While Squid Game's main draw is putting its characters through twisted versions of childhood games, Kaiji instead puts its characters through modified and sometimes made-up games such as 'Restricted Rock Paper Scissors', 'Electrified Steel-Beam Crossing', and 'E-Card'. Gambling everything he has, Kaiji fervently claws his way through each near-death and near-ruin "game" in an attempt to not only better his own life, but in a bid to take down the mastermind behind them once and for all. Initially simple games that twist popular pastimes, such as Rock Paper Scissors and Pachinko, offer Kaiji not only a means to escape the pit he's fallen into, but also threaten to worsen or even end his life, as they do for so many of the equally desperate and destitute players that surround him. Throughout the series, Kaiji unravels twisted games and punishments set up by sadistic rich elites to view, enjoy, and encourage the suffering of those beneath them on the economic ladder. The mounting financial pressure pushes him to accept the next offer Endo conveniently brings him, pulling him further and further into these depraved gambles with both new and familiar faces alongside him. Even though he manages to scrape by and escape the Espoir, he now has to shoulder nearly double his original debt. Reluctantly, Kaiji accepts and boards the Espoir, but this is just the beginning of Kaiji's troubles, and his encounters with Endo. RELATED: 'Squid Game': Every Question Season 2 Needs To Answer If he takes this offer, he'd board a ship called Espoir and participate in a mysterious gambling event that could pay off the nearly four million yen, and possibly even leave him with some money left over.
The man, a loan shark named Endo Yuji ( Naoya Uchida), explains to him in grueling detail how he can slowly pay him back, day by day, for the rest of his life, barely scraping by and likely dying in debt.or he can take a gamble, and make his debt vanish all in one night. Suddenly, he's now on the hook for ¥3,850,000, and with no savings and no steady job, he has no way to pay it. His former coworker, who'd gone inexplicably missing, had borrowed a high sum of money from the man before his disappearance, and unfortunately, Kaiji was listed as the co-signer on the loan. One day, however, his life gets upturned when a seemingly amiable man comes to his door.
He whittles away his days by gambling, losing, and taking his frustration out on expensive imported cars. Based on a seinen manga created and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, this anime follows Kaiji Ito ( Masato Hagiwara), a deadbeat that lives in poverty.
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