Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji

Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji / 賭博黙示録カイジ / Tobaku Mokujiroku Kaiji / Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji - Kaiji Part 1

8.4

(6732 votes)

Manga Completed 1996

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159 chapters

Fukumoto, Nobuyuki

Author & Artist

Adult Cast Award Winning Drama High Stakes Game Manga Seinen Strategy Game

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear himself and make a bit of money as well…

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