Kaiji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since February 19, 1996.[1][2] The story centers on Kaiji Itō, a consummate gambler, and his misadventures around gambling. The series has currently been divided into six parts; the current part, Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24 Oku Dasshutsu-hen, started in 2017.[3]
In August 2018, it was announced at Otakon that the then brand new North American manga publishing company Denpa licensed the first part of the manga Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji. It is being released in a six-volume omnibus edition with 500+ pages in each one,[4][5][6] and the first volume was published on November 12, 2019.[7]