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Saki (Manga)

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Saki (Manga)	comment	If you were looking for the author with the pen name Saki, go here.Saki Miyanaga is a freshman at Kiyosumi High School in Nagano Prefecture. On the morning of her first day at tenth-grade, while reading a book on the riverbank, she notices a very beautiful girl pass by, and they briefly make eye contact. During lunch that day, Saki sees her middle-school friend Kyoutarou Suga playing mahjong on his phone, and admits that she has played the game before despite her misgivings. Nevertheless, Kyoutarou drags her with him to the Mahjong Club, which is short on members. There Saki meets again the same girl she met at the riverbank earlier, Nodoka Haramura, last year's Inter-Middle High National Mahjong Champion. They play a few rounds and Nodoka wins.Hisa Takei, Student Council president and club captain, wakes up from her nap just in time to see the last round, only to notice that Saki wasn't playing to win and was just keeping her score even. She also notices that in all of the previous rounds Saki had also scored Â±0 — something Hisa attributes to sheer luck, extreme skill, or both.The next day Hisa bribes Saki into playing again by offering to lend her of books. This time though, Hisa gives her a handicap that makes her start with fewer points than everyone else — to get Â±0 from there, Saki is thus forced to play to win. Saki does so, in the process rediscovering her love for the game.As she eventually confides to Nodoka, her dislike of mahjong (and her Â±0 style) stems from years of having to bear with a family who were sore losers and arrogant winners. But with Nodoka's encouragement, Saki vows to join the 71st Inter-High National Mahjong Championship, hoping to one day see again her estranged older sister Teru.Saki (å’² -Saki-) is an ongoing 2006 manga written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi under Square Enix's Young Gangan compilation, based around the game of mahjong, with two anime adaptations by GONZO and Studio Gokumi (the latter as Saki: Zenkoku-hen ["The Nationals"]). The anime has been licensed by Crunchyroll and can be viewed for free on their site (unless you're in Japan). There is also a live-action adaptation consisting of four episodes and a TV special, plus a follow-up live-action film. Yen Press is releasing the manga digitally in English.Besides the main manga, Saki also has seven spinoff comics: Achiga-hen -episode of Side A- ("Achiga's Story" / 2011-2013, illustrated by Aguri Igarashi, mangaka of Bamboo Blade), which focuses on Nodoka's childhood friends from Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara Prefecture who are gunning for the Nationals for the first time in ten years, hoping to play with Nodoka again; Biyori (2011-present, illustrated by Saya Kiyoshi) and its follow-up Biyori — Otona no Maki ("Adults' Story"), a pair of 4-koma gag strips focused on the hijinks of the various major teams; Shinohayu -the dawn of age- (2013-present, also illustrated by Igarashi), which focuses on the generation that produced some of the pros of the current timeline — playing idol Hayari Mizuhara, color commentator Risa Noyori, Team Achiga adviser (and alumna) Harue Akado, and multiple-time national champion Sukoya Kokaji, as well as Hayari's old teammates Shino Shiratsuki and Kanna Ishitobi; Toki (2016-present, illustrated by Mekimeki Oukoku), which follows the childhood of Toki Onjouji and Ryuuka Shimidzudani, featuring a lot of girls from Senriyama, Himematsu, and other schools from Osaka; Someya Mako's Mahjong Parlor Food (2019-present, also illustrated by Oukoku), a gourmet manga spinoff centering on Mako's family mahjong parlor-turned-maid cafe where the Kiyosumi girls sometimes practice; and Saki-re: KING'S TILE DRAW (2020-present, illustrated by Sakurako Gokurakuin), a Gender Flip retelling of the main story.Also related to the franchise is a series of one-shot comics, done by Hideki Owada (creator of The Legend of Koizumi and Gundam Sousei), portraying some extremely fictionalized vignettes of series creator Ritz Kobayashi's life, as she tries to track down her deadbeat dad, all the while doing research for the manga she is doing. Both Saya and Aguri join in the fun by the third story.Note: There is also a character sheet for character-specific tropes.See also Fatalizer, another manga by Ritz.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Saki (Manga) / int_1235f055	comment	Last year, Megan Davin of Team Rinkai went the way of the Dirty Coward and targeted a weak player rather than face the fury of Cold Touka. She has since deeply regretted it and desires more than anything to have a second crack at facing Touka and clear her conscience.
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Saki (Manga) / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
Saki (Manga) / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: So far, most of what we know about the Miyanagas is what Saki tells her friends. It's still unclear whether Saki is an Unreliable Expositor, though there are some indications that Saki initially doesn't fully understand how much Teru has distanced herself from her.
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Saki (Manga) / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
Saki (Manga) / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: Saki-Re has zero fanservice compared to its female counterpart, playing itself instead as a straightforward mahjong manga.
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Saki (Manga) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Saki (Manga) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In episode 2, Nodoka's mentions that it is impossible for Saki to get +/- 0 unless someone declares riichi... followed immediately by Yuuki declaring riichi.
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Saki (Manga) / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Saki (Manga) / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Saki, Nodoka, Koromo and Toki would certainly count.
