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 ...

Genius gambler Shigeru Akagi competes with members of the mafia in mahjong.

Hiroki Shitara, a freelance writer for a weekly magazine, and Makoto Tsutsui, a TV news program director meet at the scene of a serial murder case in Tokyo and become attracted to each other as they cover the case together. However, as suspicions begin to surface about Hiroki, Makoto is conflicted about whether or not she should believe him.

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in love.

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.