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Akagi, the anime nobody has any reason to like ever. by Noi Dau Don 04/29/2010, 4:15pm PDT Wikipedia Akagi is an animes about mahjong. Specifically, riitchi (Japanese-style) mahjong. You see a lot of shit like this in the show. The main character is a smug little shit who never makes a wrong move and fucks with his opponents' heads constantly. He is the fucking lord god of JUST AS PURANDU. When he's not sharking top-level players, he randomly beats up strangers. No, really. But sometimes he takes the hard-working young local boy under his wing just for his own entertainment! Not the kind in the butt though. Most of the show is voiceovers and this though. Seriously, maybe half of the show is actually animated, the rest is gameboards, close-ups on wicked eyes, and a LOT of talking. It's unwatchable by default because it's animes. It's additionally unwatchable because unless you're fluent in riitchi mahjong, Japanese, and thug culture, you're responsible for following two different sets of subtitles (the mahjong game explanation and the Japanese-to-English subs) and a set of nonverbal cues and cultural tropes that are basically impenetrable. In other words it sucks hard. I've been watching it in nailbiting 4-5 episode batches. My excuses: 1. I... love mahjong shows, it's embarrassing. I would watch even a bad one. I'm not clever enough to play it live but shit all kinds of people watch boxing that can't box so FUCK YOU. 2. The show is set in late 50's early 60's urban Japan, and there are a lot of love letters being written to the time and place on the margins of the show. So many plaid jackets! Maybe this is what you dicks see in Mad Men. 3. NIPPON GAMBLERMIND - the show's greatest strength. This is a show all about psyching people out, praying to arbitrary deities, luck, superstition, and saying cool ass shit like "we're going to keep going until we see the gates of hell." On the margins of this there is a whole range of old yakuza tropes being exhumed and cigarettes being smoked and fat perfectly calm men trading shots over $4,000,000 pots. It's a lot of fun. 4. The art style is so fucking weird, can't look away. It's no K-On but... Also comes in manga and movie form, with several spinoffs. I like the show even though it's total bullshit. Maybe I should just go play Yakuza 3 :(

Akagi, the anime nobody has any reason to like ever. by Noi Dau Don 04/29/2010, 4:15pm PDT     so it's like the gambling scenes in casino royal, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay wors NT by Sword of Justice 04/29/2010, 4:38pm PDT         No, it's Aizen Sousuke starring in God Of Gamblers. NT by Noi Dau Don 04/29/2010, 4:39pm PDT     Re: Akagi, the anime nobody has any reason to like ever. by E. L. Koba 04/29/2010, 8:59pm PDT         /d-downloads NT by Noi Dau Don 04/29/2010, 9:34pm PDT         Oh my god the manga is unbelievable. How on earth did I not know about this. by Noi Dau Don 04/30/2010, 1:23am PDT             If you think that's good wait until you discover movies. 8) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 04/30/2010, 5:55am PDT                 too bad Hollywood is DYING by Roger Ebert 04/30/2010, 11:07am PDT                     Ebert's solution: make movies MORE like TV by Jerry Whorebach 04/30/2010, 12:12pm PDT