赌博默示录

故事从一艘黑夜中的赌船开始……男主角，伊藤开司，浑浑噩噩，一事无成，因为好心替人做了担保而背负上了数百万债务。为偿还欠款，开司接受怂恿上了一艘名为“希望之船”的渡轮，为的是参加一次神秘赌局，一旦获胜，就能将欠款一笔勾销。上到贼船后开司才发现，参与者多是如自己一般的失败青年。然后主办方便开出了赌局的规则：参与者须以标着“石头，剪刀，布”的扑克为道具，夺取对手身上的星星标志，赌局结束时，扑克牌未用完或星星少于三颗者将失去资格，而参赛初所能向主办方借贷的巨款，也成为让他们盈利或逃生的重要因素……Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps-that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell-thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit. Based on the first entry of the famous gambling manga series by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor follows our unlucky protagonist as he is forced to fight not only other people, but also the mysteries of their psyches. Kaiji finds out the hard way that the worst sides of human nature surface when people's backs are against the wall, and that the most fearsome dangers of all are greed, paranoia, and the human survival instinct itself.