List of Kaiji chapters  "Kaiji" is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It has been published in Kodansha's "Weekly Young Magazine" since the 1996 11th issue, published on February 19, 1996. The story centers on Kaiji Itō, a consummate gambler and his misadventures around gambling. The series has currently been divided into six parts. The current part, "Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24 Oku Dasshutsu-hen", started in 2017. In August 2018, it was announced at Otakon that the then new brand North American manga publishing company Denpa licensed the first part of the manga "Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji". It is being released in a six-volume omnibus edition with 500+ pages each one, and the first volume was published on December 10, 2019. The following chapters were serialized in "Weekly Young Magazine" from February 2019 onwards, but have yet to be collected in "tankōbon" format.