Giving this a go
What's to be expected
Some extreme rock paper scissors action
>>144303354
Ishida dies
Great show overall, but reeeeeeeeeally drags at most major confrontations/battles.
>>144303354
Despair.
lots of crying and intense closeups
an overbearing narrator that makes the entire show feel like a recap episode
palm-sweating tension
some pretty ridiculous asspulls that you won't really mind because they're cool if you don't think too hard about em
HE HATES IT
you will feel his pain
>>144303354
A sad sad, stupid ass gambler who deserves everything that comes his way.
One of the few thriller shows that actually works
Expect lots of terrifiying shit that horrifies you, and constantly high stakes
Janken>E-Card>17 Steps>Rail Crossing>Tissue Box>whatever that game they played in the camp was>>>> Pachinko
several moments where the protagonist could end his suffering but chooses not to because of human greed
The first arc is about the most gambling-oriented it gets. There are good arcs later, but a lot of them are just high-stakes games and not really focused on the psychological gambling aspect.
>>144303531
WE HATE IT
ざわ。。。
>>144303354
Look out for flying baseball bats
ANDOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Forcibly silenced screams.
>>144303354
ZAWA
>>144303744
THEY HATE IT
Furuhata did nothing wrong.
>>144303354
>What's to be expected
Suffering.
Slow pacing.
An art style which is ultimately an 'acquired taste'.
Really slow pacing.
More suffering.
Completely sick mindgames.
Twists which will blow your mind.
Fantastic reveals.
SLOW PACING.
No, seriously, the pacing drags the fuck on especially in the second season. Great show though. You'll almost certainly enjoy it.
You can expect a lot of pain if you start relating to Kaiji. Too much pain.
>>144304503
Akagi.
You know nothing about mah-jong, don't worry it doesn't matter.
A really fucking extreme show. Niggas gambling body parts and forced into slave labor.
>>144303354
Expect rock-paper-scissors hardcore version.
Then walk across a plank (OR DIE).
Then Guess my card do-or-die edition. (the best arc)
Then lottery mindgames edition.
Then dice game shit-is-rigged edition (also really good).
Then finally a million episodes of pachinko (holy fuck this is slowly paced).
>>144304503
>Can anyone else recommend a series like this please?
Code Geass or Saki. They might seem unrelated but there's a strong chance you'll love at least one of them if you also loved Kaiji.
Human Derby arc almost made me throw up
HE TILTED THE BUILDING
>>144304586
>>144305089
Thanks senpaitachi
>>144303354
Fruitlessly pumping balls
>>144303354
lots of zawa zawa's
>>144305144
I know a lot of /a/ regularly rank Human Derby as the most boring of the Kaiji gambrus and I can see why, the second part of the event with the actual deaths is the most memorable scene in the series for me. The raw emotion and fear in their voices as Ishida and the rest started panicking and falling along with the reaper analogy really made those episodes intense to watch.
Lots of emotional distress. I got so stressed at one point I paced back and forth in my room deep in thought for almost half an hour after the episode was over.
>>144305863
boring? no way
I can understand not liking it because it isn't really gambling, just psychology, but that arc had me on the edge of my seat more than the majority of shit I've ever watched
my hands were legitimately sweating
![[HorribleSubs] Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor - 08 [480p].mkv_snapshot_20.54_[2016.06.03_23.17.08].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ngYmMVE.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor - 08 [480p].mkv_snapshot_20.54_[2016.06.03_23.17.08].jpg")
Absolute despair
A really really great adaptation.
FKMT can do no wrong. Has he ever written a bad series?
Shouting
Crying
Zawa
The greatest narrator to bless your ears.
The sheer amount of willpower that Kaiji pulls off in s1 is just incredible
He gets back on his feet at s2 and endures a harrowing journey to victory
It's a good show overall
Also, s3 never
>>144303354
Read mangoo instead. You WILL want more.
>>144306284
read the manga, its really good. starting in part 3, it introduces a rival to kaiji (Hyodo's son) who becomes the other main character and is really awesome
ALSO CAN SOMEONE PLEASE BE THE NEW TYPESETTER FOR FKMTKRAZY. WE HAVENT GOTTEN A NEW CHAPTER IN MONTHS
>>144306457
>Kazuya just always wanted a friend like Kaiji
Cute CUTE
>>144303354
People like saying forced drama over other shows but this right here is a prime example.
