 Anarky debuted in the first season's third episode, "Tests", on July 27, 2013. The episode was written by Jim Krieg, with direction by Curt Geda, while the character was voiced by Wallace Langham. The episode made heavy use of chess as a symbol for the conflict between Batman and Anarky. This theme had been forecasted in pre-production interviews when Murakami described the relationship the characters were to have, and explained "Batman is the black king and Anarky is the white king. So it's sort of this psychological chess game." This version of the character was also used in the first issue of the tie-in comic Beware the Batman No.1, "Law and (Dis) Order".
