Akagi is a mahjong centric Japanese manga, written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and first published in 1992. It is featured in the weekly magazine Modern Mahjong, and is a prequel to the author's previous work Ten, in which Akagi's titular character also appears. Due to its popularity, the manga has been adopted into two live action movies (released in 1995 and 1997), and a 26 episode anime series which aired in Japan in the fall of 2005.
PLOT:
The story revolves around the Mahjong gambling exploits of Shigeru Akagi. After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and grant him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses, the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of local police. However, Akagi overcomes the situation with his tactics, defiant of both life and chance. When he leaves the gambling house, no one present is in doubt of his genius.
During the story arc, Akagi faces and defeats several opponents in Mahjong, each with their own, distinct style of play. Akagi's genius ultimately allows him victory, by defeating the "behind the stage king" of Japan and becoming a legend. However, the story about the game between Akagi and Washizu is still on-going.
Simple 2000 Ultimate Series Vol.19 - Agaki Yami ni Oritatta Tensai: A character-driven mahjong game based on comics 1 through 6 in the Akagi series. Players become Akagi as he takes on opponent after opponent in strategic mahjong battles. The game features also other game modes like free mahjong mode, but the main mode is the story mode in which the player will advance through the story that is divided into stages winning mahjong matches.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Mahjong game to reproduce player becomes Akagi, the trajectory of the Akagi to six volumes from Volume 1 Comics! You are free to choose the opposite station partner, not have been in the original, with the opposite station Ichikawa goat Nakai, et al also possible! And experience the scene of many legends that Akagi has caused, let's challenge to the opposite station legendary under the same conditions as the original!
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Mahjong & Anime themes.
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