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Yūji Endō (遠藤 勇次, Endō Yūji) is a crooked loan shark with ties to the yakuza. He lends out large sums of money to desperate individuals but charges absurd (and illegal) interest rates. He is a major antagonist in the series.

His live action counterpart is Rinko Endō.

History[]

Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji[]

He tracks down Kaiji Itō after a client of his, Takeshi Furuhata, disappeared without repaying a loan, which Kaiji cosigned in an act of weakness. Recognizing Kaiji could never repay the loan, Endō offers him the opportunity to board the gambling ship Espoir, where he would be able repay his debt and make some money as well.

After losing on the Espoir, Endō offers Kaiji another opportunity to pay back his debt by participating at the Starside Hotel's gamble, not revealing what the gamble actually is. Makoto Sahara, wanting a chance to score big, pleads Endō to include him with Kaiji.

Following the events of the Human Derby, he scolds Kaiji and Nakayama for their reticence to push the player in front of them, losing the opportunity to take second place from Kōji Ishida. He tells the two that he'll give them another chance in the next game Teiai Corporation runs, but this is an empty promise considering the high mortality rate of Brave Men Road.

Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji[]

After Kaiji defeats Yukio Tonegawa, his organization suffers because they now lack any connection to the upper management of Teiai.

When Kaiji approaches him again after being defeated by Kazutaka Hyōdō, he drugs Kaiji and sends him to the Teiai underground labor camp to pay off his debt by working there.

After Kaiji is released from the underground labor camp and witnesses Kōtarō Sakazaki's failed attempt at beating The Bog, he goes to Endō for a loan to get enough money to pay for the equipment to beat it. He, Kaiji and Sakazaki form an alliance by signing an agreement contract.

Endō helps Kaiji borrow 50 million yen to beat The Bog and protects The Bog from being tampered with when it starts clogging up. Towards the end battle with The Bog, Endō loans Kaiji another 10 million yen at a very high rate of interest. Due to Kaiji's desperate state, he fails to read the contract he signed or the interest rate he agreed on.

After Kaiji's victory, he drugs Kaiji one last time and takes the money he owed him, while expressing disgust toward Kaiji's pointless code of chivalry when he decides to split his winning to his friends in the underground labor camp. Despite his underlings remark of his cruel treatment toward Kaiji, he states that he could have robbed Kaiji of all his money if he wanted to, but he still has his code of conduct, so he took only the amount of money Kaiji owned him.

With Kaiji's debt with him finally paid with an additional amount of money he had taken with his high interest rate, he and Kaiji go their separate ways.

Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24-Oku Dasshutsu-Hen[]

After the events of The Bog, he now has a higher position in the Teiai Corporation having blacksuits now working under him. He has been assigned to track down Kaiji, Chan and Mario Garcia and the money they took from their gamble in One Poker.

During the manhunt, he is shown to be quite cocky as he thinks he can understand Kaiji's movement to easily catch him, Mario and Chan, but fails multiple times as Kaiji outsmarts him.

After finding out Kaiji's decoy truck scheme, he uses his experience in hunting debtors to eventually track down Kaiji's mother's apartment to get more information about Kaiji from her, putting Kaiji in deep trouble.

As he and his men break into Kaiji's mother's apartment with his men after waiting for his mom to leave, he dismays to find out that Kaiji is nowhere to be found and his men cannot detect any signs of Kaiji escaping while he breaks into the apartment. He angrily orders his men to clean up the house and re-lock the door to avoid suspicion. Unknown to him, Kaiji had escaped in front of his nose by disguising as the neighbor who rides the motorbike to work in his family restaurant while the neighbor's mother wore his disguise to distract them. As none of Endō's men know what the neighbor looks like without his helmet, they never figure out how Kaiji escaped their grasp and they assume that Kaiji escaped when two of the lookouts fell asleep.

He is later seen in the KFC restaurant punishing his men by making them eat triple the amount of every single fried chicken he eats.

