Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji

Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji
Original title	賭博 黙 示 録 カ イ ジ
transcription	Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji
genre	Gambling, drama
Manga
country	Japan
author	Nobuyuki Fukumoto
publishing company	Kodansha
magazine	Young Magazine
First publication	1996 - ...
expenditure	42
Anime television series
title	Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji
Original title	逆境 無 頼 カ イ ジ
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	2007-2008
Studio	Madhouse
length	23 minutes
Episodes	26th
Director	Yuzo Sato
First broadcast	October 2, 2007 on NipponTV
Anime television series
title	Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen
Original title	逆境 無 頼 カ イ ジ 破戒 録 篇
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2011
Studio	Madhouse
length	23 minutes
Episodes	26th
Director	Yuzo Sato
First broadcast	April 5, 2011 on NipponTV
synchronization
Movies
► Kaiji: Jinsei Gyakuten Game (2009) ► Kaiji 2 (2011)

Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji ( Japanese 賭博 黙 示 録 カ イ ジ , Eng . "Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji") is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Nobuyuki Fukumoto about the art of gambling, which has been published in the Young Magazine of Kodansha in Japan since 1996 . The first part of the manga (13 volumes) was adapted as an anime television series in 2007 . On October 10, 2009, a live action film starring Tatsuya Fujiwara in the role of Kaiji was released in Japan . In 2018, the manga-based film Animal World by Han Yan was released. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji also won the Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 1998 . On April 5, 2011 began the broadcast of a second based on the manga anime television series under the name Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen , which is directly linked to the first series.

content

In 1996, school leaver Kaiji Itō moved to Tokyo to find work. But due to the country's first deflation since the Second World War and his eccentric nature, he fails and from then on kills his time in his apartment with alcohol, cigarettes and "collecting" car emblems. Two years later he receives a visit from a man named Endo, who wants to collect a debt that Kaiji once vouched for. He presents Kaiji with two options: Either Kaiji will work off the outstanding debt over the next ten years or he will try his luck on board the Espoir. There is a night of gambling in which Kaiji can win enough to be able to repay the debt in one fell swoop. Kaiji agrees, not realizing that this is just the beginning of his unparalleled career as a gambler.

Characters

Kaiji Itō ( 伊藤 開 司 )

Kaiji is the main character in the story, who lives in poverty and can't get his life right. At the beginning he owes a debt of 3,850,000 yen through a surety from a former colleague. Although he keeps losing, he lets himself into the gambling night and shows an unexpectedly great talent there to see through things and to make use of them. In the anime he is spoken by the seiyu, who also lent his voice to Akagi Shigeru in Noboyuki Fukumoto's second anime adaptation.

Kazutaka Hyōdō ( 兵 藤 和 尊 )

The powerful and wealthy President of the Teiai Society ( 帝 愛 ) is also the sponsor and organizer of illegal games of chance like those on board the Espoir. It's said to be around 70 years old and a few trillion yen in weight. Tainted by his wealth, his only joy is to see poor swallowers struggle against overwhelming fear and despair. His seiyu was also responsible for the speaking role of Akagi Shigeru's opponent Washizu.

Yūji Endō ( 遠藤 勇 次 )

Endo is a sleazy money shark with ties to the yakuza who lends money to the desperate at horrific and illegal usury rates. He is always responsible for collecting the debt from Kaiji and thus always brings him to the games of chance. However, after Kaiji has defeated Tonegawa in E-Card, Endō is also cut off from Teiai's upper management level, which is why he is only too happy to send Kaiji to the forced labor camp. Nevertheless, he initially helps Kaiji with 500,000 yen to defeat the king of the pachinkos, the "swamp". In the real film, Endō is portrayed by a woman.

Yukio Tonegawa ( 利 根 川 幸雄 )

The third highest and most powerful businessman of the Teiai Society is not only the host for the limited rock-paper-scissors and the steel girder, but also Kaiji's direct opponent for e-cards. Believing that those who risk their lives in the games of chance held by the teiai are the scum of society, he considers himself a master of human psychology and observation. Nevertheless, it is not only these skills that are of use to him, but also his technical tricks with e-card not against Kaiji.

Ōtsuki ( 大 槻 )

Ōtsuki is Kaiji's foreman at the forced labor camp. He not only earns additional income from his fellow prisoners by selling them overpriced luxury foods, cigarettes and alcohol, but above all by granting them advances in return for an immense risk share for the chinchiro game. However, he has changed the rules slightly for his game, which however becomes a trap for him against Kaiji himself.

Games

Series 1

Restricted rock-scissors-paper ( 限定 ジ ャ ン ケ ン gentei janken )

The game that Kaiji plays on his first night of play on the Espoir, which lasts four hours. The probability of surviving this game is 50%. The rules will not be explained until the bonds for the wagers have been distributed. These loans range from 1,000,000 yen to 10,000,000 yen, with 1.5% interest every 10 minutes. Money that in the end exceeds the repayment amount of the debt belongs to the respective participant.

The game is based on rock-paper-scissors, but the hand gestures are reproduced on cards. Each participant receives four cards of a gesture, for a total of 12. In addition, they each receive three plastic stars that represent their lives. The winner of a match receives a plastic star from the loser. To win the game, the participant must end up with three stars and not have a single card left. The cards must not be thrown away. A violation leads to immediate disqualification.

Because of the simplicity of the game, individual matches can play out within seconds and participants can win or lose within minutes. The winners are allowed to climb the stairs, where any extra star can be exchanged for money. The losers, however, are immediately taken to an adjoining room by the men in black suits.

