Kaiji seventh episode

Funai deftly dodges Kaiji's swivelling point blank  strike?!

We are approaching Kaiji's final standoff. The trio of struggling commoners is running out of options to

This quote has stayed with me for years.

acquire the remaining necessary star pendants to finish their ordeal and start over and Funai, the second main culprit for Kaiji's despondency is calling the shots now by drawing everyone's attention to himself with a decided speech. This he addresses to the candidates still on the main deck, those whose fate is hinging upon their will to fight, to risk being sent to the other room confined to a life of everlasting hard labour.

Funai, at long last, earns others' distrust after all his "suspicious antics"

Unforgiving zawa zawas.

That's it. They're afraid because the stakes are overwhelmingly cruel now. With few people left, they're unable to make the decisive move and challenge. They're not sure whether they'd rather wait for the contest to come to an end and bet their remaining hope on the supposedly easier star buyout, or risk losing it all by challenging an equally desperate opponent. They've become mobilised in a crippling way that is not for anyone involved, including Funai. So much so that he makes a life-saving proposal to all: re-shuffling their cards and starting over! Needless to say, this does not bode well with Kaiji, because doing so will reveal to all that Kaiji and his two comrades are holding the bulk of the cards. At any rate, Kaiji buys into Funai's scheme and pleads to take part in it. It was soon explained that they will reshuffle their cards and have them handed back according to the number

Kaiji discloses Funai's ruse. Notice Andou's look of justice meted out.

of cards that each had prior to the set-up. Funai casts Kaiji's deck into the air and stands up to finish his business. Kaiji is unable to settle up with him because he has to pick his cards, and quickly, before they finish it off among themselves and leave Kaiji and his comrades stranded aground on the rocks of life.

Angry men.

Blued-out scenes build up dramatic effects.

Kaiji eyes up potential prey items.

Furuhata sure does a good job at looking all fretted out