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During elementary school, Shizuno Takakamo and Ako Atarashi make friends with the recently transferred Nodoka Haramura. Upon hearing about her interest in mahjong, they take Nodoka to Achiga Girl's Academy, where Harue Akado runs a mahjong club for children. After a few games with Kuro Matsumi, Shizuno later tells Nodoka about Harue's history, including reasons leading to Achiga's club disbanding. By the year's end, Harue accepts an offer to join a company's mahjong team, which leads to the closure of the children's club. Nodoka also reveals that she is transferring out by next spring. The years have passed, and an excited third year Shizuno sees Nodoka on television winning the individual middle school tournament. Driven to reach the inter-high national tournament, Shizuno goes to Achiga's club room where she encounters Kuro, who had been maintaining the room since disbandment. Together, they revive the mahjong club with intent to meet Nodoka again. Instead of Bansei, Ako also enrolls into Achiga for the same reason. || During elementary school, Takakamo Shizuno and Atarashi Ako make friends with the recently transferred Haramura Nodoka. Upon hearing about her interest in mahjong, Shizuno and Ako take Nodoka to Achiga Girl`s Academy, where she meets Akado Harue who runs a mahjong club for children. Nodoka starts playing mahjong with the others, including the clubs top player, Matsumi Kuro. Shizuno later explains to Nodoka how Harue was Achiga`s ace mahjong player, who ended up quitting after being defeated in a tournament, leading to the main club being disbanded. As time passes, Harue is scouted for a company`s mahjong team which leads to the closure of the children`s club. As Shizuno and Nodoka enter Achiga upon reaching middle school, Nodoka reveals she is going to be transferred the next spring. As the years pass, Shizuno, now in her third year, sees Nodoka on television winning the individual tournament. Wanting to reach the inter-high national tournament, Shizuno goes to Achiga`s club room where she encounters Kuro and decides to revive the mahjong club so she can meet Nodoka again. Upon hearing of this, Ako, who had went to a different middle school, decides she wants to enroll into Achiga and join the club. Source: Wikipedia

Kuro takes Shizuno and Ako to meet her older sister, Yū, who becomes the fourth mahjong club member. The next day, Kuro asks her classmate, Arata Sagimori, a fan of Harue during her prime, and she joins as the fifth member. During the winter, Harue's company manga team had become defunct, and visits Achiga for some nostalgia. To her surprise, she finds Shizuno and the others playing. Wanting to experience the inter-high nationals once more, Harue decides to become the club's advisor and coach. With the mahjong club officially formed, the girls begin training for the prefectural preliminaries. Later in the evening, Ako encounters some of her former classmates who went on to attend prefectural rival Bansei High. || Kuro takes Shizuno and Ako to meet her older sister, Yuu, who she invites to become the fourth member of the mahjong club. The next day, Kuro asks her classmate, Sagimori Arata, a fan of Harue during her prime, who agrees to join the club. During Winter, Harue, whose company`s manga team has since become defunct, decides to visit Achiga for old time`s sake, where she is surprised to find Shizuno and the others playing. Wanting to experience the inter-high nationals once more, Harue decides to become the club`s advisor. As the new year comes and the mahjong club is officially formed, the girls begin training for the prefecture preliminaries. Later, Ako encounters some of her former classmates who went on to Bansei High, who are due to become their opponents in the preliminaries. Source: Wikipedia

At the prefectural tournament, the Achiga team defeats Bansei in the first round and eventually qualifies for the nationals. To train for the nationals, Harue schedules the club to play against prefectural runner-ups. Immediately, Ako utters "Nagano", Kiyosumi's prefecture, as the first one to visit, and therefore, they play Ryūmonbuchi High. There, Koromo Amae overwhelmingly defeats Shizuno but doesn't discourage her or the team. Then, the excited team proceeds to defeat other schools at other prefectures. After a ten day training camp, the girls set off for the nationals. While stopping at a rest stop, Shizuno and the others meet Toki Onjōji and Ryuuka Shimizudani from Senriyama Girl's High, who are also seeded in the nationals. As the club finally reaches the nationals, they briefly walk pass Saki Miyanaga. || At the prefectural tournament, the Achiga team defeats Bansei in the first round and eventually qualify to the nationals. To train for the nationals, Harue schedules the club to play against prefectural runner-ups. Immediately, Ako utters "Nagano", Kiyosumi`s prefecture, as the first one to visit, and therefore, they play Ryuumonbuchi High. There, Amae Koromo overwhelmingly defeats Shizuno but doesn`t discourage her or the team. Then, the excited team proceed to defeat other schools at other prefectures. After a ten day training camp, the girls set off for the nationals. Whilst stopping at a rest stop, Shizuno and the others meet Onjouji Toki and Shimizudani Ryuuka from Senriyama Girl`s High, who are also seeded in the nationals. As the club finally reach the nationals, they briefly pass by Miyanaga Saki. Source: Wikipedia

As the Achiga girls receive results of the drawing lottery, they find that they are on the opposite side of Kiyosumi while on the same side as the top-ranked Shiraitodai High School. As the girls do some research on their opponents, Harue meets up with her former coach, Kumakura. On the day of the first round, Achiga is pitted against Sanomo, Urabandai and Imizusougou. After some initial difficulty, Kuro manages to show off her dora-drawing skills in her round, and Achiga soon sails to victory and advances to the second round. Later, Senriyama read up on Achiga's victory, preparing to face them in the next round, along with Koshigaya and Kentani. As Kuro enters the competition room, she encounters a waiting Toki. || It’s the start of the Nationals, and there are many teams with strong players aiming for the top spot. Kuro Matsumi is the first from Achiga to play in the competition. Her challengers think she is weak, but she will show them the Dragon Road. Source: crunchyroll

