Tonight was anime gambling night, got an episode of Kaiji in and started up Akagi. No in-depth character reviews this time around, because there's not much to write about their personalities. Not that they're flat characters, just that the story is more focused on how they play the game and how their personalities fit into it, rather than their individual dramas and developments.

Kaiji
EP06: It continues to be like watching WSOP in slow motion - riveting, but you wonder at the end where all the time goes. Already 6 episodes into the same gambling situation and still not really an end in sight. I wonder if the whole series revolves around this single night...
Line of the episode: It'll be fatal if we don't tackle this with everything we have. - Kaiji

Akagi
EP01-03: Kinda like Hikaru no Go, but with mahjong and much, much darker. The way they approach the game is perfectly targeted at raising interest, and it's working. I'm interested in learning about mahjong now.
Line of the episode: Don't tell me it's over already. - Akagi to Ryuuzaki, the yakuza underboss