This series is incredible. Our titular character Kaiji is a 20-something loser who reads manga all day, works a dead-end job, and enjoys defacing property of those who he things are better than him. Kaiji is also incredibly intelligent, however he just has no drive but to do the bare minimum. Everything changes on one fateful day however as, in a brief moment of compassion, he agrees to co-sign a Yakuza loan for a friend of his and the friend defaults on the debt. Kaiji is now millions of Yen in debt to the Yakuza and would have to spend decades paying them back with interest.
Or he could erase all the debt in one night if he agrees to play some games...
That is all you need to know going into this. Everything from Squid Game to Alice in Borderland are no doubt influenced by this series and Kaiji is a series that is a 10/10 the entire time. The games are easy to understand and brutally terrifying and we get to see how Kaiji can finally use his intelligence to find ways out of seemingly hopeless situations.
This is a cant-miss series. There is nothing like it out there and it is intense every step of the way.
Highest recommendation to watch.
Or he could erase all the debt in one night if he agrees to play some games...
That is all you need to know going into this. Everything from Squid Game to Alice in Borderland are no doubt influenced by this series and Kaiji is a series that is a 10/10 the entire time. The games are easy to understand and brutally terrifying and we get to see how Kaiji can finally use his intelligence to find ways out of seemingly hopeless situations.
This is a cant-miss series. There is nothing like it out there and it is intense every step of the way.
Highest recommendation to watch.