Alternative TitlesEnglish: Saki - Episode of Side A Japanese: 咲-Saki-阿知賀編 episode of side-A
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 9, 2012 to Jul 2, 2012
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 7.371 (scored by 4448 users)
Ranked: #17512
Popularity: #1368
Members: 10,897
Favorites: 47 1 indicates a weighted score
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Both are about meeting up with an old friend at a national tournament for a game.
Main characters of both series aim to reunite with their friends in national tournaments of karuta and mahjong, respectively.
- Both stories/plot focuses on their clubs related to their sport/game.
- The group aspires to improve and aim higher and go on training camps for that purpose.
- Both animes are trying to reach the nationals to reunite and face their old friends again.
Group of friends participating in competitions trying to be the best in a certain game. They form a school club used for training and also to find new members to help with their goal.
+Both have Game genre.
+Both have clubs for games.
Game shows that make us discover great Japanese games such as mahjong (Saki) and karuta (Chihayafuru). I do like Chihayafuru the best, because the plot is far more elaborated, the characters are older, and the general atmosphere is more "serious". Also, you can't really expect to understand rules of mahjong watching Saki, while Chihaya can be watched and enjoyed even if you don't know what karuta is, as it is well explained. I ended up liking karuta after I watched Chihaya, but after 5 episodes of Saki I still don't get a thing about mahjong.
- Both stories/plot focuses on their clubs related to their sport/game.
- The group aspires to improve and aim higher and go on training camps for that purpose.
- Both animes are trying to reach the nationals to reunite and face their old friends again.
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Young girls that are reunited in a club (music in K-On!, mahjong in Saki), doing their best to fulfill their great ambitions. In Saki, though, they are more serious about it, really dedicating to mahjong in order to win tournaments (that they start right in the beginning of the series), while K-On!'s atmosphere is more light, and the girls are more doing for fun, even if their final goal is just as ambitious.
I think that K-On! is far more developed and has more lovable characters, and of course the music helps a lot, but if you like the genre you might enjoy Saki as well.
After the first episode it literally reminded me of K-On, because Saki and K-On have a group of girls trying to revive a club with an incredible past. Both have a specific goal to accomplish when they start their clubs (K-On perform at the school festival, and Saki make it into the mahjong tournament).
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+Both have many loli girls and cute girls.
+Both have a game/Sports .
+Both have a guide to teach them game.
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- Both stories/plot focuses on their clubs related to their sport/game.
- The group aspires to improve and aim higher and go on training camps for that purpose.
- Both animes are trying to reach the nationals to reunite and face their old friends again.
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The main character enters the new school and starts a club/group that was long dead, and tries to recruit/get members (new and old) to revive it again.
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While Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A goes more for moe and light-hearted story, and Akagi has a dark and seemingly dangerous story, both of them revolve around that one major element: Mahjong. If you're itching for some more Mahjong, this series is the way to go.
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Hikaru no Go is an anime that follows young players of Go. It is silly, epic, and makes Go seem like one of the most intense games on the planet (slightly exaggerated).
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Both animes have highschool girls that tries to recruit enough members to create a club, and has a story that is mainly centered around them, but Saki Achiga-hen is more of a serious sports club while Yuru Yuri is only a "Slice of Life" type of anime and their club is more lighthearted.
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