Overview
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji. Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in or
maybe it's my childish view of the world, but I'm going crazy with such Japanese "fairy tales", albeit serious, but so naive. for two seasons, viewers have been twisting their balls with all sorts of plot twists on the edge, when, it would seem, there is nothing else to do, but, look, we have come up with such a thing here!
it's great that, unlike akagi, here gg is not a damn genius who outplayed and outplayed everyone, but a fool who constantly finds himself in a complete ass because of his own mistakes (sometimes damn stupid) and faith in people (who obviously did not deserve it), but eventually manages to get out of it. Well, the humor has been added here - the final episode and Mikoko's funny creepy daughter!
and yes, the ability to stretch the confrontation with pachinko for more than half a season is necessary.
another masterpiece in the piggy bank!