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
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Alternative TitlesJapanese: 咲-Saki- More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 3, 2006 to ?
Genre:
Slice of Life
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Young Gangan Authors:
Kobayashi, Ritz (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #19492 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2076
Members: 10,183
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Your Feelings Categories Jul 7, 2019
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
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 ... Jul 30, 2022
I’ll be honest here, I only came to read the manga for the tits. I was looking at this like a hentia, but I thought, “Maybe the story will keep me here.” It didn’t.
Characters, pretty boring. Saki just hates Majong because she would lose money when she lost and make her family member mad when she won. So she decided to always achieve a 0 score to ensure no lose or money or angering family members. Overall a good reason to hate the game and get good at it, in my opinion. But that’s where praise ends. Everything else is whatever, characters don’t have any ... |