Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24-oku Dasshutsu-hen

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well, i think this is my new favorite part of kaiji.

it doesnt stray too far from the usual script, huge wins leading to crushing lows, only to be brought back by a thread of hope, all packaged into long, intense rounds of games. or more specifically in most cases, kaiji using his intuition and wit to get himself out of life or death games, the "game" this time being a japan-wide (exaggerating a little) manhunt for kaiji and his two new friends as they try to escape with their newly obtained riches. kaiji is still trying to intuit what cards his opponent might have, but ... its metaphorical this time, and with a much bigger scope. its a constant game of information with teiai networking across prefectures, picking up sightings or intuiting something of their own, and kaiji and crew having to respond to it with their own schemes.

its fun, if i had to say anything about it. its fun to see kaiji in the open world and enjoying his time every once in a while when the story allows for it. the side characters are also better in this, too. kaiji had alright side characters before this, but this part really tries to flesh the existing ones out and give us new ones to care about, and it works. its also easily the funniest part because of all the brevity it and the new characters allow, but if youve read kaiji, you know that "what goes up must come back down," and this is where this part REALLY shines.

take kaiji's wit and planning and stick him in an open city where hes being genuinely gangstalked, use troublesome-or-worse unforeseen events and a constant information tug of war as the "games" of the part, write it in a way where even if they ARE in the open world this time, theyre never too far from being caught, finally slap a bunch of great characterization of old characters and a bunch of fun new characters, and you have part 6. i really enjoyed it, and im sad to have caught up with all of kaiji.

Warning : Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24-oku Dasshutsu-hen is the continuation of the kaiji series, so if you want read it, you probably need to start from the beginning

This review will not contain major spoilers if you have read the last part and I will try to make it as short as possible

The story is occurring just after Kaiji and Kazuya fierce one poker gamble, after that Kaiji won the 2.4 billion yen in the last single decisive bet. And now it's time for him, Chang and Mario to escape from the gambling location with a stack of money, and this mission should be accomplished without ... making Teai able to track them (and finally the endless night have ended, this gambling night have longed about 14 years in the real timeline from 2004 to 2018).
Here a new unusual development begins in the series. And Nobuyuki-sensei yet give's another masterpiece with his particular ingenious schemes that makes even an escape plan entertaining and will urge you to read a chapter after another (for me, I was thinking of reading this part after the end of the serialization, but I couldn't stand not reading it at the end).
The story until now makes me long for the next events, I don't understand why, but every event in this part is like somehow a decisive thing in the story that makes you feel anxious of what will happen later. When you will go through the chapters, you are going to notice even the slight coincidence, will affect the story heavily, so that make's the continuation of the story more and more unpredictable.

As for the drawing, the author is still hanging on and giving his best, especially for this part, cause there are some unusual sceneries contrary to the usual kaiji where we are solely fixating on the psychological gambles, the deep facial expressions and the tense atmosphere.
For the characters, we were introduced to new ones, as well as the return of some from the old parts

This part for me will be perhaps the final season as it goes for the time being. If you haven't read it yet, you certainly must give it a chance, cause the whole story in my point of view is underrated or avoided due to it's deep psychological theme.

Kaiji is one of the most interesting series I ever read.
the idea of being an ultimate survival and beating all odds against a world that wants to destroy you is so inspiring to me. Kaiji is simply not special, he’s stupid, he’s naive, he’s an addict, he’s hopeless, but even so Kaiji survives, his will to live out weighs anything in this manga and somehow he ends up triumph. After many betrays and loses he finally catches a break which leads us to part 6.

Part 6 is the turning point of this series
Before part 6 Kaiji always the underdog the one that is suppose to ... lose and the one who has nothing to lose. This is not the case for part 6 as he has the upper hand against the corporation. However what makes this part so special is we see another side of Kaiji only rarely displayed in the other parts.

The Kaiji that believes in humans.

The manga constantly proves Kaiji wrong by showing betrays of people he trust
Kaiji is proven wrong in every occasion
But with the arrival of Chang and Mario we see Kaiji now having full trust of his partner knowing damn well they will never betray him.

Although there’s no high stake gambling in this part, the stake are still very high as we have these Tom and jerry action scenes. Kaiji and his groups are found, the corporation almost finds them, Kaiji’s group escapes, and the cycle repeats. It’s almost like a fresh breather to what has happened in the manga so far.
But as a monthly reader it does drag on a bit too much
Some of these chapters are almost like filler chapter with no real meaning. Part 6 is a good part on paper but because of the execution its not done quite right. The manga feels draggy and long with a lot of these filler dialogue.
It’s kinda of a long but if you are binge reading it it wont feel like that and the story si still pretty good so idk

Anyways execution could’ve been better but part 6 is still good

So final score

7inches out of kaiji’s nose

7in/10in