Saki – Drenched Breasts and Mahjong

Author: nova

Bal shall be my Saki-face.

The parade of new series continues as GONZO rolls out Saki, which appears to be a mahjong-themed school life/competition anime – much less slice-of-lifeish than I expected though, instead of K-ON! it sort of reminds me of Bamboo Blade. But to cut things short for you, let’s begin with a rather spot-on definition.

(00:20:11) {!aurabolt} This is Marimite with Mahjong.

Now let us proceed with some further dissection of the topic at hand. Saki is about a girl named Saki who hates mahjong – or at least that’s what she says – but is of course a fucking imbal hax player at it. A genius in denial if you will. She’s half-forced to play with the school’s mahjong club members and appears to be just another noob, but the club prez soon sees through her disguise and wants her in the club come hell or high water. Saki herself has no intention of joining but as expected a big-breasted pink-haired silent otaku-bait Nodoka, supposedly the star player of the club whom Saki is pretty much GAR for, begs her to continue playing and in the end the sly club president tricks her into it. And I’ll be damned if she soon (next episode maybe) doesn’t realize that “I actually like playing mahjong :D“.

Continuing the GONZO’s proud tradition of BIG BOUNCING BOOBS Saki is of course riddled with boobs-butt-service, mainly focused on Nodoka. It’s interesting how her school uniform is magically sucked onto her quite ample breasts like a heat shrink wrap. The skirt length is also about as short as ever possible without making the characters look like prostitutes and this combined with the previously stated created a chance the production crew sure didn’t miss – giving Nodoka a running scene. In rain. Which after a lot of bouncing and a buttshot lead to a rather predictable outcome.

«00:23:53» {!NovaJinx} CRYIN IN THE RAIN (wet shirt + boobs)

Now this may be just my opinion but I merely found the Nodoka’s-tits-n’-ass-centered fanservice tasteless. I guess that sells – hell, there are people who even thought Dragonaut’s monsterboobs were be the best thing since peanut butter and anonymous imageboards.

This stuff might make it bearable but I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

Another issue I found with Saki was that it assumes by default that you know at least the basics of mahjong. The problem is that I do not, not the slightest bit – there was a time when I was unable to tell it apart from shogi (laugh at me now you godforsaken weeaboos). I could tell that the gaming sequences were quite intense and exciting in a way but since I was simply unable to understand what the hell was going on, I felt like a dickless man watching a porn film. And as such we arrive to the following conclusion:

«00:35:03» {!NovaJinx} okay, dropping due to nasty lesbian fanservice and the fact that I don’t understand a fuck about whatever’s going on

Bottom line: If you don’t know jack about mahjong, Saki will only serve to confuse you. Otherwise it may be worth taking a look at, kinda like Bamboo Blade with mahjong instead of kendo. And with more boobs.

P.S. Pretty much like niidel put it:

«11:00:41» {@niidel} NovaJinx: NOT SLICE OF LIFE
«11:00:42» {@niidel} BUT
«11:00:44» {@niidel} SLICE OF FLESH