Xebek’s Blog

At first I wasn’t even going to watch this series. I know nothing of Mahjong and have a lot of stuff going on that I don’t really care to learn about it, so I figured this series wouldn’t interest me. However after a couple of the series I did pick to watch ended up being either not very good or really just not with what interested me, I decided to give this a try. I was very surprised with how much I ended up liking it. Even with no knowledge of Mahjong it was interesting. It wasn’t because of these complicated hands that I’m sure I’d appreciate much more if I knew of the game, despite that the characters and just the situation was very fun to see It was interesting seeing this person who didn’t try and win kind of shake up someone who always wins. Her interest in the game and motivations, things like that are what makes this series interesting. It could very easily be applied to any game or activity and I think I would have the same feelings for it; so far it has caught my attention.

I do think there are some interesting possibilities for this series to come. First off the rivalry friendship developing between Saki and Nodoka, not to mention perhaps some yuri action… Also simple things like Saki just flat out getting beat by some much better player shaking up her confidence and affecting her character development and just simple things for a series focused on a sport or activity would focus on like losing for first time, running into people with different views on what the game is about and simple things like that. I think there will be plenty of fun moments to come so I’m going to keep watching it.