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Kaiji (Manga)

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Kaiji (Manga)	label	Kaiji (Manga)
Kaiji (Manga)	page	Kaiji
Kaiji (Manga)	comment	The year is 1996. After graduating from high school, the young Kaiji Itou has moved to Tokyo in hopes of finding a steady job. Three years later, he's still unemployed and in a state of depression. Kaiji wastes what little money he has on cheap gambles, alcohol and cigarettes on a daily basis. To feel better about himself, he sabotages expensive cars and collects their emblems. One of these cars belongs to Yuuji Endou, a yakuza with ties to the financial empire Teiai Corporation.It turns out that Endou has been searching for Kaiji for a while, ever since he co-signed a contract for his friend Furuhata, which left him with a large debt. Kaiji is left with a choice; he must either spend 10 years working off the debt in a labour camp, or board a gambling cruise called "Espoir" (French for "hope") where he will be able to pay off the debt in one night... If he wins.And that's just how the first series begins. Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji is probably the most famous work of Nobuyuki Fukumoto, a seinen mangaka. Starting in 1996, it has since then received critical acclaim for its ridiculous yet brilliant gambles as well as the complex psychological analyses of the characters. There are currently six series, the first two of which have gotten anime adaptations by Madhouse (much like Akagi before it), and eventually three live-action films and pachinko games. Kaiji also makes an appearance in Girls RPG Cinderellife, a dating sim by Level-5, for Nintendo 3DS.A Spin-Off manga focusing on Tonegawa's life before Kaiji, Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues (Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa), got an anime adaptation in the Summer 2018 season which itself got a dub by Sentai Filmworks later in the year. Making it first of the Kaiji series to land in the west before the main series.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Kaiji (Manga) / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: It is hinted by Hyoudou that Kaiji is slowly turning into one, one who can only feel alive while gambling no matter how high the stakes. Hyoudou himself is this, so much that his "brain has been fried" and the only things that can give him any joy in life are the most extreme and twisted gambles. He foresees the same future for Kaiji, but he is yet to be proven right... or wrong.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Kaiji (Manga) / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Kaiji hopes that the Yakuza don't come to collect on his debt after the first arc. They do, and he's forced to gamble again.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_13ba53d3	type	The Corruptible
Kaiji (Manga) / int_13ba53d3	comment	The Corruptible: Mitsuyama is revealed to be this. Kaiji is not.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Kaiji has this towards the end of the Salvation Game when he's asked to spend his own money to save people. Kaiji realizes to his initial horror that he can't, but the crushing guilt eventually causes him to do the right thing.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Kurosawa is seen in the opening and Zero in the very last episode.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: Despite being the son of a very wealthy and influential man, Kazuya has reasons to be unhappy and dissatisfied with life, arguably rightfully so. His ways of coping with his cynicism are anything but acceptable though.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The trick to the Salvation Game is this, as contestants are prohibited from talking to each other, causing small misunderstandings to gradually pile up. And then subverted when even with everyone explaining the situation to him, Mitsuyama refuses to save the others.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: Oh yeah, a lot of the games usually end up at best, causing bodily harm and at worse, instantly death.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Kaiji (Manga) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Kaiji loses 4 of his left-hand fingers when his Tissue Box raffle goes horribly wrong. They manage to stitch them back later though. A less gory but still very painful example is provided by Ichijou to Kaiji in series 2.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Kazuya has taken quite a bit after Hyoudou. At the very least both are rich bastards who enjoy seeing weak people suffer and have a complete disregard for human life and friendship. Despite all that they ironically both are very fair people when it comes to resolving the outcome of a gamble.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Kaiji (Manga) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The toothpick that Kazuya gave Kaiji comes back into play to allow Kaiji to figure out how Kazuya is cheating. Also the crushing helmets worn by Chang and Mario in Part IV return, and are put to good use once again. At the very beginning of this series, Kaiji thinks Kazuya's manicure is out of character. This proves to be the essential trick in how Kazuya manipulates Mother Sophie into allowing him to draw Aces.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Kaiji (Manga) / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The people Kaiji are up against have enough money and influence as to be practically untouchable.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2319aa2e	type	All or Nothing
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2319aa2e	comment	All or Nothing: Kaiji almost always tries to play it safe, but is eventually forced to play it all in order to win.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2535cebc	type	Hidden Supplies
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2535cebc	comment	Hidden Supplies: Both sides of the Poker machine have a secret drawer that contains three Aces. There's another drawer containing Queens, Kings and 2's.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Kaiji (Manga) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Gambling Emperor Legend Zero and to a lesser extent, Gamble Fish.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2c62c9f0	type	You Would Do the Same for Me
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2c62c9f0	comment	You Would Do the Same for Me: Chang and Mario BOTH go back into the crushing helmets from Part IV that will kill them if Kaiji loses in order to give Kaiji the chance to continue, saying they know he'd do the same for them.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: The last few hands of One Poker boil down to some seriously convoluted reasoning involving this. Suffice to say, much the duel is spent with both sides deliberating whether to raise or fold, and Kazuya nearly kills himself when he gets so lost in this thinking that Kaiji manages to win.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Kaiji (Manga) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Unfortunately. Kaiji was pretty much in the clear after winning E-Card and just had to leave with his earnings. But he decided to get revenge on Hyoudou and challenged him to a tissue box game he created and tried to rig. It backfired as Hyoudou saw though the deceit, turned it against Kaiji and caused him to lose pretty much everything he risked his life for through the night.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3157c322	type	Stock Visual Metaphors
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3157c322	comment	Stock Visual Metaphors: Often about drowning, jumping over a canyon or the Grim Reaper.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Kaiji (Manga) / int_316e9da2	comment	"Mikoko, you're so pretty!"
