Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji (????????, lit. Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji), also known as Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, is a Japanese manga series about the art of gambling, written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It is published by Kodansha in Young Magazine. The first part of the manga (13 volumes), was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series called Gyakky? Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor (??????? Ultimate Survivor, lit. Suffering Outcast Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor), which began airing October 2007. A live-action 'Kaiji' movie was released October 10, 2009 in Japan with Tatsuya Fujiwara playing the role of Kaiji. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji is considered Fukumoto's most famous work, and is well known in both Japan and Korea. In 1998, it was the winner of the Kodansha Manga Award in the General category. A second anime television series based on the second arc of the manga, entitled Gyakky? Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen (??????? ????, lit. Suffering Outcast Kaiji: Maverick Arc) premiered April 5, 2011 and ran until September 27, 2011.
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Story
After graduating from high school in 1996 in Japan, It? Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding his time with cheap pranks, gambling, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears.
Kaiji's unrelenting misery continues for two years until he is paid an unexpected visit from a man named End?, who wants to collect an outstanding debt that Kaiji has carelessly co-signed for his former co-worker. End? gives Kaiji two options - either spend ten years to repay this outstanding debt, or board the gambling ship Espoir ("hope" in French) for one night to clear the debt. Using a con, End? pressures Kaiji into accepting the deal, believing he will never come back from the voyage.
However, Kaiji survives the gamble and is invited to another gambling night, this time at the Starside Hotel. Although initially wary about the offer, he is spurred by his acquaintance Sahara to go. After being the only survivor of the Human Derby, Kaiji decides to avenge his friends by competing in another gambling match the Teiai Corporation has prepared; E-Card. Kaiji, despite losing an ear, defeats Tonegawa, his opponent in E-Card. He goes all-in once again in a new game. This time, he loses both the money he had won in the E-Card battle and four of his fingers.
Though Kaiji survives the Starside Hotel he now has a debt of over 9.5 million Yen. He contacts End? in hope of being able to take part in another high-stakes gamble. However End? betrays Kaiji and sends him to Teiai's underground labour camp, where he will have to work off his debt for 15 years. In the labour camp Kaiji is paid 91,000 pelica per month (10 pelica are equal to 1 Yen) to dig an underground kingdom. This is reduced to 45,000 pelica after Kaiji loses to ?tsuki in Chinchirorin. However Kaiji allies himself with other 45ers (those earning 45,000 pelica per month) to defeat ?tsuki and win enough money for the one-day pass.
Although Kaiji manages to get out of the labour camp with 800,000 Yen using the 1-day pass, he only has 20 days to earn the 60 million Yen he needs to buy his freedom and release the other 45ers. Fortunately Kaiji comes across Sakazaki who tells him of a pachinko game known as the Bog in a high-stakes casino where Kaiji can win over 550 million Yen. Kaiji agrees to help Sakazaki beat the bog. However, the casino is owned by Teiai Corporation, and the Bog has been rigged in several ways to ensure that it won't pay out.
After finally clearing his debt Kaiji has been living with Sakazaki and his family until Sakazaki kicks Kaiji out with 3 million Yen in cash. Kaiji then agrees to help the former 45ers Miyoshi and Maeda beat the president of a casino at his Minefield Mahjong game and win 700 million Yen.
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Characters
- Voiced by: Masato Hagiwara
- Voiced by: Masane Tsukayama
- Voiced by: Naoya Uchida
Part 1 - The Ship of Hope, Espoir
- Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa
- Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto
- Voiced by: Toshiharu Sakurai
- Voiced by: Kazuki Yao
Part 2 - The Skyscraper of Darkness, Starside Hotel
- Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka
- Voiced by: Komoto Masahiro
- Voiced by: Hak?ry?
Part 3
- Voiced by: Kenyu Horiuchi
- Voiced by: Ch?
- Voiced by: K?ji Yusa
- Voiced by: Issei Futamata
- Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa
Part 4
Gambles
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Media
Manga
The manga has currently been divided into five parts so far, each comprising thirteen volumes:
- Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji (????????, lit. "Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji")
- Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji (????????, lit. "Gambling Maverick Kaiji")
- Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji (????????, lit. "Gambling Advent Chronicle Kaiji")
- Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: Kazuya-hen (???????? ???, lit. "Gambling Advent Chronicle Kaiji: The Kazuya Arc")
- Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: One Poker-hen (???????? ????????, lit. "Gambling Advent Chronicle Kaiji: One Poker Arc")
Anime
Season 1
The anime opening theme for the first season is "Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka" (based on The Blue Hearts' song of the same name) by Kaiji with Redbourn Cherries, and the ending theme is "Makeinutachi no Requiem" by Hakury?.
Season 2
The anime opening theme for the second season is "Chase the Light!" by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the ending theme is "C Kara Hajimaru ABC" by Wasurerann? yo.
Live-action films
Kaiji has been adapted into a 2009 film starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Yuki Amami, and a 2011 sequel, Kaiji 2. Both movies are a little different, both having alternate choices of what Kaiji did in the manga/anime, but all have the same settings and events in different orders and rule changes in each gamble.
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