[b]Akagi: The Genius who Descended into Darkness[/b] is a Riichi [[Mahjong]] centric manga by [[Fukumoto Nobuyuki]], and the second entry in his [[Fukumoto Mahjong|mahjong series]]. It is about the young days of [[Akagi Shigeru]] from [[Ten (manga)|]], chronicling the beginning of his rise to legend in the underworld of Mahjong in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The manga received a 26 episode anime in 2005. Famous for the [[Washizu Mahjong]] arc, which lasted from 1997 to the manga's completion in 2017. 

h4. Characters
* [[Akagi Shigeru]]
* [[Nangou (akagi)|]]
* [[Yasuoka]]
* [[Ichikawa (akagi)|]]
* [[Nozaki Osamu]]
* [[Hirayama Yukio]]
* [[Ishikawa (akagi)|]]
* [[Urabe (akagi)|]]
* [[Washizu Iwao]]
アカギ~闇に降り立った天才~ アカギ