Pachinko Girls - Ch. 5 - Only the person next to you will be lucky

[MangaDex]

 

[justforthelulz]

FMC about to murder a bitch for stealing her luck.

 

[caseo78]

If the machine next to me hit a jackpot i would try that one next. Sounds stupid but maybe it is good luck? 🤞

 

[Anomander]

Their discussion makes me wonder how many of the people who play these electronic gambling devices actually know how they work. It is not about luck, but programming. Over here, gambling is controlled by state monopoly so they must publicly disclose: the machines [over here] are made to return 97% of what they take in. Of course, worldwide, they must work in the same manner or in case of nondigital gambling tilt in favor of the house in some other manner. Otherwise casinos couldn't be a thing as their profit would be up to chance.

@caseo78 I might not. It is likely the algorithm wouldn't be too keen on rolling out another jackpot very soon. But on the other hand, since the algorithms are pseudorandomness based (as there is no true random in digital) AND if the machine still has enough money sucked in from rubes that it can shoot another jackpot without exceeding its programmed profit margin, it just might.

 

[Azure2290]

@caseo78 That old school pokemon logic doesn't work with real gambling machines. Once a Jackpots hit you'd be waiting for people to put enough money back into the machine before having the chance of winning big.

 

[sarusa]

RE the translator comments (page 2), this is a fairly common advertising tactic for savvy marketing - in Japan and the US, and any semi-sophisticated market worldwide. Whoever's doing the @wendys twitter is a master, as are tobacco companies.

Basically, you just present the good sides and the bad sides without dwelling on the bad too much, and make jokes about it This makes you seem sincere, and if anyone bitches about it you can say 'See? SEE? We warned you about the bad bits.' But the key thing is that you've made it look interesting, and your readers think they're too smart to get trapped by the bad stuff (they're not). The target market of overconfident dumbasses reading this are going to be curious but think they're smarter than Aoi (they're not) and won't get sucked in - but enough will to make it worth whatever the pachinko company spent on this.

Tobacco companies are so good at it they can do entirely negative appearing campaigns which actually boost their sales, like the whole 'Tobacco is whacko if you're a teen' thing which just increased teen smoking.

But the key thing here is just making younger people aware of pachinko and making it seem somewhat alluring and dangerous, because right now it's an old people thing.

 

[chieftanin]

@sarusa Yeah that is true. However, this series was only an original Pixiv work by the author. The pachinko company likely saw the advertising advantage in using this series, so they agreed to serialize it. In the end, though, it's all up to interpretation for the reader, as some may see past the negative sides of gambling, or they might see the serious issue behind all the comedy and fluff, and let it be a warning for them. And we've also had numerous manga published that involved people having to seek out loan sharks because of playing pachinko until they were broke and getting their lives ruined lol.