r/kaiji

Hey ya’ll, here’s a game of Ecard match I recorded between my friend and myself, and I thought yall might enjoy it

I’m always looking to play people for some non-money stakes, typically for stakes more tense than this. If any of you are in the Midwest (specifically Illinois), I’d be up to meet and play a match. Always looking for a challenge and unique people :)

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask but I wanted to know if anyone knows where akagi’s grave is in japan? I went to the last known location, that being cafe alfred’s, but it was no longer there. I couldn’t really ask where it is since I don’t speak Japanese. I believe it was there like 5 months ago so wasn’t expecting it to have moved already

if it was actually fully released on pachinko machines, i mean surely someone would record or leak somehow and post? is there really nowhere to find it?

or is it just those few scenes, 5 minutes total

Sorry I'm anime only so I might be missing something but what is the incentive for contestants to buy stars at the end of the Rock Paper Scissor game? What is the reward for passing with three stars if you know that will only put you way further into debt? It's the reasoning that Ando makes to convince Furuhata to betray Kaiji - that if they save Kaiji they'll still be stuck with mountains of debt. If you aren't monetarily ahead by at least 40% to cancel the accrued interest what is the point?

This will pretty much have all the spoilers for the first half of Steal Beam Crossing.

I haven't actually finished this Arc yet (I'm not exactly in a rush to catch up to a Manga that might not ever Finish anyway 😅). But I was really impressed with this first half.

Firstly, while there isn't exactly the same mind game element to it, as with the restricted rock paper scissors, there are definitely elements that are similar. It's not so much as the mind game outsmarting, but rather the mind game psychology of the thought of actually dying here.

I hope this isn't triggering for anyone, but it very much felt similar to when you're standing on a really high apartment balcony. It can be a nice view, but there's always that moment where you look directly downward, and you realize that there isn't actually a safety net there. There's nothing to stop you from. Just accidentally leaning too far forward and throwing yourself off, or someone shoving you off either.

The thing is, it isn't the thought of dying that scares me the most. It's not even the thought of falling. But rather, it's the thought of landing, and Not dying. What if the fall is just short enough to keep you barely alive, but severely injured and conscious? That would be more scary than just dying.

Kaiji's contemplation of society being about people at the top having to keep kicking people who are already below them, as he tries to justify the need to shove the person in front of him off of the being, only to abruptly decide not to.

Then, it turns out that literally none of this mattered. Like, and none of it at all.

The winners aren't actually winners unless if they go and achieve the money, but all of the other players are free to go and grab it too, so it literally did not matter how fast or slow you walked across those beams.

And the panel revealing the final two beams is probably one of the most eerie shots ever. I'm not sure how it's done in the anime, but I feel like in a live action movie, it would be done with that type of very eerie violin playing that's usually played for scenes like this, that just really raise your discomfort levels.

Those two very thin and very long beams. Just lying there, connecting too literal skyscrapers, with the mission being clear- If you want the money- You gotta cross this.

I'm genuinely not sure how many people could actually do this. Not only is there just the natural fear of falling to your death that will probably result in you collapsing anyway, as it's not like you can grab the beams with your hands, but also the high winds that would be blowing at that time. Like they're lucky that it happens to be clear weather, but even then, there will be lots of air blowing in your face when you're that high up. And all it takes is for you to lose your balance. Just a tiny little bit to be thrown off.

All of this is obviously incredibly unfair, and the people running this whole gig are entirely despicable.

But the thing is, that monologue that the guy gives at the beginning of this is almost so based that it justifies it.

That monologue about how people are so absorbed into thinking that their life hasn't actually begun yet, when it has, is so tough to think about, because it's so true.

And it's sad too because I feel like people still haven't actually figured out what's the best way to live your life. You have to find a really good and solid balance between preparing for your future, while also enjoying the present.

There are so many students at University who will just absorb themselves in studying and working, and fine almost no time to rest or play at all, and then by the time that they're in their '40s and they realized that they should start enjoying life before they're too old to call themselves young anymore, they're already incredibly burnt out by all the work they just put in, and they're also surrounded by a bunch of people who have actually started families, and don't have as much time to actually hang out.

We're taught growing up that if we do well in school, we'll have a good future, but even if we make it to a good University or college, we just find ourselves still thrown with a bunch of school work to do, but it's all okay, because once we get a job, we'll have a good future.

Only for us to get a job and realize that working sucks, but it's okay, because once we have a family, we'll have a good future.

And then if we get a family going, we're super stressed about raising these bratty kids and wanting them to not become the negative aspects that we see in ourselves.

But hey, it's okay, because once we f*****g retire, we'll have a good future.

And then we finally retire, just in time for our midlife crisis.

And at the end of the day, that's kind of what a midlife crisis is all about; realizing that we just spent the last 40 to 50 years of our life worrying about the future, and now it feels like we don't even have that much future left.

And as the guy says, there are people who risk so much of their lives, whether it's their financial lives, educational lives, love lives, whatever. People are pushing themselves to literal hell and back just to get a stupid job where they can barely make enough money to actually get by.

And compared to that... How exactly are crossing these stupid beams supposed to be considered too rough?

If you were stood in front of a spinning wheel, with a 99% chance of you, just dying on the spot, and a 1% chance of you being able to live your literal dream life, it's easy to say that you wouldn't spin it. But if the alternative is continuing to fight for survival in a toxic world that doesn't really care if you live or die.... Isn't it just so much easier to just spin that wheel and let fate be decided here and now?

Kinda want to see Kaiji take part in a dancing gamble, not gonna lie

I just read it for the first time (absolutely peak) but I’m baffled at the temerity of anyone who read this weekly. I tip my hat to you

Chapter 213 is when the hand starts and Chapter 246 is when the cards are revealed