Kaiji, Season 2, Episode 10: Applause, and then...
Episode 10 basically has Sakazaki give this huge, huge introdump about how the Ultimate Pachinko machine is going to give a fuck-ton of payout, but it's near impossible and the balls cost extremely expensive. And the only two people to have gotten a payout out of the Bog in the last ten years are Tonegawa and Hyoudou himself, which makes Kaiji sort of note the sheer insanity of fate for putting him in another Teiai Group gambling corner.
And, credit where credit's due, Kaiji immediately dismisses the idea of winning a rigged machine outright. But Sakazaki brings Kaiji to his home, gives his motivation (a generic 'I need my family back' motivation, but it's there) and apparently the man's pretty obsessed with the Bog, having spent a couple of million yens just to get a replica of the Bog as well as a pin maintenance schedule from an inside man. Suspiciously, though, despite all his talk about having a man on the inside, he wants Kaiji to act as his accomplice, quickly hinting that something's not quite right. Either Sakazaki himself's not on the up-and-up, or he himself is being duped.
It does mean that Kaiji doesn't actually have to risk his money, which is interesting -- Kaiji asks for a 10% of the potential winnings to help clear out the rest of the Forty Fivers' debts. Sakazaki himself goes half-crazy through the night, because he apparently figured out the combination to his boss's safe, and has 'borrowed' 20 million yen in order to act as additional funds in their little event. The episode ends with Kaiji and Sakazaki entering the casino, and it's... interesting, for sure. It's a different setup where Kaiji fully attempts to gamble a pre-established system. We've seen Kaiji plan to cheat before in the final arc where he fights Hyoudou, but that felt more spontaneous than anything. This is them straight-up deciding to fuck with the system. Not a bad setup for sure.
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