“There's no way I'd lose to mere simpletons such as them!”
- — Seiya to Yoshihiro[3]
Seiya Ichijō (一条 聖也) is the young manager of an illegal casino owned by the Teiai Corporation. He has worked at Teiai for many years and is the favored ace of Yoshihiro Kurosaki. He is the adversary of Kaiji Itō in the second arc of Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji.
He is the creator of the infamous pachinko machine "The Bog," a machine so heavily rigged that it was thought to be impossible to hit the jackpot.
He stars in a prequel called Jōkyō Seikatsuroku Ichijō that takes place during his youth, before joining Teiai.
Appearance[]
Seiya sports a red (black in the manga) mullet that reaches his shoulders. He is known to have a particularly effeminate look and values his appearance a lot.
In the second season, he wears a typical black suit, but it is accented by a red dress shirt and a white tie.
Personality[]
He is shown to be very confident person. He is shown to have a superiority complex about his own abilities, and looks down on other people like Kaiji or his former classmates. However when unexpected events happens, he loses confidence quickly and will do anything to solve the problem.
He is shown to be a very patient and hardworking person due to how he has worked for Teiai for 7 years, while being abused by Kazutaka Hyōdō. He believes that his patience and hardwork will allow him to take control of the finances and assets of Teiai. He believes that after Kazutaka dies and Yoshihiro takes over Teiai as the next leader, he will get to be Yoshihiro's right-hand man and be next in line to lead Teiai.
History[]
He first start his career by cleaning toilets at an underground casino owned by the Teiai Corporation. This is where he first meets Kazutaka Hyōdō, who orders him to drink wine from a basin he dipped his feet in.
He eventually is promoted to manager and becomes a subordinate of Yoshihiro Kurosaki. Along with his right-hand Murakami, he runs an illegal casino which holds his creation, The Bog.
Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji[]
He is first introduced when Kōtarō Sakazaki attempts to beat The Bog. As Kaiji Itō begins to observe and study The Bog from a distance, Seiya is seen being warned by Yoshihiro about Kaiji, which he brushes off.
For Kaiji's plan to defeat The Bog to succeed, he planned to plant a false reason to break The Bog by sneaking into the casino office. Here Seiya catches him and uses a finger nail piercing device on Kaiji's hand as warning for any future attempts.
Kaiji later returns with Kōtarō and Yūji Endō in his group where they start their final battle with The Bog. Despite eventually learning that the group must have been cheating to pass the barriers he has set up for The Bog to be unbeatable, Kazutaka calls in and forces Seiya to continue with the gamble.
After a long battle, Kaiji eventually succeeds at beating The Bog. Kazutaka then demands that Seiya pay back the 700 million yen Kaiji won by working for 1050 years in the underground labor camp. As he is dragged away, Kaiji encourages him to return and challenge him again.
He has yet to be seen or mentioned after the arc.
Chūkan Kanriroku Tonegawa[]
He is shown conversing and praising Yukio Tonegawa when he visits his casino to play The Bog.
Yukio comments himself on this as being treated like a child with the amount of work Seiya was putting into his emotional outbursts while Yukio breezes through The Bog with ease (this is due to Seiya secretly meddling with The Bog to make it easier for his superior to beat). Unbeknownst to him, Yukio already saw through this and didn't say anything.
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Trivia[]
- In Season 2, Episode 22, it was stated in an interview that Seiya was created to be a moe character.
- This character is the smartest in Kaiji, with a confirmed IQ of 456.[citation needed]
- There's a chance that Seiya's dream of being second in command wouldn't have materialized even if he won against Kaiji. Kazutaka has two children to leave Teiai to, meaning Yoshihiro would keep his position if either of them took over the chairman position.
References[]
- ↑ Jōkyō Seikatsuroku Ichijō, volume 4, chapter 29.
- ↑ File:CS21004.jpg
- ↑ Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji chapter 70.
