On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to hi...

Japan, 1995. After graduating from high school, Itou Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job but fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, h...

After Kaiji's showdown with Chairman Hyoudou at the Starside Hotel, he's forced into labour at an underground mine. With his meagre daily wage, he'll be working for decades to repay his debt unless he does s...

Spoiler (mouse over to view)The overwhelming victory against The Bog is behind him, and Itou Kaiji -- now free of debt but without a penny to his name -- is slacking off at Sakazaki's house. Sakazaki attempt...

Yasuoka Shion lost her parents, and her voice, when she was young...in a murder. She was found amidst a blood-soaked room, and the only hint for the suspect was a Shougi board and one piece: the King. Now, ...

In a small Nepalese shop, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mt. Everest, stumbles across a camera which may well be that of George Mallory, the celebrated mountain climber w...

Hagakure An, a girl who doesn't know how to play Mahjong at all, was dragged into the world of rep-players by Yakuza, because she was mistaken for the Yakuza's rep-player, Daigo, whose appearance resembles h...