Seraph Dazzlegarden Wins Three of Five Events as VOLTACTION Builds Its ‘Exodia’

NIJISANJI — Seraph Dazzlegarden won three of the five events in VOLTACTION’s “Super Exodia Championship” on Tuesday, taking the left arm, left leg and face titles. Watarai Hibari won the right leg and right arm. Fura Kanato and Shikinagi Akira, the other two members of the four-person Nijisanji unit, did not win an event.

The format borrowed from the Yu-Gi-Oh! card Exodia, which wins a duel once its five body parts are in one hand. Each event crowned a representative for one part, and each winner earned 50,000 “volts,” the group’s in-show currency, for a possible total of 250,000. The hosts said volt balances are reset to zero at the end of each year through a “production” process whose method changes annually. This year, those with a positive balance receive rewards and those in the negative are assigned jobs.

“Lions don’t do weight training. Train your technique.” — Watarai Hibari, as arm-wrestling champion

Hibari opened the night by winning the right leg in a kicking contest. Players aimed three balls at targets worth one, three and five points for a maximum of nine, and Hibari scored a perfect nine. Seraph then outlasted the others in the left arm event, in which the four played gossiping neighbors while each holding a 20-kilogram bag of garbage in one hand, and in a left-leg sumo bout fought on one foot inside a small square.

In the face event, staff surveyed salarymen in Shinbashi on which of the four they found the best looking. Seraph was picked most often. Staff said they approached more than 250 people and were turned down repeatedly, and they awarded a consolation payment of 1,000 volts. The cast joked that the result put Seraph’s name on everything from the left side up to the face.

The right arm was decided by a round-robin of arm wrestling, with the most wins taking the title. One participant asked the stronger opponent in one match for a handicap, and a match ended in seconds. Hibari came out on top and, as champion, closed the broadcast with a line on technique over strength. With the five cards in hand, the group declared its Exodia complete.