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On Saki, Competitive Anime, and Kaiji

by Moonlily on Oct.22, 2009, under Anime

Saki: AKA Mahjong between lesbians with superpowers.

Saki: AKA Mahjong between lesbians with superpowers.


Just this past weekend, I finished the moe mahjong series Saki and if there was one thing that struck me about that show, it was how predictable it was. To illustrate that point, when a friend let me know that an individual tournament was about to begin and asked me to predict the winners, I rattled off the names of all three winners accurately. My reasoning at the time was that two of the characters were instrumental to the story while the third is a major fan-favorite and I suppose that the producer or manga artist felt the same way so to ensure the goal of a cohesive, friendship-bound story as well as attracting eyeballs, they are allowed to move on. If it were up to me, I’d have the trio of Hisa, scrub/noob-chan (mostly for sheer irony), and Stealth Momo advance, but I digress. (continue reading…)

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