Kaiji

About Kaiji

Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship.

Nippon TV's Kaiji is an animation and crime series. The series is filed under gambling, strategy game, illegal gambling, and gambling addiction.

Its 2 seasons and 52 episodes were broadcast from October 2007 to October 2011. Seasons run to about 26 episodes.

Masato Hagiwara stars as Kaiji (voice), and Fumihiko Tachiki as Narrator (voice). The series began as a manga. Produced by Madhouse.

It streams on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, HiDive, and Hidive Amazon Channel in the United States. Tokyo Ghoul, Elfen Lied, and ERASED make useful companions to Kaiji, all filed under psychological, seinen, and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 8.1 out of 10 across 110 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.