I Am Here / Teach Me How to Hate You2016-10-08
The premiere establishes Rei Kiriyama as a solitary professional shogi player whose inner world Shaft renders in striking visual metaphors - flooded rooms, drifting darkness. The episode resists easy sympathy, presenting Rei's isolation as self-imposed before introducing the Kawamoto sisters as a tentative counterweight. The dual register of technical shogi detail and psychological expressionism is in place from the opening minutes.