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3176e5c9	type	Beergasm
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3176e5c9	comment	Beergasm: Given that Kaiji's now slaving away in an underground hell-hole where only the bare necessities are provided, it's no wonder that the first over-priced beer they sell to workers there gives him a Beergasm when he gets one after such a long time.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Kaiji (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: While members of Teiai Corporation resort to all sorts of cheating and goalpost moving, they never outright refuse giving a well-earned prize, even considering the implication that they can just easily eliminate the participant without paying anything if they really want to do so.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Kaiji (Manga) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: End of season 2 - after Kaiji's finally defeated the Bog and become rich, it turns out he didn't read the fine print in Endou's contract...
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Kaiji (Manga) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The worldview of people Kaiji goes up against is basically that we live on a very materialistic dog eat dog world, and that the only people worth giving a damn about are the ones who became materially successful- no matter if they've killed, tortured or otherwise ruined dozens. Money is the only important thing in life, and all means are justified as long as the end is getting loads of money. It is also meaningless to trust other people, as only cowards do that and those people will betray you the first chance they get anyway. Kaiji's worldview starts out more or less the same, but his concealed beliefs about the worth of humanity, trust and decency quickly gain the upper hand and a humanist view starts to settle in and remains there despite going through things that confirm the cynical vision. Conversely, things Kaiji does (and on rare occasion things others do to him) confirm his own view.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Kaiji (Manga) / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills You…: Averted. Kaiji notes that hitting the net while falling is just as likely to break his arms as save his life.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: For most part, Tonegawa is portrayed as the main antagonist as he manages and runs the games that Kaiji and co. are put through. Then, near the end, it's revealed that it's all entertainment for his boss, Hyoudou.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3bfa8d6	type	Fair-Play Villain
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3bfa8d6	comment	Fair-Play Villain: Kaiji says this about Kazuya, and the purpose of the Poker machine is to ensure that neither side can cheat. Both subverted and played straight in that Kazuya can cheat to draw an Ace at any time, but so can Kaiji - and Kazuya is the one who gave him the means to do so.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Hyoudou. If you work for him and if you do anything he doesn't like, he'll do various bad things to you. He also puts his bare feet in a tub filled with wine and makes his workers drink out of it. Once, a worker started speaking during this, but Hyoudou said he didn't appreciate his tone of voice, and had him taken away. It's anyone's guess as to what happened to him, but it was without a doubt very bad.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Kazuya wants to prove that the Salvation Game will never be won, because people will always betray each other. And then that Kaiji won't spend his money to save people he's never met before tonight.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_3f86799c	type	Gaussian Girl
Kaiji (Manga) / int_3f86799c	comment	Gaussian Girl: In the anime, curiously enough. Each episode has a "Proverbs of Kaiji" stinger after the ending credits: a short piece of live-cation video where a Gaussian Girl recites one of Kaiji's lines from the corresponding episode in a "deep and philosophical" manner.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Kaiji (Manga) / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The title gives away that Kaiji wins the gamble against Kazuya in the previous series.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Kaiji (Manga) / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The ship and its main hall. The "inside" of the Bog in season 2.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_44447239	type	Rigged Contest
