So, in case you’ve been wondering: Ghost Hound and Saiunkoku Monogatari are both in a hiatus this week. Instead we have the new episode of the Tsubasa Chronicle-OVA and another episode of Kaiji. The current episode of Kaiji concludes the steel-beam-arc.
But really, I feel a bit cheated. The creators used a well-known plot-device in these kinds of situations: a huge amount of money is at stake, but some hidden twist somewhere in the middle makes the protagonist unable to cash in the money, whether he won or not doesn’t matter. It feels a bit cheap to use such a twist, just to keep the story going. I mean, the guys could just as well have tempted Kaiji to put his 20 million yet at stake for an even bigger amount, and knowing Kaiji I think that he would have obliged with the right words.
Still, that was about the only thing that I didn’t like about this episode. It’s indeed quite plausible to have some kind of loophole at the end, and Sahara was the perfect person to fall for it. He’s always eager and wants to show off to others. We also finally get to see a proper introduction of the guy who’s behind everything, and I must say that I like the guy.
The next game is going to be E-Card. We still don’t know the exact rules, but it involves ten cards with either a king, a citizen or a slave on it, and I think that the talk about kings and citizens by the big boss also has something to do with it. It looks quite simple, but I trust the creators to make something interesting out of it.
we dont see a lot of animes like kaiji nowdays, thats prolly why i like it a lot more than you do. it knows how to build super-intense scenes and gives a very fascinating commentary on pessimistic values of human nature. my fav ep was 13 with the wind hallucinations. in this ep the head of the mafia whos behind everything gave a very memorable example of the structure of society(kings vs the poor)
Those executives are dicks. If I recall, that Tanegawa guy went into this whole monologue about how “they can’t back out of the game. They need to take things seriously for once in their life.” Etc, etc…
I am loving this series…dont care if its predictable or not…i love the drama…the intensity…the sheer fun of the show….I really can’t think of any other like it right now or that i have seen before….truly stands out on its own….looking forward to it every week 🙂
Thanks for blogging it…so few ppl are missing out i think…..