After one of the debtors reported his detection of Kaiji near a bank along with uncovering the car rented by Kaiji that acts as a decoy, he begins to assemble a new plan to catch Kaiji, Chan and Mario. Due to Endō doesn't count on the usage of RV, Endō assumes that Kaiji and his group use a railway train as a means of transportation by measuring the capacity of a briefcase to carry 2.4 billion yen. He orders the blacksuits to stand guard at all the railway stations in Ibraki Prefecture to catch Kaiji, Chan and Mario. Thinking he could finally trap Kaiji but unknown to him, Kaiji, Chan and Mario successfully evade him and the blacksuits as they drive their RV passing through Endō's limo, without his knowledge. In the end, Endō's effort to entrap Kaiji is doomed from the beginning once again.

As Endō intensifies the lookout for Kaiji in all banks, train station, and hotels across Japan after realizing Kaiji and his gang has escaped Ibraki, he gets into a phone frenzy as all the bounty-hunting debtors of Teiai give him false and misleading information about the whereabouts of Kaiji due to the hot season that causes people to wear face masks, making the army of debtors get into identity mistakes multiple times. This causes Endō a massive amount of stress so he has to stop taking the calls.

He eventually makes mistakes once again by assuming Kaiji, Chan and Mario buy gold to consolidate their money as he thinks that they stop going to the banks all together after realizing they are being constantly watched by Teiai debtors. He isn't aware that Kaiji, Chan and Mario still go to the bank to deposit their money but with a different tactic that not even Endō manages to figure it out by going straight to the second floor of the bank that preserved only for residential loan and business financing to deposit their money. Taking advantage of the second floor narrowed space and the lack of need for debtors to go there, Kaiji, Chan and Mario successfully evade Teiai's army of watchdogs swiftly. Eventually, Endō abandons the idea of Kaiji and his gang buying gold as it is too heavy for them to carry around effectively.

During his camping trip with Yoshihiro Kurosaki, he figures out Kaiji's usage of the RV and is absolutely enraged with his narrow-minded thinking.

After returning from the camping trip, he orders his minions to change their objective to looking for the RV. He then manages to track down the shop where Kaiji borrowed the camper van. When he met the owner of the shop, Takeshi Arima, he tries to feign ignorance and use manipulative words to make Arima to spill out information about Kaiji's group RV. However, Arima managed to deduct his shady demeanor and correctly recognizes that he is a loan shark, judging by his behavior of looking around his shop like a burglar. As a result, Arima doesn't say a word about Kaiji's group and asks him to leave his shop if he has zero intention to buy or rent his vehicles.

Seeing that Arima is too stubborn, Endō provokes him by kicking his vans and states that he knows Kaiji, but once again Arima won't budge. When Arima tries to make Endō apologize for kicking his vans, Arima tries to attack him but Endō proves to be too good for Arima and he is beaten up by Endō. After leaving the shop, Endō realizes that he cannot crack Arima's deviant mindset so he decides to sneak into the shop at night to check for renting documents in Arima's office to track down Kaiji's RV number and type.

Unfortunately for Endō, Arima manages to call Kaiji, and Kaiji asks him to hide his renting paper, causing Endō to find nothing in Arima's office. When Arima comes back to his office the next day, he finds out that his drawer had been picked by Endō last night, just like Kaiji had suspected.

Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa[]

He makes his appearance offering help to Tonegawa with the rehearsal of the newly created gamble; Restricted Rock, Paper, Scissors. Due to him misunderstanding Tonegawa's goal, he only makes the situation worse.

He also abandons Honda Masayasu in the woods.

He encounters Tonegawa by chance on a train while escorting debtors to the Espoir. After the debtors riot, he uses a speech Tonegawa was going to use to calm them down. While it worked, he accidentally left Tonegawa without something to say in the same situation.

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Etymology[]

  • The name Yūji means "brave/bravery, courage" (勇) () and "next" (次) (ji).
  • Yūji's surname Endō means "distant, far" (遠) (en) and "wisteria" (藤) (/).

Trivia[]

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