While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.
When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.
has finished publishing and it has 306 Chapters. It is also Known as: アカギ ～闇に降り立った天才～, Mahjong Legend Akagi
Genres: Sports , Virtual Reality , Drama , Action , Psychological
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Top 8 Manga Like (Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai) [2025 List]
- 8. Liar Game
- 7. Gamble Fish
- 6. Mudazumo naki Kaikaku
- 5. Aburemon Mahjong Rurouki
- 4. Usogui
- 3. Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji
- 2. Touhai
- 1. One Outs
8. Liar Game
Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao's father named her thusly for “honesty”. Nao has more than lived up to her father's wishes—even exceeding them and earning the label of "a foolishly honest girl". This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes 'Liar Game', where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt. However, that doesn't stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.
Liar Game has finished publishing and it has 203 Chapters. It is also Known as: LIAR GAME, Liar Game
7. Gamble Fish
The story is set at Shishidou, a school attended by rich and elite people. Tom Shirasagi, a gambler, is a mysterious new transfer student who has come from a public school (instead of a prestigious private one) and faces the elitist environment. There, he declares a challenge toward any student and claims he will bring to the ruin the whole school through a series of gambling matches. Nobody knows why he has come to that school or what the real motivations behind his actions are.
During any match, Tom shows off all of his unique coolness and ability.
He employs a wide range of tricks, both psychological and physical, to ensure his victory. In any game, you will constantly ask how he's planning to win, why he's really doing certain things, and what's really going on. At the end of the matches, the tricks are revealed, and they all work in real life, even if they do require one to be highly skilled or lucky in order to perform them.
The story centers around the various matches he undertakes and the interactions between the various characters, like Mika Shishidou, the beautiful granddaughter of the school headmaster, who is highly intelligent but contemptuous and superb, or Abidani, the vampiric looking dorm superintendent and main villain (for now) in the series, who has a sadistic personality and whose goal is to make Tom leave his school (or to get him killed).
As the story unfolds, more about Tom's past is revealed, leading to unpredictable turns of events.
Gamble Fish has finished publishing and it has 167 Chapters. It is also Known as: GAMBLE FISH, Gamble Fish
6. Mudazumo naki Kaikaku
Global political figures such as The Pope, Kim Jong Il, George W. Bush and recent Japanese Prime Ministers play riichi mahjong against each other.
Mudazumo naki Kaikaku has finished publishing and it has 144 Chapters. It is also Known as: ムダヅモ無き改革, Mudadzumo naki Kaikaku, Reform with no Wasted Draws, The Legend of Koizumi, Ritz, Oretachi Kenou Shineitai, Lacross Shoujo Katagiri Ririn-san wa Totemo Moteru, The Legend of Koizumi, Ritz
5. Aburemon Mahjong Rurouki
Mahjong.
Mahjong Wandering Tale has finished publishing and it has 39 Chapters. It is also Known as: あぶれもん 麻雀流浪記, Aburemon Mahjong Rurouki
4. Usogui
There are gamblers out there who even bet their lives as ante. But to secure the integrity of these life-threatening gambles, a violent and powerful organization by the name of "Kagerou" referees these games as a neutral party. Follow Bak Madarame a.k.a. Usogui (The Lie Eater) as he gambles against maniacal opponents at games—such as Escape the Abandoned Building, Old Maid, and Hangman—to ultimately "out-gamble" and control the neutral organization of Kagerou itself.
The Lie Eater has finished publishing and it has 541 Chapters. It is also Known as: 嘘喰い, Igyou Tobakusha Usokui, Yakou-san, The Lie Eater
3. Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji
It has been several months after the 'Castle of Despair' has ended. Itou Kaiji, now more in debt disappears completely from society. Even the loan shark Endou gives up on searching for Kaiji when he notices in the parking lot that the two cars on either side of his parked car has been brutally damaged.....by someone.
Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji has finished publishing and it has 134 Chapters. It is also Known as: 賭博破戒録カイジ, Gambling Heathen Kaiji, Kaiji Part 2
2. Touhai
Money, women, organs. Kei, a high school boy, frequents the underground mahjong parlor teeming with desires, earning him the moniker 'K of Ice' in the underworld due to his cold-hearted strategy and stylish gameplay. Rumors also circulate that he keeps a girl at his home.
has finished publishing and it has 115 Chapters. It is also Known as: 凍牌, Touhai
1. One Outs
The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meet Tōa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Out." At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up.
has finished publishing and it has 175 Chapters. It is also Known as: ONE OUTS, One Outs
