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Kaiji Film Site Recreates Manga's Pachinko Numa Game

The official website for November 5's Kaiji 2 - Jinsei Dakkai Game film launched a recreation of "Monster Machine Numa," a fictional version of the Japanese pachinko game of chance, on Thursday.

Like the second television anime series, the second film adapts Nobuyuki Fukumoto's original Kaiji gambling manga's "Pachinko Numa" ("Panchinko The Bog") storyline about this nearly impossible game. However, visitors can only access the Numa game by collecting five special pachinko balls worth 4,000 yen (about US$50, or 1,000 times what regular pachinko balls are worth).

To activate the game, enter the website and select the "About the Movie" button. As the data loads, the title character Kaiji (played by Death Note's Tatsuya Fujiwara) explains the premise of the second film via text. Once the game data is loaded, select the "Next" button twice to see the revamped main menu. To get all five pachinko balls, go to each of these sections: Introduction, Story, Cast, Staff, and Production Note. (Select the "Menu" button after each section.)

Collecting all the balls will bring up the 10-million-yen (US$130,000) player's card. The "Site Top" button now opens the main page with a new "Enter the '沼'" button. Pressing and holding the red trigger button launches balls into the machine until the "Croon" stage opens. The balls has to fall through the right holes in three Croon trays to win the game.

There have been three manga sequels since the original 1996-1999 Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji manga series ran in Kodansha's Young Magazine, including the ongoing Tobaku Datenshi-Roku Kaiji Kazuya-Hen. Tōya Satō directed both manga-based live-action films starring Furuya. The Joost website had streamed the first television anime series in the United States.

[Via Gigazine]

Image © Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Kodansha/2011 Kaiji 2 Production Committee