What's /a/ opinion about Kaiji?

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>>154772172
Pachinko arc was a mistake.

>hoh boy it's getting to the end and it's only ep18 out of 26 i'm sure there'll be another exciting arc waiting after this!
>last 10ep or so is about pressing a button and pouring in money

>>154772381
I was a little let down too. I wish there would've been another gamble, but boy, the pachinko was still intense as fuck.

The torrents I found were too low res to bother watching it. Also the mc seems insane enough to be put into a mental institution, who the fuck steals car emblems?

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>>154772172
>Kaiji
>underrated
Am I missing something? I thought it was pretty popular.
The show is pretty great, though. Probably one of my favorites.

>>154772172
season 1 is really good, but season 2 sucks

never bothered to read the manga

Some episodes were extremely boring to watch and the constant crying was a bit much but other than that I enjoyed it.

Lurk more. It's not underrated here at all

>>154772557
Well you'll still get fags who bag the art and drop preemptively.

The tone in season 2 really went to shit. It became too silly with all the zawas and kuyashiis. Akagi was much better.

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>>154772557
If it's so popular, where is season 3 then?

>>154772695
Maybe not here, obviously.

>>154772764
That's what pisses me off the most. The art style is neat. Does every pisshead expect anime to look as generic as possible?

>>154773239
The tone was pretty much the same, actually even more intense thanks to the intro song "Chase the Light", and the zawas and what not became more frequently, sure, but they also loosened up the tense atmosphere and made more bearable to endure.

>>154773451
>season 3 then?
Never, because the soundtrack guy got life in prison for weed possession.

>>154773650
Does Japan have a shortage of composers or something?
Why not just hire another composer?

>>154773680
Because he's irreplaceable

>>154773739
no

>>154772172
It's consensually regarded as very good and pretty well known. Not having many threads is the norm for old shows.

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I still remember the S2 announcement thread. We were so happy.

>>154772474
Everyone in the Kaiji universe is insane to some degree.

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I'm still confused about the interest rate in the first restricted SPS game.

He took 10mil and there's 40% interest every 10 minute, isn't it? Shouldn't the final debt be fucking skyhigh then?

I found disbelief in the fact in modern japan there's a despair cave, but at least Kaji let all his bros out was worth the 10 or so frieza pachinko episodes.

>>154774314
It was 1.5% every 10 minutes, which would add up to 40% after 4 hours.

>>154772172
I don't care abut Kaiji, I just want more Akagi with as many episodes as it fucking takes to finish the twenty year match.

>>154772172
Good first arcs,bad second arcs with horrid pacing

just started akagi the intro already hit the feels.

please tell me there's zawas

>>154772381
>uses their own tools to make the forest of needles wider
>tilts the fucking building to create a tilt in the pachinko machine to allow the balls to go in the correct hole

This is some top level cheating lad

>>154772172
He did nothing wrong and lived his life correctly. Honestly hard to say what is the /a/ opinion for one who wasn't around.

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>>154778054
During the course of the anime? He shouldn't have signed the contract in the first ep and he shouldn't have tried to cross the brave men road.

Other than that, he did everything with his life because he can't get into something if it's not going to kill him. I still have hope for him though.

>>154776221
No, but you won't need them. The first half is superb. Washizu arc is the entire second half of the show and it doesn't end, as in the manga is still ongoing even now.

Kaiji is cute, CUTE!

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>>154772381
Pachinko was great

Unanimously appreciated throughout s1. S2 kind of drawn out.

>>154772172

I LOVE IT!

17 steps Mahjong is the best arc
Mahjong > E-Card > Chinchirorin = RPS > Bog > Brave man's road > Friendship game in part 4

>>154779751

How do you rate one poker so far?

>>154779751
Based. Kaiji was so introspective during Mahjong it was perfect.
Replace E-Card with Bog tho

>>154772172
I honestly couldn't get through this past the first few episodes because it just felt so depressing seeing grown men lose their minds and start crying aboard that ship.
Willing to give it another shot, though. Does it get any better?

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S1 is one of /a/ s favorites.

S2 was split as there was no reason they needed so many episodes.

The manga is of course a delight, and I would say Kazuya is one of FKMT's best characters ever.

>>154780257

absolutely

Even Rock Scissor Paper gets better once Kaiji figure it out how to save himself

>>154780116
I really liked the mindgames so far in one poker, but i'm gonna have to wait until the end of the arc before i rate it.
So far i'll put it on the level of Bog but it has the potential to be E-Card level.
I wouldn't say it can beat Mahjong though because Mother Sophie doesn't allow tampering (according to Kazuya at least) so it won't really let Kaiji go outside the box and win, he has to beat Kazuya through either sheer luck or mindgames.


>>154780160
They're all pretty good arcs but ratings are always subjective.
Bog was entertaining but it felt a bit dragged. E-card had a lot of mindgames and the resolution to it felt satisfying.
Not to say that Bog wasn't satisfying as well, but there was more of a "holy shit he won" feeling when he was up against Tonegawa.
But if you liked Bog more then that's fine as well.

>>154780576

in every game so far we have seen there's a cheat, even Kazuya cheated in the friendship game

I highly doubt that it will be a fair game

My favorite anime. It's such a good thriller. Everyone thinks season 2 was drawn out but the pachinko arc was probably my favorite arc just due to all the "balls to the walls" moments. Like tilting a fucking building

Dammit this got me wanting to rewatch it. Which subgroup is best? I think I remember watching Triad but I don't remember.

>>154781598
Canzah
for both seasons

>>154781598
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=832208
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=835253

Better quality than Triad.

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>>154781629
Thanks anons

>>154778054
There's quite literally no reason to do what he did at the end of arc 3. He's a gambling junkie.

>>154782124
Getting back at Hyodo and trying to execute Kazuya were good enough reasons, although being a gambler was part of the decision making process

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Fucking atrocious pacing sometimes, but that was only a problem because of how drawn in I was. Found myself hitting right to seek ahead many times.

>>154781629
>480p
Who would seriously watch a show at that quality?

>>154782895
People who weren't born after 2000

>>154772381
That's the best arc ever you retarded fucklord, read the manga reeeeeee

>>154773650
How long did he actually get in prison? Seriously for life? I'm not finding anything on google.

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>>154782953
Right.

So, what was the meaning of those "zawas"? Never understood them

FKMT is my favorite mangaka.
Kaiji is excellent, but I'm really waiting for a continuation of Zero.

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>>154783932

>>154784007
I mean the literal meaning. I know for what they were used but I don't understand why they used "zawa zawa" instead of "x x".
So, what does "zawa" mean?

>underrated

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>>154772172
Now what will happened if Kaiji got thrown out to No Game No Life world?
WHY THE FUCK IS THERE NO FANFICTION OF THAT? SHIT SHOULD WRITE ITSELF HOLY SHIT

>>154773451

S2 only got announced to promote the upcoming movie. there are small bits of part 3 animations from the panchiko machine on youtube though

ps the movie(s) were shit

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>>154784441
the original meaning of the sound effect is like peoples chatter or smth like that, like a noise of people in a crowd, if i understood correctly- but fkmt uses it as a signifier for tention

It's not underrated literally everyone likes Kaiji you fucking retard

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>>154781917
I can't believe so many people didn't like that episode of SD.

>>154786695
At least Sakazaki was excellent.

>>154772381
It kept me at the fucking edge of my seat as I was reading it.

I don't think subsequent parts of the manga are bad, but I also think they never just quite reached the same height as motherfucking Bog.

With all these Kaiji villains spin-offs, why the fuck did they give it to fucking Otsuki and not Ichijou

The anti-capitalist undertones make this a masterpiece

>>154787890
Stop trying to force this meme

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Who /kazuya/ here
I hope he sticks after the one poker too,he is so misunderstood

>>154787890
Even if the writers intended to be anti, I sure as hell don't interpret it as such. Kaiji layed down the cold harsh truth, and it was a good reminder about how much shit we have to take in order to live a settled live in the predetermined system. Me likey.

