[deleted] • 12 yr. ago I'd recommend Kaiji first, as it has the lowest barrier of entry. Akagi is arguably the best of the two, but requires knowledge of Mahjong and its rules to understand and enjoy. Here is a brief rundown of the rules. 6 Akagi: Iwao Washizu. Kaiji 's Kazutaka Houdou has his moments, but the president of the Teiai Corporation would be eaten alive by Akagi 's Iwao Washizu. An extremely powerful force in the anime's underground scene, Washizu is a sadistic billionaire who uses his riches to motivate weaker people to gamble their lives away.
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1 [deleted] • 2 yr. ago Either is fine, the two aren't linked in any way except by their authors. If you read Akagi, it's best to learn the basics of riichi mahjong to enjoy it to the fullest. 6 erugurara • 2 yr. ago • Edited 2 yr. ago 16 sebasTLCQG OP • 2 yr. ago I dont know, Kaiji by 6th part, became really really smart and he had more higher stakes gambles than Akagi. I´d assume Kaiji would be stomped in a regular money gamble, but if it´s a gamble with higher stakes like heavy injury or death they´d both be pretty tied up 5 [deleted] • 2 yr. ago peegmay • 2 yr. ago Kaiji and Akagi are very different in a lot of key ways as well and this makes for a very interesting comparison. Akagi Akagi, subtitled as "The Genius Who Descended into Darkness" was first published as manga in 1991. In Japan alone it has sold over 12 million copies and adapted as several movies and television shows. Kaiji and Akagi similarities They are both gambling manga series written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. They were both adapted into anime series and live action series/movies. They both have a single word in the title which is the name that the title character is often called.
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Manga Recommendations If you're looking for anime similar to Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor, you might like these titles. show only TV Movies OVA Other Unwatched Unmarked People I Follow Watch Online Akagi TV (26 eps) 2005 - 2006 One stormy night, a desperate man finds himself playing Mahjong with yakuza thugs; the prize is his life. Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji ( Japanese: 賭博黙示録カイジ, Hepburn: Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It has been serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since February 1996. Kaiji Ito is a total loser. He lives day by day gambling, making small debt and taking out his frustration on expensive imported cars.. Akagi. Subtitled. Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues. Offline. Aug 2013. 14394. amateur said: DrGeroCreation said: Both are by the same guy and are similar but Akagi only focuses on mahjong while Kaiji has different games. Nah Kaiji also turned into mahjong exclusive series as it went by. Only the first 2 seasons that are animated have different games.
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Kaiji follows a down-on-his-luck guy named Kaiji Itou, who finds himself in hot water with loan sharks over unpaid gambling debts. To clear this debt, he gets drawn into a series of risky gambling cruises organized by powerful tycoons where the stakes are life and death. "Akagi: The Genius Who Descended into Darkness") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. First published in 1991 in Takeshobo 's weekly magazine Kindai Mahjong, it is a spin-off prequel of the author's previous work, Ten.
After Kaiji's showdown with Chairman Hyoudou at Starside Hotel, Kaiji is forced into labor at an underground mine. With meager wages each day, he will work for decades unless he doesn't do something. Now Kaiji must wager his earnings in underground Chinchirorin gambles for a ticket to the rest of the world. But even if he surfaces, he only has one chance to pay back his enormous debt, and that. Mahjong Legend Akagi: The Genius Who Descended Into the Darkness is one of Nobuyuki Fukumoto's earlier works, predating the creation of Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor by about five years.Nevertheless, Fukumoto's interest in gambling is on full display in Akagi as well, especially since it's very focused on the particulars of skillful mahjong playing.. The main character, Shigeru Akagi, becomes a.
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Kaiji. Akagi's personality is intriguing and how level headed and eerily calm he is. It revolves around one game generally, which is immersive initially but one tires eventually. But Kaiji represents so much desire, suffering, longing and everything that is human. Kaiji the anime does an especially good job with this, and in fact, the entire anime is an enjoyable experience that avoids all the mistakes of Akagi. It's one of the most unique anime I've ever seen, and I don't expect to see anything like it again. Part of what makes Kaiji so good are the ingenious games Noboyuki cooked up for this series.
