アカギ－闇に降り立った天才 １

by Nobuyuki Fukumoto

昭和33年、高度成長期真っ只中の時代。雨降りしきるある夜、とある雀荘でヤクザ相手に命がけの勝負を挑んでいた南郷は徐々に窮地に追い込まれていた。その時突然、ずぶぬれになった一人の少年が雀荘に入ってきた。少年にただならぬ気配を感じた南郷は、麻雀牌すら握ったことのない彼に代打ちをさせる。このときから伝説が始まった。少年の名は赤木しげる。のちに「神域の男」と呼ばれる男である。

221 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 1992

About the author

Nobuyuki Fukumoto (福本伸行 Fukumoto Nobuyuki) is a Japanese manga artist well known throughout the Far East for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analysis of characters and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related manga. In 1998, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji. An onomatopoeia "zawa" (ざわ…), meaning an uneasy atmosphere, appears frequently in his comics and is considered Fukumoto's trademark.
In June 2010, he visited Finland as a guest of honor for Desucon.