This year's ninth issue of Kodansha 's Young Magazine is announcing on Monday that a second television anime series based on Nobuyuki Fukumoto 's gambling manga Kaiji will premiere on April 5 at 24:59 (effectively April 6 at 12:59 a.m.) The second anime series will air on the NTV network three years after the first anime aired. The new anime will adapt the "Chika Chinchiro" and "Pachinko Numa " stories from the Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji manga series, which ran from 2000 to 2004.

The Joost website had streamed the 2007-2008 television anime series in the United States. The manga also inspired a 2009 live-action film with director Tōya Satō and Death Note star Tatsuya Fujiwara as the title gambler. That film has a sequel in the works for this year.

There have been three manga sequels since the original 1996-1999 Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji manga series ran in Young Magazine , including the ongoing Tobaku Datenshi-Roku Kaiji Kazuya-Hen . A second Kaiji pachinko machine is in the works, and the fifth book volume of the Kazuya-Hen series will ship on February 4.

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Update: More background and story information added.