Kaiji (Manga) / int_44447239	comment	Rigged Contest: E-Card, the tissue box lottery, Hell Cee-lo, the Man-Eating Bog and Minefield Mahjong are all rigged in different ways. Kazuya's game seem this way initially, but they have their tricks. The Survival Game would be definitely winnable with ease, but Kazuya does everything in his power to turn the three friends against each other, from things like preventing someone from leaving their seat on time to purposely messing with the helmet lights. Mother Sophie is actually 100% fair however- it turns out that both Kaiji and Kazuya can cheat equally (he just never told Kaiji), and once Kaiji figures this out the tables turn instantly.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Kaiji (Manga) / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Kaiji has already won enough money that there's no need for him to gamble against Kazuya, but he's driven to keep testing his luck and skill. Invoked again with the Red Life. After losing everything, Kaiji is then offered a continue in the form of wagering with his own life. If he loses he dies, but he is still free to walk away at this point. And then one final time when Kazuya is debating betting his own Red Life. Kaiji tells him exactly what he's played and that if Kazuya goes on he will lose. Kazuya does anyway. He loses.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: At the very beginning, Yuuji Endou says that something was wrong with his car. Kaiji says it's a shame that someone would steal its emblem, immediately revealing he was the culprit.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4ba29ebb	type	Lost Him in a Card Game
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4ba29ebb	comment	Lost Him in a Card Game: A good reason to avoid being sent to the Other Room on the Espoir.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: A ploy Kaiji uses as part of his scheme to defeat the Bog. Sakazaki trashes the Bog, damaging the flippers so that they will have to be replaced, while Kaiji has rigged the replacement flippers to fail. However, in order to make it less obvious, Kaiji launches a futile attempt to break into Ichijou's office and steal some money back while the Bog is being trashed, making it seem like that was the point of the entire ploy. It works beautifully on two fronts — Kaiji making it into the office also allows him to notice the maintenance equipment under a vent so that he can sabotage it later, and Ichijo doesn't catch on until it's too late.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4cca4ac7	type	Trapped by Gambling Debts
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4cca4ac7	comment	Trapped by Gambling Debts: Debts incurred by Kaiji and his companions are what get them involved with Teiai's twisted games in the first place.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: All the named participants to the Human Derby are dead, Kaiji survives but has lost all of his money (and is further in debt), along with his left ear and left hand fingers. Meanwhile, the villain won money, and has been entertained throughout the night.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Kaiji often gets offered smaller prizes in exchange for backing out of a challenge, but he frequently refuses them as he's determined to claim both moral and material victory.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Taro Otsuki has just lost a significant amount of Perica to Kaiji and his team, due to Kaiji demolishing his cheating schemes. As he's about to leave, Kaiji points out that as the dealer for this hand, he has to play again. (Dealers in Underground Chinchinrorin have to deal twice - a rule Otsuki put in place to let him cheat easier.)
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Kaiji (Manga) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: A shit ton given the nature of the story. Some notable examples include: Andou turning against Kaiji, silently condemning him to death. The pachinko balls on the third plate of The Bog finally spilling into the hole, giving Kaiji and his allies the Jackpot. The triumphant reveal of Kaiji's final ron in the Minefield Mahjong game, and the revelation of the real dora of the match. At one point during One Poker, Kaiji has to make a difficult decision: either use his Ace and risk it all for the chance of beating Kazuya's potential King, or play his own King and play it safe. Kaiji plays the King, comparing it to using a tank to crush Kazuya with overheming force... before revealing that Kazuya has an "attack helicopter". AKA, Kazuya somehow has an ace of his own, something that should be almost impossible, and has basically killed Kaiji. Kaiji whipping around to see that he's been saved by Chang and Mario betting their own lives for him. Kazuya using a seemingly impossible Ace in the 23rd round, which leads Kaiji to discover the secret of Mother Sophie's hidden tray. And of course, the final hand of One Poker: Kazuya plays a 2, thinking that Kaiji played an Ace... only for Kaiji to, in fact, play a 3 card instead. This causes Kaiji to win the duel, and causes Mother Sophie to enact her "losers penalty".
