Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
Kaiji Ito has serious issues. Not only is he a social misfit, but he's also a deadbeat petty gambler. After he gets duped into co-signing a loan for his friend, he's stuck owing the Yakuza millions! Things start looking up when he's given the chance to win his life back by gambling with other "lucky" participants on a mysterious casino ship, but soon Kaiji and the other contestants will discover the depths of human depravity when there is nothing left to lose - except their lives. Use promo code HIDIVE30SH to watch HIDIVE for 30 days on us.
Member Reviews
Wild that there’s barely a full arc of the series on here but outside of that regrettable shortage of content, I still rate this highly because as a longtime fan, I earnestly believe Kaiji is one of the most engaging, thrilling & confronting series regarding the dire consequences of wealth & the desire for it as well as themes of ambition & struggling through crippling setbacks and tragedies just to survive to see another day. If you’ve ever seen & enjoyed series like Squid Game or fiction of its ilk about high stakes gambles & games where winning & losing is equivalently life or death and humans are tested to their individual limits on morality, principles & integrity in the face of simply the barest chance of life-changing amounts of wealth then I urge you to watch Kaiji wherever possible.
Disappointed to see many reviewers prima facae rejecting this- it is absolutely a horror story, though not a supernatural one. Probably also one of the only truly left wing/proletarian anime what with its message of a rigged game whose only solution is solidarity against the selfishness and mistrust it is designed to engender. It’s short too- highly recommend anyone give it a shot, even and especially if they generally dislike anime.
The episodes were good. All 6. Out of 24.
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This is a good anime and all, but wtf is it doing here? The only real horrors to be found here are greed and inhumanity.