Fukumoto Nobuyuki's Kaiji on Hiatus

Hello everyone, it's been a while! As I'm sure many people are wondering, there has not been a new Kaiji chapter posted in quite a long while now. Fukumoto has put Kaiji on Hiatus while he researches information regarding it. Originally this was going to be a 2.5 month hiatus, but it has continued with no new information going on 5 months. As of now there is no word on when Kaiji will return, but we will patiently wait for Kaiji to return. We hope that you will wait patiently with us as well.

Thank you as always for being loyal fans to Kaiji and Fukumoto. Please take care.

New FKMTkrazy translator: Substar!

Hi everyone! It is my pleasure to introduce you to our newest translator, Substar! He is a 2nd-generation Japanese man living in America and he loves Fukumoto and mahjong so we feel he is a great addition to our team and enthusiastically brought him aboard! He will be translating Kaiji alongside Spanish starting at Chapter 408. His work is so similar to Sonickrazy's that it's practically indistinguishable, so I think you all will love having him here and he is very excited himself to be working with us! He is very shy so you probably won't see him in the comments or on discord or anywhere, and he didn't even want to write his own introduction post, but we are super thrilled to have him aboard and think his inclusion will be to the benefit of Fukumoto fans everywhere!

Some old posts have been re-posted

Since it seems like people are still visiting this blog for whatever reason, I just re-published 55 posts that I found particularly noteworthy. Of these, some had particularly meaningful rants, some had interesting information you can't find anywhere else, some were just cute, and I also re-posted all the early posts that explained what was different between the manga and anime of early Kaiji and Akagi. Of note is that I re-posted most of the later Pen-Chan posts since they were all pretty meaningful, and most of the one-shot posts as well since they typically had some kind of philosophy in them. If you would like to read them, you can click the "Archived Post" tag on the right sidebar, otherwise you'll just be seeing my downward spiral into insanity. If you want me to re-publish more posts, please let me know in the comments of this post. That is all, thank you.

I'm a Christian now. Here's why. (Video)

I'm starting to reconsider my decision to quit FKMTkrazy. You guys were right, I did have a mental breakdown when I wrote that post and I was at the end of my rope. I regret saying a lot of the things I said but it's out there now and I can't take it back. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm a Christian now and that's going to take precedence in my life from this moment forward. Allow me to explain.

I QUIT

I disavow the post that was here before. I still quit and I'm still a Christian but I was much too extreme in my reasoning. I am calmer now and I see that I was just too desperate to please God and said a lot of things that I don't believe. Fukumoto is a great writer and while I do still think he's not writing as well as he used to that doesn't mean it's wrong to read his works. I'm sorry for freaking out.

R.I.P. FKMTkrazy Blog, 5/24/11 - 1/22/20

As I'm sure you have already noticed, the vast majority of the posts on this blog have been taken down and reverted to draft status. This is because Takeshobo, the publisher of most of Fukumoto's mahjong manga, issued a DMCA takedown through "Comeso GmbH". We at FKMTkrazy are devastated by this action, and we will be looking into other ways to continue our passion of translating Fukumoto's amazing series, whether through uploading them directly to Mangadex or by utilizing a different platform to announce our releases. But in any event, we cannot use Blogger any longer, meaning the end of our heartfelt blog posts about the series. I personally am worried that it may also jeopardize our ability to scanlate in general, as after the recent suing of Cloudflare by Takeshobo, it seems that they are cracking down on uploads of their series all together. After the takedowns have concluded, I might consider removing the links to the chapters and reposting the posts just for the contents of the blog itself. But it seems it is too dangerous now to continue doing this as we have been for any longer. I am open to suggestions for what we should do now.

No Chapter today

Hey. Just letting everyone know early today that I've been sick all week with a serious cough from breathing in smoke and dust, and I wasn't able to do any work on Kaiji whatsoever. To make matters worse Tambur also woke up this morning with a cat clawing at his face and wound up with a serious injury to his left eye so he might need stitches depending on how bad it is. Hopefully we can recover in time for a release next week but well see. Prayers for Tambur!

...No Kaiji today either...

I'm sorry everyone but we just couldn't get 334 ready on time for a release today. Tatts has his version of the chapter complete so if you need to read it feel free to message him on the Discord and maybe he'll send it to you. But my dad's funeral is today and I wasn't in any state of mind to do any work on it whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I might be heading to rehab for alcohol abuse, if so I'll need a month off since they don't allow access to the internet or any outside communication. We'll see if Denji or Tatts could fill in while I'm gone, or if we'll just have to go on complete hiatus. I love you all, please understand what I'm going through.

One more week...

Just one more week...

No Kaiji this week either

I'm sorry everyone, I'm still reeling from what happened last week and I haven't been able to do any work on the next chapter, and nobody else on our team was able to have it ready for you either. We'll see you next week and hopefully begin work on catching up.

No Kaiji this week

Sonic is dealing with sudden, serious personal matters, so there will not be a Kaiji chapter this week. I may fill in to get a chapter out next week, though I won't guarantee anything because I'm busy as well. Sorry to everyone who was looking forward to it after the events of the previous chapter, but as always we'll catch up eventually.

Sorry guys, no Kaiji this week either

I just got back from a week-long mahjong tournament that took up all my time and I was expecting to get one or both chapters done when I got back but I caught some kind of cold and I've been in bed asleep all day so we're going to have to delay Kaiji again this week. We'll be sure to make up for it with some multi-releases in the coming weeks but for now all I can offer in its place is this cute picture of a sleepy foxy. See you next week.