As the vanguard match begins, Toki's ability to see one turn ahead puts pressure on Kuro, whose dora-style renders her defense play weak and predictable. Adding riichi with her ability, this enables Toki to dominate the match, and Kuro is left ineffective. With Kuro in tears, Yū steps into the second match motivated to get back the points Kuro lost, while Senriyama hopes to use the information they gathered on her against her. || Matsumi`s dragon road has been shut down by Toki, the player from Senriyama. It is as if she can predict what tiles will be played. With such a frightening power, do any of the other players stand a chance? Source: crunchyroll

As the second match begins, Yū starts off well but soon struggles when Senriyama's Izumi Nijō figures out her play style of picking warm tiles with red characters. However, Yū makes a comeback as Izumi fails to observe that the tiles Yū draws include any which feature the color red. Then the third match is played out with Ako against Senriyama's Sera Iguchi. She manages to bring Achiga up to second place. || After Senriyama domination of the first round, Achiga is left in last place. Yuu promises to get the lost points back in her game. And Ako`s speed play disrupts the pace of the other players. Source: crunchyroll

During the fourth match featuring Arata, some tough competition puts Achiga back into third place behind Kentani. As it comes down to the last hand of the final match, Shizuno faces tough odds. However, her determination to not give up gives her the opportunity to get back into second place, allowing Achiga to proceed to the semi-finals alongside Senriyama. As the girls celebrate their victory, Harue warns that in the semi-finals, they'll not only be facing Senriyama, but Shiraitodai as well. As the girls go out to eat, they spot Harue with Kumakura, who is talking with her about potentially joining the pro circuit again. As the girls start worrying that Harue may abandon them, they run into Tsuruga Academy's Momoko Touyoko and Satomi Kanbara. || Arata’s turn at the board went well, but it didn’t provide the necessary boost to Achiga’s points. The last player, Shizu, is going in with all eyes on her and her unique but dangerous play style. Source: crunchyroll

Satomi brings the Achiga girls to her grandmother's house where they meet Tsuruga's Yumi Kajiki. Wanting to improve their skills and become stronger, the Achiga girls ask to train with them. Since they are not participating in the individual tournament, they are also allowed to battle against Kazekoshi Girls School's Mihoko Fukuji, and they soon come up against some national level play. The next day, the girls meet up Kei Arakawa and several other talented players to continue their training, whilst Kiyosumi play out their second round match. Later that evening, Shizuno spots Kumakura and confronts her about her discussions with Harue. To her relief, she learns that Harue turned down the offer of going pro, saying that she wants to stay with Achiga til the end. As Shizuno breaks the news to the others, they become determined to win the semifinals, where they face Shiraitodai, Senriyama and Shindouji Girls' High. The first round soon kicks off, with Kuro preparing to face off against Toki, Shindouji's Kirame Hanada and Shiraitodai's strongest player, Teru Miyanaga. || Tournament rules say that individual players can’t practice with players outside of their own school. Using this rule, the girls invite players to practice against their team. Source: crunchyroll

As Toki makes the first winning move, everyone starts to feel the strange power of Teru, who soon starts a winning streak that even surpasses Toki's predictions. Toki recalls the time when she was picked to be Senriyama's ace, where she revealed to Ryuuka and Sera the prediction ability she got following a collapse. Toki soon regains her confidence and helps Kirame disrupt Teru's streak. As the third South Hand begins, Teru looks set to restart her streak whilst Kuro laments that she hasn't been able to do anything. || Miyanaga Teru is known for dominating games and with each win she earns more points. Kuro hasn’t been able to make a move and the ace, Toki from Senriyama, is unable to stop her streak. Source: crunchyroll

Nodoka has a dream where she meets up with Shizuno and the others and ponders about its meeting. Meanwhile, the first half of the vanguard match finishes, with Teru still ahead, although the Achiga girls manage to figure something out about Teru's play style which they pass on to Kuro. Teru continues to dominate the second half, managing to get a 100,000 point lead over Senriyama, when Toki recalls when she previously attempted to look two turns ahead and ended up collapsing. Having secretly practised at home, Toki decides to put her double turn peek into practice. || Miyanaga Teru is unstoppable. The players are trying reaching their breaking pot and new techniques must be used. Source: crunchyroll

Toki uses her ability to look two turns into the future, enabling her to stop Teru's streak but leaving her extremely weak in the process. Meanwhile, Kirame recalls how her team chose her to be the sacrificial pawn owing to her purported ability to never go bust. As the game approaches its climax, Toki is left incredibly weak and is supposedly unable to use her ability. Meanwhile, as Saki, Nodoka and Yuki arrive at the arena, Saki appears to be preoccupied with something. As Toki remains under pressure as Teru decides to prolong the match, she recalls how her teammates supported her during a training camp. Determined to help her team, Toki decides to take a risk and attempt to look three turns into the future. || The stress of the game is starting to affect the players, some faster than others. One player in particular might not make it to the end of the game. Source: crunchyroll

As Toki pushes her body to the limit to look three turns into the future, she predicts Kuro is finally about to make her move. As Kuro is pressured into potentially discarding a dora, she recalls her friends and her late mother and decides to discard a dora, throwing off Teru's calculations and enabling her to earn some points off Teru, bringing the first match to an end. Just then, Toki collapses from her fatigue and has to be rushed to hospital. As Achiga prepares to move on to the next match, they finally run into Nodoka, both promising to do their best to reach the finals. With their resolve in place, Yū enters the fray for the second match. || Playing against a champion has forced the girls to evaluate their plays styles and never give up fighting for points. Source: crunchyroll