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Oct 17, 2007 5:46 AM
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Oct 19, 2007 12:10 AM
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I see I'm not the only one doing a speed run of Akagi.

Urabe got frickin' messed up.
Oct 19, 2007 9:40 AM
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he looks like a frog lol
Nov 24, 2007 1:08 AM
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I thought that Urabe's punishment was that he lost his hands, when I first saw it, but I guess they just poked holes in them, or cut them, or something.
Jan 14, 2008 10:07 PM
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This is my favorite episode in the series.

The method behind the madness.
Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM
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Akagi is not interested in life :) thats naive
I dont buy that sh*t.
Mar 29, 2008 4:10 AM
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Well, why not? He's insane, despite being a genius, so it's only natural. :3
Apr 2, 2008 6:26 PM
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naikou said:
I thought that Urabe's punishment was that he lost his hands, when I first saw it, but I guess they just poked holes in them, or cut them, or something.


Looks to me like they broke all of his fingers as they looked all kinds of twisted up. Anyway, Akagi is a crazy bastard.
Dec 22, 2008 11:26 AM
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Urabe! Urabe! Urabe! Urabe! Urabe! Urabe! Go Go, use the force.
Jan 31, 2009 6:10 PM

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owned him so hard.
Nov 21, 2009 9:52 PM
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DigimonTamer said:
naikou said:
I thought that Urabe's punishment was that he lost his hands, when I first saw it, but I guess they just poked holes in them, or cut them, or something.


Looks to me like they broke all of his fingers as they looked all kinds of twisted up. Anyway, Akagi is a crazy bastard.

Yeah, I was wondering what happened to him lol
I thought it looked like they broke his fingers, but do are they supposed to get all bloody? o_o

Oh well, Akagi keepin' up the bamfness still
Feb 4, 2010 5:17 AM

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Insanity is awesome.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Jan 18, 2011 4:49 PM

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I am now convinced that Akagi is a demon that can indeed see through Mahjong tiles.
Feb 17, 2013 2:14 PM

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A monster. He's a freakin' monster.
Jul 30, 2013 1:32 PM

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His reasoning made my day! I loved the episode. Can't wait to see him find a matched opponent.
Mar 5, 2015 3:25 PM

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"if you leave without telling me, I won't be able to sleep tonight, it will be torture."

I had the same exact thoughts at the start.

Then just slowly making sense of all the mindblowing thought process, too awesome
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Aug 16, 2015 9:49 PM
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Holy shit, that thought process mode by akagi was so fucking awesome. How the hell did he thought all of that up ? What a monster he is :) Urabe got screwed.
Jan 23, 2016 3:31 AM

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Not a bad episode but it took so long to explain how he won that it almost felt like a recap of the match. Also, the narrator "spoils" the story yet again ;_;
Sep 6, 2016 5:16 PM

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Gotta love those imagine spots.
Oct 26, 2016 3:51 AM

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One of the strongest episodes in anime, and certainly the best Akagi episode thus far. I didn't fully catch everything, and still have only picked up "Hon" or about Half of the complexities of Mahjong including the terminonogies (with the aid of multiple wiki pages open after an hour + research), but even still it was great. Akagi is such a demon. Love him. Perfect complement to Kaiji.
Oct 4, 2017 9:32 PM
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The first half did felt like recap as I didn't knew anything of mahjong. Lastly we got to see Akagi is new Japanese Demon!

Note: Btw I forgot that little boy's name but he looks really weird at the last minute.
Sep 14, 2018 5:32 PM

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Against all odds, the one tile Akagi left on the table happened to match perfectly with Urabe's last tile, making it the deciding move in that really high-stakes game. It's very intimidating to see him completely read his opponent's psychological state through every single gesture he did during the game. Now the guy's hands are crushed and he has millions in debt but it's either him or Akagi and no one wanted that to happen anyway.

He's on a streak so it won't be a surprise if he keeps betting higher and higher in riskier backgrounds.








Sep 21, 2018 11:45 PM

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I actually liked Urabe, but knew he'd lose. Akagi was crazy at the end, loved it. I think I know who's coming up next (didn't watch the preview, though, of course)!
Apr 15, 2020 8:31 PM

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This series is fucking insane! I don't know shit about mahjong yet I'm liking it more than Kaiji (not accounting for recency bias ofc)

Actually lol'd during the moment when Akagi's 2pin was revealed and Urabe's face got blurry and was twisted for like half a sec lollll
Jul 22, 2020 5:10 PM

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Jesus fucking christ funny how having a death wish looks like a crazy thing to do, but only in akagi's eyes its the most logical and reasonable thing to do... to truly experience what life is about. Self indulgence at its truest core.

Behold of my awesomeness~
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But my feels.
May 13, 9:37 AM
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Akagi revealed the basis of his playing this episode, you have to understand your opponent to their most primal instincts. I will give it to him, he is a really smart guy able to pay attention to so many details and remember them all, but if there is one thing I understood this time, is that he doesn't play the board, he plays the players.

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