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Saki (咲-Saki-?) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The story revolves around a first-year high school girl named Saki Miyanaga who is brought into the competitive world of mahjong by another first-year, Nodoka Haramura. The manga has been serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan since June 2006 and has been collected into seven bound volumes in Japan as of April 2010. A 25-episode anime adaptation by Gonzo aired between April and September 2009 on TV Tokyo.

Saki Miyanaga, a high school first-year student, hates mahjong because her family would always force her to play it and punish her regardless of the outcome of the game. Due to this, she learned how to keep her score at zero, neither winning nor losing, a skill said to be more difficult than actually consistently winning. However, her friend Kyōtarō from middle school, completely unaware of such circumstances, convinces her to visit the school's small mahjong club upon entering into high school. After the club discovers her ability, they recruit her permanently and convince her to win instead of breaking even. She easily does so with her skill and discovers a new love for mahjong. This leads the team to enter the prefecture's high school mahjong tournament with the goal of reaching the national high school competition.

Written and drawn by Ritz Kobayashi, the Saki manga series is serialized in Square Enix's biweekly seinen manga magazine, Young Gangan. Serialization began in June 2006 and is still ongoing, with a new chapter in every issue. Square Enix is also collecting the chapters in bound volumes. The first volume was released on December 25, 2006, and as of April 24, 2010, seven volumes have been released.

An anime adaptation of Saki was announced in the 24th issue of Young Gangan. The series is adapted by Gonzo, directed by Manabu Ono, and written by Tatsuhiko Urahata. From episode fifteen onwards, animation production is done by Picture Magic. On January 31, 2009, a 105-second promotional video began streaming on the anime's official website. The series began airing on April 6, 2009 on TV Tokyo and its affiliate stations. It is also streamed with English subtitles on Crunchyroll.

The series has five pieces of theme music; two opening themes and three ending themes. The first opening theme is "Glossy:MMM" by Miyuki Hashimoto used between episodes 2 and 14; this was also used as the ending theme in episodes 1 and 25. The second opening theme is Bloooomin'" by Little Non used between episodes 15 and 25. The first ending theme is "Netsuretsu Kangei Wonderland" (熱烈歓迎わんだーらんど?) by Kana Ueda, Ami Koshimizu, Rie Kugimiya, Ryōko Shiraishi, and Shizuka Itō used in episodes 2-6, 8-9, and 11-14. The second ending theme is "Zankoku na Negai no Naka de" (残酷な願いの中で?) by Ueda and Koshimizu used in episodes 7, 10, 16, 18 and 22. The third ending theme is "Shikakui Uchū de Matteru yo" (四角い宇宙で待ってるよ?) by Ueda, Koshimizu, Kugimiya, Shiraishi and Itō used in episodes 15, 17, 19-21, 23-24.

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