What if the perfect diplomat had to negotiate with God? Cube drops, reality bends, and humanity's about to get an upgrade it never asked for.
24 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestShindo's solution to Yahakui-zashunina's problem is revealed: he will try to astonish him in a way that the extra-dimensional being never expects.
Kojiro Shindo is a highly-skilled negotiator working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As his plane at Haneda airport prepares to take off, a huge mysterious cube appears from the sky. 'It' expands rapidly, and absorbs the passenger plane and its 252 passengers. The cube's name is "Kado." A strange being called Yaha-kui zaShunina appears from within Kado and tries to make contact with humanity. Shindo, who was been absorbed by Kado, ends up taking on the role of mediator between Yaha-kui zaShunina and humanity. Who is Yaha-kui zaShunina? What does he want?
Writing
Negotiation scenes so tense you'll forget it's animated.
Direction
That cube entrance still haunts me. Minimalist cosmic horror done right.
Mao Ichimichi
Saraka Tsukai
Takuma Terashima
Yaha-kui za Shunina
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Utamaru
Hiroshi Naka
Kouzou Inuzuka
Hisayoshi Suganuma
Emi
Kenji Akabane
Shuhei Asano
Masami Kikuchi
Naoki Sasauchi
Rie Kugimiya
Kanata Shinawa
Ryoko Shiraishi
Shimako Yuri
Shirou Saitou
Kiyotaka Ubuka
Shizuka Itoh
Ritsu Ntsume
Soma Saito
Shun Hanamori
Takuya Kirimoto
Takumi Gonno
Tetsuo Goto
Tetsuto Mifune
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series was originally a 2D/3D hybrid project that bombed so hard they remade the first two episodes entirely for the broadcast version.
The 'Wam' infinite energy device was deliberately designed to mirror real-world fears about AI displacement—zaShunina's gifts are always Trojan horses of dependency.
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