The show takes Dante's actual meeting with Brunetto Latino, one of the most devastating moments in The Inferno, and rewrites it as a quiet conversation between a cat student and his elderly mentor in modern Japan. That recontextualization is not cute or clever. It's a direct statement about who deserves dignity, who gets remembered, and what it means to honor someone the world has already condemned. A ban on alcohol is the surface story. The real story is whether you can love someone without apologizing for them.

In Canto XV of Dante's Inferno, in the third round of the seventh circle of Hell, those punished for violating the order of nature suffer torment, and there Dante finds his old mentor, Ser Brunetto Latino. The film jumps seven centuries ahead to a fictional modern Japan, where Dante is a cat attending university in a town that has outlawed alcohol.