Details
- Episodes:13
- Format:TV
- Average Score:72
- Popularity:3901
- Status:Finished Airing
- Season:Winter 2014
- Duration:24 min. per ep. minutes
- Genre:Game, School, Slice of Life
- Country:JP
Saki Miyanaga, along with the rest of Kiyosumi High School's mahjong team, proceeds to the national level of the Interhigh Mahjong Championship. However, reaching the top will prove difficult as she faces opponents on par with and, quite possibly, exceeding her skills. Even so, she refuses to back down, vowing to stop at nothing to fulfill her goal: to see her sister face-to-face once more. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Episodes
1. Hand 1: To Tokyo
After making it through the fierce regional preliminaries, the Kiyosumi High Mahjong Club makes its way to the Nationals. In rapid succession, the representative schools for the other regions are decided as well and the powerful players make their way to the battleground. Source: crunchyroll
2. Hand 2: Support
After the matchups are all settled, Saki realized that she won`t be able to play against her older sister unless she makes it to the finals. Driven by her desire to face Teru, she vows again to make it to the finals. Source: crunchyroll
3. Hand 3: Start
The one who Hisa had dubbed the "Star of the camp" is Yumeno Maho. Saki is awed as Maho shows off her ability to copy the play style of all of the players of the Kiyosumi mahjong club. Source: crunchyroll
4. Hand 4: East Wind
Thanks to Hisa`s great performance, Kiyosumi`s mahjong club makes it through the first round without Nodoka or Saki having to play at all. Source: crunchyroll
5. Hand 5: Gods and Demons
Even after Miyamori`s Kosegawa Shiromi scores a haneman tsumo win, Yuuki continues to drive the first player match in a favorable direction. Source: crunchyroll
6. Hand 6: Withering
Despite putting up a good fight, Kiyosumi High`s mahjong club ends up in third place behind Miyamori`s Kosegawa Shiromi and Eisui`s Jindai Komaki. Miyamori`s Aislinn had shown overwhelming performances at the regional tournaments, so naturally all eyes were on her. Source: crunchyroll
7. Hand 7: Attention
Enjoying the national stage, enjoying mahjong... Faced with her opponents, Hisa remembers that those are the important things and gets back into gear. However, she can`t overtake Hiroe Atago, who had widened her lead in the first half of the 3rd player match, and Hisa ends in 2nd place. Source: crunchyroll
8. Hand 8: Fortress
In the first half of the 4th player match, Nodoka completely finds her own style. The strongest emotion controlling her is that "Losing means we`re going to be scattered all over". Source: crunchyroll
9. Hand 9: Sortie
Miyamori Girls` High School` s Usuzawa Sae completely blocks off Usuzumi Hatsumi. However, holding Hatsumi down every time she was the north player takes a heavy toll on Sae`s body. Source: crunchyroll
10. Hand 10: Friends
The 2nd round of the National Tournament is coming to a close. Himematsu High School`s Suehara Kyouko bold playing style of declaring riichi after riichi backfires as she always ends up dealing into Miyamori Girls` High School`s Anetai Toyone`s chasing riichi hand. Source: crunchyroll
11. Hand 11: Threat
Iwato Kasumi from Eisui Girls` High School changes into her `offensive` mode after realizing that defense alone won`t cut it. Kasumi`s onslaught turns the tide completely. Himematsu High School entered the 5th player match in first place, but is now in last place. Source: crunchyroll
12. Hand 12: Truth
The 5th player match has finally progressed into the all-deciding south round. This is where Saki does something she`s never done before: declaring a kan to then discard the tile she gets right away. Source: crunchyroll
13. Hand 13: Old Friends
The second round was absolutely grueling, with every school never letting up. Still, thanks to Saki`s performance, Kiyosumi moves on to the semi-finals. After finding "Achiga Girls`" on the pamphlet, Nodoka asks Saki to come to the arena with her, but just outside, Saki has to stop for a moment. Source: crunchyroll