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Saki (Manga) / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Saki (Manga) / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Happens with startling regularity. Ritz will often hype up a team or a player for years, only for the said team or player to crash and burn during their own turn on the table. The following are some of the more glaring examples: Kazekoshi has a membership of at least 78 girls and a reputation as the go-to school for serious mahjong players, and was the six-time Nagano champion until Koromo entered the scene. Come the current Nagano finals, every single member of their team save Kana (and even then whatever points she earned was largely an act of charity from Saki) gets owned. Part of the problem is that Team Kazekoshi plays strictly orthodox mahjong and are flustered when they meet unconventional players (in contrast, during Rounds 2 and 4, where they were pitted against orthodox players, they fared better). Ryuumonbuchi was the team to beat in Nagano, composed of handpicked players that qualified for the Nationals on their first try, including a monster-level player who badly defeated Kazekoshi last year. Apart from Koromo (and to a lesser degree, Hajime), however, its members don't really put much of a show when they actually play, particularly Touka, whose bullheaded insistence at aping Nodoka's style actually does her more harm than good. Shiraitodai was hyped up to be the "final boss" of the Nationals, and the team to beat for Kiyosumi; like Ryuumonbuchi, however, their actual performance has been anything but stellar. Save Teru, who ran away with a 200,000-point lead in the Vanguards' match (and was narrowly kept from going on a rampage by the joint efforts of Kuro, Kirame and Toki), everyone else not only managed to squander that lead, as they had their usual strategies and abilities countered time and again. What's worse, due to Awai's arrogance, Shiraitodai came within a hairsbreadth of actually getting knocked out of the Nationals. So much for defending champions. Senriyama was said to have some of the best point-gatherers in Japan. While both Sera and Hiroko performed decently, everyone else unwittingly sabotaged their chances to eke a win — Toki fell far behind Teru, and Izumi's misplaced pride in her abilities blinded her to the fact that she's easy pickings for the third-years she was pitted against. Ryuuka, in spite of her newfound ability to use some of Toki's future sight, failed to get the points she needed. Eisui, in spite of having a monster player, underperformed badly, with said monster (Komaki) not even performing at 100% due to how, in underestimating their opponents, they arranged the order of deities possessing her from weakest to strongest. This was a big mistake, as the points deficit this caused forced her teammates to scramble for the rest of the quarterfinals, with mixed results: Hatsumi, one of the team's best scorers, was sealed completely during her turn (leaving her to break down in tears inside her Mask of Power), and Kasumi, who's normally a defensive player, was forced to go on the offensive via the One Suit gathering power, in the process leaving her vulnerable to Saki's table manipulation due to how it made everyone's hands easier to predict. Team Kiyosumi's Yuuki seems to fall victim to this in most of her matches — against Jun and Mihoko, against Nanpo, and in all three of her on-screen matches in the Nationals. This is largely the result of most teams putting their aces up as Vanguards (to the point at which the otherwise skilled Team Shindouji focuses on survival), and Yuuki overspecializes in point-farming at the East Wind. From a story perspective, this ensures that Team Kiyosumi will always have to scrape back to victory come the later rounds. Hayari suggests Usuzan is a strong newcomer with high chances of winning the big game, but its first three players lost so many points it seemed questionable whether they'd even make it through the Lieutenants' match, much less recover, and show what ace players Sawaya and Maya, positioned at the very end, can do. Subverted with "Cold Touka", as at first Saki heard there are people who could deal with her in the Nationals. The way Touka describes Nationals-level competition in the last episode of Season 1 implies that Team Ryuumonbuchi never made it too far, and even those who defeated them were no match for the eventual champions. It turns out that last year, Team Rinkai's Megan, who won a match against Touka, avoided direct confrontation with her and dropped a weaker school to zero, prematurely ending the round and avoiding having to go against Koromo (Megan has since deeply regretted such a cowardly action).
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Saki (Manga) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Saki (Manga) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Nary a harsh feeling from the lambasted. Represented best by Team Tsuruga's Yumi, who even provided data of potential Nationals opponents for Team Kiyosumi, which she spent months collecting, and continued doing so after losing. Averted with Shiraitodai's Awai, who swore eternal revenge to Shizuno for beating her during the National Semi-final match.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Saki (Manga) / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery During the Nagano finals, Kana didn't even give Saki a second glance as she is focusing on Koromo. It's not wrong per se, as she has a grudge against Koromo for badly beating Team Kazekoshi last year, and then Saki outran her many times she lost her chance for a comeback victory. And her comeback from 0 points is facilitated by Saki. Some of the players of Team Eisui didn't think much of Kiyosumi because the Nagano tournament didn't feature that many schools, but still gave them some respect because they managed to beat Koromo. Then Hisa won Kiyosumi's first match by dropping one of the other schools below 0 points. In the third match. Before Nodoka and Saki even got to play.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Saki (Manga) / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Usually Team Kiyosumi plays the perennial underdog to several teams they face, both in the Nagano and National tournaments. An inversion, however, occurs against Team Tsuruga (from the Nagano finals), also another newcomer (complete with a total beginner with an ungodly amount of luck), in contrast to Kiyosumi's well-trained lineup whose ranks include last year's national junior-high champion, a senior honed in the individuals, and a shy bookworm who's also a Nationals-class "monster".
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Saki (Manga) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Saki (Manga) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Season 1's third ending sequence has an octopus (tako)note a pun that became a minor plot point in a match, when Yuuki realized the lunchbox Mihoko gave her had octopus in it holding a taco.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1bf4aeb3	type	The Merch
Saki (Manga) / int_1bf4aeb3	comment	The Merch: invokedExists in Real Life, and gets some lampshading in-series. In Saki Biyori, Teru buys some chocolates with mahjong-themed package. When Awai reads its packaging blurb, it's read "Approved by the renowned Miyanaga Teru".
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Saki (Manga) / int_1d22f5ec	type	Intertwined Fingers
Saki (Manga) / int_1d22f5ec	comment	Intertwined Fingers: Saki and Nodoka in the opening and in the occasionally-used second ending. Also used in-series, like when they are watching fireflies together.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Saki (Manga) / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: In Season 1 Episode 25, when Mako, Tomoki, and Miharu all make the collective decision to gang up on Kaori as revenge for losing to her in the Nagano semifinals. They lose. Badly.
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Saki (Manga) / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
Saki (Manga) / int_1eedb914	comment	Avengers Assemble: The way Team Ryuumonbuchi was formed.
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Saki (Manga) / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Saki (Manga) / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Team Ryuumonbuchi, with the caveat that Touka and Koromo are actually related. Hajime describes everyone's role in the family in a conversation following the regionals.
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Saki (Manga) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Saki (Manga) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: All over the place, a necessity for the anime adaptation given how short each chapter of the manga usually is (12-14 pages on a good week). Some notable examples are featured below: In Zenkoku-hen, the scene where the girls run into Saki from Achiga-hen is redone here, except viewed through Saki's viewpoint. This doesn't happen in the manga, where Saki was simply lost in the competition halls looking for the restroom. Also from Zenkoku-hen, everything related to Team Eisui outside their games in the National quarterfinals qualifies for this. In this case however, Ritz gave Gokumi permission to expand on their characterizations due to being able to properly do so in the manga, where one of the main complaints was how Team Eisui, both as a team and as individual players, lacked personality. Aislinn's skill. In the manga, it's only mentioned that she's always guaranteed a win via tenpai, and nothing else. In the anime, it's expanded to a full-pledged superpower, where she can envision an "ideal hand", of any point value, to the point where she can also see the expected hands of her opponents when her ideal hand is completed. Her Sergeants' match against Mako, Yuuko and Tomoe is expanded, and it's also shown that quick hands can easily thwart her attempts. The conversation between Kei and Team Achiga during Zenkoku-hen Episode 6... never happened in either the main manga or Achiga-hen. The visit to the hospital to train against the individuals-only participants is a Call-Back to the same event in Achiga-hen however, and it also mentions that Team Achiga isn't watching Team Kiyosumi (whose ranks include Nodoka, an old friend to several Achiga players) to stay focused on their own efforts and avoid getting demoralized should they lose. Zenkoku-hen Episode 13 adds a scene where Yuuki and Nodoka encounter Team Shindouji's Kirame, their senior during their days at Takatobara Junior High, to whom Yuuki delivers her tacos. This also serves as a Continuity Nod to the ending of Achiga-hen, as the episode also shows a scene from the spinoff where Kirame hands those same tacos to the rest of her teammates mourning their semifinals exit.