Also terrible pacing and insultingly drawn out explanations for everything interspersed with 9th grade philosophy doled out at the same terrible speed.
>>144306708
>>144306708
wow so true bro haha xD
>>144304503
One Outs
Think baseball Akagi
>>144306167
Almost all of his pre-Ten titles are bad. Especially the one with alcoholic highschooler.
zawa zawa
>>144306876
>One Outs
Does it improve after the episode where he throw three of the same kinds of throws in a row?
>>144303354
It drags a shit ton, but thats the whole point and makes everything so fucking intense, I was sweating hard during all the gambling battles.
>>144303354
Worse version of Akagi.
>>144307122
>worse
It's not worse, it's different.
Akagi is a superhuman while Kaiji is an idiot who can only think clearly when he's about to get wrekked
>>144307122
Congratulations, you missed the point of both shows entirely.
one thing I liked about it was how Kaiji felt like a hapless loser who was just trying his best, and how in spite of all his wiles he was often unable to one-up Tonegawa and the Director. He didn't get much in the way of lucky breaks.
HE HATES IT
>>144303354
Does anyone else unironically like the bog/pachinko arc?
It's the only anime arc that made me feel serious emotion. Everytime that ball got near it's destination only to fail killed me inside.
Are the live action movies worth it? I just finished the series and I'm not ready to let it go.
>>144307962
Watching it as it aired was amazing fun.
https://youtu.be/Rg3nTCDEl_w
Literally came buckets.
It's extremely easy to binge watch it since episodes often end with a crazy cliffhanger, but I think it's best experienced if you only watch one a week, or one every couple days. It's like Code Geass in that regard. The tension from waiting makes you enjoy it more.
See this fearful, sad looking faggot? Don't push him against the wall.
>>144304503
Kurosawa: Legend of the Strongest Man.
>>144308305
>not watching one a week
I had no choice.
>>144303688
>17 Steps
What was this again?
>>144308558
minefield mahjong
>>144308558
The Mahjong game in the manga after the Bog arc. It was basically Akagi if Akagi actually managed to get outsmated sometimes.
Has the current vice-president guy (the one who appears at the end of the Chinchiro arc) actually done anything yet?
>manga is actually pretty far ahead but we're only at the beginning of one poker because FKMTkrazy have some sort of problems
fuck
>translations never
>>144308954
woah woah woah, did FKTMcrazy actually scanlate the manga before one poker fully?
I thought that wouldn't get completed in my lifetime.
>>144309285
The three stooges helmet game is finished, yeah.
>>144307962
It's my favorite arc behind the E-Card fight.
>>144309285
You should be more worried about Akagi finishing in our lifetime.
Watched the whole series until episode 13 in a single day yesterday. A 10/10 for so far. The tension was great!
What next?
>>144309359
That's definitely going on my to-read list now. I gave up hope of that ever getting completed.
>>144309474
Try episode 14
>>144304414
HE HATES IT
>>144303354
Watch it and find out, you stupid shit.
>>144306167
Kurosawa 2: Hobo boogaloo
>>144303354
dub>sub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMTnjDXG2OE
>>144306999
Yes. I hated the first few episodes. It gets a lot better after that.
>>144309553
It's kind of a really terrible arc though. At least we're back to Kaiji doing things.
Better than re zero
>>144312123
And FKMTKrazy has been dead for a while now
>>144312195
That's a given
>>144303778
I had a picture of zawa in icing on a toaster strudel but can't find it. Post this instead
Kaiji still has no Bluray right?
CR version is still highest quality right?
>>144314047
No, TV broadcast has the highest quality.
>>144304503
No Game no Life, Death Note, One Outs, Akagi if you can into mahjong
>>144314047
Highest quality version is DVD although it has no subs you're gonna have to mux them yourself.
>>144304503
Liar Game
>>144303354
Suffering
Male moe
God-tier narration
>>144303354
Great first season 1, then it gets bogged down in S2
>>144314579
People hated the bog?
