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Saki

Alternative Titles

Japanese: 咲-Saki-
English: Saki
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 3, 2006 to ?
Genre: Slice of Life Slice of Life
Themes: School School, Strategy Game Strategy Game
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Gangan
Authors: Kobayashi, Ritz (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.661 (scored by 27122,712 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #19372
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2076
Members: 10,182
Favorites: 403

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Synopsis

Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn't like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year's gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she's learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she's being dragged to her school's mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment?

(Source: MU)

Background

Saki has been digitally published in English by Yen Press since December 29, 2015.

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Reviews

Sep 2, 2011
Preliminary (108/? eps)
Ritz Kobayashi's mahjong manga is a relatively simple concept that has been executed well. The title character Saki Miyanaga is a genius player whose ability to manipulate her own score develops from being bullied while playing with members of her family. Despite her hatred for the game, Saki is drawn into her high school's mahjong club and soon aims to help take the club to the national tournament in order to reunite with her older sister who is member of the reigning national team champion.

Artistically, Saki is very clean and easy on the eye. The art does not occupy the reader with individual detailed panels ...
Jul 7, 2019
pgp
Preliminary (101/? eps)
I tried to like Saki, I really did.

I'm a sucker for mahjong manga and will gobble up anything to satisfy my passion for it, but this manga is just unreadable.

For starters, the characters:
the titular character, Saki, is extremely boring and there is very little to like about her. She has near no personality, and is either frustrating to watch when she decides not to win on purpose, or very boring when she just wins by virtue of being the main character. Everyone acts like she's a genius for scoring big wins but we never get much insight into her strategy or logic. She's not built ...
Oct 25, 2023
Preliminary (266/? eps)
Saki is like a case study in how to make a manga fall apart completely. The first ~8 volumes or so (which correlate roughly to the first season of the anime) are amazing, an easy 9 out of 10. After that it goes downhill fast though, and at some point the art & writing just fall of a damn cliff and eventually it feels like the story barely takes place in the same world as it started anymore.

It's a true shame because had you asked me 10 years ago I would have recommended this to just about anyone based on where it was at ...

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