Comments on: Kaiji: the human derby of the Starside Hotel http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/01/20/kaiji-the-human-derby-of-the-starside-hotel/ Get decultured Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: IKnight http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/01/20/kaiji-the-human-derby-of-the-starside-hotel/#comment-37299 IKnight Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:27:56 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/01/20/kaiji-the-human-derby-of-the-starside-hotel/#comment-37299 I've no idea if the show can keep it up, but so far <em>Kaiji</em> really has been excellent. And I'm completely with you on the sweaty hands - even though we know there are plenty more episodes to come, you can't help feeling a deathly chill when the 'zawa-zawa' kicks in. I think the social-commentary-via-situation in the show is becoming more and more overt, judging by the conversation between Evil Rich Man and Kaiji at the end of the fifteenth episode, by the three cards involved in E-Card and by the paintings on the walls of the E-Card room. (Henry VIII and Elizabeth I! In anime! Shock! Horror! Tudors!) I’ve no idea if the show can keep it up, but so far Kaiji really has been excellent. And I’m completely with you on the sweaty hands - even though we know there are plenty more episodes to come, you can’t help feeling a deathly chill when the ‘zawa-zawa’ kicks in.

I think the social-commentary-via-situation in the show is becoming more and more overt, judging by the conversation between Evil Rich Man and Kaiji at the end of the fifteenth episode, by the three cards involved in E-Card and by the paintings on the walls of the E-Card room. (Henry VIII and Elizabeth I! In anime! Shock! Horror! Tudors!)

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