Since you might not see it at PTDC, and I wanted to thank you personally, I'm just going to tell you here.
Thank you so much for composing and posting this. I always love to hear the opinions of others, and being on my favourite character from a comic series that I've spent a lot of time and money on...well, that just makes my day, doesn't it?
Now, I generally like shounen series in spite of the themes and tropes; this notion of the "fighting spirit" and it is a means of philosophy and communication still seems, after a few years of enjoying characters from various series...a little corny.
But there's fodder here for a more conventional psychological reading of Kaiba, helped by the "conditioning" via Gozaburo's suicide, and the mention of "going strange". That's just how I prefer to see Kaiba, really. In terms of mental instability instead of just being that way because he has to fit the character type of The Rival, considered as an individual apart from all the characters like him that have come before.
Somehow Kaiba has become a very complex character in my mind, which I feel a bit insecure about, given all the flaws that I can see in the source material, but something like this helps set me at ease a bit. I might even start work again on that large character analysis piece that I started last year.
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Date: 2006-05-10 10:43 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for composing and posting this. I always love to hear the opinions of others, and being on my favourite character from a comic series that I've spent a lot of time and money on...well, that just makes my day, doesn't it?
Now, I generally like shounen series in spite of the themes and tropes; this notion of the "fighting spirit" and it is a means of philosophy and communication still seems, after a few years of enjoying characters from various series...a little corny.
But there's fodder here for a more conventional psychological reading of Kaiba, helped by the "conditioning" via Gozaburo's suicide, and the mention of "going strange". That's just how I prefer to see Kaiba, really. In terms of mental instability instead of just being that way because he has to fit the character type of The Rival, considered as an individual apart from all the characters like him that have come before.
Somehow Kaiba has become a very complex character in my mind, which I feel a bit insecure about, given all the flaws that I can see in the source material, but something like this helps set me at ease a bit. I might even start work again on that large character analysis piece that I started last year.
Thank you again. Much love. :)