Trillion Game #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTrillion Game Vol. 4 (Viz Media, March 2025) is the fourth English-language installment of a series that won the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2024 — the same cycle that honored Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — marking it as one of the most critically validated seinen manga of its generation. The volume deepens the Dragon Bank arc by pushing Gaku's hacking subplot into direct, morally ambiguous personal territory with Kirihime, a pivot that crystallizes the series' signature move of fusing Silicon Valley-style corporate warfare with interpersonal stakes. Published while the Madhouse anime adaptation (October 2024–March 2025) was still airing its final episodes, this volume arrived at the peak of the franchise's multimedia footprint in the West. It also represents a key chapter in Viz Media's ongoing effort to bring Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior catalog — historically underrepresented in North American shelves — to English-speaking seinen readers.
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Trillion Game was created by writer Riichiro Inagaki (Eyeshield 21, Dr. Stone) and veteran artist Ryoichi Ikegami (Crying Freeman, Sanctuary, Heat), who had first collaborated on the one-shot Kobushi Zamurai in Big Comic Superior in 2015 before committing to this full series, which began serialization there in December 2020. Inagaki has stated the core concept — young men building a business empire from nothing — dates back to ideas he first developed in his school years, finally realized here as his first series in a seinen magazine rather than Weekly Shonen Jump. Viz Media announced its North American license in February 2024 and began releasing English volumes quarterly from September 2024 onward, with Vol. 4 arriving in March 2025 as part of that rapid rollout schedule. The series ran until December 2025 in Japan, concluding at approximately 87 chapters across 11 tankōbon volumes.
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- Written by Riichiro Inagaki (Eyeshield 21, Dr. Stone) and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami (Crying Freeman, Sanctuary); translated into English by Stephen Paul.
- Published by Viz Media in North America on March 18, 2025 (ISBN 9781974752140); 200 pages; rated Mature Readers.
- Vol. 4 is the fourth of Viz Media's quarterly English releases, which began with Vol. 1 on September 17, 2024 — part of a rapid rollout of the full series.
- Volume plot: Gaku escalates his conflict with Dragon Bank by hacking into its servers to steal future game plans; the arc turns personal when rival Kirihime (Kirika Kokuryū) invites him on a theme park date, blurring the line between corporate enemy and potential ally.
- Kirihime (Kirika Kokuryū) — the brilliant but arrogant board director of Dragon Bank and daughter of its president — is a central antagonist/anti-hero whose obsession with Haru and Gaku drives much of the tension in this arc.
- The parent manga won the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2024, sharing the honor with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and The Elusive Samurai.
- The series spawned a 26-episode anime produced by Madhouse (October 2024–March 2025, streaming on Crunchyroll with English dub), a TBS live-action drama (2023, later on Netflix worldwide), and a live-action theatrical film sequel (February 14, 2025) — all active or recently concluded when this volume shipped.
- Ryoichi Ikegami, born 1944, was 80 years old at time of this volume's publication; he received the Fauves d'Honneur lifetime achievement award at the 2023 Angoulême International Comics Festival, making Trillion Game the capstone work of a six-decade career.
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