Kid Ethnic: 103 Days At Sea: Introducing: The Littlest Gambler

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Gambling is technically illegal in Japan. But there’s this little game here called pachinko.

And this little pachinko thing depends on a lot of luck and loses a lot of people a lot of money.

Look! This little guy is loving the little pachinko thing:

Gosh, Little Guy, those lights sure are pretty! But you’re not actually gambling are you? I mean, you look about 9 years old.

Well I’ll be danged. You are gambling.

(And you’re weird dad’s teaching you how. Too bad he looked at me all unfriendly when tried to take a picture.)

I hope you don’t turn into one of those gamblers that gets all depressed and spaced out when you start losing.

Aw, too late.

Where the hell did your dad go? Did he just leave you alone? Man, that’s low.

But don’t you worry now, you just keep dropping coins into the shiny machine.

The Shiny Machine loves you, and he will never, ever, leave.

Spotted at a Kumamoto pachinko parlor/video game hall.

In related news:
A student at my school just got suspended for losing 600 dollars in pachinko in one week.

His momma gave him a ride to the pachinko parlor daily.

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