Nobuyuki Fukumotos Akagi story starts a rainy night, Akagi Shigeru, ends up into Yakuza mahjong cave after fleeing from the police. Nangou, gambler is in bad shape, he was going to pay its debts to the Yakuza by mahjong, but the situation does not look good, this evening he has already lost almost everything. Akagis mere instinct manages to turn this situation to Nangous favor and ends up playing Yakuzas into "swamp".
This is the beginning of Akagis travel saturated with sunglasses, cigarette smoke and underworld.
He is a cold-blooded and quite ruthless guy who is not afraid of anyone or anything, even at the risk of his life and does not shy away from ways to win. Akagi is not content just to beat his opponent, he wants to crush them to self-destruction.
At worst, Akagi may even cause interest in Mahjong itself, which is not in this case, the one that comes with Windows, but a complex, somewhat comparable to poker gambling.
Akagi has been published in Kindai loader (Modern Mahjong) Journal since 1992, for 21 volumes and series still continues. In 2005, the manga was made into a 26-part anime, and in mid-90s they also published two live action movies.
Art/animation of the Akagi varies from bad to decent and the characters can't honestly be praised: the main character Akagi himself is honestly a decent, even a good one, but he can't save the whole series by himself. Apart from not having very good characters and character designs the "story" relies a lot on the individual games and the wittiness of the author. It's up to his cleverness whether it is a good idea to continue reading/watching Akagi.
I have to admit that I still don't like those character designs even after watching all episodes.
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