天－天和通りの快男児 １

by Nobuyuki Fukumoto

超心理麻雀漫画「アカギ」の主人公・赤木しげるが大人になって登場！主人公、天が率いる東代表のメンバーの一員として西代表との東西戦に臨む。老アカギ、カッコイイです。歳食った分いい感じに丸くなってます。ほとんど主役の存在感。スピンオフ作品として、「アカギ」が生まれたのも納得です。終盤、激アツです。心に響く名台詞の数々・・・。人生観変わります。

243 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 18, 2013

About the author

Nobuyuki Fukumoto (福本伸行 Fukumoto Nobuyuki) is a Japanese manga artist well known throughout the Far East for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analysis of characters and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related manga. In 1998, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji. An onomatopoeia "zawa" (ざわ…), meaning an uneasy atmosphere, appears frequently in his comics and is considered Fukumoto's trademark.
In June 2010, he visited Finland as a guest of honor for Desucon.