Shigeru Akagi

Shigeru Akagi is the main protagonist from the Mahjong Legend Akagi series.
== Charactah Account ==
An enigmatic young man who interrupts the yakuza during a game of mahjong one rainy night and quickly gains a reputation in the underground world for his borderline supernatural skill and luck.
Akagi in all iterations is a cold, calculating individual who will risk anything and everything if he feels he will win. Akagi has a photographic memory and has incredible ability to calculate and deduce probabilities He cares deeply about his individuality and living life his own way, and will not cave in to others' demands or expectations at all if they go against his own will. He has astounding luck and intuition as well as a high level of intelligence, and his preferred method of victory is to play against what his opponents expect him to do to ensure they see him as unpredictable. He has been seen to want the stakes of all ends of a bet to have equal chances of "being ruined" or "being killed", disregarding his own life and well-being if it contributes to the game itself.
Despite this, he has shown consideration and concern for Osamu after the latter begins to tag along within the three year timeskip following Akagi's match with Washizu Iwao. A few times over the course of chapters three-hundred to the latest chapter, he has repeatedly tried to convince Osamu to turn away and get a normal life as not to get involved, though it can be argued that he did this for the sake of preferring to be alone and trying to make it so. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Mahjong Legend Akagi: The Genius Who Descended Into the Darkness
=== Manga ===
* Mahjong Legend Akagi
* Mahjong Legend Akagi: Zawa... Zawa... Anthology
* Ten: A Boy On Tenwa Street
=== Video Games ===
* Akagi: Yami ni Furitatta Tensai
* Mahjong Legend Akagi: The Genius Who Descended Into the Darkness
== Trivia ==
* Fukumoto says he is "the ideal male figure" and "a spiritual being."
* His last name was taken from Keiichirou Akagi, the late actor who carried a cool image. The name Shigeru was chosen simply because it felt like a good fit.
* In the V-Cinema film adaptations, Shigeru is 17 years old in 1958, making 1941 his presumed birth year in that continuity, and has black hair.
* In an interview with "Weekly Shonen ___" in 2003, when asked who is the best gambler in Fukumoto's works, Fukumoto replied that "it's either Akagi Shigeru or Ten."
* On September 27, 2009, the tenth anniversary of his death, a memorial service for the opening of the Akagi tombstone was hosted by Takeshobo. After the memorial service, the tombstone was displayed at Bar Scarab in Kichijouji, Musashino, and for a limited period of time, from April 1, 2010, at the Mahjong Museum in Misaki, Isumi District, Chiba Prefecture. The tombstone was then permanently displayed inside the bar SurpasS (closed) in Kichijouji, and as of July 2015, it is currently on permanent display at the Hungry Boy restaurant in Yokosuka.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shigeru Akagi at Mahjong Legend Akagi Wiki
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