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Kaiji (Manga) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Andou and Otsuki.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
Kaiji (Manga) / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Kaiji's hair appears to turn white once he's out of money at the end of episode 24. It turns out to be a Stock Visual Metaphor as his hair is fine in the next episode.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Kaiji (Manga) / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Kaiji (Manga) / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Kaiji at the start of series 2 - to the point where it could almost be said that he knows where the Call lives.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
Kaiji (Manga) / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: A slight version. Looking at the exaggerated artwork, overdramatic facial expressions and ridiculously high-stakes gambles, one could easily assume that this series is partly comedy. In reality there is almost no comedy to be found in Kaiji, and those high-stakes gambles are played completely seriously, with the stylistic exaggeration serving to increase the tension.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Kaiji (Manga) / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: This is a given, since the series is about gambling and Yakuza.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_5ade32d1	type	Metal Scream
Kaiji (Manga) / int_5ade32d1	comment	Metal Scream: Opens the OP.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
Kaiji (Manga) / int_62663d88	comment	"Real" Men Don't Cry: Oh the HELL they don't! Even Lampshaded in the anime opening.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_6326ab89	type	Beam of Enlightenment
Kaiji (Manga) / int_6326ab89	comment	Beam of Enlightenment
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Kaiji (Manga) / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: The fansubs even lampshade this.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Kaiji (Manga) / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: This arc is a big departure from the previous so far, with no gambling involved and the main focus being managing to escape with the money won.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Kaiji (Manga) / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: The narrator.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Kaiji (Manga) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The main appeal of this series is arguably the ridiculously high stakes put on the simplest of gambles.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Kaiji (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The ship at the beginning of the series is called Espoir, which is the French word for hope.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Kaiji (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Several characters, but special note goes to the Asian Three's extended torture session that is the Survival Game.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Kaiji (Manga) / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Yukio Tonegawa's speech on value of money, and how unrealistic it is to expect a huge prize without putting a lot of work into it and placing your life on the line in the process.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Kaiji (Manga) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Kaiji gets this occasionally; by halfway through the second episode, he has already fallen for two Obvious Traps, leaving him in what seems to be an Unwinnable situation and requiring him to struggle for an entire arc just to try to restore the status quo.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Kaiji (Manga) / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Most of them do (or did).
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_75f38750	type	Kaizo Trap
Kaiji (Manga) / int_75f38750	comment	Kaizo Trap: A particularly cruel version Reaching the window in the Steel Beam Crossing is not the end goal. As trying to open it will let out a blast of air and knock the unfortunate victim to their deaths as what happened to poor Sahara. The real end goal is a pair of barely noticeable glass stairways on the side of the beams near the windows.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Kaiji (Manga) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Andou betrays Kaiji twice, and he's in the story for fewer than four hours in-universe. Tonegawa has something more along the lines of Chronic Frontstabbing Disorder.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Kaiji (Manga) / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Muraoka, so much that even Kazuya can't believe it.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Kaiji (Manga) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: During the second half of the Human Derby arc, Tonegawa delivers these at least Once an Episode.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Kaiji (Manga) / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: The bad guys aren't really interested in having a fair game, they just want to see the underdogs suffer. Thus they will resort to this tactic as necessary.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Kaiji (Manga) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The story that Kaiji reads, and the Salvation Game in general since Kaiji never actually places a wager, and isn't required to risk his Mahjong winnings.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Kaiji (Manga) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The narrator.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Kaiji (Manga) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Tonegawa's fate is unclear at this point. Seeing as how Kurosaki has replaced him by series 2, it's probably safe to assume that, at the very least, he was demoted to a lower rank in Teiai.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
Kaiji (Manga) / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: At one point during the events on Espoir, a man is taken away for flushing his cards down a toilet. This seems at first to only serve the purpose of showing the dangers of not following the rules, until they eventually realize why there's no Mr. X secretly holding on to the remaining 3 paper cards.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Kaiji (Manga) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The end of the second season isn't just a wham episode. It's a series of wham episodes!
