With this episode closing off the Chinchiro Arc, it’s not a good time to look at this series. And overall, the Chinchiro arc was awesome: it took a while to get there, but it was focused, well built up and based around a carefully prepared plan. The climax was very short for Kaiji standards (in [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Since there's been a second season of Kaiji this year, and since an online buddy of mine occasionally name drops Kaiji as being awesome, I decided to start watching the first season recently. This brought me to the difficult decision of how to review it.Read more »
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Since there's been a second season of Kaiji this year, and since an online buddy of mine occasionally name drops Kaiji as being awesome, I decided to start watching the first season recently. This brought me to the difficult decision of how to review it.~Read more...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Since there's been a second season of Kaiji this year, and since an online buddy of mine occasionally name drops Kaiji as being awesome, I decided to start watching the first season recently. This brought me to the difficult decision of how to review it.~Read more...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Since there's been a second season of Kaiji this year, and since an online buddy of mine occasionally name drops Kaiji as being awesome, I decided to start watching the first season recently. This brought me to the difficult decision of how to review it.~Read more...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Aww yeah.  If I were to describe this episode in one word, it would be this: glorious.  It's nice to Kaiji in total control for once.  It picks up where where it left off last week, which is when Kaiji grabs the die. Kaiji proves that Ohtsuki has been cheating and other foremen come to mediate.  Kaiji reveals how he was able tell when Ohtsuki was using the loaded die.  Of course, the natural
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Episode 8 is the payoff to the buildup that started almost at the very beginning of the season, so I won’t belabor it. Still, it was great to see people throwing cans and bottles at Ohtsuki. He really rubbed me the wrong way ever since he was introduced. Seeing him try to weasel out of [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

You Tell Them, Announcer!
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

I hope people are watching the best show of the season. It’s this btw. Wow, the pacing for this arc is rather ridiculous. Twenty minutes of episode time and all that happened was three dice rolls. Was the pacing of this episode slow as shit? Yup. Did this episode still manage to be exciting and awesome? Hell yeah. One of the more interesting things about this episode was that it was mostly from the foreman’s perspective. “Does Kaiji know about the dice?” “Is he bluffing?” “Why is he doing this?” This ...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Everyone needs to stop what they are doing and watch Kaiji right now. Not for the plot, not for the suspense or characters or anything. For the narrator. I thought Akagi‘s narration was manly and suspenseful, but Kaiji is narrated by Ikari Gendou yelling at the top of his lungs. The narration is literally hilarious, with [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Kaiji Season 2 episode 7 brings us the fateful game of chinchirorin between Kaiji and Ohtsuki, as well as an explanation to the secret of Ohtsuki’s magic touch, all dished up with a side of anxiety so bad I almost got sick. It is truly remarkable the way Kaiji manages to build up the anxiety [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

This was perhaps the slowest moving episodes of the season, as it only spanned the time of three dice rolls. However, that is not to say this episode was uninteresting.  We get to delve into the mind of Ohtsuki when his back is against the wall.  The roller coaster of emotions shown during his inner monologues proved to be quite entertaining. The set up of what goes through Ohtsuki's head
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Mandatory creepy foreman pic. “It’s all according to plan.” Pretty funny to see everybody bitch out when Kaiji entered the ring with the “no limits” rule set in. It was also funny to see all those bitches cry when Kaiji was only betting 20,000 and 1,000 because I know they’d be shitting their pants if they were sitting down there in his position. But man, I didn’t think it would end up being the foreman’s group versus just Kaiji alone. The rest of the 45ers finally come over, but it’s still ...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

This post covers episodes 5 and 6 of season 2 of Kaiji. I really only have a couple of comments to make, so let’s get straight to it. For the first time we get a peek at the reality outside of the prison. We knew Kaiji and the others were under constant surveillance, but we [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Kaiji: Hakairoku Hen is the long awaited sequel to Kaiji that I have been hoping for. It picks up right where the first season left off with Kaiji being a “loser” once again. I was hoping he would have learned his lesson after all he went through, but I guess he has to relearn the [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Dat grin This episode tells the beginning of Kaiji and his group's counterattack against Ohtsuki and his lackeys.  In usual Kaiji fashion, there wasn't much going on; most of the episode was just adding the tension to the situation. Since this is the first post on this blog about Kaiji, I'll include a brief summary of events that led up to this point (Skip this paragraph if you already know):
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

I haven’t been huge on the new style of zawa zawas so far this season (I really liked how chilling they are in the first season, and they’re kind of missing that this season), but they are fucking AWESOME in this scene. The cool background music, Kaiji giving a rousing speech and the zawa zawas [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

lol late. lol finals. Episode 4 Well this isn’t too much of a surprise given if you’ve seen the first season of Kaiji, but as expected the foreman’s chinchiro game is rigged in some way. Remember, folks. People make their own luck in this show. Thanks to the other guy’s notes, we’re able to immediately see a “pattern” surface from the foreman’s games. But unlike Kaiji, I can’t see how he’s doing it. Maybe the dice have been tampered with or maybe it’s the throw. Either way I’m eager to see how ...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Because you’re a greedy motherfucker, Kaiji. Not that I can blame him for going along with a flow of “good luck”; I totally would have done the same thing and been burned . . . I don’t know if anyone aside from Kaiji had any doubt that the foreman was cheating, but this episode should [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Season 2 of Kaiji, episode 4 sees Kaiji’s growing realization of just how bad a situation he has gotten himself into. After having gambled himself into even more debt, Kaiji struggles with desire. He lacks self-control, and continues to squander his money on food and drink, thinking he will have to work for 15 years [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta