r/kaiji

Toy story anime opening (Kaiji version) YouTube video and toy story 5 inspired me

Everyone gets the same small deck of Rock, Paper, Scissors cards and a few stars. Sounds easy at first.

Then you realize every card matters because once you waste them, they're gone. Every lost star gets you closer to losing everything.

It stops feeling like Rock, Paper, Scissors after about five minutes. It turns into bluffing, reading people and trying to figure out what they're holding before they even play it.

Still one of my favorite gambling games in anime.

overall i love the series even part 2. and even its second half.

but it does have some things that confused me.

for example yuki(i think was his name) zeros follower from part 1 just disappeared after the cars fell of the cliff. same with hiroshi. its implied they died but it never is outright stated so it makes it feel like the story forgot they exist

suezaki is hilarious though it does feel weird that zero keeps hima round but i guess its because hes good at handling money.

i also think there have been more done with zeros website. like maybe having naoki contact zero through that rather then seeing him in a bar. it just feels kinda wasted.

like others said it seems like fukumoto just got bored with the series and decided to end it and not pick it back up.

which is a shame BECAUSE I REALLY WANNA KNOW WHAT SHIRUBES PLAN WAS FROM PART 1!

it also makes me wonder if fukumoto even wrote that far or if he just threw that in and planned to answer it later. that could also answer why theres no third part as maybe he just doesnt know where to take the series

of course it makes sense. fukumotos drawn over 200 volumes of manga. over something like 10 different series? idk. its not suprising that one slips through the cracks. especially as he gets older and older but its still saddening. the whole billionaire/trillionaire gamble thing really got me invested. especially zaizen and kijurous apparent rivalry.

but once fukumoto finishes nikaido he would most likely go back to kaiji and finish that(which to be honest i would prefer) and itd most likely take a couple hundred chapters assuming there will be one last gamble with hyoudou and that would take years. leading him into his seventies where he might want to write nikaido part 2 or some other story who knows. (or end his career or even just straight up die. i hope he doesn't. to quote eren. "not for another 10 years at least" but its definitely possible. especially since hes a mangaka) meaning zero part 3 will probably never be written.

but i guess thats that

anyways here are my rankings of the arcs/gambles(at least of my counting as to my knowledge theres no official arc list)

13. Car Cliff

14. Righteous Thieves

15. Beer Bet

16. Jack Game

17. Dice Game

18. Junior Safety

19. Triangle Game

20. Witches Slaughter Mansion

5.Morning Golf

4.Quarter Jump

3.100 Card Poker

2.Anchor Game

1.Yuukichis Monologues

even though most people didnt like the yuukichis monologues arc i really liked it and imo it is one of the best treasure hunt stories in fiction. i found it incredibly fun but also disappointing because ya know. theres no story afterward. also i liked how you got to know president kijurou before actually seeing him not in a flashback. its like how he could feel takamitsu when reading the books given to him through the hole

How is this hand 1 tile away from tenpai?

saw this and immediately thought "what in the blue lock is going on?"

source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131331923