Saki - Episode of Side A
2012 • TV Tokyo
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 2012
- Episodes
- 12
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- TV Tokyo · Square Enix · Lantis · Pony Canyon
- Genres
- Slice of Life · Sports
The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded.
Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year.
When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.
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Saki Episode of Side A was produced by Studio Gokumi and aired in 2012 as an expansion of the Saki franchise, which originally centered on the competitive world of high school mahjong. Following the success of the 2009 series based on Ritz Kobayashi’s manga, this iteration shifts the perspective to the Achiga Girls' Academy team, exploring their backstory and their journey to the national tournament. It was developed to build upon the established lore and character-driven drama that made the original series a standout in the sports-anime subgenre.
The production sought to maintain the visual style of the preceding entries, focusing on the high-tension mahjong matches that define the series’ aesthetic and thematic structure. By integrating supernatural elements into the traditional game, the series aims to emphasize the bond between the characters and their pursuit of a common goal. Upon its release, it was received as a welcomed companion piece, praised for its character development and the way it successfully wove the Achiga team’s narrative into the existing framework of the Saki universe.
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