is a Japanese

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

and

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

series, with its concept created by

Kazuhiro Fujita is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' in 1989. He is most famous for the manga ''Ushio & Tora'', for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1 ...

. The manga series, written and illustrated by , was published in

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hit ...

's ''

Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, ...

'' from March 2006 to April 2007, with its chapters collected in five ''

tankōbon is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or cultur ...

'' volumes. In North America,

Viz Media VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ M ...

published it in English in 2009. The 51-episode anime television series directed by

Hiroshi Negishi Hiroshi Negishi (ねぎしひろし, born June 20, 1960) is a Japanese anime director who got his start at Toei Animation, then join Tatsunoko Production and AIC and later became one of the founders of anime studios Zero-G Room (in 1991) and Ra ...

and produced by

Radix Ace Entertainment was a Japanese animation studio closed on October 1, 2006. The studio was formed on September 3, 2001 from a Mergers and acquisitions, merger between Radix (founded on December 6, 1995) and Zero-G Room (founded on September 11, 1991). Much of th ...

was broadcast in Japan on

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...

from April 2006 to March 2007. It was the last series to be produced by the company right before it was defunct.

Plot

Sanshiro Tamon's chances of having an adventure are slim to none in his tiny island hometown, until the day a mysterious stranger named Fue invites him to play a game. Sanshiro is taken to a backwards universe to play BakéGyamon, a game pitting monsters against monsters. Along the way he meets other players who have a particular reason for being there; to obtain the wish that is granted to the winner.

Media

Manga

''BakéGyamon'' concept was created by

and the manga was written and illustrated by Mitsuhisa Tamura. It was serialized in

's ''

'' from March 15, 2006 to April 4, 2007. Shogakukan collected its chapters in five ''

'' volumes, released from June 16, 2006 to May 18, 2007. In North America, the manga was licensed by

in 2008, and published it as ''BakéGyamon: Backwards Game''. The five volumes were released from March 3 to December 1, 2009.

Chuang Yi Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd. ( zh, s=创艺出版社) was a publishing company based in Singapore that specialized in producing domestic and imported comics and comics-related merchandise in English and simplified Chinese. Chuang Yi distributed ...

published the manga in English in Singapore. In France Sakka published the manga.

Volume list

Anime

A 51-episode

television series directed by

and produced by

was broadcast in Japan on

from April 3, 2006 to March 26, 2007.

Video game

Nintendo DS The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tan ...

3D fighting game was published by

Takara Tomy is a Japanese entertainment company that makes children's toys and merchandise. It was created from a merger on March 1st 2006 of two companies: Tomy (founded in 1924 as Tomiyama, changing the name to Tomy in 1963) and long-time rival Tak ...

on March 1, 2007 in Japan.

References

External links

''BakéGyamon'' official anime website at TV Tokyo
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