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Saki (TV)

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[ adapted from Saki (manga) ]
Alternative title:
Saki - The Player
咲-Saki- (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Themes: mahjong, school, yuri
Plot Summary: Miyanaga Saki is a first year high school girl whose family would get angry if she won the family mahjong games. But losing would also have its consequences. Because of this she develops a new way of playing that allows her to stay on the thin line between winning and losing, the +/- zero score, an almost impossible score. In a game that relies mainly on luck, the +/- zero score is harder than winning, but Saki can achieve this every time. Having always hated the game, her friend from middle school, Suga Kyotoro, forces her to play in the schools mahjong club. Her developed skill and superhuman luck has made her a worthy mahjong opponent, even to the middle schools national mahjong champion.
Video:
User Ratings: 174 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:6, Rus.sub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 36 votes (sub:35, ?:1)
 Very good: 58 votes (sub:55, Spa.sub:2, dub:1)
 Good: 32 votes (sub:31, raw:1)
 Decent: 19 votes (sub:18, ?:1)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:10, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, raw:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 398 users, rank: #1250
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.391 (Good+.39), std. dev.: 1.7377, rank: #1054
Weighted mean: 7.289 (Good+.28), rank: #1068 (seen all: 7.43 / seen some: 7.55 / won't finish: 4.20)
Bayesian estimate: 7.301 (Good+.30), rank: #847
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage: 2009-04-05 to 2009-09-27
Opening Theme:
#1: "Glossy:MMM" by Miyuki Hashimoto
#2: "bloooomin'" by Little Non
Ending Theme:
#1: "Netsuretsu Kangei Wonderland (熱烈歓迎わんだーらんど)" by Kana Ueda, Ami Koshimizu, Rie Kugimiya, Ryoko Shiraishi and Shizuka Itou
#2: "Zankoku na Negai no Naka de (残酷な願いの中で)" by Kana Ueda and Ami Koshimizu (eps 7,10,16,18,22)
#3: "Shikakui Uchuu de Matteru yo (四角い宇宙で待ってるよ)" by Kana Ueda, Ami Koshimizu, Rie Kugimiya, Ryoko Shiraishi and Shizuka Itou
Official website:
「咲-Saki-」アニメスペシャルサイト (Japanese)
テレビ東京・あにてれ 咲-Saki- (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 1
In the news 23 times:
2009-11-17   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, November 9-15
2009-11-10   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, November 2-8
2009-10-20   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, October 12-18
2009-10-14   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, October 5-11
2009-10-09   Producer: No Square-Enix Anime Lost Money in 8 Years
2009-09-16   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, September 7-13
2009-09-08   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, August 31-September 6
2009-08-25   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, August 17-23
2009-08-12   Saki Website Launches Mahjong Mini-Game Online
2009-07-21   Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, July 13-19 (Updated)
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Manabu Ono

Series Composition: Tatsuhiko Urahata

Screenplay: Tatsuhiko Urahata

Original creator: Ritz Kobayashi

Character Design: Masakatsu Sasaki

Art director: Hiroki Matsumoto

Chief Animation Director: Masakatsu Sasaki

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Koujirou Hayashi

Art Setting: Hiroki Matsumoto

Assistant director: Kenji Seto

Color design: Hiromi Uchibayashi

Editing: Akinori Mishima

Key Animation: Shingo Fujii (ep 5/ED3)

Theme Song Performance:
Ami Koshimizu (ED/ED2/ED3)
Kana Ueda (ED/ED2/ED3)
Little Non (OP2)
Miyuki Hashimoto (OP)
Rie Kugimiya (ED/ED3)
Ryoko Shiraishi (ED/ED3)
Shizuka Itou (ED/ED3)

 

Ami Koshimizu as Nodoka Haramura

Jun Fukuyama as Kyōtarō Suga

Kana Ueda as Saki Miyanaga

Rie Kugimiya as Yūki Kataoka

Ryoko Shiraishi as Mako Someya

Shizuka Itou as Hisa Takei

Kaori Fukuhara as Koromo Amae

Minori Chihara as Tōka Ryūmonbuchi

Ai Matayoshi as Seika Bundō

Ai Shimizu as Hajime Kunihiro

Ai Tokunaga as Maho Yumeno

Ayuru Ōhashi as Tomoki Sawamura

Chiro Kanzaki as Miharu Yoshitone

Daisuke Ono as Hagiyoshi

Hideki Nakanishi as Student (ep 7)

Hideki Tasaka as Announcer (ep 20)

Houchu Ohtsuka as Nanpo's Grandfather

Jouji Nakata as Nodoka's Father, Narrator

Kazuki Shimizu as Male player (ep 21)

Keisuke Koumoto as Famires waiter (ep 20)

Kokoro Tanaka as Male player (ep 21)

Kotomi Yamakawa as Megumi Kamigaki

Mai Nakahara as Teru Miyanaga

Mai Toudou as
Kazuko Nagamori
Yūko Murohashi

Mami Kosuge as
Announcer
Junko Nishida

Mana Hirata as Female student (ep 1)

Masato Funaki as Customer (ep 4)

Masaya Onosaka as Saki's Father

Masumi Asano as Yasuko Fujita

Miho Yamada as Takako Kubo

Miki Inase as
Female student (ep 1)
PC voice

Minoru Shiraishi as
Announcer
Vice-president

Mitsuki Saiga as
Sumire Hirose
Sumiyo Fukabori

Momoko Saito as Momoko Tōyoko

Natsuko Kuwatani as Satomi Kanbara

Rika Morinaga as Kana Ikeda

Ryoko Shintani as Kaori Senou

Shin Nanasawa as Mutsuki Tsuyama

Shiori Mikami as Yōko Kadomatsu

Shōhei Nakajima as Man (ep 6)

Shūhei Takubo as Guard (ep 10)

Takashi Nagasako as Ramen shopkeeper (ep 8)

Takayuki Sakazume as Customer (ep 4)

Takuma Terashima as Book committee member (ep 1)

Tomoyuki Higuchi as Teacher (ep 4)

Tsuyoshi Koyama as Daisuke Yamaguchi

Yoriko Nagata as
Ayumu Sugino
Female interviewer (ep 21)

Yu Kobayashi as Yumi Kajiki

Yui Horie as Mihoko Fukuji

Yuka Saitou as Mai Tanaka

Yukito Souma as Student (ep 7)

Yuko Kaida as Jun Inoue

Yuko Sanpei as Kazue Nanpo

Yūko Seiwa as Yuri Tsuchiya

Japanese companies 

3DCG Production: SANZIGEN Animation Studio

Animation Production:
Gonzo
Picture Magic (ep. 15 -)

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2009-05-06)
TV Aichi (2009-04-06)
TV Hokkaido (2009-04-14)
TV Osaka (2009-04-10)
TV Setouchi (2009-04-08)
TV Tokyo (2009-04-05)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2009-04-07)

English staff 
English cast 

Translation: Sam Pinansky

Subtitle Timing: Sam Pinansky

 (none)
English companies 

Subtitles: MX Media LLC

Translation: MX Media LLC

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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