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Kaiji (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Viciously subverted. Tonegawa is forced to kneel on a burning plate for ten seconds after losing to Kaiji. Despite him being responsible for the deaths of nine people, and the majority of the events of the series up until this point, his torture is so cruel that it isn't satisfying in the slightest. Rather, it comes off as horrifying. Even Kaiji, who despised him, starts crying at the sight of it. A far more satisfying one comes at the end of the Restricted Rock Paper Scissors arc, where after Kaiji manages to get back three stars and win his freedom after Ando and Furuhata's betrayal, he roughs the two up a bit before grabbing their extra stars and all their cash and buying Ishida's freedom with it. Kaiji may not have paid off his debt, and is now in even more debt, but so are Ando and Furuhata.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Kaiji (Manga) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: By the end, after losing his fingers, Kaiji seems to have learned his lesson about hard work and not trusting life to give you what you want when getting on the bus... only to then lament how close he was, blaming Hyodo for all his problems.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Kaiji (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	comment	Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The entire manga later deals with gambles that essentially comes down to life or death.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Kaiji (Manga) / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: Kaiji is taken to a cemetery at the start of the series by Kazuya to visit his own grave - telling Kaiji that this gamble will end with him rich or dead.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Kaiji (Manga) / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: When one of Muraoka's men tries to hold Kaiji outside of the game room by restraining the door to give his boss more time to cheat, Kaiji manages to open the door enough to punch him in the face go in.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Kaiji (Manga) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Seemingly impossible in a game where you have to choose between two cards. Played straight when Kaiji discovers there's a way to swap an up card for an Ace.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Kaiji (Manga) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Everytime Kaiji wins. Witnessing them is particularly satisfying since he's generally up against arrogant bastards. Muraoka's breakdown, for example, seems to drive him completely insane.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Kaiji (Manga) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Yuuji Endou, who returns since his last appearance in Part 2 leading a task force to track down Kaiji, Chang, and Mario and retrieve the 2.4 billion he's won.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Kaiji (Manga) / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Kaiji's plan to beat The Bog at the end of Season 2 relies on a series of convoluted plans to counter how it's rigged. Ichijo catches on to some of it and has a few contingencies up his sleeve. When it all plays out, it's a back and forth between the two where Kaiji and Ichijo both get caught off-guard by miraculous coincidences. It would almost look like Xanatos Speed Chess if it weren't for the fact that Kaiji can't change anything after he starts playing.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Kaiji (Manga) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: A rare non-game example. Double Subverted. Kaiji decides to take on "The Bog", a notorious pachinko machine. There is no luck involved in playing the Bog, because it's rigged to be impossible. Kaiji must use his wits to create artificial circumstances that will LEAD to his victory. But because he constantly gets caught off-guard by both Ichijo's countermeasures and other coincidences playing to his favor, the game goes back to simply being a Luck-Based Mission, except in the end everything he and Ichijou did end up tipping the odds to his favor.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Kaiji (Manga) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Tonegawa... okay, he doesn't die, but there was a lot of irony in how he loses the e-card game.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Kaiji (Manga) / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: In a Stock Visual Metaphor. Eek.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_9c91331e	type	Pose of Supplication
Kaiji (Manga) / int_9c91331e	comment	Pose of Supplication: Done when Tonegawa is forced to do this on a burning hot iron plate to beg forgiveness from Hyoudou for failing him after losing to Kaiji.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Kaiji (Manga) / int_9dfb8296	comment	And of course, the final hand of One Poker: Kazuya plays a 2, thinking that Kaiji played an Ace... only for Kaiji to, in fact, play a 3 card instead. This causes Kaiji to win the duel, and causes Mother Sophie to enact her "losers penalty".
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a129cb19	type	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a129cb19	comment	Rock–Paper–Scissors: They play Rock–Paper–Scissors in this story. With cards. You'll end up wondering "did I just spend a few hours seeing grown men play Rock–Paper–Scissors?". Yes you did. And you liked it.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a1a02b6e	type	My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a1a02b6e	comment	My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever: When Kazuya starts losing, he deliberately concedes a few rounds so that he can build his hand back up to a threatening position.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In the E-Card game, Kaiji gets to choose between putting his ear or eye on the line. He picks his ear, but we are still treated to some nice Imagine Spots with the mini-drill moving closer to his eyeball.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Averted. One of the people who have died gambling in Kazuya's games was only 15 years old.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	…And That Little Girl Was Me: Kazuya is revealed to be the "boss" character in the story.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a3d85e14	type	Genius Thriller
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a3d85e14	comment	Genius Thriller: Kaiji solves all sorts of problems (often problems which involve him owing money to Yakuza) by being a gambling genius.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In episode 10, when Sakazaki is talking about his daughter, Mikoko, the initially serious atmosphere prevalent throughout the series suddenly (and briefly) shifts to a comedic one. "Mikoko, you're so pretty!"