>>154788732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzSJSMeUjY

>>154781361
I always imagined Kaiji just walking up to the construction workers like
Hey lads how many tons would it take to tilt that over there building?

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>>154787660
I loved Ichijou. He had better come back somehow.

>>154772172
it's a meme anime taylor made for reddit

>>154788786
I hope he's doing okay

>>154788962
>>>/v/

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>>154787890
only good people would think that it's anticapitalist, and in doing so, they can't win.

>>154783978
I'm lowkey hoping after Akagi ends that he'll pick up Zero again, but like in a monthly magazine or so? I really wanna see it continue too.

>>154783246
the research this chart is based on is based on the distance at which every sample saw a difference

i.e., 2.4m from a 20" screen is where the diabetic 80-year-old with his glasses off could still notice an improvement

>>154788732

ANDOUUUUUUUUUU

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>>154784441
It's like RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE in Jojo

>>154789244
No, those are different sound effects. The "go go go" stuff in Jojo is supposed to be evil. The zawa zawa stuff is meant to portray stress through nervousness.

>>154789155
ah you beat me to it
poor morita, with all hes been through...

>>154789300
Yep. ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ is like rumbling dramatic soundtrack, ざわざわ is like... the sound of a surprised audience.

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>>154788962
>taylor made

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Is this the worst arc? It wasn't skill, it wasn't luck, it was just pure bullshit.

>>154789632
Good old fashion entertainment for rich people you mean

>>154790042
Ahh, the torture methods are so creative in Kaiji. This one is my second worst nightmare.

I remember watching it for the first time. I was floored and hooked. Certainly much better than most of the trash clogging the networks today.

ANDOOOOOOO

>>154784863
Kaiji is the foolish king

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>>154772172
Post the best moments in the show
sit down fucker, you're rolling again

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>>154790433
Eh okay, one, because I gotta go sleep now. The first time watching the new intro of season 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJBgVxpFrE
The song and the scenes complement perfectly. I catches the emotional rollercoaster Kaiji has been through and still has to endure in this season, highlighting the cunning antagonists paired with the crippling desperation to secure his existence. Even though I don't a single word from "Chase the Light", it always gives me shivers because I'm currently in the same (even worse) emotionally crippling situation like our beloved hero.

>>154790762
Fuck off blogfag.

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>>154790824
*Sigh*, that's what to expect here when your write more than two lines.

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>>154784863
Just imagine any of pic related in NGNL world

>>154790914
>*Sigh*
Seriously, go away.

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>>154790042
Japs sure do love their fingernail torture.

>>154791495
Fuck off cancer. go back to wherever you came from.

>Akagi is still playing washizu
>It's been the same hand for about 20 chapters
>it takes an entire chapter for washizu to push a tile over

The babies that bitch about the bog haven't seen shit.

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>>154772381
>Pachinko was a mistake
YOU'RE A MISTAKE

But the pain of the weeks when literally nothing happened, was like eating spicy food, it's bad but you want more.

>>154772381
Really loved that arc in the manga, don't know why it's so hated in here

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>>154791867
slow moving mahjong manga is torture

>>154791867
yeah, mostly people who think kaiji isn't very popular or so (like OP) haven't read any other fkmt works

washizu fuckin "dies" twice and goes to hell and back and YET the match just...

>>154792165
>goes to hell and back
literally

>>154774333
>Gangster gives Kanji money out of his own pocket to go have some beers with his bros no strings attached
>1st season OP plays as they jump in for the group hug
10/10

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>S1 OP plays at the end of S2

it's great, but it's not Ten or Akagi.

Also Part 3 is the fucking worst, but has some of the best endings/twists.

it kinda sucks that fkmt works are most usually adapted as films or live actions (probably because people feel it would fit the tone and nature of the works better) since they dont follow the original source material

my only wish is for some sweet OVAs or smth, to wrap up the akagi anime when the manga ends

>>154772381
The build up and preparation were great, felt like a classic heist movie, the execution less so. But it still felt hype as fuck since this is Kaiji, plus the Chinchirorin arc may be among my favorites so far.