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Saki (Manga) / int_258a45dd	type	Mask of Power
Saki (Manga) / int_258a45dd	comment	Eisui, in spite of having a monster player, underperformed badly, with said monster (Komaki) not even performing at 100% due to how, in underestimating their opponents, they arranged the order of deities possessing her from weakest to strongest. This was a big mistake, as the points deficit this caused forced her teammates to scramble for the rest of the quarterfinals, with mixed results: Hatsumi, one of the team's best scorers, was sealed completely during her turn (leaving her to break down in tears inside her Mask of Power), and Kasumi, who's normally a defensive player, was forced to go on the offensive via the One Suit gathering power, in the process leaving her vulnerable to Saki's table manipulation due to how it made everyone's hands easier to predict.
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Saki (Manga) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Saki (Manga) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Kyoutarou and Yuuki horsing around in Season 1 Episode 5.
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Saki (Manga) / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Saki (Manga) / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: The story in general features teams that serve only to complete the 4-player requirement of mahjong. The Nagano tournament, for example, features two plucky underdog teams who come outta nowhere to make it into the finals. One of them is Team Kiyosumi. Sorry, Team Tsuruga, but until you get your own show, you have no chance of winning. However, some of these teams get short but decent characterization so they do not end up as simply cannon fodder for the main protagonist teams and rivals.
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Saki (Manga) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Saki (Manga) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: At the beginning of the Nationals, Saki admits that she accidentally wore Mako's skirt (which is longer than hers) at the opening ceremony, apparently to make up for the mangaka's error of drawing Saki with a long skirt in the previous chapter. Since then, Saki has more or less seen an increase in her skirt length (Some might say it actually looks better, and in-universe the rest of Kiyosumi say that Saki looks better with a long skirt.)
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Saki (Manga) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Saki (Manga) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The "DFLL" computer in the commentators' booth, and the book titled "Rord of the Rings". For "Rord of the Rings" this might be an unintentional example caused by Japanese Ranguage.
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Saki (Manga) / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Saki (Manga) / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Nodoka takes one after her loss to and argument with Saki. Saki takes one after she's unable to bring herself to go to see her sister's semifinals match.
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Saki (Manga) / int_2e5e04c0	type	Must Make Amends
Saki (Manga) / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends Two players from a school Team Kiyosumi defeated in the first round of the Nagano tournament try to steal Etopen as a prank in revenge, but end up being discovered and leaving Etopen behind while escaping. After some time to reflect, they feel guilty about this, but their attempts to help return Etopen only end up making things worse. Last year, Megan Davin of Team Rinkai went the way of the Dirty Coward and targeted a weak player rather than face the fury of Cold Touka. She has since deeply regretted it and desires more than anything to have a second crack at facing Touka and clear her conscience.
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Saki (Manga) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Saki (Manga) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Hatsumi, Yuuki and Koromo are probably the biggest examples in this series, partly as a result of not always acting their age, as does Kurumi. None of them look to be no older than 10 years old, when in fact they are about 16 or 17.
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Saki (Manga) / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Saki (Manga) / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The mahjong Club President is usually also one of the most skilled members. There are exceptions, though, such as Team Tsuruga's Yumi, whose sheer skill makes people frequently mistake her for their club leader instead of the more lackadaisical Satomi.
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Saki (Manga) / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Saki (Manga) / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Shots of Nodoka's wet uniform scene from Season 1 Episode 1 bore wild theories that Nodoka, and maybe the other girls, did not wear any underwear. This was confirmed for Nodoka in Episode 3, which gave an upskirt view as she was putting her shoes on that showed a completely uncovered butt. Hajime's casual clothing pretty much excludes the possibility of her wearing underwear. Eisui;s Hatsumi wears her shine maiden outfit very loosely, showing a bare chest with tan lines. Gets increasingly ridiculous in later chapters — 182 shows much of Himeko's exposed crotch, while 189 gives us an upskirt shot through the reflection off the floor.
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Saki (Manga) / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Saki (Manga) / int_34bd7be2	comment	Saki's inability to swim. A minor detail during the early parts of the manga and anime, but with the revelation as of Chapter 102, it will likely become an important clue as to whatever became of the third girl in the Miyanaga family picture...
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Saki (Manga) / int_3ff57e4b	type	Required Spinoff Crossover
Saki (Manga) / int_3ff57e4b	comment	Required Spinoff Crossover: The main series finally intersects with Achiga-hen, in Chapter 103, showing some of the events of its Chapter 12 and 13, except from Nodoka and Yuuki's point of view. The first half of episode 13 of Zenkoku-hen does the same. There's a brief scene in the final episode of the Zenkoku-hen anime in which Yoshiko gets a text message from Hayari the night after the first game of the semi-finals that's entirely written in pictograms, and follows it to meet her at a club. She heads there with Hayari at the start of Saki Shinohayu -dawn of age-.
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Saki (Manga) / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Saki (Manga) / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: If Saki lost one of the family games of mahjong (presumably as in getting last place), she would lose her New Year's money. If she won, her family would get mad at her. As a result, she decided to have a net gain and loss of 0 points, to ensure that she would never get first or last place.
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Saki (Manga) / int_4159744	type	The Magic Poker Equation
Saki (Manga) / int_4159744	comment	The Magic Poker Equation: Being good at mahjong in this series means drawing better tiles—or having other bizarre superpowers that let you win.
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Saki (Manga) / int_41ea9cf2	type	Privileged Rival
Saki (Manga) / int_41ea9cf2	comment	Privileged Rival: Several schools are explicitly stated to be wealthy private schools with access to the latest technology. Three of the Nagano finalists, for example, are private schools. However, the school's wealth has absolutely nothing to do with the skill its players have.
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Saki (Manga) / int_424b665e	type	Heroes Gone Fishing
Saki (Manga) / int_424b665e	comment	Heroes Gone Fishing: Saki Biyori features the characters doing many different things, such as shopping, cleaning, tripping, and practically anything but mahjong.
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Saki (Manga) / int_42d6e173	type	Date Peepers
Saki (Manga) / int_42d6e173	comment	Date Peepers: Not a date, but when Yumi and Momoko are having a quiet moment together after the regional finals, the other three members of their team are shown spying on them.
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Saki (Manga) / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Saki (Manga) / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: Season 1 Episode 20, when Teams Kiyosumi and Ryuumonbuchi meet at an indoor pool. The ending sequence for the second half of the series also shows all the teams at the beach. Also in Zenkoku-hen Episode 12, this time featuring Teams Eisui and Miyamori as some sort of consolation after they were eliminated from the National quarterfinals.
