Gambling & Outlaw

How men live, told through mahjong. The death of Shigeru Akagi in the later chapters, and the conversations around it, are among gekiga's finest scenes.

Human greed and the loopholes in the law, seen from the floor of a back-street lending firm. Financial gekiga that recorded the reality of the years the bubble burst.

The mahjong and the manner of living of the prodigy Shigeru Akagi. A philosophy of games played with your life on the table, at the summit of mahjong gekiga.

A psychological contest over large sums in the underworld. The origin point of Fukumoto's gambling gekiga, leading to Akagi and Kaiji.

Restricted rock-paper-scissors; walking the steel beam. A young man in debt stakes his life on gambling — the byword for psychological warfare at the limit.

Tetsuya, a mahjong drifter crossing the burnt-out postwar cities. A gambler's chronicle that records both the heat of the game and the smell of the Showa years.

A crazed transfer student arrives at a school where gambling decides everything. A Reiwa hit that goes all in on the pleasure of gambling and on facial acting.