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[[Character Title|Saki]] is in her first year of highschool. One day, while sitting down by the river, she notices a very beautiful girl the same age as her pass by, a girl she's fated to meet later. After lunch, her friend Kyoutarou drags her along to play with the Mahjong club despite Saki insisting that she hates the game. At the Mahjong club, she formally meets the beautiful girl and finds out her name is Nodoka and she was the middle school Mahjong champion last year. They play a few rounds and Nodoka wins.

 

In addition to the spinoff two 4koma series, ''Saki - Biyori'' and its follow-up ''Otona no Maki'' have been serialized. The 4koma mostly focuses on the (often comedic and silly) experiences of the girls from the schools that Kiyosumi (and later, Achiga) have played against, such as Ryuumonbuchi, Kazekoshi, and Tsuruga, though there are also chapters devoted to both Kiyosumi and Achiga.

 

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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Absurdly Powerful Mahjong Club]]: When viewed from a distance, the building of the Mahjong club looks really out of place. It's a Medieval European-style ''house'' on the rooftop of a typical modern Japanese school building. The actual student congress is normal, occupying a room that's just enough to hold meetings.

* [[All-Star Cast]]: Many of the seiyuu in this series are known for very famous roles.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: The president of the mahjong club is usually also one of the most skilled members.

* [[Batman Gambit]] and [[Forbidden Chekhov's Gun]]: All over the place.

* [[Beach Episode]]: Episode 20, where the Kiyosumi and Ryuumonbuchi teams meet up at an indoor pool. The ending sequence for the second half of the series also shows all the teams at the beach.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The "DFLL" computer in the commentators' booth, and the book titled "Rord of the Rings".

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|Saki's discovery that Teru publicly disowned her.}}

* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Kiyosumi is a perpetual underdog team.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Nary a harsh feeling from the lambasted. Represented best by Yumi, who provided battle data of the national monsters for the Kiyosumi. She collected the data herself.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: In one of the matches of the individual tournament, ''everyone'' gangs up on Saki. {{spoiler|Needless to say, it doesn't work.}}

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: Mako's family's mahjong [[Maid Cafe]]; a nice reason to see Saki and Nodoka dress up. And play more mahjong.

* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: The male and female tournaments are separated. Given that this anime's main character is a girl, it makes sense they'd focus on the girl's tournament.

* [[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.

* [[Joshikousei]]: But of course.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: At the beginning of the Nationals arc in the manga, Saki admits that she had accidentally worn Mako's skirt (Which is longer than hers) to 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.)

* [[Male Gaze]]: The anime has a special emphasis on the character's sweaty thighs

* [[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.

* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|My Mahjong is Stronger Than Yours]]: Why of course.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Plenty of these moments to go around.

* [[Old School Building]]: The location of the Mahjong club (in the attic).

* [[Overtook the Manga]]: The last match of the regionals ended in the manga two days before it ended in anime.

* [[Panty Shot]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]; The girls look like they're not even ''wearing'' underwear.

* [[Pinky Swear]]: Saki and Nodoka ("No holding back?")

* [[Pluralses]]: Momoko is subtitled like this, though it's really more of a [[Verbal Tic]].

* [[Puni Plush]]: Everything except for the [[Conspicuous CG|boards]].

* [[Real Place Background]]: Frequently utilized.

* [[Tournament Arc]]: Prefectural tournament in season one. Presumably, the Nationals will be covered in season two.

* [[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.

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Some of the players on Eisui All-Girl's School's team didn't think much of Kiyosumi because the regional tournament they won only featured twenty schools, but still give them some respect because they managed to beat Koromo and the rest of Ryuumonbuchi. {{spoiler|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.}}

* [[Unrelated Effects]]: The Mahjong games are ''full'' of them.

** Hajime's casual clothing pretty much excludes the possibility of her wearing underwear.

* [[Visual Pun]]: The third ending sequence has an octopus (''tako'') holding a taco.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Akagi]]'' Meets ''[[Hitohira]]''. Saki can be seen as a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Mugi, for one.

** Too good not to include, [[Warhammer 40,000]] meets Saki in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5588822/1/Saki_The_Gamer this fic].

 

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