No Chapter Today

Hello Fukumoto fans. I am writing this today to inform you that there was no Kaiji chapter this week due to Young Magazine itself taking a break, and due to my real life obligations I was unable to finish Chapter 32 of HERO in time for today either. I have the next chapter of Mamiya being sent to me at the moment but all I can do today is promise we will have the next chapter of HERO out soon. Thank you for understanding.

FKMTkrazy will be on The Mahjong Meetup!

Tonight at 9:00 PM PST (4.5 hours from this posting) Crump and I will be on the podcast hosted by Pacific Mahjong League players Dasuke and Frenetic7, The Mahjong Meetup! Come watch!

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament #2

UPDATE: DUE TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MY LIFE ON FRIDAY THIS TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO FRIDAY THE 17th THROUGH SATURDAY THE 18th!! PLEASE ADJUST YOUR AVAILABILITY ACCORDINGLY! THE  DEADLINE FOR SIGNUPS WILL ALSO BE MOVED TO FRIDAY THE 10th!

So in light of our inability to release any chapters at the moment I decided now would be a good time to start the initial stages of our second mahjong tournament! And once again, the prize is a volume of a manga of your choice, translated by yours truly in a timely fashion! However, this time will be a bit different. As I do not have time to translate very many series at once, and considering that Mukoubuchi has already gone well past the 1 volume I promised to translate after last tournament, I will be willing to stop doing Mukoubuchi for a while to translate the manga you choose... IF you can beat me in the tournament!

However, as I kind of wanna keep doing Mukoubuchi, I don't want to just start from the bottom. If you want to win the prize, you'll have to earn the chance to take Mukoubuchi away from me for a while! The chance to win the aforementioned prize will only be given to the three that place the highest in the initial tournament bracket. Those three will then move on to the Championship Round, where they will play against me in a multiple-hanchan finale, where the winner gets the manga of their choice translated! And naturally, I'll be picking mukoubuchi if I win.

Mahjongkrazy Happenings

Hey mahjong fans! Did you know that mahjongkrazy has been releasing new mahjong manga?! Well now you do! I'm here to announce THREE series that are getting releases! Go check them out at "Mahjongkrazy Branch" up there in the top bar! Thanks to Denji and Chuck for keeping releases coming!

First, there's the ever-popular Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, which had a long gap in releases, but that gap has been broken by our resident damn punk, Chuck190! Tetsuya is a manga about post-war japan and the mahjong games that happened around the 1940's, which involved some heavy cheating. Releases done sporadically.

Then, there's Naki no Ryuu, one of the pioneers of the mahjong manga scene, which popularized doing crazy stuff while playing and looking cool doing it. It stars a guy named Ryuu who plays for Yakuza in high-stakes mahjong games, and plays in a way that defies explanation. Released every friday.

Finally, I'm doing a manga called Mukoubuchi, a tale of high-stakes underground mahjong. The 1980's saw a big economic bubble that led to high stakes games unlike anything the world had ever seen. And in it, a man some call Kai lives as a Mukoubuchi, a lone-wolf gambler that lives off high-stakes games. Terribly sorry, but releases will only be every other monday.

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament Bracket!

Hi everyone! The FKMTkrazy mahjong tournament is now all planned and ready to go! You can view the full bracket here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1clDjrvjEvlBeSVT8RAxzAd2NE1CUz-yyRJi-yYe0xz4/edit?usp=sharing

The tournament will be held in this lobby: http://tenhou.net/0/?C54071867

If there are any adjustments that you want me to make or any mistakes that you catch, please let me know by Thursday so I can fix them and let everyone else know! If you didn't sign up in time for the tournament, we may need some people to fill in in case people don't show up on time. Details on this and other aspects of the tournament below the cut.

FKMTkrazy Mahjong Tournament

Yes, you read it right, FKMTkrazy will be holding its first-ever Mahjong tournament on Friday and Saturday, September 18th - 19th! I originally wanted to have it on the 25th-26th, but the NYC mahjong tournament is being held then and I don't want to have to compete with them. What will the prize be, you ask? The winner of the tournament will receive... the right to choose which manga I translate next!!! But fear not, this will not interfere with our current release schedule. We will still be doing Kaiji as planned each week. More information below the cut.

April Fool's 2015: Akagi Zawa... Zawa... Anthology

So, to continue the tradition we started last year, here's a triple-dose of Akagi "Zawa..." "Zawa..." Anthology! This time, the theme is "Oneshots written by other famous Gambling Mangaka"! A big thanks to Denji for doing the translations for this one, and to Tambur for the ever-stellar typesetting, AND cleaning!

I will not be streaming this Sunday, because I'll be at Sakura-Con Friday-Sunday this week! If you're going, you should stop by the mahjong room and look for a guy with messy red hair and glasses so we can shoot the breeze! There will be a mahjong night this Saturday on the FKMTkrazy IRC, and I will not be there for similar reasons.

Akagi-San, 18
Stripping Apocalypse Akagi
The such-and-so that went down to the beach

Halloween Release: Akagi Musou (Zawa Anthology)

Yes! This halloween, we bring you two tales that put Akagi in the most horrifying situations he has ever faced! Curl up in horror as we take you through moments in which even Akagi himself cannot keep his cool!!

Akagi Musou