User blog comment:Jojo-a-gogo/Do you think that Mad House messed up by not showing Kite in the first episode?/@comment-14902757-20150826040011

I've just been to YouTube and I've seen a lot of people question Gon's attachment to Kite despite the fact that they just met, not realizing that they go way back. I agree that this should have been shown at the first episode coz it could have saved other people from raising their eyebrows at Gon. I believe more people would have appreciated the despair Gon felt when Pitou told him Kite's really gone if he's been shown in ep 1. The earlier comment below has a point, that production-wise, they were not sure if they are even gonna get to the Chimera ant arc to begin with. But I think that it would have had less impact compared to the criticism Gon is receiving now from less informed fans.