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Kazuya is revealed to have killed dozens of people in his life-or-death gambles, and has suffered no penalty for this. It won't be until Part V that he finally receives his comuppance. Mitsuyama also gets his winnings for betraying everyone at the end, and leaves unhindered
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a8de2a46	type	Eccentric Millionaire
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a8de2a46	comment	Eccentric Millionaire: Kazuya puts on these ridiculously expensive murder games as inspiration for his novels.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a90fff3	comment	...which turns out to be Based on a True Story. Again, in-universe.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Kaiji (Manga) / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Kaiji may only seem dumb, but the mental gymnastics he does so frequently cement him as this.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ab802f4b	type	Work Off the Debt
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ab802f4b	comment	Work Off the Debt: The start of this arc begins when Endou, now reassigned as a debt collector finds Kaiji and takes him to an underground city that Hyoudou is creating with slave labour from those in debt to Teiai. Unfortunately, since Kaiji owes Teiai about ten million yen he's forced to work back breaking labour for 15 years. Finding away out of working in that city becomes the plot for the rest of the arc.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Kaiji desperately tries to persuade Kazuya not to end his own life, but Kazuya thinking Kaiji is trying to trick him refuses to listen and bets his Red Life anyway. Kaiji cooperates with Mario and Chang to save his life, by creating a cushion out of a tarp and causing Kazuya to land on it without dying.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Yuuji nearly captured Kaiji during his visit to his mom to retrieve his papers, with several of his men covering every exit point of the apartment building, informed of Kaiji's disguise and every person who entered and exited in the past day, and prepared to break in Itou's house the moment she leaves to apprehend Kaiji. The only thing Yuuji couldn't anticipate was Kaiji getting help from a old childhood friend with somebody in the building.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Kaiji (Manga) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Kaiji's reactionary gambling style is referred to by Kazuya as a tsunami. Kaiji dismisses the notion at first but invokes the metaphor again when in doubt.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: This anime IS THIS TROPE.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_adbbb5c5	type	Writers Suck
Kaiji (Manga) / int_adbbb5c5	comment	Writers Suck: Subverted with Kazuya, who thinks very highly of being a writer.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Kaiji (Manga) / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: This part starts off immediately where the last part ended, with Kaiji, Chang, and Mario having just saved Kazuya from a large fall.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Kaiji (Manga) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Miyoshi and Maeda, but it's justified; see Well-Intentioned Extremist below.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_afe75982	type	Unsound Effect
Kaiji (Manga) / int_afe75982	comment	Unsound Effect: ZAWA, the sound of dramatic tension.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Kaiji (Manga) / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Kaiji thinks this about Kazuya when he draws pocket aces TWICE during the game, and Kazuya thinks this about Kaiji since he draws a large number of Kings and 2's. You might think it as a subversion when Kazuya uses the Aces Drawer in Hand 23 but until that moment, the game was indeed fair.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Kaiji (Manga) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Kaiji realises that no matter what, he can't do nothing if people are dying, and he can save them.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Espoir: a luxurious floating gambler den that toots in a majestic manner at the end of each episode.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Muraoka IS this trope. Crowned as such especially with his reaction to when he's faced with the possibility of losing all his money to Kaiji (compared to him losing his life).
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: It's alright to lie, cheat and steal when your survival absolutely depends on it.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bc21c08f	type	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bc8271df	type	In a Single Bound
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bc8271df	comment	In a Single Bound: Sahara's leap in episode 14 is at least presented this way.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: The Yakuza are the main antagonists of the series. They force poor fools into debts they can't pay for into sick games, or worse, force them to become slaves in underground facilities to pay them. What's worse, is very unlikely you are capable of paying them.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Kaiji (Manga) / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Kaiji keeps expecting Kazuya to do this to the three playing the Salvation Game. In reality, Kazuya is doing this to Kaiji, trying to break his optimism. It almost works, but Kaiji's good nature pulls through in the end and he saves Mario and Chang.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c0ec82a9	type	Lives in a Van
