This Trailer for ‘Great Detective Pikachu’ Raises So Many Questions

Remember when Sanrio told us that Hello Kitty was actually not a cat, and we all felt like we'd been betrayed somehow? Brace yourself, because Nintendo's new 3DS game Great Detective Pikachu: The Birth of a New Duo breaks with canon in an equally shocking way: Pikachu talks. And he sounds like a middle-aged man.

The Japanese game trailer was released Tuesday and is already creating a stir due to its paradigm-shifting content. In the game, Detective Pikachu is a salty-seeming private eye (the titles bill him as "cocky, chatty, lovable") who scampers around the city solving mysteries with a milquetoast-looking human companion, a boy named Tim.

At some point in the trailer, Detective Pikachu even comes across another, non-detective Pikachu, and tells it that "dreams come true."

So, is it then the dream of every Pikachu to gain the gift of true speech?

How did this particular Pikachu mutate its apparently human vocal cords?

Did it do something especially noteworthy or special to acquire its gift?

Considering that it has the voice of an older man, why is it consorting with a young boy and receiving cheek kisses from a school-aged girl?

Wait, is this the first time Pikachu has been assigned a gender?

What sort of mystery is an electrical rodent equipped to solve?

Does this Pikachu even still have regular-Pikachu powers?

Has Detective Pikachu seen Chinatown or The Big Sleep? Someone's definitely studied film noir here.

What if the mystery Detective Pikachu is solving… is the mystery of its own ability to speak?

Great Detective Pikachu will be released in Japan February 3. No word yet on whether Western audiences can expect a release.