The gang is all-in when a new member is added to the family in Sakamoto Days section 11

The following contains spoilers for Sakamoto Days, section 11, “Casino Battle”, available on Netflix.

Summary

• Sakamoto & Shin Excel in casino games despite lack of knowledge, surprise Wutang

• Wutang's past reveals his rise to power through intelligence, as well as how he got to know Shaotang

• The Tie-Breaker game with Old Maid leads to a dangerous bluff by Wutang and Escape is facilitated by Sakamoto and Shaotang.

In the 11th section of Sakamoto dayswhich is the last episode of the first part of the first season, with the second part that will be released in July, Sakamotos has their hands full of the casino challenge issued to them by Lu Wutang towards the end of the previous section. With Shin and Sakamoto unaware of the rules for most people, if not all, casino games, their chances of making more money than the intelligent wutang are extremely low.

But when the episode reveals more of Wutang's past, we understand that his control over Lu Clans Mafia is at best, not to mention his feelings that inform much about his roundabout to get LU to go back to China with him. There was a decent end of the first course in Sakamoto daysBut the August was missing from a so -called “finale”, even though only for the first half of the first season.

The casino games begin

Sakamoto and Shin Excel despite their lack of knowledge

The rules for Wutang's challenge to Sakamotos are that they get 30 million yen in chips, which they need to use to raise even more money. The site with the most money at the end of the challenge wins, but the toughness with this challenge becomes obvious when Wutang, less than two minutes after opening, triples its starting sum in a single move. Shin and LU are already at the edge of it, Lu more because she understands that Wutang would never issue a challenge he could not win, with his intelligence as the tool he used to climb in Mafiaen, a world where power is usually the decisive factor.

When they consider the possibility that Wutang may be lucky, he rejects the idea and quotes his intelligence as more influence than luck. Sakamoto agrees with this feeling and adds that the murderer's world is the same, because those who are eager to leave things for “luck” or “fate” are the first to die.

With that, the group goes out to make some money, with Shin who sits down at a poker table full of beginner poker veterans, each of whom sees naivety in Shin's eyes and marks him as a goal, without knowing that he can read the senses. Lu Shaotang has a temporary decay in the verdict when she blurs out in front of everyone who Shin does not know what he is doing, but it helps their cause when the opponents at Shin's table underestimate him.

His spit with Shaotang leads to an accident and his card is visible to everyone to see, which leads them all to try to bluff to give up a winning hand, but these attempts fail and Shin goes in and wins a fat sum for Sakamotos. Elsewhere, Sakamoto prepares to play roulette, without knowing that the house has rigged that the contrast is controllable at any time; Sakamoto, however, uses one chip he saved from his bet and girls at the mechanism to get the machine to stop where he needs it, win, literally against all odds.

The origin of LU Wutang

Section 11 reveals why Wutang is so stuck to taking back Shaotang

While Sakamotos is enjoying some unlikely victories, Wutang continues its winning line, this time it takes to a blackjack table, where his intelligence is shown on full screen. He can remember which cards have emerged, and by counting the cards he can find out when the next 10 will come, which also means that he knows exactly when to ask for a hit and when he will fold. When he sits there, he reminds him of his first meeting with Lu Shaotang, which he met when he was 11, and she was 8 when she saved him from the neighborhood. Throughout his life, Wutang had to navigate with his understanding because he lacked the strength to compete in more simple ways, which got him the mockery for those around him who had absorbed the idea that the power drums everyone.

Wutang's intelligence was never celebrated, so meeting Shaotang was a big moment in his life because it was the first time he felt accepted by someone. This Flashback explains Wutang's connection to Shaotang in addition to their stations in the LU clan's mafia, which gave the character, which would have been more of a goofball that led to this point, somewhat much appreciated depth. As Shaotang explained to Shin, Wutang's intelligence is what saw him rise to become the “brain” in the mafia, with intelligence to stand out in a kingdom where power is the most important currency. After Flashbacken, Wutang and Team Sakamoto collaborate to see who did most and find out that it ended in the tie.

Tiebreaker

Due to the lack of casino gaming knowledge about Team Sakamoto, Tie-breaks are reduced to something easy enough for everyone to participate fairly; The classic American card game known as Old Maid. The rules are simple:

• be the first to retire from the game by discarding the cards in hand in matching pairs,

• Players turn to pull a card from the player to the left,

• The goal is to avoid the “old maid” card, the appointed unpaid card in tires (usually joker)

This scene is very funny, with lice inability to lie for a good comedy and shin's tangible tension that shows a childishness that connects the two characters. The introduction of two unnamed goons in the game to compensate for numbers on Wutang's side was also the type of finesse that really improved the situation in the situation, which a mafia sits and looked at their managerial card instead of just shooting his enemy square in the face. Sakamoto uses its superhuman speed to rifle through the disrespectful goon cards to choose one that is not the Joker, but Wutang is good enough to notice that something strange has happened, so he calls it out.

Shin, excited about using his ability on his opponents, is surprised when Wutang asks him how much of the human mind he can read, given that it consists of layers (the Freudian components of the psyche) and flood his “verbalized mind” with all the information he can must. Shin's brain is overheated because of the great fair of information and is unable for the rest of the game. The game comes down to only Sakamoto and Wutang, with the latter who only has two cards left. Wutang guesses pretty short, but when he tries to take it, Sakamoto strengthens his grip before quickly switching them; But this is where the game ends, because Goons aim at their weapons against both Sakamoto and Wutang.

The new addition to the family

Wutang's ridiculous bluff saves the day

Tired of the games and how Wutang does things, Goon's Stage A Mutiny reminiscent of Wutang's past. He gives up quite simple, but when Sakamoto asks him if he wants to impress his crusher, Shaotang, he comes with a scam so ridiculous, it should not have worked, but he manages to convince goons that he, in anticipation of an uprising, reserves his weapons with explosions that will go out when the trigger is pulled. It is one of the “crazy enough to work” situations when they are sufficiently distracted for Wutang to Cue Sakamoto, which begins to break the neck to the left and right while Shaotang releases its signature kick to defeat its enemies and escape. Wutang claims defeat in the competition for Shaotang, but Sakamoto earns its respect by letting it slide.

As it turns out, Wutang does not have much information about “slur”, but what he knows is that four abominable criminals who were intended to have been killed on the death line seem to have made themselves to Japan as four different corpses, one for each killer's preferred method, was recently discovered by one of Wutang's sub -world connections. The section is set for the next course in Sakamoto days When it introduces the four main antagonists in the coming death prisoners, the prisoners are.

Set for Cours 2

Kashima takes in reinforcements

At a nearby “McWonalds”, dump, saw, apart and minimalist enjoy a meal while waiting for their client to show up. I true Sakamoto days Fashion, the new characters are complete eccentrics that really stand out in some way, but when their client shows up it makes sense. Kashima, injured from her past meeting with Sakamotos, gives the four murderers a list of goals and tells them not to underestimate any of them. The four accept their job and go out and tell Kashima to deliver their next list in a month otherwise they will go on a killing spree in Japan.

The relevance of Wutang's information is to get in touch with the rows of death can potentially bring the gang closer to the difficult -to -catch slur, who liberated and hired them to kill Sakamotos. The upcoming second course of Sakamoto days Will surely be completely the deal given how the first one ended. Although it is a finale; However, the end of the first courses was a section that everyone else and did not really have the type of weight that a final section has, which is probably because this was only halfway the point for the first season of Sakamoto days.

Sakamoto Days is available on Netflix. The next course will be broadcast in July.