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c0ec82a9	comment	In Part VI, Endou first realizes what mode of transportation Kaiji and the gang is using after spending the night in a camper van with Kurosaki. Take a guess what that transportation is.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: How does Kaiji prove Ohtsuki is cheating? By simply grabbing the dice out of the bowl while they're still rolling, catching everyone off guard.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Kazuya's in-universe novel. ...which turns out to be Based on a True Story. Again, in-universe.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Kitami, Ichijou (anime only, as he has black hair in the manga) and Kazuya.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Constantly. Especially in the Pachinko Arc.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Series 1 plays this brutally with Sahara's death. After making his way across the bridge of death, he finally prepares to open the door to cash in on the price money... Only to be blown off the building by the air compression blast from the window towards a certain death.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Kaiji. Among other things he cries frequently, he doesn't want others to get hurt (even if said person was ready to send him to a painful death), he doesn't want people to relinquish their humanity, he values friendship, he's (obviously) sympathetic towards the poor and desperate, he wants to help everyone he can and is willing to put his life on the line for it, and he HATES injustice. Ironically (and arguably) the only person who genuinely appreciates all this aside from Ishida is one of the Teiai black suits at the end of Season/Part 2. Mario and Chang also grow to appreciate Kaiji for the things he's done for them, and later pay him back by putting their lives on the line for him.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Mitsuyama, Mario, and Chang all believe that Kazuya is an amazing person for giving them the opportunity to win all this money. At least at first.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Kazuya basically says this when Mitsuyama tries to explain his logic for betrayal, noting that he's frantically trying to explain away his own greed.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point in the second season, Kaiji stays with Sakazaki and Endou for a night at Hotel Akagi.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Played straight much of the time. Occasionally, Kaiji will seem to explain his plan, but will only explain the first and less important half; in these cases, the entire plan is guaranteed to work fine. Played painfully straight in the Tissue Box Raffle arc, though, when Kaiji explains his entire grand scheme four whole episodes before the end of the series, which naturally falls apart and leaves him ruined. It's to the point that if it's the villain monologuing to the audience about their plan, then you've already been spoiled that Kaiji is going to be the victor.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Kaiji (Manga) / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Kaiji believes that Mitsuyama has gone mad and can be snapped out of it. He can't.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Kaiji, Chang and Mario.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: While the excitement and intense moments the series is known for are still there, Part 6 has a much more lighthearted tone compared to the previous arcs, even feeling like a Slice of Life sometimes.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Nothing that destructive, but Kaiji beats up Andou after he manages to get his hands on him after he and Furuhata betrayed him, and much later he beats up Maeda and Miyoshi (who have betrayed him) when they try to restrain him from catching Muraoka on the act of cheating.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Kaiji (Manga) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Kaiji attempts to pay Sakazaki back for the 3 million yen he was lent, Sakazaki refuses to listen and believes the money he is being shown to be counterfeit bills and yells at Kaiji for him to leave. However, after getting a closer look at the money, he quickly realizes Kaiji was telling the truth all along.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: In Part I, Kaiji only has to step on a tissue box to seconds afterwards come up with the perfect plan for taking down the Big Bad. Of course, maybe it would have been better for him to have avoided stepping on that tissue box... In Part VI, Endou first realizes what mode of transportation Kaiji and the gang is using after spending the night in a camper van with Kurosaki. Take a guess what that transportation is.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Kaiji goes up against a pimped-out pachinko machine in the second series.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: What the ending of this gamble is, suprisingly. Mario and Chang are sentenced to death, and Kaiji spends his own money in an attempt to save them to the surprise of literally everyone that was in the room (including hinself). This proves Kazuya's ideologies about the world wrong and infuriates him.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Most of the cheaters in the series fall victim to this. Key word being most of them. Notably, at the end of series 1, Kaiji himself loses in the one game he tries to rig.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Kazuya keeps talking about how grateful he would be to see an actual selfless act during his games. And yet when Mario saves everyone in the 14th Round he comes up with excuses to explain it away. He completely loses it when Kaiji saves Mario and Chang even though there's no benefit to Kaiji for doing so.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d7367835	type	They Knew the Risks
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d7367835	comment	They Knew the Risks: Kaiji decides he can't save Chang and Mario because they both went into this game expecting they could die. He goes back on his word when he realizes that they're still people, and saves them both.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Kaiji (Manga) / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Muraoka Takashi, better known as The President.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Kaiji (Manga) / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Occasionally.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Kaiji (Manga) / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: In the E-Card game, when a drill is fastened to Kaiji's ear. Kaiji is forced to bet a certain number of millimeters, if he loses a round the drill advances this number of millimeters (and the sound of it apparently causes Kaiji great pain), and if it advances thirty millimeters it will pierce his eardrum (and we get several Imagine Spots of this actually happening). But wait, it gets worse! Eventually Kaiji bets more then thirty millimeters, thus risking that the drill will destroy his inner ear and possibly cause him an agonizing death. And then he cuts off his ear with a shard of glass to take the device off.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_e0aced16	type	Giggling Villain
Kaiji (Manga) / int_e0aced16	comment	Giggling Villain: Muraoka. Kazuya to a lesser extent.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Kaiji (Manga) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Literally. Figuring this out is a key aspect to surviving. Kazuya ultimately loses because he's tricked into raising into his Red Life.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_e881462	type	Mystical 108
