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“Saki, a mahjong-hating girl who always scores zero, is dragged into her school's mahjong club.”
Saki
咲-Saki-
7.71
1,886 rank · 10,978 readers · 417 favorites
Seinen
School
Strategy Game
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Saki, a mahjong-hating girl who always scores zero, is dragged into her school's mahjong club.
Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn't like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year's gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she's learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she's being dragged to her school's mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment? (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
5.0
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
25%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 2
σ 2.28
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.28 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.7 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.3
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Score over time
↓ 3.00
Running avg · Sep 2011 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “I'm in a position where I know enough about riichi mahjong that I can follow along the manga no problem, but after 295 chapters the only new thing I learnt is that I should play mahjong with no...”
- 8 “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...”
- 5 “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...”
Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 60%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Feb 2006 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M4865 catalog