Saki

Synopsis

Saki tells the story of a girl's mental and emotional growth as she and her fellow teammates battle fearsome rivals, all gunning for the national high school mahjong tournament, and is a cross between sports action and high school drama.

First Air Date: 2009-04-06

Last Air Date: 2014-04-07

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 38

Networks: TV Tokyo

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Top Cast

Kana Ueda as Saki Miyanaga (voice)
Ami Koshimizu as Nodoka Haramura (voice)
Rie Kugimiya as Yuki Kataoka (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi as Mako Someya (voice)
Shizuka Itoh as Hisa Takei (voice)

Seasons

Specials (2009) - (8 Episodes)

Saki (2009) - (25 Episodes)

Saki: The Nationals (2014) - (13 Episodes)

Specials (2009)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Picture Drama 1 (2009-07-15)

Nodoka Haramura, Yuuki Kataoka, and Saki Miyanaga go back to the baths to see a shooting star. After Saki leaves to go get some milk, Nodoka and Yuuki begin discussing various things like how the began playing mahjong. Things start to take a turn as Yuuki begins sexually harrassing Nodoka. This situation makes Nodoka accidentally reveal that she is falling in love with Saki.
Ep. 2: Picture Drama 2 (2009-08-19)

Miharu Yoshitome recounts her first days in Kazekoshi's mahjong club. She had to work hard to get into Kazekoshi and join the mahjong club. When the first years were having a competition, she met Kana Ikeda and greatly admired her. Later during a match, Mihoko Fukuji notices that something is wrong with Miharu's eyesight.
Ep. 3: Picture Drama 3 (2009-09-02)

Tomoki tells Koromo how Touka recruited her to the Ryuumonbuchi team. Two years prior to the current story line, Touka was looking for recruits to join the mahjong team. Hagiyoshi then suggests a "RTS" online player to fill in the last spot. Touka says that she must play against this person to gauge her strength and spends days online in order to verse her.
Ep. 4: Picture Drama 4 (2009-10-07)

Satomi Kanbara asks the members of Tsuruga's mahjong club to meet up after school. She then pulls up in her van and informs them that they are going to the beach to help bond with one another in preparation for the prefectural tournament.
Ep. 5: Picture Drama 5 (2009-11-04)

After revealing that Kanbara has took a trip with Kaori and Mutsuki to Tokyo, Yumi and Momo decide go on a date together. On the train ride they recount some events prior. Their date consists of playing in the ocean and then staying at an inn.
Ep. 6: Picture Drama 6 (2010-02-03)

Kana asks Mihoko if she can go home early to prepare for her sisters birthday party. Knowing that something is wrong Mihoko asks Miharu where Kana lives and then she visits her. She then helps Kana with her sisters party and later comforts her when she is feeling down.
Ep. 7: Picture Drama 7 (2010-03-03)

Yuuki Kataoka meets Nodoka Haramura to discuss which high school they might enter. Yuuki informs Nodoka that she will enter Kiyosumi because they serve tacos at lunch and hands Nodoka the Kiyosumi pamplet. When Yuuki jokes that she wants to marry Nodoka, Nodoka says same sex marriage is not a bad idea because two girls can make a baby by using IPS technology. When Nodoka and Yuuki hang out together, they glides over Saki Miyanaga, who is considering entering Kiyosumi.
Ep. 8: Carefree Saki (2015-07-25)

Bundled with limited special first edition of the 14th volume of the Saki manga.