiba… oh well. I will definitely watch the second episode, but if that does not make me interested, I actually consider dropping it.

By: IKnight

IKnight — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:07:36 +0000

Man, Chandler could write. Just that one quote had me smiling for the remainder of the post.

You do have to have a kind of grudging respect for Kanokon, I suppose, though I won’t be watching beyond the first episode chance that I gave it (I suspect my tolerance for fanservice is low).

Good point on Kaiba: I’ve been slavering over the visuals and scenarios (mindcopy-bodyswap selfcest!) of the first two episodes, but the show would do well to deliver on story and theme before halfway.