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Saturday 16 March 2019

Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa Episode 20

A mysterious car drives through dark city streets towards an underground casino. As it turns out, the onrushing vehicle contains our beloved title character while the casino is part of the Teiai conglomerate and in charge of its inner operations is Ichijou, who is also responsible for guarding the casino's major draw card: a pachinko machine named the Bog. It should probably be explained that this episode is a nod to Kaiji season 2, which I couldn't review for personal reasons, although i did watch all the episodes. I'm thinking of doing this again now as this series has an extremely high replay value. Ichijou and his enchanted casino were also in Kaiji season 2 and were a big part of it, with Kaiji having to take both of them on in an epic contest against the Bog. Here it is again, only this time is Tonegawa who is up against it. The odds aren't as stacked up against the Teiai's executive as they were against Kaiji. Tonegawa has a very easy time handling the forest of pins, the paddle flippers and the demonic triple trays (you'd have to know the Bog yourself to know what I mean), effortlessly pushing ball after ball to the desired destination. Ichijou puts up a façade of indignation mixed with frustration, but Tonegawa easily sees through the veneer of pretense. It doesn't matter in the end as Tonegawa predictably wins the mock battle and calmly picks his way out of the caisno with its coveted prize under his belt. At least everyone can safely sleep as no harm was brought upon anyone involved (the casino was a subsidiary of Teiai after all).

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