Kaiba

In *Kaiba*, memories are stored on detachable chips, letting consciousness outlast the body itself. Those with wealth treat bodies as replaceable vessels, extending their lives by moving their memories into carefully chosen forms, while the poor are pushed toward selling their bodies and preserving only what’s left of themselves on a chip. An electrolytic cloud hangs overhead as a literal and social divide, separating the privileged “heavens” from the underworld below.

Kaiba awakens alone with his past erased, a strange hole in his chest, and a locket containing the photo of a woman he doesn’t recognize. After barely escaping danger and finding refuge among the underworld’s residents, he sets off across distant planets in search of the truth behind his identity—and the connection to the woman in the locket—while confronting what memories mean when they can be edited, traded, and stolen.