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During my Internet mostly-hiatus over the last month or two (...sorry!), one of the rumors that made the rounds stated that Gonzo would be adapting the popular Young GanGan manga Saki (咲-Saki-), about a teenage female Mahjongg player named Saki Miyanagi who joins her school's Mahjongg club, hoping to enter the National Senior High School Mahjongg Tournament. And those rumors, as it turns out, are true.

The manga is considered something of a curiosity because a Mahjongg manga with a female lead is rare. But I gotta tell you, when they'll moe-fy the periodic table, it's not much of a stretch to imagine mangaka wanting to replace, say, Akagi with a cute teenage girl.

Anyway! The TV anime will be produced by Gonzo, and should hit stations sometime in 2009.
5 Comments
Axersia on Dec. 4, 2008
I'm just happy it doesn't have ridiculously long noses.
gia on Dec. 4, 2008
Seriously! Though I hope it doesn't wind up having NO noses, like Code-E.
Kuro on Dec. 4, 2008
Is this Mahjong Witches?
Sigue on Dec. 4, 2008
WIth Gonzo at the helm we can all be sure that we'll be getting a quality show, amirite?
gia on Dec. 4, 2008
Kuro-- it doesn't look quite that moe, and they ARE wearing bottoms, even if they're skirts, so..hard to say.
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