Kaiba - Characters

Characters

Kaiba (カイバ, Kaiba?) or Warp (ワープ, Wāpu?)

• Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima

The main character, who does not speak very much. Kaiba has a hole in the middle of his chest and a tattoo of three circles forming a triangle on his belly. At the beginning of the show, he has no memories he can access.

Kaiba has great power; it slowly becomes revealed that he is able to survive physical damage unscathed, and he also appears to have powerful abilities to halt or destroy large objects with his mind. However, as of yet he is unaware of and unable to control these abilities clearly. He also has a vastly detailed and complex memory, in effect total recall.

Kaiba's real name is Warp, and he is most commonly known as the king of memories, of whom he is the genuine original. He is one of six sons of his father, the former king; in a conflict to determine his father's succession at the end of his life, all of Kaiba's brothers were killed, and only Kaiba survives with his invulnerability. For some time he ruled in the place of his father, and invented the technology that enabled the preservation of memories, making it available to the people. Since then, it appears that he was closed off and tightly controlled in his palace, closely monitored by some other party through cameras and other devices while generally remaining in power.

By the time the first episode begins, he has fallen down through the clouds, and his memories have been closed off to him by the electrical storms inside. Someone else in a clone of his body is currently reigning as king, though he does not have Warp's powers nor memories.

Neiro (ネイロ, Neiro?)

• Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

A girl who shares an unknown connection with Kaiba. Little is known about her, although she is currently under the care of Popo and a memory merchant. In episode 2, a broadcast reports about a "memory tank" exploding, releasing thousands of memories into space in the form of orange egg capsules. It is believed that Neiro is responsible for this incident.

Neiro grew up alongside Popo, and has been involved with Issoudan for a very long time. She is largely under Popo's control, and he has her convinced that should she get into trouble, she has no other place to return to.

In the events of episode 10, just prior to the first episode, Neiro meets Kaiba and falls in love with him, and when he leaves she is sent to his palace to kill him. When the two of them abscond from the palace and fall through the clouds, Kaiba preserves her memories, but she falls back into Popo's hands.

Popo (ポポ, Popo?)

• Voiced by: Romi Park

Popo is the first to encounter Kaiba upon awakening. After crossing paths with him again, he explains to Kaiba the nature of the current world, and that his life is in danger. Giving him the temporary name "Warp," Popo smuggles him onto the freight ship Neuron while creating a diversion for him to escape from Cloak, a man who is after Kaiba's special body.

Popo is the more public voice for the organization Issoudan, an anti-memory chip organization destined to destroy Warp for the wrongs he allegedly committed and rid the world of these supposedly evil technologies. Popo's real motivation is likely more nearly that he wishes to take this power for himself.

After the events before the first episode, Popo has Neiro's memories modified to make all her good memories of him and all her bad memories of Warp, ensuring her loyalty.

Dada-sama

The shady man behind Issoudan, regarded almost religiously by its members. Popo is not as reverent.

Dada-sama is actually three different people in aged Warp clones, working to take back the throne from the original Warp.

Vanilla (バニラ, Banira?)

• Voiced by: Hisao Egawa

The sadistic sheriff on board Neuron. Though Vanilla is extremely strict in enforcing his authority upon the passengers (and enjoys doing so thoroughly), he is not above corruption, and is willing to make deals, accept bribery, or steal memory chips for himself. He also has a weakness for extremely cute girls. In spite of his shortcomings, however, he is surprisingly devoted to Kaiba, and has gone through great lengths to insure his safety (albeit not knowing his true identity, and in Chroniko's body). This devotion comes to a head in episode 7, while the two are on the run from the law. He transfers Kaiba's and Hyo-Hyo's memories elsewhere as their ship is under bombardment, knowing full well that they would be unable to escape, and also telling Kaiba that he had back up bodies elsewhere to comfort him. However, after making sure that Kaiba is safe, Vanilla reveals that there was no such insurance for him, and he perishes alongside Chroniko's memoryless body when the ship is destroyed.

Kaba (カバ, Kaba?)

A stuffed animal-like body that resembles a hippo. Kaiba uses this body to smuggle himself in the ship. It is very difficult for him to move around in this state, and he is also incapable of speech or expressing facial emotion. He often makes use of the body when he doesn't feel like being harassed by Vanilla any more. Despite its status as a substitute, Kaiba has an attachment towards it, and is in a brief moment of grief when he loses it in episode 5.

Hyo-Hyo (ひょーひょー, Hyōhyō?)

• Voiced by: Wasabi Mizuta

A small intelligent creature that accompanies Kaiba starting from episode 2. It cannot speak (though it does have a voice) and it flies around using its two antennae to spin like propeller blades. It was dispatched by the memory merchant in episode 1 to follow Kaiba in his travels and helps Kaiba avoid capture. It is revealed near the end of the series that Hyo-Hyo contains the original memories of Neiro before she had her memory altered.

Chroniko (クロニコ, Kuroniko?)

A girl Kaiba meets during a stop Neuron makes in episode 3. She sells her body (literally) so that the money can support her family and hopes that someday her family will become wealthy enough to buy her a new body in the future. However, she is killed by a corrupt doctor (by simply releasing her mind from storage), and her body is sold anyway. Before her body is taken by the buyer, Hyo-Hyo places Kaiba's mind inside her body, and Kaiba uses this disguise to avoid capture and get back aboard Neuron.

Baru (バル, Baru?)

An ostrich-like creature, it is revealed at the last episode that Baru contained memories of Kaiba's mother. Baru first appeared in the first episode, when Po-po tries to eliminate the meomoryless Kaiba, dashing out from a corner to carry Kaiba away.