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Saki (Manga) / int_47b152f9	type	Sexy Soaked Shirt
Saki (Manga) / int_47b152f9	comment	Shots of Nodoka's wet uniform scene from Season 1 Episode 1 bore wild theories that Nodoka, and maybe the other girls, did not wear any underwear. This was confirmed for Nodoka in Episode 3, which gave an upskirt view as she was putting her shoes on that showed a completely uncovered butt.
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Saki (Manga) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Saki (Manga) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: At the end of Zenkoku-hen, Teru is seen standing on a roof, turning to the camera, and whispering "Saki..." as it cuts to the title card.
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Saki (Manga) / int_4a5bda80	type	Fanservice Pack
Saki (Manga) / int_4a5bda80	comment	Fanservice Pack: Kasumi starts the series very slender. But after years of progression in the manga she becomes the bustiest character in the series, until each breast is the size of her head. Awai likewise is fairly petite in her introduction but eventually grows to one of the most massive in the cast. Nodoka already starts the series busty, but by 2023 her breasts are big enough that her shirt literally no longer fits, constantly exposing the underside of her breasts.
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Saki (Manga) / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
Saki (Manga) / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Koromo returning Etopen to Nodoka, as Koromo tries to ask Nodoka to be her friend.
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Saki (Manga) / int_4e0a9150	type	Gender-Bent Alternate Universe
Saki (Manga) / int_4e0a9150	comment	Gender-Bent Alternate Universe: Saki RE: King's Tile Draw is set in a universe where nearly all of the main cast goes from female to male, with some personality differences here and there. We say nearly, because Kyotaro is still a boy, making this Chromosome Casting at its most blatant.
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Saki (Manga) / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
Saki (Manga) / int_5586a766	comment	Luminescent Blush: All over the place. Particularly used with the series' (numerous) lesbian moments. Miyanaga-san! We're looking at each other and blushing again!
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Saki (Manga) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Saki (Manga) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: It is not uncommon for players to ally themselves with others during a match in order to take out another player who is an obvious threat. Of course, some of these alliances are short lived because each player also want to get ahead of their competition. Some examples are: In one of the matches of the individual tournament, everyone gangs up on Saki. Needless to say, it doesn't work. Mihoko helps Yuuki from losing too many points against Jun in the Nagano finals' vanguard match, making Yuuki think she's looking out for her. Mihoko then surprises everyone by repeatedly scoring big and running away with the lead. Kana, whose points were reduced to 0 by Koromo, gets a 16,900 point grace from Saki during the Nagano finals' captains match. It turns out Saki purposely did this so Kana doesn't go in the negative should anyone get a winning hand to give Saki enough time to pull off a comeback win
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Saki (Manga) / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
Saki (Manga) / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: Some of these girls are so absurdly lucky that they pass right into "favored by the Author" status.
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Saki (Manga) / int_5e929d58	type	Token Mini-Moe
Saki (Manga) / int_5e929d58	comment	Token Mini-Moe: There are teams that feature characters that look way younger than their actual ages — Kiyosumi's Yuuki, Ryuumonbuchi's Koromo, Eisui's Hatsumi, and Miyamori's Kurumi.
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Saki (Manga) / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
Saki (Manga) / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: The manga began numbering its chapters as "Chapter 1" through "Chapter 3", but Chapter 3 was also numbered as "Round 0", and the series continued with "Round 1" onwards.
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Saki (Manga) / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Saki (Manga) / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: It seems that the more powerful a mahjong player, the quirkier she is. Many of them wouldn't be too out of place even if transplanted to The Legend of Koizumi, for example.
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Saki (Manga) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Saki (Manga) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook The final ending credits of Season 1 of the anime show new characters from other schools competing in the nationals (specifically Teams Rinkai, Shiraitodai and Eisui). The finale of Zenkoku-hen also shows events not even covered by the manga yet, such as Teams Eisui and Miyamori's beach trip and everything beyond Hisa's match in the National semifinals, including hints of the abilities of the members of Teams Usuzan and Rinkai. And in a Call-Back to the sequel hook of the first season, it uses the very same insert song, "Glossy MMM".
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Saki (Manga) / int_62b41729	type	Puni Plush
Saki (Manga) / int_62b41729	comment	Puni Plush: Everything except for the boards.
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Saki (Manga) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Saki (Manga) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: In a series chock-full of superpowered players, there are also those who get by through sheer skill alone. Season 1 has Team Tsuruga's Yumi, while Zenkoku-hen has the entirety of Team Himematsu, notably Hiroe and Kyouko. Achiga-hen has Team Senriyama's Hiroko, cousin to Hiroe.
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Saki (Manga) / int_652c32fa	type	Super-Deformed
Saki (Manga) / int_652c32fa	comment	Super-Deformed: Used during the exposition bits and in the ending credits. However, each season has alternate ending credits for more serious episodes, in which the characters are shown normally. Koromo occasionally turns chibi during the show itself, as befitting her adorable childlike nature.
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Saki (Manga) / int_675056e4	type	Signature Move
Saki (Manga) / int_675056e4	comment	Signature Move: Every character gets their own favourite yaku, with Saki's being the rinshan kaihou (tsumo from a kan).
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Saki (Manga) / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Saki (Manga) / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Though her actual fate is unclear as of this point, whatever happened to the other girl in the Miyanaga family picture [1] had a profound effect on both Miyanaga sisters, and likely also played a factor in how their family broke apart.
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Saki (Manga) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Saki (Manga) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Mahjong is treated as a matter of honor, though most characters still haven't lost the sense of fun playing it. Deconstructed, however, with Saki's family, where it was taken so seriously it literally tore itself apart although it's implied that there were other factors at work.
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Saki (Manga) / int_6c32ceab	type	Yuri Genre
Saki (Manga) / int_6c32ceab	comment	Yuri Genre: Nothing explicitly stated, but a lot implied.
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Saki (Manga) / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Saki (Manga) / int_6de71c57	comment	Subverted with "Cold Touka", as at first Saki heard there are people who could deal with her in the Nationals. The way Touka describes Nationals-level competition in the last episode of Season 1 implies that Team Ryuumonbuchi never made it too far, and even those who defeated them were no match for the eventual champions. It turns out that last year, Team Rinkai's Megan, who won a match against Touka, avoided direct confrontation with her and dropped a weaker school to zero, prematurely ending the round and avoiding having to go against Koromo (Megan has since deeply regretted such a cowardly action).