I found it somewhat exciting, albeit a bit poorly paced.
>>144314451
>Male moe
SO MOE
>>144314656
Didn't say it was bad just that the pacing gets thrown out the friggin window in that arc
>>144304572
>tfw I actually cried with him most of the time
These were a lot of tears.
>>144314671
>>144307962
I do, feel like most people think it's slowly paced just because at first Kaiji doesn't attempt the bog and instead Sakazaki does then fails and then Kaiji attempts it
>>144314671
I like how he ruins the guy and puts him in a labor camp and chases him down just to say ganbare
>>144307962
I don't think people hated the bog but rather hated how long it went on to establish a premise we already knew about
>>144314238
>>144314349
So which is it?
And why are neither of those available on Nyaa or BakaBT?
Nyaa only has the CR version while Baka has a shitty low quality hardsub for S1 and awful shitsubs for S2.
>>144315973
Look for Triad subs.
>>144316110
Triad is the godawful hardsub I mentioned earlier.
>avi
>divx codec
>YELLOW hardsubs
Yeah no get fucked, also looks like garbage compared to Crunchy rip.
>>144316153
No, it's mkv, h264 and white hardsubs.
It also looks way better than crunchyroll's video
Fuck off retard
![[Triad]_Akagi_-_01.avi_snapshot_09.22_[2016.07.17_23.13.54].png](https://i.imgur.com/X8PabuO.png "[Triad]_Akagi_-_01.avi_snapshot_09.22_[2016.07.17_23.13.54].png")
>>144316391
>it's mkv and h264
>[Triad]_Akagi_-_01.avi
>Video: Xvid 640x480 29.97fps 954kbps
Try harder faggot.
still waiting on triad for season 2
>>144303354
Expect despair, but also despair.
>>144316153
Not only are you wrong but good luck finding anything else seeding.
![[HorribleSubs]_Akagi_-_01_[480p].mkv_snapshot_08.07_[2016.07.17_23.13.17].png](https://i.imgur.com/B8WsvQK.png "[HorribleSubs]_Akagi_-_01_[480p].mkv_snapshot_08.07_[2016.07.17_23.13.17].png")
>>144316513
Crunchy for comparison.
>>144316642
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=460002
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=460003
You were saying, faggot?
S3 NEVER
![[Triad]_Kaiji_-_01.mkv_snapshot_07.45_[2016.07.17_23.21.17].png](https://i.imgur.com/ZrkNeMv.png "[Triad]_Kaiji_-_01.mkv_snapshot_07.45_[2016.07.17_23.21.17].png")
Well shit, Triad's Kaiji does look better than Crunchy, but their Akagi looks like utter shit.
And those fucking hardsubs, fucking why.
![[HorribleSubs] Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor - 01 [480p].mkv_snapshot_07.41_[2016.07.17_23.22.56].png](https://i.imgur.com/74IMTa1.png "[HorribleSubs] Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor - 01 [480p].mkv_snapshot_07.41_[2016.07.17_23.22.56].png")
>>144316969
Crunchy for comparison.
So anyone know where I can find decent DVD/TV Rip that's clean and not hardsubbed? I could just take Crunchy subs and mux with that.
>>144317030
You can download the DVD on AB
>>144316513
That's Akagi, stupid
>>144317124
>AB
Some private tracker? I take it you wouldn't be willing to spare an invite if I prove my ratio from Blackcats and Myspleen?
>>144317185
Never heard of those trackers, what are they?
>>144317185
That would be too risky, sorry. You can apply on https://animebytes.tv/register when they open to registrations again.
>>144317306
Blackcats is pretty much biggest vidya private tracker right now since the fall of Bitgamer.
MySpleen is likewise but for older movies and rare tv stuff and shit.
>>144317325
How the fuck would that be too risky? And the registrations are closed so gg no re, thanks for nothing faggot.
>>144303507
>an overbearing narrator that makes the entire show feel like a recap episode
I lold so hard.
Really though, this post hits it out of the park and sums the show up pretty well.
With that said, this show is amazing and should be watched by anyone who calls themselves an anime fan.
>>144304956
Then you got
Cheater vs cheater mahjong
Kaiji watches shit go down arc
POKER
