Mahjong gambling adaptation set in post-war Japan. While fansubbed, it didn’t really catch on with English speaking fans the way the more recent Fukumoto adaptations seem have done.
HATE FUN 2000! Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
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I happen to be about halfway through this show, and I can tell you it didn’t catch on because it kind of sucks. Akagi creates its suspense with psychological traps, but this show is more about dudes cheating rather than setting each other up. You’d think it would be fun to watch the players out-cheat each other, but the hero is so blandly invincible that there’s neither any suspense nor any tension. Everybody’s impressed as shit by Tetsuya, and he gets called “the best I’ve ever seen” nearly every episode, but the show doesn’t even try to impress that upon the viewer with the guy’s actions.
Still, I keep watching it because I’m learning mahjong, it’s kind of novel, and I want it to get good even though I’m pretty sure it won’t. Hell, the show barely involves any mahjong: it’s not like Akagi where I can go back to the show and follow the hands as they’re played.