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Saki (Manga) / int_6f4ddd0a	type	Old School Building
Saki (Manga) / int_6f4ddd0a	comment	Old School Building: The location of Team Kiyosumi's mahjong club (in the attic). Hisa's first activity as re-founding member was to make it livable.
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Saki (Manga) / int_7603b45b	type	Furo Scene
Saki (Manga) / int_7603b45b	comment	Furo Scene: Several, such as in the training camps.
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Saki (Manga) / int_76fae7ed	type	Beginner's Luck
Saki (Manga) / int_76fae7ed	comment	In Saki Biyori, Kaori actually puts her Beginner's Luck to practical use, and with the help of her schoolmates, she wins a lottery and gets a "Juice-kun" table for her club.
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Saki (Manga) / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
Saki (Manga) / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Already somewhat present during the Nagano tournament, but in full force during the Nationals. Put simply, "Monster"-class players can feel the activation or use of occult skills by other mahjong monsters. See how only Saki, Awai, and Koromo react when Komaki is finally possessed by a goddess spirit. Himematsu's Suehara exploits this trope during her match with Saki, Nelly, and Sawaya by taking note of how Saki reacts to anything the other two players do, using this "tell" to try and get around occult-based plays.
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Saki (Manga) / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Saki (Manga) / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: The first thing Saki notices about Nodoka is that she's "beautiful," which refers to her extremely well-endowed, braless chest. Most of Nodoka's other friends, her opponents and even the press make note of her chest, although interestingly enough, this does not seem to apply to the much more endowed Kasumi of Team Eisui.
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Saki (Manga) / int_7c0056d4	type	Fanservice with a Smile
Saki (Manga) / int_7c0056d4	comment	Fanservice with a Smile: Mako's family's maid cafe (a mahjong parlor in the manga with the anime stating that it was a mahjong parlor before becoming a maid cafe) is a nice reason to see Saki and Nodoka dress up. And play more mahjong.
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Saki (Manga) / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Saki (Manga) / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: One of the schools Kiyosumi defeated in the first round of the prefecturals doesn't take it well, and even steals Etopen as revenge. They come to regret it, though. Saki's family, who were both sore losers and sore winners, are a large part of why Saki dislikes Mahjong at the start of the story.
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Saki (Manga) / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Saki (Manga) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Played straight with Saki's discovery that Teru publicly disowned her. She's not completely surprised, but begins to doubt whether communicating with Teru through mahjong will change anything. Subverted in the case of Mihoko and Hisa. Mihoko is initially deeply disappointed when it seems as though Hisa has forgotten her, but when the former opens her right eye again, she remembers.
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Saki (Manga) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Saki (Manga) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Saki's chance encounter with Team Achiga while wandering the halls of the competition venue in Zenkoku-hen is a Call-Back to the same event shown in Achiga-hen. Whereas in the latter we were treated to Achiga seeing Saki as absolutely terrifying, in Zenkoku-hen we see that Saki herself was not only just lost, but only felt that Achiga was mildly threatening, particularly Shizu.
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Saki (Manga) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Saki (Manga) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 128. Awai asks Teru if she has a sister, and Teru, after considering denying it for a moment, says that Saki is her sister. Nishida then mentions that she has a lead on Teru's past.
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Saki (Manga) / int_8e971de4	type	Tournament Arc
Saki (Manga) / int_8e971de4	comment	Tournament Arc: Season 1 shows the Nagano tourney, while Zenkoku-hen, covers the National quarterfinals bracket of which Team Kiyosumi is placed (against Himematsu, Eisui and Miyamori).
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Saki (Manga) / int_926e0d7d	type	Hot Springs Episode
Saki (Manga) / int_926e0d7d	comment	Hot Springs Episode: The training camp before the regional tournament, and the final episode of Season 1.
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Saki (Manga) / int_929328d7	type	Improbably Female Cast
Saki (Manga) / int_929328d7	comment	Improbably Female Cast: Justified, as the male and female tournaments are separated, and Kyoutaro, the only consistently-appearing male character, fails miserably in the boys' individuals. Given that the main character is a girl, it makes sense they'd focus on the girls' tournament and its all-female Cast Herd. Even a blog post by Kobayashi states that the current boys' champion is on the level of Izumi, Vanguard of Team Senriyama, who in her match actually lost a significant amount of points and was later told that several first years are stronger players than she is — implying that the boys' tournament is not as interesting as the girls' version.
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Saki (Manga) / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Saki (Manga) / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Flashbacks are often done in sepia.
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Saki (Manga) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Saki (Manga) / int_9591377d	comment	Two players from a school Team Kiyosumi defeated in the first round of the Nagano tournament try to steal Etopen as a prank in revenge, but end up being discovered and leaving Etopen behind while escaping. After some time to reflect, they feel guilty about this, but their attempts to help return Etopen only end up making things worse.
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Saki (Manga) / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
Saki (Manga) / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: Nodoka and Saki in episodes eight, ten and nineteen.
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Saki (Manga) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Saki (Manga) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Hayarin muses that she and Kanna are pretty much alike, in that the latter tries too hard to maintain her "cool" image.
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Saki (Manga) / int_98e87f7	type	Sinister Silhouettes
Saki (Manga) / int_98e87f7	comment	Sinister Silhouettes: Subverted, as past Teru appears clearly in the first opening and during Saki's flashback, although in many of those cases, her eyes are not shown. Played straight for most other top-tier players.
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Saki (Manga) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Team Kiyosumi's Yuuki seems to fall victim to this in most of her matches — against Jun and Mihoko, against Nanpo, and in all three of her on-screen matches in the Nationals. This is largely the result of most teams putting their aces up as Vanguards (to the point at which the otherwise skilled Team Shindouji focuses on survival), and Yuuki overspecializes in point-farming at the East Wind. From a story perspective, this ensures that Team Kiyosumi will always have to scrape back to victory come the later rounds.
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Saki (Manga) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Saki (Manga) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Saki faces Koromo, she begins her comeback with an utterly trash hand that kicks off a winning streak, and completes it with a counted yakuman direct hit. This is exactly how Teru's special ability, the Absolute Teru Field, works. In individuals, Saki, foreshadowing her (estranged) sister, got three players ganged up on her — and she still comes out on the top. Saki's inability to swim. A minor detail during the early parts of the manga and anime, but with the revelation as of Chapter 102, it will likely become an important clue as to whatever became of the third girl in the Miyanaga family picture...
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Saki (Manga) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Saki (Manga) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: In both manga and anime. Most notable in chapter 182, which shows a significant chunk of Himeko's crotch.
