C (anime)/Headscratchers

• If the effect of losing Deal is everything you purchased with Midas Money will be gone, why not not using Midas Money at all?
  • Because that doesn't appear to be how it works. You're betting your future. You do not lose what you bought with the money, you lose a portion of your future. For the people who spent money? They lose what it gave them. For people who didn't/ don't have enough to lose? It takes more. As can be most clearly seen when Yoga fails a class, despite the fact that there's been absolutely no change in his lifestyle from the money.
• Could Kimimaro's asset gain weight from eating too much ramen?
  • Well, she burns a lot of energy fighting battles. So, I doubt it.
• What did Yoga's father lose when he went bankrupt?
  • Possibly his wife. Or his mind. Either would have driven him to suicide.
  • That, or Kimimaro used to have a sister.
• I know that the ten points of light in an Asset represents their stock. But what does the ten points in light of the Entre represent?
  • Actually looking closer at the ten lights inside the Assets, they look like one of the diagrams of Yggdrasil. (As seen in Episode 10 Jenifer's Asset has this)
    • Or the Sefirot.
• If you enter the Financial District and are given the initial start-up loan with your future as collateral, why doesn't anyone attempt to pay back the initial loan after doubling it or more? Theoretically, this would allow you to use the Financial District without further risk, even if you lose a deal or go bankrupt.
  • Ignoring the fact that the Midas Bank doesn't play fair, you'd also have to return your Asset.
• If someone who goes bankrupt has lost their future, how can their Asset still be functional if someone else has it?
  • My (speculative) interpretation is that it becomes a "possibility" for the new owner - like how Sennoza describes wins and losses in Episode 6. The bankrupt entré still loses their future, but Midas Bank repossesses the money from the sale, rather than what's left of the future itself (which has already been sold off).
• Economics question: Kimimaro essentially saved the Japanese economy with a currency devaluation. Isn't devaluing the currency to pay your own bills exactly what Mikuni was doing?
  • To me the main difference (aside from the obvious cost of deliberately pawning future possibility for cash) was that, as per his discussion with his inner circle in Episode 9, he was trying very hard to hide the fact that he was bloating the money supply (although some inflation still occurred, obviously). In contrast, Kimimaro, Jennifer and Takedazaki used their currency to deliberately destroy confidence in the yen - not to pay their own bills, but to make their bills a moot point.
  • I assumed, considering, that Kimimaro/Jennifer were using DOLLARS as their currency. Plus, they didn't have as much money tied up in the economy as Mikuni. And, thirdly...the SOURCE was different. (Real world money, not Midas money).
  • If we're talking about economic analogy, Mikuni was using deficit spending-costing the "future" of the country. The hyperinflation was monetizing the debt. This is arguably the best solution when a nation has truly gone bankrupt. You don't have that option for places like Greece because they don't have control over their own currency.