History Characters / Kaiji

%%* JerkAss:

After Tonegawa lost his position in the first part, he is elected as the replacement second-in-command.

* MistakenForGay: He sleeps in the same bed with Endou... while Jazz music is playing... and a aroma scenter is going off... all isolated in a RV van far away from prying eyes, and then tries to talk about feelings with him. It's all actually [[spoiler:to hype himself up so that he can confess that he's just as scared as Kazutaka as Endou is despite everything. However, he isn't able to go through with it]].

!!Taro Otsuki

%%* BadBoss:

* FauxAffablyEvil: He gives off a friendly façade and even offers to help his impoverished workers so that the they are more eager to trust him.

A construction worker who meets with Kaiji and introduces him to Teiai's casino, intending to work with him to beat the Bog, an "unbeatable" pachinko machine.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When his plan backfires, he's shocked, resorts to magical thinking and nearly spends all his money at a horse racing track. Kaiji snaps him out of it.]]

%%* PrettyBoy: Well, in-universe.

* BoringButPractical: Compared to Tonegawa's heart-rate detecting watch device, and Ichijou's complex pachinko machine, how Muraoka cheats in his game is exceedingly simple. He has Kaiji's former friends Miyoshi give him false signals and Maeda signal what Kaiji's hand is back to him. When Kaiji goes to use the bathroom Muraoka gets up and flips over his tiles to see what they are, then putting them back like nothing has happened. His ultimate cheat when Kaiji takes his tiles with him on another bathroom break to stop Muraoka from cheating again? He takes a picture of Kaiji's unfinished hand, and has his henchmen figure out what Kaiji's finished hand is in a backroom.

* EvilRedhead: Sort of. His hair is somewhere between red and brown. At first impression Kaiji notes that it's obviously dyed, but he also had the same hair color in flashbacks to his childhood.
* FatalFlaw: His tendency to twist everything to fit his HumansAreBastards worldview. It leaves him unwilling to believe Kaiji when Kaiji [[spoiler:tells him to just fold because his three will beat his two and lead to Kazuya losing his life if he bet his red statue. This unwillingness to believe Kaiji truthfully didn't want to kill him leads Kazuya to call Kaiji's raise. He then loses the match and realizes Kaiji was telling the truth.]]

* FreudianExcuse: If the way he treats the Mother Sophie machine and tells you that if it doesn't love you, you're going into DOWN-DOWN hell doesn't tip you off, a lot of his behaviour comes from several traumatic events he's experienced - Kaiji outright says the fucked up gambles he arranges is because he genuinely hasn't received any real love or affection from anyone.

* NightmareFetishist: Takes Kaiji first to a graveyard (complete with acting out a strangulation) and then to a torture/BDSM club. Nice.

%%* [[MafiaPrincess Yakuza Prince]]:

* FatalFlaw: GREED. [[spoiler:Rather than giving him and his friends 299,216.99 USD worth of yen each, he chooses to let them die when he's offered more, despite his reasons to need money are comparatively less dire. Mario and Chang both came from poor backgrounds, are implied to suffer racism. Meanwhile, he stands to lose a kidney, but is implied to be somewhat well off besides that, seeming to have a position as a manager in a resturant. He ]]
* EntitledBastard: [[spoiler:Despite him literally abandoning Mario and Chang to painful deaths, he thinks a mere one million yen (worth less than than 10,000$ in their time, worth less than 9000$ now) is enough to appease them, and is insulted when they reject the offer. When he then finds out that he's now the poorest among the trio, he envies them and tries to get them sent to Teiai.]]

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Not confirmed, but his reappearance in the story suggests its approaching.

* TheSmartGuy: Chang is the smarter of the two and can somewhat keep up Kaiji's and Kazuya's moves.