"HEY LOUIS, REMEMBER THE TIME I GOT MY FINGERS CHOPPED OFF BECAUSE OF MY GAMBLING ADDICTION?"

Akagi's fantastic if you know mahjong, but yeah without that you're missing a lot of the depth

>strongest man Kurosawa will never be finished

Best dude in the FKMTverse.

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I get the basic premise of building your hand from your opponents discards. Just feels like there's a lot of nuance to it.

Post the page where he's only had sex once and it was with a prostitute.

Yeah it's a very nuanced game and that's where a lot of the interest of the scenarios comes from.
Knowing about defense and tile safety is a big part of it

>that one moment Kaiji killed a guy by stealing his money and using it to buy 3 stars during restricted RPS
How did he get away with it?

The guy had buckteeth and vaguely made fun of kaiji so he deserved it. Honestly it's fucking grim to think he probably died in Hyodo's underground mines. Or maybe he was placed in a concentration camp? In the manga kaiji got a big ass number burned onto his shoulder.

Also I hope Furuhata and fat fuck died.

Here you go

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>TFW season 3 fucking never
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>best part doesn't get an adaptation

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>never get to hear what Mario and Chang sound like

You mean the worst. I skipped an entire episode because of how long and drawn out it was.

First arc is the best arc

Kakegurui is better

That guy was bought out anyway

>coomer fuel is better

>because of how long and drawn out it was.
The fact that you are not writing this sentence in reference to Emperor Card is astonishing.

Is kaji better to read or watch?

I just read that arc in the manga and it's never shown if he's actually bought out or if they send him back to the room.

It's shit. The watered down no stakes version of kaiji with a dumb MC.

Definitely watch, but be warned that anime adapts only Parts 1 and 2, for Part 3 onwards you'll need to read the manga.

youtube.com/watch?v=jGL1x40p46s
Toneegawaaaaa!! Turns out he was right all along bros

wrong only because the cee-lo arc was unbelievably god tier

man the tonegawa spinoff was fucking great.
really wish we'd get a season 3 of kaiji.

ITS CHINCHIRORIN YOU HEATHEN

>that fakeout with the dude with same haircut and clothes as Kaiji

Yeah, I also read a bit of Akagi without knowing mahjong, but I think I'm going to pick it back up again now that I've been playing the shit out of riichi mahjong on clubhouse 51 games.
Basically, if you know the general hand style, a few of the specific hands, and how your opponents discard pile can suggest what hand they are and aren't going for, you can get a lot more out of reading Akagi.

A supporting cast you actually care about is better then what Fukumoto's works offer, yeah. I don't have anything against the Kaiji series or the rest of that man's work but in all of them you only care about the protagonist and MAYBE certain antagonists (I can't speak for Washizu as I won't be reading Akagi anytime soon seeing as I don't know how to play Mahjong). Meanwhile, if we consider gambling manga a genre, Kakegurui has the best cast out of all of its competitors by a mile; like, it's not even a competition.

It's so strange we got that ahead of s3 kaiji. Not that I'm complaining it was god tier but still.

>no stakes
Kaiji gets his fingers and ear cut off but then in the very next arc he's got it sewn right back and its all healed; and he isn't even deaf on one ear and doesn't even have any issues using his fingers. This "muh stakes" argument was always flimsier then Kaiji's chances.

>and he isn't even deaf on one ear
Why would he be? It never pierced his eardrum. Eardrums are way deeper in your ear than the actual "ear" part. And even pierced eardrums regenerate over time in case you didn't know.

>tfw no translated kaiji game
What the fuck would be the point of a Kaiji game? Just go to a casino and lose all your money.

besides,
youtube.com/watch?v=PICiInsKbvg

Yeah and the time he almost fell off a building or the time he almost got shipped off to have his organs harvested or thrown off head first off a building.

That's good to know, thanks for the info! But my point is that even when Kaiji has to sacrifice something precious, it doesn't have any consequences so, ironically he's similar to Sayaka in that way; and even when he does lose something significant it's due to bullshit that only superficially has anything to do with gambling.

Does it matter if in the end neither of those things actually happened?

>he probably died in Hyodo's underground mines. Or maybe he was placed in a concentration camp?
They already mentioned everyone who lost became lab rats for clinical trials of new medicines until their organs gave out
Or was that another gamble?

One Poker is absolute peak of gambling kino.
Best game, best moves and twists, best supporting cast, highest stakes and absolutely best villain.

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The spin-off was a fun break away from the mainline Kaiji series.

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