“Kaiji gambles in underground mines to escape debt, then faces the unbeatable Pachinko machine, The Bog.”
Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji
賭博破戒録カイジ
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Kaiji gambles in underground mines to escape debt, then faces the unbeatable Pachinko machine, The Bog.
After Kaiji's showdown with Chairman Hyoudou 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. (Source: MU)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 134 × 13 ch × vol
- Total read 17h 52m approx
- Published Nov 2000 – Apr 2004
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3047 catalog