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Format: TV
Episodes: 26
Episode length: 23 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Oct 3, 2007
Until: Apr 2, 2008
Season: Fall 2007
Source: Manga
Average score: 82%
Mean score: 82%
Popularity: 99,311
Favorites: 4,609
Studio: MADHOUSE
Producers: VAP, Sentai Filmworks
Genres: Psychological, Thriller
Romaji: Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
English: Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor
Native: 逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor
Synonyms: The Suffering Pariah Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor Кайдзи

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Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor

★ 8.2 99,311 members

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 300,000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay off their debts. After some coercion Kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear his debt and make a bit of money as well...