Kaiji, Season 2

I couldn't finish the first season of Kaiji although I liked the premise a lot. I stopped watching after the high beam episodes and it seemed to drag on forever.


Have you ever read Liar Game (manga)? It's fucking sick. The mental battles is more complex than Kaiji IMO and highly more entertaining.

I liked Akagi and even One Outs more than Kaiji season 1, though Kaiji was decent. Thanks for the heads up on the sequel, I'll probably skip it.

sad news, I liked Kaiji season 1

I liked Akagi better

but yeah Kaiji season 2 was kinda lame, at least the bog part

yeah seazon 1 was pretty sick , i'll go check out liar .
If u guys have any other stuff to refer, plz refer me ! :D

Also gantz is pretty sick .


Btw what are u guys watchin that is still ongoing?

GAMBLING YOUR LIFE.

On December 06 2011 20:34 TheHuHu3 wrote: I couldn't finish the first season of Kaiji although I liked the premise a lot. I stopped watching after the high beam episodes and it seemed to drag on forever. Have you ever read Liar Game (manga)? It's fucking sick. The mental battles is more complex than Kaiji IMO and highly more entertaining.

Yea it does drag on at that part but it really picks up by the end.

I hate reading manga online, but so many people are raving about liar game that im prolly gonna man up and read it eventually ^^

i gave liar game a fair crack and got thru a fair few of the games but it got really repetitive without much character development and was lacking in the same awesome commentary on human nature that kaiji s1 had. wasnt impressed=[

just started watching one outs after seeing rgfdxm's post. Apart from akagi (awesome) another gambling anime to check out is Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, also about mahjong but maybe more true to real gambling in that era than akagi, hustling and cheating play a big part

agreed with Ket Kaiji > Liar Game by far, since its way more human and not just a repetitive puzzle.

the 2nd season is garbage tho, the pachinko part was ridiculously long and the ending too cheesy (oh damned to poverty boohoo).

One outs starts awesome, it gets less entertaining when the guy you know cannot be beat, unlike in Kaiji where he loses

I didnt mind One outs and Akagi in that sense tbh, I actually loved how they were like these inhuman ominous beings that can do no wrong and they still made it exciting and intriguing. It did bother me a little tho just how dumb everyone else was, especially in one outs the team and the second lead were incredibly dense and it got a bit annoying after a while.

One outs goes downhill horribly after he goes in the lycoons... its absurd to think he can level people he has never met or spoken to before the game into striking themselves out to his shitty pitches.

The start was awesome tho, very realistic and believable when he wins the broken arm bet

What has realism have to do with it? hes a fucking mind reading demon, hes not human :O

On December 09 2011 05:23 EvilSky wrote: What has realism have to do with it? hes a fucking mind reading demon, hes not human :O

You mean literally? wtf

anyway even if one thing is fantastic it doesnt mean that logic should be through out of the window

No I dont mean literally, in the context of that world he is human. What I mean is you just need to accept it and let go of strict realism in order to enjoy the anime, he is not a standard character that struggles and overcomes and learns shit and evolves, thats why you almost never hear his inner dialogue,he never doubts or questions himself and in that sense he is basically inhuman. You know he is never gonna lose but its still fun to see just how he crushes his opponents, I think its really cool that its an anime that doesnt rely on character development or the emotional aspects but still manages to make it interesting.

Well yeah im not bothered by a fantastic trait if that what is all about, i wont go and say death note is crap because you cant kill people with a notebook, but only because he can kill with a notebook it doesnt mean that logic goes out the window and you can see a pegasus fly into his room and burst into flames.

That is exactly what happens with one outs, super brilliant mind reader/manipulator never misses a pitch only because of mind games with the batter, but then he goes and plays like 6 perfect straight games against total strangers that he could have not interacted with so they are impossible to manipulate obviously, also its the kind of anime where you know the hero simply cannot lose or face any true hardship and that makes it childish (shonen like), in Kaiji the guy loses the biggest battle and loses an ear and his fingers... that is much better

Its possible because it happened, thats all the logic that is needed in an anime of this kind. If it followed your strict logic it would have been a completely different show. fwiw I think Kaiji is better than Akagi and One outs but I have absolutely no problem with what you didnt like. I guess its a matter of taste.

Yeah definitely not really a fan of Liar Game. I want to check out Kaiji season 2, but am a little discouraged with the bad review ={