Kaiji (Manga) / int_e881462	comment	Mystical 108: When Kaiji repays Sakazaki for the 3 million yen he got for the 17 Steps gamble, he repays him 108 million yen specifically. As a bonus, he believes this action will have a positive karmic effect on his luck.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Kaiji (Manga) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Kazuya says that the Poker machine will deal out cards to both players randomly, it will always accurately report whether a card is in the High or the Low range, and he guarantees that the game will be fair. The trick is that you can swap a card with another card as long as they're in the same range. He switches out a 9 for an Ace during Hand 23. However, he views it as fair because Kaiji has the same opportunity to cheat as he does - as long as he figures out where the cards are hidden
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Kaiji (Manga) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Chang and Mario pull this off when they agree to gamble their own lives to save Kaiji, proving that they are the True Companions Kaiji hoped they would be.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Kaiji (Manga) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Kazuya believes this.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ed7817b2	type	Shrine to the Fallen
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: The cemetery Kaiji is taken to is filled with those who gambled against Kazuya and died.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_f1a0d461	type	Inaction Sequence
Kaiji (Manga) / int_f1a0d461	comment	Inaction Sequence: As the gamble goes on, entire chapters will be spent with one character debating whether or not they're going to raise or fold. Taken to the extreme with the final round, where it takes three chapters for the machine to flip over the cards to reveal the winner.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Kaiji (Manga) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Sort of, Kaiji finally pays of his debt and even earned more money than he needed; however, Endou's contract drains him of a huge chunk of cash and, combined with the paying of the debts of his fellow 45'ers and Ishida, he ends up blowing the rest on pachinko trying to earn some of it back. Still one of the black suits gives him enough money to go out drinking with his friends and he ends the Part happily. Plus hey, he indirectly got a win in over the main Big Bad from the first arc. So that's a plus as well.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Kaiji (Manga) / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Kazuya is completely unable to understand why Kaiji could sacrifice his own money to save Chang and Mario.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_fbcdeede	type	Leap of Faith
Kaiji (Manga) / int_fbcdeede	comment	Leap of Faith: At the end of the Steel Beam Crossing, Kaiji witness his co-worker, Sahara, falls to his death upon reaching the end of the bridge and wonders if the game is even winnable. It at that point he notice light reflecting off something and realizes it's a glass staircase which leads to the real end goal. He does wonder if it's another trap since, you know, glass. But seeing no other option, goes for it and luckily for him, manages to hold his weight.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Kaiji (Manga) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Miyoshi and Maeda did not betray Kaiji just because they could; due to a misunderstanding, they thought he had betrayed them. ...which still doesn't excuse how willing they were to completely ruin the life of the man to whom they owe their lives because of a money issue after a couple convincing words by Muraoka, without first extensively questioning Kaiji and ascertaining for sure whether or not he really had money or not. Had Maeda and Miyoshi's scheme succeeded, Kaiji would at best return to the Teiai underground mines for the rest of his life, and if not he would have been cut up to pieces on Kazuya's order.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Kaiji (Manga) / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Kazuya's true goal with his Salvation Games is to make people give in to their dark urges.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_febb58e2	type	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
Kaiji (Manga) / int_febb58e2	comment	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Kaiji is fully aware that his tiles were peeked on at one point, but has no actual proof and is forced to continue the game. Which is exactly what he wanted, and he invokes this himself later when he bursts back into the room and initiates a plan to prove that Muroka is peeking his tiles.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: At the end of season 2, one of the black suits gives a broke Kaiji a few thousand yen to meet his fellow 45ers. Mind you, this was after Kaiji blew what was left of his pachinko earnings on pachinko.
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Kaiji (Manga) / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Kaiji (Manga) / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: Very few women show up in Kaiji. It's worth nothing that there's more female appearances in the first episode of Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa than there is cumulatively across the entire mainline series.
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Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Action Survivor / int_d81d0106
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Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Good Eyes, Evil Eyes / int_d81d0106
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Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	I Know You Know I Know / int_d81d0106
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Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Shouldn't You Stop Stealing? / int_d81d0106
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Sliding Scale of Anime Obscurity	seeAlso	Kaiji (Manga)
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	The Tell / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Thick-Line Animation / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Trapped by Gambling Debts / int_d81d0106
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Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Design / int_d81d0106
Kaiji (Manga)	hasFeature	We Will Meet Again / int_d81d0106

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