Saki

The easiest way to describe this anime is:
Lesbians playing mahjong using supernatural powers. It may sound stupid, but that's because it is.

Well, I can't really blame this anime for the fanservice and all that, because it's supposed to be moe, and it kinda is, while I thought the story was stupid, the only good thing about it was the ending which was ok, but still watching this anime was just dreadful and I dropped it after the 2nd ep., but I have heard from a friend some stuff about it, it seems there's a girl who plays better in mahjong when there's a full moon, ... I laughed at the absurdity of that, anime isn't all about realism, but that's just stupid. There's also the taco girl, who can't play mahjong unless she eats tacos, now, I'm okay with that, because it's not something like "playing in a full moon", instead it's like a running gag so that's okay, also, I like the character design and the art, but everything else is just flat out stupid, if you wanna watch some moe, I recommend you go watch K-ON and skip this piece of ****

Then again, this is my opinion, if you want to watch this abomination, be my guest, you might even like it, but not me.

I started watching this anime because i wanted to watch another mahjong anime as the only one i've watched before was "Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai". I have to say I'm disappointed in this anime.
This review is solely based on the first season of Saki as i never watched the sequel nor do i plan on watching them.

Plot - 4
I think this is a very average kind of plot and not really unique in any sense, i was hoping that since Saki always gets a score of ±0, it would make the plot more interesting but overall its kind of average. The fact ... that the anime doesn't really explain the basics of mahjong makes me rate this plot lower than average though. People that don't have prior knowledge to mahjong are probably going to have no clue how this game works. In addition, although the anime is about mahjong it seems like they focus more on character relationships than they really do with the mahjong.

Character - 4
I don't actually see a character development inside this anime. It more like there's a strong opponent and they just end up beating them by using the same moves as they previously did.

Art - 6
Usually, i am really picky with art so i tend to rate it hard. The art in this anime wasn't beautifully eye catching to me nor was it ugly.

Enjoyment - 1
I came here to watch a mahjong anime but it seemed more like i was watching a shoujo ai (girl love) anime. This anime has a lot of girl love moments, i have to say there's like at least one "lovey dovey" moment in each episode. The anime also had quite a bit of fanservice, two things that i don't really enjoy watching.

Overall - 3
- Quite a bit of shoujo ai (even though its not tagged) and fanservice. - Doesn't really explain how to play mahjong
- Characters don't really develop

Yet another "cute girls doing cute things" animu. This time it's mahjong. It's a "4-way battle" to head to the nationals and such. And the focus is mainly on cute school girls. Oh yeah; some of [the better players] have weird powers when they play.

This series is mainly about Saki, Nodoka (who looks like a cross between Lucky*Star's Kagami and Miyuki) and their teammates. It's about the other characters and other teams as well...

But hey. I'm here to KILL this animu and receive "not helpful at all" points for being honest.

* The CRAP treatment of one Kyoutaro Suga
* Rie Kugimiya's "mini-b####" return as one Yuuki ... Kataoka
* "Magical Skirts" and thereby the lack of "panty shots"
* The high amount of lesbianism
* The LOW amount of "straight parings" (if you can call Kyoutaro and that loli-looking Yuuka an actual "pair")

It ain't worth watching if you want something more or other than CGDCT. And I'll NEVER trust the animu industry to make a mahjong anime where men and women are on equal footing (without turning it into "for the lulz" / "women always win" comedy).

I still remember that time when some important Japanese person stated how popular that anime [was]; it was all over ANN. My teeth hurt every time I remember it.