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Saki (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Saki (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Zenkoku-hen Episode 13 adds a scene where Yuuki and Nodoka encounter Team Shindouji's Kirame, their senior during their days at Takatobara Junior High, to whom Yuuki delivers her tacos. This also serves as a Continuity Nod to the ending of Achiga-hen, as the episode also shows a scene from the spinoff where Kirame hands those same tacos to the rest of her teammates mourning their semifinals exit.
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Saki (Manga) / int_9de2bf95	type	Filler
Saki (Manga) / int_9de2bf95	comment	Filler: Shorter than some Shounen series, but still present in Season 1. The pool episode and individuals matches were never portrayed in the manga, though the latter's results have been acknowledged as canon, such as Mihoko going onto the Nationals, Team Eisui talking about Yuuki's monstrous point-farming run during the first day of the Nagano Individuals, and Nanpo being considered by Fujita as a possible participant
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Saki (Manga) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Saki (Manga) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Near the end of Season 1 Episode 20, there's some relatively lighthearted shots of the teams getting ready to enter the individuals, with the first ending theme playing. Then the scene cuts to Team Shiraitodai, fresh off brutally beating the opposition, with Teru telling Sumire that she does not have a sister. Then the scene shifts back to the pool, with Kiyosumi playing around and Saki hoping to see Teru again.
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Saki (Manga) / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
Saki (Manga) / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: During Kiyosumi's first training camp Mako says Nodoka should be wearing a yukata, so Yuuki promptly jumps on Nodoka and stuffs her into one. Kyoutarou innocently walks into the room while this is going on, and he gets an eyeful of a half-dressed Nodoka lying on the floor before Saki quickly jumps in front of him shouting, "Don't look!"
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Saki (Manga) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Saki (Manga) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Chapter 98 features a massive one by players playing against Saki when she "awakens", which causes the competition hall to be shaken by a minor earthquake, and other miscellaneous supernatural phenomena like Iwato Kasumi's H-cups to start floating.
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Saki (Manga) / int_aefd2a14	type	Pinky Swear
Saki (Manga) / int_aefd2a14	comment	Pinky Swear: Saki and Nodoka ("No holding back?")
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Saki (Manga) / int_b1ae4fc2	type	The Force Is Strong with This One
Saki (Manga) / int_b1ae4fc2	comment	The Force Is Strong with This One: When sufficiently powerful players cross paths, they'll experience a jolt as if sensing their Power Level. During the maid cafÃ©, Saki got an ominous feeling when an older woman stepped in. This woman turned out to be a pro. Four members of Ryuumonbuchi immediately realized that Saki was a strong player simply by walking past her. In fact, they mistook her for Nodoka. When Koromi finally decided to arrive at the Nagano tournament, she gave Saki chills and she wasn't even in the building!
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Saki (Manga) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Saki (Manga) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Zenkoku-hen replaces the training camp from the end of Season 1 of the anime with one that hews closer to that shown in the manga (where Hisa invites all the players from the other teams they played with during the Nagano finals), removing a crucial scene in which Saki and Nodoka earn a Relationship Upgrade. Interestingly enough, Saki and Nodoka are still calling each other by their first names, albeit with no explanation apart from the decision to switch in that scene. So far, Teru's disowning of Saki has not been addressed, although Saki is unwilling, and even possibly somewhat scared, to see her sister again outside of mahjong.
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Saki (Manga) / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Saki (Manga) / int_b5b4b077	comment	Shiraitodai was hyped up to be the "final boss" of the Nationals, and the team to beat for Kiyosumi; like Ryuumonbuchi, however, their actual performance has been anything but stellar. Save Teru, who ran away with a 200,000-point lead in the Vanguards' match (and was narrowly kept from going on a rampage by the joint efforts of Kuro, Kirame and Toki), everyone else not only managed to squander that lead, as they had their usual strategies and abilities countered time and again. What's worse, due to Awai's arrogance, Shiraitodai came within a hairsbreadth of actually getting knocked out of the Nationals. So much for defending champions.
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Saki (Manga) / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Saki (Manga) / int_b85c06f2	comment	Lightning-spouting Eye of Doom Apparently this is a trademark all National level monster player shared.
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Saki (Manga) / int_c0be687c	type	MetaGame
Saki (Manga) / int_c0be687c	comment	Kaori manages to win a game against tournament level players because her inexperience rendered her completely unpredictable to her Meta Game-steeped opponents. Confusion Fu pointed out the logic that, since mahjong is used to gamble, it should've been easy for experienced players to win off a rookie. However, Mahjong is Serious Business to these girls. Gambling isn't their goal, it's pitting oneself against worthy opponents. For this reason it never would have occurred them that they would even play such a newbie, so nobody thought of trying to hustle her, either.
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Saki (Manga) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Saki (Manga) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions Team Kiyosumi would definitely count, with the freshmen (Saki, Nodoka and Yuuki, and to a lesser extent Kyoutaro) sharing a tight bond. Mako and Hisa are also quite close, as the two were the only two actual members of the club in the previous year. Team Ryuumonbuchi was assembled by Touka not only to serve as her dream team, but also a means to break the ice on her cousin Koromo. Team Miyamori is also a fairly close-knit team, with Sae, Shiro and Kurumi being friends prior to the arrival of Toshi and Toyone, and Shiro also knowing Aislinn before then.
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Saki (Manga) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Saki (Manga) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out In the anime, many to Akagi (much of the "camera work" and motions during a game are straight Akagi, and the CG happens to look identical). Hagiyoshi, butler to Team Ryuumonbuchi's Touka, might be a shoutout to a certain demon butler, with whom he shares Daisuke Ono's voice. The episode previews all have references to mahjong manga of varying obscurity, most of which are lost on English-speaking audiences. For those interested, there's a list here.
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Saki (Manga) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Saki (Manga) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The unnamed king in Yuuki's omake story, who waged war with the Power of Corn and left none for making new tacos because his parents divorced when he was young over how bad tacos tasted. Kaori manages to win a game against tournament level players because her inexperience rendered her completely unpredictable to her Meta Game-steeped opponents. Confusion Fu pointed out the logic that, since mahjong is used to gamble, it should've been easy for experienced players to win off a rookie. However, Mahjong is Serious Business to these girls. Gambling isn't their goal, it's pitting oneself against worthy opponents. For this reason it never would have occurred them that they would even play such a newbie, so nobody thought of trying to hustle her, either.
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Saki (Manga) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Saki (Manga) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The supernatural abilities introduced in the series get more ridiculous as the series goes on. It says a lot when Yuuki's East Wind advantage, which was considered a big deal when the franchise started, now ranks on the lower end of the Story-Breaker Power spectrum. Since then abilities like invisibility, reading an opposing player's soul after a turn, channeling gods and seeing into the future have been introduced, but there's no sign that these are the absolute limit of possible superpowers in existence in this setting.
