Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 300,000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay off their debts. After some coercion Kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear his debt and make a bit of money as well...

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Studios

• MADHOUSE
• Sentai Filmworks
• VAP

Staff

• Kenichi Kawamura — Episode Director (eps 9, 17)
• Hiroyuki Tanaka — Episode Director (eps 10, 22), Storyboard (ep 22)
• Kazuyuki Fudeyasu — Script (eps 4, 8, 11, 14, 18, 22, 25)
• Hideo Takayashiki — Script (eps 1, 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 20, 26), Series Composition
• Yuuzou Satou — Director, Episode Director (OP, ep 26), Storyboard (OP, eps 2, 26)
• Yuuichirou Nakajima — Background Art (ep 10)
• Hideki Taniuchi — Music
• Tetsurou Araki — Storyboard (ep 14)
• Takahiro Umehara — Animation Director (ep 18)
• Mieko Hosoi — Animation Director (eps 13, 20), Key Animation (eps 7, 20, 26)
• Mitsutaka Hirota — Script (eps 3, 7, 10, 13, 17, 21, 24)
• Nobuyuki Fukumoto — Original Creator
• In-Beom Hwang — In-Between Animation (eps 1-4, 9, 10, 13, 15)
• Haruhito Takada — Character Design, Chief Animation Director (eps 1-3, 7, 14, 17, 19, 22)
• Harue Oono — Color Design
• Ryousuke Nakamura — Episode Director (eps 2, 13), Storyboard (eps 13, 25)