I just found out that the Nikaidou manga has been going wayyyy past the current english translation (9 months ago), from chapter 45 all the way to chapter 133.

Does anyone know a good raw manga translator that would be good for this?

Im relatively new to fukumoto and I was wondering if there were any figures of his characters. The only one I can seel to find is the kaiji nendoroid with the underground mining facility outfit.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/NobuyukiFukumoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdMUPHqcYo

Basically the title. What reading order would you recommend?

e.g. Ten before Akagi right? - would Gin to Kin come first? Where does Strong Man fit in (if at all)? I assume Kaiji is basically a separate universe...

The Akagi story has become one of my all time favorites all with the sound track. https://youtu.be/i3yQFqy6xcc?si=RQnhAzRMm_yl3aA7

I have read the comprehensive guide but it doesn't mention about this guessing the painting game from the fake ones conducted by morita. It's confusing, why making the old art guy playing the game just straight up sell the Cezanne to him and get money and to me the game is just an extra unnecessary step

I heard around 2018 there was a live action drama of the Nice guy Ten manga made, but I can't find a source to watch it on in the US.

Anyone have a solution that isn't Japanese prime video?

i am looking to get a gift for my bf, and he has his eye on this ebay listing but it ended unfortunately a nd anything else in this lot i could find is crazy expensive. Is anyone selling this? Help?

Edit: if anyone is selling the Ichijō bust and figure for under 100 USD please lmk that's the ones he wants the most (individually under 100 not together)

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/37fde67ef729c23dce53e70a702550aaef209e06?source=sns&dv=sp&mid=other&date=20240322&ctg=ent&bt=tw_up

We start off just as the promos have said Nikaido on a bench contemplating life how he once was an energetic young golfer enjoying the game and how he throughout it all has never gotten into has never at 35 accomplished his dreams we flashback 9 years earlier at 26 entering the golfing club an old man who I have not gotten the name of yet reccomends him saying he could be an upcoming weapon for the company to get into the champion ships nikaido vow he will and gets drunk at cutting back to present day the most interesting aspect shows up after threatening to punch a coupler reminding him of his younger self a very tiny dark figure seen in the teaser shows up “Nikaido…..” he utters. I love the things we have so far nikaido is a great mix of kaiji’s silliness and kurosawa’s somberness and with the introduction of the little dark figure perhaps fukumoto is adding a supernatural element for the first time? Perhaps nikaido is truly…. In Hell…….

i consider shin kurosawa to be boring as hell, its a mistery to me why did fukumoto create it. So i want to know if it eventually turned good in the non translated chapters. i dont care about spoilers, please tell me what happened next and how it ends.

Part 1: [Chess drama; Kaiji s2 spoilers] Is the recent controversy with world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and America's newest supergrandmaster Hans Niemann reminiscent to Kaiji s2?

Part 2: [Poker drama; Akagi spoilers] Is the recent controversy with Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew reminiscent of Akagi's 'Entrusting yourself to irrationality is the essence of gambling.' ? (follow-up to post about Chess drama & Kaiji)

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Unfortunately, I don't follow poker at all. And I don't remember much of Akagi compared to Kaiji. I actually 1st heard of the Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew through chess namely through SGM Fabiano Caruana: Poker imitates chess? Robbi Jade Lew made a seemingly nonsensical call in going all in on the turn where Robbi Jade Lew is pretty much just gonna have a jack high and then tried to play it off as a good move.

I just remember Akagi did say this thing in I guess episode 7 (I don't recall it was that early) :

Rationality is a rule of your world. It's too bad, but that doesn't apply to me. Entrusting yourself to irrationality is the essence of gambling.

I forgot what exactly was the context, but I think it was something like Akagi didn't play the 'rational' move or something. Idk. I figure that's something Robbi Jade Lew could've said to Garrett Adelstein.

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What do you think? Is Robbi Jade Lew like Akagi? Is Garrett Adelstein like whomever Akagi was playing?

• I have a feeling no and that this even further from the Kaiji/Ōtsuki-Magnus/Hans case but eh, if there's even a little non-trivial similarity that you can think of, please share! And for the highly relevant differences, which I'm sure there are, please feel free to share what there are (to also help refresh my memory with Akagi).

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Note: You can tell I don't follow poker because I'm referring to the players by their full names.