Usogui - Recommendations

• Vol: 19; Ch: 201
• 2005 - 2015

"Congratulations! You are 1 of 100,000 people who have been entered in the amazing Liar Game tournament!" For Nao Kanzaki, an overly-naïve student, receiving this message in the mail was only the beginning of an unending financial and psychological nightmare. Winning the game means riches beyond one’s wildest dreams, while failure means crushing debt. And with no choice but to play the game, Nao quickly turns to Shinichi, a well-known swindler, for help. However, little do the two know just how far the Liar Game goes. Who will win, and who will lose it all?

• Vol: 16; Ch: 155
• 2013 - 2017

Kaiji and Kazuya face off against each other in a high-stakes game of "One Poker," a modified version of standard poker.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 88
• 2011 - 2013

This is part 2 of Gambling Emperor Legend Zero, picking up a few years after the cliffhanger ending of part 1.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 100
• 2009 - 2012

After battling the evil CEO in two-man Mah Jong through the "17 Steps," Kaiji gets 480 million yen in a huge win! With the echoes of battle still fading in the back ground, the son of the Teiai Group's CEO Kazutaka Hyodo, Kazuya, issues a new challenge to battle! Now, Kaiji accepts the battle with, "That's the line I've been waiting for...let's battle!

• Vol: 13; Ch: 134
• 2000 - 2004

After Kaiji's showdown with Chairman Hyoudo at Starside Hotel Kaiji is forced into labor at an underground mine. With meager wages each day, he will work for decades unless he doesn't do something. Now Kaiji must wager his earnings in underground Chinchirorin gambles for a ticket to the rest of the world. But even if he surfaces, he only has one chance to pay back his enormous debt, and that is by challenging the "unbeatable" Pachinko machine, The Bog.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 131
• 2004 - 2008

The overwhelming victory against the 'Bog' has been like a dream. Itou Kaiji, now free of debt but without a penny is leeching himself in Mr.Sakazaki's new house, despite all the flirtings (extreme torment for Kaiji) from Sakazaki's daughter, Mikoko. Sakazaki attempts to kick Kaiji out, even by offering a farewell 'we never knew each other' money of 3 000 000 yen. While Kaiji ponders himself on the decision, he is visited by Miyoshi and Maeda, two of his 'allies' he had saved from the last part of the series.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 158
• 1996 - 1999

Itou Kaiji is as pathetic a person as they come; a man who gambles his days away, only winning enough to lose significantly more. He hates himself, is riddled with envy for others, but is ultimately too weak to think of a way out of his massive debts. Then one day he is approached by a strange man who offers him what seems the solution of a lifetime – to take a short journey on a ship called Espoir, during which time he will be given the chance to win more cash than he can dream of in a card game like no other. Ever the desperate, Kaiji takes the gamble of his life; however, the game turns out to be far darker than he expected and the hard lessons pile on thick and fast. Now stuck in a closed world of unsavory characters willing to do anything to destroy him, can Kaiji gather enough courage to outwit them all?

• Vol: 19; Ch: 167
• 2007 - 2010

The story is set at Shishidou, a school attended by rich and elite people. Tomu Shirasagi, a gambler, is a mysterious new transfer student who has come from a public school (instead of a prestigious private one) and faces the elitist environment. There, he declares a challenge toward any student and claims he will bring to the ruin the whole school through a series of gambling matches.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 70
• 2007 - 2009

Muryou Zaizen is the wealthiest man in all of Japan; soon he will put his vast fortune on the line, gambling with the most powerful figures from across the globe. However, to guarantee his success, he seeks out the greatest gambler the country has to offer, designing a series of tests to weed out all but the most skillful and ingenious men. Among those selected for the test is Zero, a young man whose wits are matched only by his courage. But with fiendish tricks and deadly trials standing between him and selection, can Zero become the King that Zaizen seeks?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 22
• 2000 - 2001

Tadanori Takamura is a failure in everything he does. His job, his marriage, his life. One day, he is offered a way out of his hell (by a 3-fingered woman): A gambling game called "cowarDICE"...