Steel Beam Crossing ( 鉄 骨 渡 り tekkotsu watari )

This game takes place in two parts at the Starside Hotel. In contrast to limited rock-scissors-papers, the participants are neither explained the rules nor which game it is at all until they have given their consent. The participants are brought to their starting position in narrow, numbered boxes, a platform several meters above a larger square where the wealthy onlookers have gathered to watch the spectacle and for their part bet on the winner. Participants must walk over a tapered steel girder, and support with the hands is not permitted. The first to arrive on the other side receives 20,000,000 yen, the second 10,000,000 yen. Pushing is expressly allowed and desired as long as you only reach the goal.

The winners of the first race receive coupons with a time limit in which they have to exchange their prize at a certain location. This time, the participants have to walk over a steel girder again, but this time to the still unfinished part of the hotel on the twentieth floor. Falling down here means certain death, where in the first race you "only" had to reckon with more or less serious injuries. In order to force the participants to a certain posture, the steel girder is also energized so that the use of the hands is forbidden by itself.

E-Card ( Ｅ カ ー ド Ī kādo )

This is a card game. Like limited rock-paper-scissors, this game also has a psychological-strategic aspect and also uses three types of cards: the ruler ( kōtei ), the citizens ( shimin ) and the slave ( dorei ) and thus represents society in a simplified manner, like Kazutaka Hyōdō explained at the beginning. The ruler is the most powerful card because it distributes the money. The citizens cannot contradict him because they want the money. On the other hand there is the slave who owns nothing and therefore has nothing to lose and thus (at least in the game) is the only one able to beat the ruler. Each party receives four citizen cards and either the ruler or the slave. Since it is much harder for the slave to win, he receives five times that amount even if he wins. Each game consists of 12 rounds. After Kaiji runs out of money, he plays using either his ear or his eye. He decides to use his ear, which is why he is strapped to a device that, depending on his bet height, would dig into his ear if lost. The minimum insert is 1 mm, which means that after 3 cm the hearing organ would be destroyed.

Tissue box lottery ( テ ィ ッ シ ュ 箱 く じ 引 き tisshubako kujibiki )

Unlike the other games, Kaiji created this game himself to challenge President Hyoudou himself with a prepared lottery in an emptied cloth box.

Series 2

Underground chinchirorin ( 地下 チ ン チ ロ リ ン chika chinchirorin )

This is a form of the dice game Chinchirorin modified by the forced labor camp foreman Ōtsuki . The specialty is, on the one hand, that the bank always rolls two rounds, but you can refuse to make the bank, and on the other hand, the fact that the bank always rolls the dice, regardless of the outcome.

Pachinko "The Swamp" ( パ チ ン コ 「沼」 pachinko "numa" )

In Pachinko is a highly doped slot machines in an illegal casino in which each ball a hundred times a normal Pachinkokugel is worth. To prevent a withdrawal, the casino has taken some measures to ensure that only 1 in 100 balls can hit. Only two men have defeated the “swamp” before: Hyōdō and Tonegawa.

Series 3

Minefield game "17 trains" ( 地雷 ゲ ー ム 「17 歩」 jirai gēmu "17-ho" )

In this variant of Mah-Jongg , only two players choose their hand from a random selection of 34 bricks. A victory is only possible by Mahjongg from the opponent's filing system (Ron) and not by Tsumo. If no mahjongg is declared after 17 moves, it is a tie. The bricks are shuffled again and the stake is doubled.

publication

Nobuyuki Fukumoto's manga has been published in Japan in Young Magazine by Kodansha since 1996 . The individual chapters have also been published in three series of thirteen volumes. The fourth series is still running and has published 6 volumes so far. The series were also published in 6 volumes of a KPC edition each, of series 4 there are already 5 KPC volumes (as of June 7, 2011).

Anime television series

Madhouse animated an anime television series based on the manga, directed by Yuzo Sato . Haruhito Takada was responsible for character design. The first season aired on NipponTV from October 2, 2007 to April 1, 2008 and covers Series 1 of the manga. The second season Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen is currently also running on NipponTV and includes the chinchiro and pachinko game of the 2nd series.

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kaiji Ito	Masato Hagiwara
Kazutaka Hyōdō	Masane Tsukayama
Yūji Endō	Naoya Uchida
Yukio Tonegawa	Hakuryu
Ōtsuki	Chō

music

The opening credits of the series, Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka , comes from Kaiji with Redbourn Cherries, the credits song Makeinutatsu no Requiem by Hakuuryuu.

Actual filming

Nippon TV produced in connection with Kodansha in 2009 under the direction of Tōya Satō a real film under the name Kaiji: Jinsei Gyakuten Game , which was distributed by the Tōhō . The film also includes series 1, but does not follow the manga chronologically. So the forced labor camp comes before the events of the Starside Hotel.

In addition, a sequel was released in November 2011 under the name Kaiji 2 and in which Nobuyuki Fukumoto himself contributed to the script. A third film has been announced for January 2020.

There is also a Chinese live-action film entitled Animal World by Han Yan from 2018. Li Yifeng , Zhou Dongyu and Michael Douglas can be seen in the leading roles .

Merchandising

Not only the card game "Limited Rock-Paper-Scissors" is available for Kaiji, but since September 25, 2008 also the Nintendo DS game "Death or Survival", in which you as Kaiji in limited rock-paper scissors and Stahlträger must survive and compete against another player in the E-Card. Also has Kodansha published in 2000 also a game for the Playstation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaiji's live-action film Gets Sequel Green-Lit in 2011. November 18, 2009, accessed June 7, 2011 (English). 
2. ↑ Official website. (No longer available online.) March 24, 2011, archived from the original on June 12, 2011 ; Retrieved June 8, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Goods. Retrieved June 7, 2011 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Anime Official Website (Japanese)
• Official website for the film (Japanese)
• Manga and Anime on Anime News Network (English)