Compulsive Gamblers #01 — Rock Paper Boredom

July 1st, 2017

 

Believe in the heart of bad art!

I have some brief errands to run. Other shows start airing now (and air for the next 90 minutes straight), but I might have to run out for 30-60 minutes in the middle of things. Or not. Who knows.

Impressions:

As is frequently the case, and why I don't like doing it, I get to enjoy the manga chapter(s) that I spent maybe three minutes quickly flipping through while looking this up for the preview stretched out to 22 full minutes as they linger on dumb overreactions, and revel in the cacophony that they're calling a jazzy soundtrack. And like I mentioned in the preview, all this boils down to a bunch of exposition and then "I believed in the heart of the cards." I'm sure they mean it to show how she's a daring rebel who don't play by nobody's rules, but it really just comes off as they got tired of writing and just said screw it.

It's typical over-dramatized sports/game schlock. It leans on the bad music and ugly faces somewhat more than usual (or less if you're coming from the Akagi/Kaiji angle), but is simplistic with the production to match. I guess its addition to the formula is high school girls. Be still my beating heart.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Tiresias says:
    July 2, 2017 at 12:11 am

    Judging by the screencaps alone, I thought this was a porno

    • Neclord X says:
      July 2, 2017 at 4:19 pm

      I also had the feeling that this was some sort of porn, wasn’t sure in which way, but I know it was porn someway down there.

      • elior1 says:
        July 2, 2017 at 10:18 pm

        good lesson from this episode: dont continue to bet if someone put 50000 on the table without mind at all

  • The Phantom says:
    July 2, 2017 at 4:00 am

    I found this funny to be honest, the plot is bad but the face animations are ridiculous enough to be funny, also it seems like she is having an orgasm everytime she gambles?, and the glowing eyes of doom was also pretty funny/ridiculous, I think I am going to keep watching this for now.

  • Germanguy says:
    July 2, 2017 at 6:04 am

    They try to copy Prison School face animations..but lets see, if they are real trying

    • elior1 says:
      July 2, 2017 at 6:16 am

      lesson from this episode: when someone bet on 10 milions without realy mind about it you know something wrong and should retire

  • arknoir says:
    July 3, 2017 at 8:53 am

    Kaiji is moe!