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Saki (Manga) / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Saki (Manga) / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The title is the protagonist's first name.
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Saki (Manga) / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
Saki (Manga) / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Jun eats Yuuki's taco at the start of their match, albeit more absent-mindedly than maliciously. Luckily Mihoko was there with her takoyaki as a backup.
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Saki (Manga) / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Saki (Manga) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The title is named for the protagonist's first name, making this a Protagonist Title. Episodes: About 2/3s of the episode titles fit this.
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Saki (Manga) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Saki (Manga) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Let's face it, mahjong isn't really all that exciting as a spectator sport. The show uses all kinds of music, camera angles, and special effects to try to make it more spectacular. Not to mention everyone boosts their mahjong game with, among other things, power avatars, invisibility, demonic possession, and tacos.
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Saki (Manga) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Saki (Manga) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Nodoka's father thinks "Mahjong Pro" isn't the most secure career aspiration for his daughter, but lets her keep at it as long as she keeps winning. On the other hand, he derides mahjong as a game purely based on luck, scoffs at Nodoka mentioning that she was able to make friends through it ("just what use would any friends you make be in a hick town like this be?"), and halfheartedly decides to "consider" letting her stay if she wins the nationals. He might be giving her a chance, but it could be interpreted that he does so because he doesn't think she can manage the improbable task of winning the nationals. Nodoka's mother fits the trope more, as she chastises her husband for imposing a deal with their daughter (he'll let Nodoka stay in Kiyosumi and continue practicing mahjong if she wins the nationals), and encourages Nodoka to continue what she likes to do.
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Saki (Manga) / int_ddb124b3	type	Cast Herd
Saki (Manga) / int_ddb124b3	comment	Cast Herd: The majority of the cast is made up of the various schools' mahjong teams. Hard to avoid, since a single team match needs twenty people.
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Saki (Manga) / int_de328285	type	Expressive Accessory
Saki (Manga) / int_de328285	comment	Expressive Accessory: Yuuki's cat-belt which is lip-synced to her.
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Saki (Manga) / int_dec8bfbf	type	Trash Talk
Saki (Manga) / int_dec8bfbf	comment	Trash Talk: Averted for the most part, but there were a few instances: Hisa subtly insulting Satomi's intelligence during the halftime break of their match, and all of Hiroe's matches so far.
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Saki (Manga) / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Saki (Manga) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The anime has a special emphasis on the character's sweaty thighs.
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Saki (Manga) / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
Saki (Manga) / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: The series is notorious for it. There has never been a panty-shot in the history of the manga, because none of the girls ever wear any.
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Saki (Manga) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Saki (Manga) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: In full display when a scene from the start of the manga (Hisa talking to Mako on the balcony outside the clubroom) gets referenced more than a hundred chapters later via flashback — the Hisa from the newer chapter looks almost nothing like the one from the earlier chapter. The anime for the main series as well, with Zenkoku-hen having more in common with the adaptation of Achiga-hen. This due to the span of time between adaptations (six years) as well as a change of studios (GONZO to Studio Gokumi). Another thing that's noticeable is how certain aspects of some girls gradually grew... larger, as series went on. While this could normally explained away by the onset of puberty, the short time frame of the Nationals (less than a full week had passed since it started) eliminates it as a probable cause. Nodoka's is especially noticeable, but then there's Awaii and Ako from Achiga-hen, who went from somewhat petite the first time they appeared in the main series (Ako in particular, as she's only supposedly a little bigger than almost-flat Shizuno), to "porn-star jigglies" over the course of a few chapters.
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Saki (Manga) / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Saki (Manga) / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: Any particularly skilled mahjong player will emanate variations of this during matches, but so-called "monster" class participants radiate ones that only other "monsters" can sense.
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Saki (Manga) / int_e6f232a0	type	Fanservice Pack
Saki (Manga) / int_e6f232a0	comment	Another thing that's noticeable is how certain aspects of some girls gradually grew... larger, as series went on. While this could normally explained away by the onset of puberty, the short time frame of the Nationals (less than a full week had passed since it started) eliminates it as a probable cause. Nodoka's is especially noticeable, but then there's Awaii and Ako from Achiga-hen, who went from somewhat petite the first time they appeared in the main series (Ako in particular, as she's only supposedly a little bigger than almost-flat Shizuno), to "porn-star jigglies" over the course of a few chapters.
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Saki (Manga) / int_eaa8a7d8	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
Saki (Manga) / int_eaa8a7d8	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: True to the "Yu-Gi-Oh meets Mahjong" idea, throughout each tournament, Saki meets girls with increasingly powerful abilities, who use these abilities to cheat at the game (see also Serial Escalation), and then Saki beating them using her own supernatural powers.
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Saki (Manga) / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Saki (Manga) / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: While it was made clear that Teru and Saki were never on good terms since their family broke apart, as Teru's refusal to speak with Saki made the latter opt to communicate with mahjong, Saki doesn't realize until after the Nagano finals that Teru publicly disowned her. Saki loses hope, at least for the moment, in the possibility of anything changing between her and Teru.
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Saki (Manga) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Saki (Manga) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Many of the characters have what can only be called superhuman abilities, some of which could be easily applied to far more important tasks.note Examples include channeling spirits and seeing into the future. They use them to play cheat at mahjong. Interestingly enough, some characters have abilities outside mahjong that they can use in play. Momo's invisibility enables her to discard risky tiles without people calling them, and prevent people from knowing how close she is to completing her hand. Hajime once used a sleight-of-hand she learned from her father, a stage magician, to cheat at mahjong, and deeply regrets doing so. In Saki Biyori, Kaori actually puts her Beginner's Luck to practical use, and with the help of her schoolmates, she wins a lottery and gets a "Juice-kun" table for her club.
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Saki (Manga) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Saki (Manga) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Kazue Nanpo in Season 1 Episode 6.
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Saki (Manga) / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Saki (Manga) / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: An analysis, based on the study of a calendar (shown only in a single frame, so it's easy to miss) and on the possible dates of a full moon during the prefecturals, concludes that the only possible year for the series to take place in is 2050. It's no wonder why Nodoka's so interested in IPS reproduction...
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Saki (Manga) / int_f4de9a30	type	Joshikousei
Saki (Manga) / int_f4de9a30	comment	Joshikousei: But of course. This is a show about schoolgirls playing mahjong through their school clubs.
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Saki (Manga) / int_f8a4527f	type	Sitting on the Roof
Saki (Manga) / int_f8a4527f	comment	Sitting on the Roof: A few cases. Chapter 6 of the Big Gangan version of Saki Biyori features Saki and Nodoka eating on the roof. In Chapter 128, Awai finds Teru on the roof and gets her to admit that Saki is her sister.
