Here we go again. The misrepresentation of an anime during the quarterly season preview will always be a point of contention for me, but you know what? If you don’t know Japanese, or happen to have a vocabulary so utterly worthless in nature that you can’t write at length and cite specific instances or scenes in an anime where the dialogue’s what makes or breaks it, you should give up all those “raw watching” pretensions and stick to watching subs. Pretending you know the language never did a show or your readers any good.

It goes to show how good the so-called Japanese experts among the anime bloggers are, that none of the posts dedicated to covering the first episode at the time of writing this post have so much as hinted at to what actually happens. Spare us the rewritten synopsis that’s been floating around for months, stop looking at the pictures, pay attention to the dialogue, and actually write about what happened, will you? That’s all I ask, really. Maybe the day will come when this will no longer be an issue, but before that ever happens I feel I simply have to speak up against misinformation like this.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what exactly Kaiba’s all about, from what I could gather from the first episode it was something akin to Planescape: Torment + The Matrix + GITS:SAC all wrapped up in an aesthetic equal parts Alice In Wonderland and The Little Prince. Not too shabby a mix, don’t you think? Who could’ve known that something that’s been praised mainly for its visual style could be so complex? Not those posers who weren’t paying attention to dialogue, that’s for sure. But I digress.