

Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues
Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man… except the bad man's right-hand man, who has to take the boss' deranged ideas and turn them into functioning plans. So, when the sadistic president of the Teiai Group decides he's bored with the routine leg breaking and widow/orphan evicting, he assigns the task of coming up with something "special" to his ruthless Number Two, Yukio Tonegawa. But how do you amuse someone who destroys a dozen lives before breakfast? There's a huge pool of potential victims in the form of TFO's swollen roster of defaulting borrowers, but if Tonegawa and his team of nearly identical men in black look-alikes can't create a "game of death" that tickles the boss' demented funny bones, they may end up playing the game themselves!
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Seasons

1.Initiative
04-07-201823mIn Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, he tormented the downtrodden and enticed them into playing games where their lives were wagered against incredible cash prizes. But even a cold blooded...

2.Conjecture
11-07-201823mThe second meeting of the death game production team is held, and Tonegawa needs to make up for the bad first impression he gave his workers. But between the confusing names of his...

3.Surefire
18-07-201823mAfter a vicious act of betrayal in the last meeting, Tonegawa arranges weekend trip to an all-expenses paid villa to repair the cracks in his relationship with the team... but will...

4.Adult
25-07-201823mAfter three unproductive meetings and a company trip, Tonegawa's team still has essentially nothing to show in terms of progress on their death game project. But after a bolt of in...

5.Soul-Searching
01-08-201823mWith the proposal for Restricted Rock Paper Scissors finished, Tonegawa just needs to turn it in to President Hyoudou... The tyrannical, temperamental, explosively volatile Preside...

6.Self-Destruct
08-08-201823mAs the deadline for the design of the Restricted Rock Paper Scissors cards approaches, Ebitani feels insecure because of Saemon's repeated successes. Tonegawa tries to mentor the w...

7.Proliferation
15-08-201823mAs work begins to proceed on the first Restricted Rock Paper Scissors game, an unseen danger threatens to freeze the team's work to a standstill.

8.Shrimp
22-08-201823mAfter being fired from Teiai and causing Tonegawa's salary to be cut, Ebitani returns hoping to make amends.

9.Cutlets
29-08-201823mThe annual round of hiring for Teiai has begun, with Tonegawa and Yamazaki interviewing potential new employees. Afterwards, Tonegawa goes out for lunch, but ends up getting a litt...

10.Rehearsal
05-09-201823mIt's finally time for the first rehearsal game of Restricted Rock Paper Scissors. But will difficulties with equipment and participants spell trouble for Tonegawa's big project?

11.Business Trip
12-09-201823mTonegawa hits the road, with business to attend to outside of Tokyo, and hopes to find a chance for relaxation while away from home.

12.Fake
19-09-201823mWhen President Hyoudou decides that he wants a body double, Tonegawa and the men in black begin a search to find the perfect doppelganger for their boss.

13.Setting Sail
03-10-201823mThe day is finally here: Tonegawa and his team are going to host the first game of Restricted Rock Paper Scissors. It's all been leading up to this, but can they pull it off withou...

14.Excursion
10-10-201823mWe've seen that the Teiai Group runs a ruthless business. But what happens when people with debt stacked beyond the ceiling fail to show any signs of paying off their loans? Witnes...

15.Playing Hard
17-10-201823mOne of Ootsuki's regular excursions results in a clash of epic proportions, against an unexpected opponent...

16.Natural Enemies
24-10-201823mTonegawa is Teiai's number two man, but his position isn't exactly uncontested. When his rival, Kurosawa, steps into the picture even the battle hardened middle manager finds himse...

17.Unofficial Announcement
31-10-201823mThe time has come for personnel changes at Teiai. When everything is said and done, who will be left on Team Tonegawa?

18.Alignment
07-11-201823mTonegawa's annual check-up leads to some lifestyle changes that are accompanied by unwanted attention, while Ootsuki finds something he never expected to encounter on one of his ex...

19.Newcomers
14-11-201823mWith the recent transfers leaving him short-manned, Tonegawa welcomes three new employees to his team, and doesn't take long for two of them to start making waves within the compan...

20.Entertaining
21-11-201823mThe man-eating Bog is a pachinko machine that makes a ludicrous amount of money for one of Teiai's underground casinos. The time has come for Tonegawa to collect the winnings, whic...

21.Defamation
28-11-201823mOverseeing the Teiai corporate Twitter exposes Tonegawa to an account that seems to exist solely to hate on his company, triggering the middle manager's combative instincts. Meanwh...

22.Conclusions
05-12-201823mTwo stories come to a conclusion, as Ootsuki concocts a scheme to usurp Odagiri's movie business, and Tonegawa tracks down the social media troll that has been flaming Teiai.

23.Premonition
12-12-201823mTonegawa attends a class reunion where he hopes to see what's become of the classmates he always held in contempt. Meanwhile, Ootsuki's latest excursion is threatened when he gets...

24.End of the Line
26-12-201823mHyoudou's latest craving for diabolical entertainment is so twisted, people are afraid to talk about it... even the narrator! And then, wedding bells begin to ring for one member o...
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