The May issue of Takeshobo’s Kindai Mahjong magazine will launch a prequel on Monday of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s Akagi manga by Tomoki Miyoshi and Yoshiaki Seto titled Akagi: Nyūmon no Tōhai Zero.
Fukumoto launched the Akagi manga series in Kindai Mahjong in 1992, and it ran for 27 years.
A second season, titled Akagi “Ryūzaki, Yagi-hen” “Ichikawa-hen” (Akagi “Ryūzaki, Yagi Arc” “Ichikawa Arc”), premiered in October 2017.
The original manga series begins on one stormy night, when Nangō is playing a game of Mahjong with the local yakuza.