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Saki (Manga) / int_faece9aa	type	The Power of Friendship
Saki (Manga) / int_faece9aa	comment	The Power of Friendship: Koromo notices that Yumi and Kana haven't lost hope yet, and a panel indicates that they're persisting for the sake of Momo and Mihoko.
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Saki (Manga) / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
Saki (Manga) / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Sort of. By the time Teams Kiyosumi and Ryuumonbuchi encounter each another at a resort, they act chummier than before (with Koromo finally finding a true friend in Saki).
Saki (Manga) / int_fc4f5f19	featureApplicability	1.0
Saki (Manga) / int_fc4f5f19	featureConfidence	1.0
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Saki (Manga) / int_fc4f5f19
Saki (Manga) / int_fca96b8e	type	Cherry Blossoms
Saki (Manga) / int_fca96b8e	comment	Cherry Blossoms: Put to good use during Saki and Nodoka's first encounter.
Saki (Manga) / int_fca96b8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Saki (Manga) / int_fca96b8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Saki (Manga) / int_fca96b8e
Saki (Manga) / int_fdb3fcce	type	My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
Saki (Manga) / int_fdb3fcce	comment	My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: There are many styles of Mahjong presented here, from Nodoka's focus on effiency to Hisa's hell-waits and Kuro's dora-magnet. All of them train their styles in order to defeat each other in the Nationals. There is a training camp arc.
Saki (Manga) / int_fdb3fcce	featureApplicability	1.0
Saki (Manga) / int_fdb3fcce	featureConfidence	1.0
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Saki (Manga) / int_fdb3fcce
Saki (Manga) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Saki (Manga) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Every single game portrayed so far has been perfectly valid. No extra tiles, no impossible hands, every last game conforms to the rules. The hands and wins may be wildly improbable, but still possible.
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Saki (Manga) / int_ffad4e9f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Saki (Manga) / int_name	comment
Saki (Manga) / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Saki (Manga) / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Saki (Manga) / int_name
Saki (Manga) / int_name	itemName	Saki (Manga)

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Anime and Manga / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
NecessaryToWin	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	A Lady on Each Arm / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Absentee Club Member / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Agent Scully / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Always Identical Twins / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Angry Cheek Puff / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Anime and Manga of the 2010s / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Antagonist Title / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Arc Number / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Sports / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Awful Truth / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Badass Cape / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Battle Aura / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Beginner's Luck / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Blatant Lies / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Blunt "Yes" / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Blush Sticker / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Boob-Based Gag / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Boring, but Practical / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Born Lucky / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Broken Win/Loss Streak / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Bust-Contrast Duo / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Butlerspace / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Buxom Beauty Standard / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Buxom Is Better / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Cast Full of Gay / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Cast Herd / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Censor Steam / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Cherry Blossoms / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Friends / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Combat Clairvoyance / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Combat Commentator / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Cosplay CafÃ© / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Cute Girls Doing Cute Things / int_ac259af8
DaisukeOno	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Dark Horse Victory / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Defeating the Undefeatable / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Deliberate Under-Performance / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Developing Doomed Characters / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	/ int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Disc-One Final Boss / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Discard and Draw / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Disowned Sibling / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Do Well, But Not Perfect / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Don't Call Me "Sir" / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Education Mama / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Embarrassing Nickname / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Enemy Scan / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Every Year They Fizzle Out / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Experienced Protagonist / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Fantasy-Forbidding Father / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Field Power Effect / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Food as Bribe / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Footnote Fever / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Forgettable Character / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Forgotten First Meeting / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Furo Scene / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Gaming and Sports Anime & Manga / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Girlish Pigtails / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Girls Love Stuffed Animals / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Going Commando / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Gotta Pass the Class / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Gray Rain of Depression / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Hairstyle Inertia / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Honest Axe / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Hopeless with Tech / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Huge Schoolgirl / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	I Got Bigger / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	I Know Mortal Kombat / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	I Let You Win / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Identical Stranger / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Insistent Terminology / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Intertwined Fingers / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Invincible Hero / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Invisibility / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Invisible Introvert / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Invisible Parents / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	It's a Wonderful Plot / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Japanese School Club / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Jedi Mind Trick / int_ac259af8
KaoriFukuhara	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Laborious Laziness / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Lecherous Licking / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Lens Flare Censor / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Limited Social Circle / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Live-Action Adaptation / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Lovable Alpha Bitch / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Lunacy / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Magic Skirt / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Magical Eye / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Many Spirits Inside of One / int_ac259af8
MinoriChihara	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Missed the Bus / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Moment of Weakness / int_ac259af8
Momoko Saito	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Moon Rabbit / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Muggle Sports, Super Athletes / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_ac259af8
NaoTouyama	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Nephewism / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	No Dub for You / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	"No Peeking!" Request / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	No Sense of Direction / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Nom de Mom / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Obligatory Swearing / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Ojou / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	One-Gender School / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Outdated by Canon / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Overtook the Manga / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Perception Filter / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Photographic Memory / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Pinky Swear / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Playful Cat Smile / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Pluralses / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Power Copying / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Power Limiter / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Power Perversion Potential / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Power-Up Food / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Privileged Rival / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Professional Maiden Name / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Putting On My Thinking Cap / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Random Number God / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Really Moves Around / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Red Shirt / int_ac259af8
Saki	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sand in My Eyes / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	School Stories / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	School Swimsuit / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	School Uniforms are the New Black / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Second-Hand Storytelling / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Security Blanket / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sempai/Kōhai / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Senpai/Kōhai / int_ac259af8
Shiori Mikami	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
ShizukaIto	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Sliding Scale of Anime Obscurity	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Parent-Shaming in Fiction / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Snub by Omission / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Solomon Divorce / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sore Loser / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sprouting Ears / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Strategy, Schmategy / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Student Council President / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Subordinate Excuse / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sweet and Sour Grapes / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Talking through Technique / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Alleged Boss / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Danza / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Force Is Strong with This One / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Last Dance / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Magic Poker Equation / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Nose Knows / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The One Guy / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	The Password Is Always "Swordfish" / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Two First Names / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Underdogs Never Lose / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Undesirable Prize / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Unrelated Effects / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Victoria's Secret Compartment / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Villain with Good Publicity / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call Boss / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Walking Techbane / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Webcomic Time / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	What Beautiful Eyes! / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Winds of Destiny, Change! / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Women Drivers / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Word of Gay / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_ac259af8
Fatalizer	seeAlso	Saki (Manga)
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Heavy Sleeper / int_ac259af8
Saki (Manga)	hasFeature	Pride Before a Fall / int_ac259af8
saki	sameAs	Saki (Manga)

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