Kaiji S1: Ultimate Survivor ★★★☆☆

The extreme melodrama isn’t my favourite thing but I have to respect it making it take ten minutes to play a single card of a card game not boring and I do love to see this sad, wet, milk-soaked ragdoll cry out his body weight in water every three episodes.

I think it’s funny that Hyodo almost acts as the audience surrogate while being the main villain. We are all just here to watch Kaiji suffer more and I also really enjoyed the role reversal at the end of E-card where we switch to Tokegawa’s once Kaiji gains the upper hand.