Just watched Kiba episode 2. Well, it's nothing like Naruto or Bleach. It's more like pokemon honestly, except more violent. But, I like it, Kiba is kinda cool. And as for the number of episodes? I predict at least 100...

Yeah, they sortove kill each other and collect each other's monsters (spirits). Instead of pokemon masters or whatever, they are called shard casters. They don't explain very much about what's going on but I suppose that's what it is about. And Zedd's spirit is a hell lot cooler than pikachu :P

I got the first ep from that bowing group, orz. My setup doesn't allow me to play idx or ass or whatever they're using style subs properly, so I don't know what their actual styling looks like. Video quality is not bad and translations are pretty good. 2nd episode I watched raw, so I dunno.

Shadow caster? Dunno, it sounds like shard to me. They use those little shard thingies. It could be shadow though, pronunciation is about the same for both.