Kaiba Episode 4 - Grandma’s Memory Room
The next planet that Chroniko-Kaiba and Vanilla land on is the planet Baba (methinks the names were an afterthought…) home to an old lady and her greedy, layabout sons. The old lady is totally in denial about the tragic death of her husband, who was trying to pick her favourite flower; Kaiba, back in Kaba’s body, goes inside her memories to try and unlock the whereabouts of her husband’s “treasure”, with fairly predictable results.
Predictable results, however, doesn’t have to mean in a predictable manner. Each episode of Kaiba makes me feel guilty for falling behind on my anime blogging, and even though the story told in this episode is rather conventional the breadth of visual ideas never feels to astound me. The “memory gun” concept is a brilliant way to explore the central theme of memories/personalities in a way that can be so visually diverse, regardless of how pedestrian the story of the episode may be…
I’ll stop there. There’s only so many ways you can say “Crap story, great visuals”, and that’s how this episode really played out to be blunt. Not that I disliked the characters or anything, but the whole thing felt rather trite and obvious and didn’t really serve much of a point - not a problem in itself, but there’s only so far surrealistic interspecies snogging and metaphorical room layouts can carry a Message Of The Week, and 22 minutes was enough.
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