The Fall of Man

Funai is reluctant to accept Kaiji’s gamble of five stars, though his options are limited. Funai has only one card left, but nine stars. However, he if he doesn’t get rid of his card he will lose. So, he calls out to Mr. X, the unknown man with the three scissors, and makes a proposal that he will give Mr. X the stars necessary to survive if he plays.

However, Kaiji reminds Funai of a very important fact. Earlier on in the game, a man was thrown out for trying to flush his cards down the toilet, which is against the rules. Those three cards were most likely the three scissors, which had not been removed from the scoreboard. Thus, there was no Mr. X. Funai must play Kaiji.

However, Funai argues that Kaiji is in the same bind as he, and counters with only a three star offer, and that Kaiji could just buy the final stars necessary to survive. Kaiji refuses, stating that he will take Funai to hell with him if he has to.

This show is full of wusses.

It turns out that not counting Funai’s card, that leaves 66 cards left on the field. For Kaiji to play Funai, that would bring Kaiji’s count down to 65. The major problem with this is that that even after cancelling out their cards, there would be one card remaining. One person from Kaiji’s group is destined to fall (realizing this, Furahata crys like an emo kid).

Funai, realizing that Kaiji has nothing to lose, gives in to the deal. Kaiji then tells Furahata and Andou his plan. He would give Furahata and Ando the five stars, giving Andou a total of five and Furahata a total of four. That leaves Kaiji with one star. Kaiji then gives Furahata a single card: the card with which Furahata will take Kaiji’s final star.

Hey, those aren’t showerheads!

Kaiji is stripped and stuck in the next room with a lot of other pitiful naked failures, and awaits his fate. He is counting on Furahata and Andou to buy back his freedom with their three of their extra stars. However, he gets a bad feeling about it, which turns out to be correct yet again. Furahata sells one of his stars for five million, reasoning that they still have three left to buy Kaiji’s freedom.

I HATE YOU FAT BASTARD ASSHOLE ANDOU.

However, he wasn’t counting on Andou being a greedy dickwad, who decides that he no longer wants to give up his stars or his money, and refuses to help Furahata save Kaiji. I must say if I was there I would be whipping Andou’s ass so hard that he gets a pink sock.

Hopefully Furahata will come up with a way to acquire two extra stars and save Kaiji. This was a really great episode, and twists like this make this a really good anime. I hope Andou burns in hell, and hopefully my wish will be granted in the coming episode. Speaking of coming episode, it’s amazing that they’re able to stretch out four hours of game time this long. It’s kind of like the show 24 but broken up into five minute segments. I will be amazed if they can actually make it to the 26 episodes that the show is supposed to run just in this arc.

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