I wish One Poker was fucking over already.

>>154792810
Ten is seriously hard to match

I can only imagine fkmt at some point seeing a piece of double sided ductape and just going Boy Do I Have An Idea Or What

>>154772172
ZAWA !

>>154791867
At least it's allegedly 2 more chapters till it ends.

>tfw adaption of Kurosawa never

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>>154779503

>everyone hates season two
>but the dice game was the best arc
>>154798068
I would like a movie/movies as opposed to a full show, either way lets keep pretending there is no New Kurosawa

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>>154789632
>“I won’t push!”
>“I won’t push!”
>“I won’t push! I won’t push!”
>“I’ll never push!”
>“Even if it not pushing means I’ll be pushed myself, I won’t push! I won’t push! I’LL NEVER PUSH!”
>“You, too! Don’t Push! Deep down, you don’t want to push either! I know you don’t! So, don’t push!”

>>154772381
Yeah only the first season was really good, even the manga gets repetitive, especially during Majhong because even with instructions I had no idea what the fuck was going on .

>>154772172
Literally thought it was a comedy based on all the screenshots...

Then I watched it. Kaiji is a tragic hero bros. It really was an emotional roller coaster. It made me feel for once.

>>154789632
I need that figma so badly.

> underrated
No.
> opinion
It's great, definitely a top 50 show all-time by most /a/non's measures.

>>154772172
I watched Kaiji as a NEET and it encouraged me to go back to school.

>>154798759
>not becoming a mahjong autist because of FKMT
???

>>154779751
Mahjong is the best?

Shit I gave up during that warmup session he had at the start because I didn't understand shit.

>>154798388
But I like the adventures of homeless Japanese man

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I honestly want to play pachinko all day after watching this series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OnmhhFk9g

>>154789632
It actually depicts what kind of emotions you would feel if you were on that bridge

>>154799475
Still can't believe his mini-mart buddy got fucked that hard.

>>154799152

Here's all you need to know about Mahjong:
>it's basically poker with way more fucking cards
>there are different hands you can work toward, same as poker
>you usually either go for a handful of 1-2-3 type straights or 3 of a kind type sets
>when your opponent discards a tile you can take it to complete one of yours, if you complete your whole hand in this manner you get to yell "RON" and win a shitload of points from them

Even if you don't know exactly what's going on, this is basic enough to get you through it, especially because they play a highly simplified version of the game in that arc. And if you still don't understand, it doesn't really matter because you can read the mood to tell what's going on.

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>>154789632
>>154799558
>>154799475

>whoever mans up and goes first gets fucked over
>you guys did it!
>just kidding there's another bridge you have to cross
>we electrified the bridge and we won't tell you so get fucked nerds
>lol just kidding, you get nothing because we turned off the electricity after everyone already died
>getting the end and opening the exit creates an unavoidable gust of wind that instantly kills you
>muh invisible glass stairway that is impossible to see which happens lead to the "real" exit

No bullshit here, seems totally fair, Good arc guys.

>>154800003

>complaining about fairness
>in Kaiji, a manga about cheaters cheating cheaters

I guess it's your own fault, anon.

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Only now I realized that there's no fantranslation for part 1 and the official version is shit.

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I hope his new asian immigrant friends don't betray him. I can't bear to see him hurt anymore.

>>154800003
Everything Kaiji does is rigged against him in some way. He was made to suffer and be moe.

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Do you think he'll ever get out of hell anons? Did he deserve to get saddled with that much debt? Yeah he was a bastard and rigged the bog like crazy, but he was told that if someone won then he had to pay the winnings didn't he?

>>154788175
Best boy

>>154801068
Ichijou did nothing wrong.

>>154772172
I loved it.

>>154800441
For the manga? Because we only had Triad subs until Crunchy made some few years go.