Also known as the episode with an excessive lack of both mahjong and monocles. Not sure if I’m joking when I say the quality of this show in my eyes is dependent on how often that monocle character appears. But anyways, another episode of Saki, and another day of wondering if I was lucky or [...]
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It seems Yuusuke got an idea that the girls are witches or something. After the shenanigans Yuka and Rinko pulled in the last episode, it seems that Saki and Natsumi finally got back together. However, it’s not without any consequences.  I simply laughed when the two pulled the same wish of sticking two people together, [...]
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It seems Yuusuke got an idea that the girls are witches or something. After the shenanigans Yuka and Rinko pulled in the last episode, it seems that Saki and Natsumi finally got back together. However, it’s not without any consequences.  I simply laughed when the two pulled the same wish of sticking two people together, [...]
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On Thursday Viz Media, for part of their Shoujo Beat imprint, obtained the license for Io Sakisaka’s Strobe Edge and Mayu Shinjo’s Demon Love Spell. Both titles are expected to be available for print sometime this year. Io Sakisaka’s Strobe Edge, which is serialized in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Magazine, yields this description: “Ninako Kinoshita has never … Continue reading »
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Written by: Epi at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogI would have had this review out earlier, but my hard drive decided to die on me, thus deleting my entire archive. Had to redownload everything unfortunately… Background: When Saki was released in spring 2009, I was one of those who immediately fell in love with the show and followed it religiously. With a near [...]
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Written by: Epi at Sea Slugs! Anime BlogI would have had this review out earlier, but my hard drive decided to die on me, thus deleting my entire archive. Had to redownload everything unfortunately… Background: When Saki was released in spring 2009, I was one of those who immediately fell in love with the show and followed it religiously. With a near [...]
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It appears to have been too presumptuous to believe pink haired Nodoka had the most grandiose oppai of the Saki universe as a magazine reveals that in fact, a blue haired megane girl will arrive to take that honor.
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With the seasons passing by, Achiga Mahjong club start gathering their next team members to get ready for the inter high tournament —————————————————————————————————- In search of a fourth member, Kuro brings the other 2 to her house to meet her sister who’s under a kotatsu, even though it’s summer. This is their potential fourth member [...]
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Since the aniblogosphere is saturated with story movement-oriented episodic blog posts, I’ll try to cover the other aspects of Saki: Achiga-hen. The anime took yet another orthodox approach for its second episode – going for yet another by-the-books adaptation of … Continue reading →
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Yes, girls. I can.[[MORE]] The girls has rebuilt the Mahjong Club in am ission to compete in the inter-collegiates/nationals/etc. Shizuru Fujino Akado’s still reminded of the past. Is that too much that you can’t move on? Shizuno has the nyan~ They started playing again. Akado tries to recover from the trauma. …and I almost forgot to take note that Madoka didn’t just met Nina Wáng, but the other half of ShizNat too. Rating: +++
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Back with the first two episodes of the Spring 2012 series, Saki:Achiga-hen Episode of Side A (for future ease, I’ll just refer to it as “Saki”). Saki follows the story of Shizuno, Ako, and Nodoka as they become friends playing … Continue reading →
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After a period of hiatus, Achiga Girls Academy has a mahjong club again!  Well, kind of, assuming said club can find the requisite five members to officially become one. Thankfully, and compared to a lot of shows of this ilk, finding those five members turns out to be really rather simple.  With hizuno and Ako already on board and joined by Kuro, only two more members are required, and before we
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Otaku have managed to solve the mystery of the missing pantsu regarding Saki episode of side A's heroine, a cute loli named Shizuno who seemed to wear nothing but a jersey - as it turns out, that is exactly the case.
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Initial impression – pleasing, but lacking impact (5/10) Spring 2012 (12 episodes) (more info) While I think Saki is nice, I’m not sure what else I can say about it.  I know next to nothing about mahjong and I find it hard to swallow the idea that there’s a large enough community of players in [...]
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Director Ono Manabu (Saki, A-Channel, Horizon) has assembled another interesting cast for the second Saki anime. As before, he is mixing some top names with many young and minor seiyuus.But this time, most of the top names are young, too: Yuuki Aoi, Hanazawa Kana, Touyama Nao, Mako. Then we get into lesser-known young seiyuu, such as the wonderful Ishihara Kaori, her singing partner Ogura Yui, and lots of newer names.I have made a page showing pics of the main characters and their seiyuus, with a bit of info about each seiyuu. Click here or on the image to go to the full page.As with the previous Saki, I will have to keep up as the Achiga girls make their way through the tournaments, with new teams to face as they go along.
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The team is assembled! This week’s episode brings together all of the main characters for the Mahjong Club. First off, we have Yuu, Kuro’s older sister who gets cold even in the summer. And finishing it off, we have Sagimori Arata, a pretty big fan of Harue who decides to join after hearing that Harue [...]
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Saki's crew of five leading heroines are in the limelight as otaku have come to realize that Saki is a series where every single character is cute - these five in particular catering to quite a few assorted fetishes.
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「始動」 (Shidou) "Beginning" Now it's time to get a team together! This is going to be a long and arduous process, but with time I'm sure they will--erh, wait. They found them all already? Well...on with the tournament!
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Continuing the tale of lolis and mahjong, second spectacle of Saki's "episode of side A" shows our lolis as they manage to make a full five person team - even receiving a sixth unexpected member as coach.
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Last week was a most enjoyable introduction as we met the 3 initial members of the Dream Team. This week we’ll meet the final 2 members and their coach as the quest for the Nationals begins. The quest for the 2 new members begins with Kuro (I thought her first name was Matsumi) “The Gourmet” [...]
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