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Yamikin Ushijima-kun  
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Description
In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia - with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like.
But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who are engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses...all the while battling with dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism.

What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into the fearful traps that are set by black market money-lenders with the sole purpose of ensnaring such weak-willed individuals?

Read and find out!

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
闇金ウシジマくん
Ushijima
Ushijima l'usurier de l'ombre
Ushijima the Loan Shark

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Latest Release(s)
v.2 c.8-16 by Gantz_Waitingroom (703d ago)
v.1 c.1-7 by Gantz_Waitingroom (781d ago)
v.1 c.3 by McDonald & Endless Abyss (821d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
27 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (30 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.69 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 24th 2013, 3:14pm PST


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Year
2004

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Big Comic Spirits (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #1298 increased(+64)
Monthly Pos #2605 increased(+129)
3 Month Pos #3466 decreased(-101)
6 Month Pos #3789 increased(+100)

List Stats
On 210 reading lists
On 241 wish lists
On 9 unfinished lists
On 73 custom lists

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Realistic, disheartening and educational   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by lomegil
July 3rd, 2011, 1:58pm
I've no way of knowing if this is real, but it sure feels realistic - on the level of a punch to the face in the gutter. Plumbing the depths of society, too, but not for cheap shock value, like so many mangas out there - it feels rather like an ethnographic study into the lower classes (and wherever you're from, there are those, so you're bound to relate). It's the opposite of feel-good, too - in fact, there's not a single char pleasant to relate to - but, again, it documents reality so thoroughly it's hard not to be impressed. All in all, ranks very high on mature scale, even for a seinen, but it only makes the manga an even better - tho' also more dark and disenchanting - read.
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Very Dark!   
Rating: 9.2 / 10.0
by ejusdemgeneris
May 15th, 2011, 2:10am
I've started reading the first 5 chapters and find this manga truly amazing.. The art attempts to apply realism by portraying imperfections on each characters which complement the plot and the theme. To put this episodic manga in simpler terms, it's about the daily life of a bad guy lending people from different walks of Japanese life into more sh!ts than they have started with- who in the first place are at fault for such sh!ts, themselves. As what the previous comment stated, it's definitely recommended to mature audiences.

BTW, it also contains prostitution.
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1 volume   
Rating: N/A
by Famas
April 26th, 2011, 12:11am
the art is less than mediocre, but I'll always take story with poor art over brainless cuteness. And this one sure has enough of quality story. Very cynical, very dark story which I find hilarious. People want to borrow money - heroes check if they can pay back. People fail to pay the debt and ridicilously high interest? They'll pay anyway, they'll be made to. Certainly recommended to more mature readers.

... Last updated on May 12th, 2011, 5:32pm
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