Friday, March 4, 2011

Saki

Anime Review
SakiGenre mahjong, school life

Plot

Saki Miyanaga, a high school first-year student, hates mahjong because her family would always force her to play it and punish her regardless of the outcome of the game. Due to this, she learned how to keep her score at zero, neither winning nor losing. However, her friend Kyōtarō from middle school convinces her to join the school's mahjong club upon entering into high school. After the club discovers her ability, they recruit her and convince her to win instead of breaking even. She easily does so with her skill, leading the team to enter a mahjong tournament so that its members may reach the national competitions.
Saki Miyanaga, a high school first-year student, hates mahjong because her family would always force her to play it and punish her regardless of the outcome of the game. Due to this, she learned how to keep her score at zero, neither winning nor losing. However, her friend Kyōtarō from middle school convinces her to join the school's mahjong club upon entering into high school. After the club discovers her ability, they recruit her and convince her to win instead of breaking even. She easily does so with her skill, leading the team to enter a mahjong tournament so that its members may reach the national competitions.

Characters


Kiyosumi High School

Saki Miyanaga (宮永 咲 Miyanaga Saki?)
Voiced by: Kana Ueda
Saki Miyanaga is a high school first-year student and is the titular character of the story. She initially joins the mahjong club so she can reach the Nationals to see her sister, a top-ranked professional mahjong player.[1] She is notorious for her ability to score zero points every round.[2] Her skill primarily comes from her ability to read her opponents and their tiles to see the flow of the game.[3] A mahjong move she favors most is rinshan kaihō. At the mahjong tournament, she is made the captain of the team.[4]
Nodoka Haramura (原村 和 Haramura Nodoka?)
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu
Nodoka Haramura is a high school first-year student who attends the same school as Saki and is a member of the mahjong club. She was the previous year's National Middle School Individual Champion.[5] Nodoka always carries her penguin doll, affectionately named Etopen, to give her a sense of calmness when playing mahjong. Her skill, in comparison to Saki's, comes from practicing via online mahjong. [3]. She has an ability where she views mahjong tables digitally; this ability ignores other player's presences in the game, giving her an edge against players with an ability to manipulate presence. At the mahjong tournament, she is the vice-captain of the team.[4] Her nickname is "Nodocchi" after her play style, quickly and efficiently racking up points as fast as possible.[6]
Yūki Kataoka (片岡 優希 Kataoka Yūki?)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Yūki is a high school first-year student who attends the same school as Saki and is a member of the mahjong club. She is highly skilled, though cannot stay focused and makes more mistakes as the game progresses,[7] so she is made the first to play at the mahjong tournament. She is often seen eating tacos, which increases her skill when playing mahjong.[8] Additionally, food with names similar to tacos, like takoyaki can increase her skill partially as well.[9]
Hisa Takei (竹井 久 Takei Hisa?)
Voiced by: Shizuka Itō
Hisa is the leader of the mahjong club, and the President of the school's Student Congress. Although she does not possess any special ability, her mahjong skills makes up for it. Her main tactic is to hold out until she is waiting for tiles with bad odds, where she feels she has the best chance of winning; Nodoka disapproves of this. She is formerly known as Hisa Ueno.
Mako Someya (染谷 まこ Someya Mako?)
Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi
Mako is Hisa's friend, and is also a member of the mahjong club. She grew up near a family owned mahjong parlor, and when she takes her glasses off when playing, she can remember past games she's witnessed to help her win.
Kyōtarō Suga (須賀 京太郎 Suga Kyōtarō?)
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama
Kyōtarō is Saki's male friend who joined the mahjong club before her. He has a crush on Nodoka.
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