天下制覇

I switch over from the tiresome Labyrinth and end up seeing naked men.

Impressions:

I renew my statement of annoyance at the Night Wizard raw situation. To make matters worse, episodes like this don’t exactly convince me that my decision to switch off the faint hope of more Byakko was a good one. Basically, Kaiji wins against Funai, getting all the stars, but there’s not enough time to run out their deck, so he gives the stars to the other two and then loses his last one to Furuhata in order to be able to remove his entire deck from the playing area. He gets stripped and tossed in the room beyond where he reminisces with some of the other unfortunates. Ando and Furuhata are then supposed to gift their extra stars to him during the buy/sell period, but Ando gets greedy and decides to sell his extra stars instead.

This episode actually didn’t enrage my mathematician blood as much as usual. Kaiji actually showed some decent insight on how to get around the system and burn their deck without all of them biting it. Me? Ten minutes ago, I’d have just given cards to the people with two or one stars and said “go nuts.” That’d have been intelligent. At least with one minute left, he picked the best option available instead of waiting 30 seconds for something else to happen.

The problem is that it made my intolerance for your standard expositiontastic series come gurgling up like a week old chili dog. Too many (all) of Kaiji’s schemes default to “I have this great scheme, but it involves long periods of sitting around and hoping that nothing bad happens.” I’m a bit curious to see how he gets out of this one since I can’t think of much off the top of my head, though I imagine it’ll have something to with with the three outstanding scissors and maybe him claiming that it was unfair since those are three guarenteed wins for him (they were the cards flushed some 5 or so episodes earlier). I’m just happy that they’re finally done with rock, paper, scissors and can finally move on to a real game. This business should have been over weeks ago.