 A scene depicting Kaiji throwing himself into large-stakes gambling by symbolically drawing him into a rushing torrent of water, was replaced due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred midway through the anime's production (Fukumoto donated 30 million yen (US$360,000) to the quake victims).The 26 episodes were collected into nine DVDs released by VAP between June 22, 2011 and February 22, 2012.VAP also re-released all the episodes on two DVD box sets on September 21, 2011 and February 22, 2012.