>>281179541Ah yeah it is and that's why it's unpopular
But on the other hand right, put yourself in kaijis shoes, you have to sit there and piss away your lifeline down to the last fucking hair, against a machine that never loses, you have the prettyboy Ichijo taunting kaiji the entire time, and there is a backdrop of addiction with Sakazaki losing it all barefoot with the machine
I think it's a very good arc personally, but I agree that it's not what people come to kaiji for and it makes sense that it's an unpopular arc