賭博黙示録カイジ ８

by Nobuyuki Fukumoto

上京後、自堕落な日々を過ごしていた伊藤開司（カイジ）は、ある日金融業者の遠藤により、かつて自分が保証人になっていた借金を押しつけられる。遠藤に誘われるままカイジは負債者に借金一括返済のチャンスを与えるというギャンブル船「エスポワール」に乗り込む。そこで行われるのはカード12枚を使った「限定ジャンケン」。うまく勝てば借金は帳消しだが、負ければ命の保証は無いというものだった……。2005年に雑誌「ヤングマガジン」で連載を開始すると同時に大人気になった福本伸行の代表作。

Genres: Manga, Comics

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 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.

Reviews

[Rudolph · Rating 4 out of 5]

god damn this comic cooks! i was a little worried when i started it, thinking that all the gambling minutia would bore me, not to mention the repetitive graphics... but guess what jack, i was wrong BIG TIME! i really lost my shirt on that bet! ha ha, but to get serious, the simple-ass drawings are super effective, and in fact there is some real skill and taste to the man's artwork lurking beneath the almost "beano"-esque surface. then there's the fuckin' dialogue, which reaches near dostoyevskyan heights (or depths?) of anguish in the last few volumes. here and there, though, it can tend to get a bit too drawn out, i will say (a critique i'd also lob at dostoyevsky).

[M. Ashraf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kaiji
Gambling Apocalypse
Volume #8
Collected Issues: #83 - #94

83 Testament (遺言, Yuigon)
84 Lamentation (慟哭, Dōkoku)
85 Apparition (亡霊, Bōrei)
86 Isolation (孤立, Koritsu)
87 Aspiration (希望, Kibō)
88 Sorcery (魔道, Madō)
89 Firmament (天空, Tenkū)
90 Dead Space (死角, Shikaku)
91 At the Castle (登城, Tojō)
92 Audience (謁見, Ekken)
93 Mastermind (黒幕, Kuromaku)
94 Emperor (皇帝, Kōtei)

This is some sort of a scam right
Death
Kaiji is the sole survivor so far
A Game of Emperor

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty great Psychological gambling 🎰 manga with exciting life risking games...😁👌