Pretention: A false and unsuportable quality; a quality of pretentiousness, of claiming great importance or unjustified merit.
Let me establish a few things before I move on -- I don't know shit. I only sound like I do on occasion. This website is not here to justify what happened in the series, is not here to make Taki into a good guy or victim. I'm not here to create a little clique of Taki fangirls to exclaim how he was victimized and misrepresented in the anime. Screw that. It isn't my place.