History Manga / SakiAchigaHen

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

The manga received an anime adaptation that aired as part of the Spring2012Anime season. The first of the extra episodes, featuring the rest of Team Achiga's struggles against reigning champion Team Shiraitodai from West Tokyo (led by Saki's estranged older sister Teru), was released in December 2012, incidentally coinciding with the announcement of a sequel for the [[Manga/{{Saki}} main series]]. The last one was released in May 2013, making a total of four extra episodes.

* DeadpanSnarker: Unlike most IllGirl characters, Toki can be really deadpan when she sees fit to do so.

* IllGirl:
** Team Achiga's Yuu, Kuro's big sister. She's cold all the time, to the point that she has to wear a cardigan, mittens and a muffler even during ''summer''.
** Team Senriyama's Toki is even were, as she has a tendency to collapse in any given moment, and once barely survived a near-fatal illness, after which she gained her clairvoyance.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even without factoring those from the main series. CastHerd applies.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Toki and Ryuuka for Senriyama, Mairu and Himeko for Shindouji.

* BelatedBackstory: Kirame and Toki. Toki's backstory is especially pathos-inducing, while Kirame's shows that she's not just a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

* PinchMe: After she faints during the initial demonstration of her power, Toki checks whether she is in a dream by pinching... [[InvertedTrope Ryuuka's endowment]].

* CombatClairvoyance: Or Mahjong Clairvoyance]]. Toki's peculiar ability -- if she concentrates enough, she can see the hands (and moves) of her opponents up to at least one turn in the future, but if she pushes it she can foresee up to two turns. As a drawback however she loses the ability to do so for an equal number of turns. The use of this is extremely taxing on her, given that she's not so healthy to begin with, and prior to the Nationals was only done sparingly. [[spoiler:Later, Ryuuka gets the ability to channel the limited version of this ability, by ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remembering the sensation of Toki on her lap]]''.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The radar is weak in this one, but there are instances where you wonder just how they get it into a {{Shounen}} magazine.
** Case in point: the combination power of Mairu and Himeko. Mairu gets bondaged, Himeko gets ''something big'' entering her.
** When Ryuuka is drawing HeroicResolve by remembering Toki, a light appears in her cro-- er, lap, where Toki loves to rest.
--->'''Ryuuka :''' I can feel Toki right there.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''[==]'s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daxing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. Shockingly enough, the translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlator has to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote is all in capital letters in the scanlation.

[[caption-width-right:350:The OTHER side of the National Tournament bracket]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: When playing Mahjong becomes a life-threatening activity, you know the series have a turn for the darker.

* OvertookTheManga: The last TV-aired episode of the series (Episode 12) ends just a few day before its equivalent manga chapter is released (July 06, 2012).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. Shockingly enough, the translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. The translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.

''Saki Achiga-hen -episode of Side A-'' (咲 -Saki- 阿知賀編 -episode of Side-A-) is a spinoff of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', running from 2011 to 2013, written by Ritz Kobayashi and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi (of ''Manga/BambooBlade'' fame), which takes place concurrently with the main series.

!!Tropes:

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The TV season ends at the Vanguards match, while the extra episodes end with Team Achiga redeeming itself for its loss ten years ago and advancing into the finals, while Team Kiyosumi goes to their semifinals match (against quarterfinals bracket-mate Himematsu, Rinkai and Usuzan).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. The translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.
-->'''"Wennai":''' He said, in some interview, that she'd been playing alone for about 18 months. That time He spent alone was not in vain. They made her into who she is.

* CerebusSyndrome: The player whose life is threatened by her power meltdown is already clinging to life to begin with.
* CombatClairvoyance: Or Mahjong Clairvoyance]]. Toki's peculiar ability -- if she concentrates enough, she can see the hands (and moves) of her opponents up to at least one turn in the future, but if she pushes it she can foresee up to two turns. As a drawback however she loses the ability to do so for an equal number of turns. The use of this is extremely taxing on her, given that she's not so healthy to begin with, and prior to the Nationals was only done sparingly. [[spoiler:Later, Ryuuka gets the ability to channel the limited version of this ability, by ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remembering the sensation of Toki on her lap]]''.]]

* CurbStompBattle:
** Shizuno vs. Koromo. Koromo wins. [[ContinuityNod And the moon isn't even full.]]
** Teru against ''everyone''. As Kei warns Team Achiga, she's more like a force of nature than a person, and it shows [[spoiler:in the Vanguard match, where she ran away with a 100,000+ lead over everyone else, while everybody else had to gang up on Teru to survive, including Kuro, whose dora-hogging streak indirectly helped them]].

* DavidVersusGoliath:

-->'''Uta:''' Senriyama's Onjouji just played into another player's hands without having declared riichi! In her official games, this has never happened before! '''A real first time!'''\\
'''Eri:''' Did you have to emphasize it like that?!

* EvolvingCredits:
** In the same manner as the main series: whenever a crisis appears, the ED shift to a non-puni style. The happened after Team Achiga walks past Saki, whose BattleAura causes Harue and Kuro to freeze in terror, and Shizuno to flinch. Even as Saki is just [[NoSenseOfDirection trying to find her way through the competition venue]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The radar is weak in this one, but there are instances where you wonder just how they get it into a {{Shounen}} magazine.
** Case in point: the combination power of Mairu and Himeko. Mairu gets bondaged, Himeko gets ''something big'' entering her.

--->'''Ryuuka :''' I can feel Toki right there.

* IllGirl:

* InformedAbility:
** Surprisingly, Team Achiga's skill level. For much of the series, it's ''mentioned'' that the girls are very skilled, to the point that they defeat all of the second-placer schools in ten different prefectures barring Nagano's Ryuumonbuchi, but it seems that whenever they're pitted against characters from the main series -- Koromo, then Yumi, Momo, Kana, and Mihoko while in Tokyo -- the viewer never gets to ''see'' them win.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Thus Harue treats becoming coach for Team Achiga to be her one last chance to overcome the semifinals, [[spoiler:and the Achiga team does]]. She even declines an offer from a pro-scout until her students reach the finals.

* OhCrap:
** The Achiga girls' reaction [[spoiler:upon knowing that they have to fight Shiratodai in their second match]].

* OpeningShoutOut:
** The animation used in the opening is a shout-out to the original ''Saki'''s first opening.

* PowerStrainBlackout:
** Toki, the first time she tries demonstrating her prescience. When she comes to, she realizes that she's falling to the floor.
--->'''Toki:''' [[MaleGaze I see Ryuuka's thighs. Why are they upside-down?]]

--->'''Toki:''' The floor here is colder than the school.

%%* TrainingMontage

* UnknownRival:
** Shizuno, the main character, considers herself a rival to Nodoka. She assembles a mahjong club just to get to the nationals and challenge her again. Meanwhile in the main manga, Nodoka has lost touch with her friends from Nara until she recognizes Kuro on TV, and meets with the Achiga team again after the Vanguard match of the semi-finals.
--->'''Shizuno:''' (''facing the scenery outside the opened windows'') Alright! Just you wait, Nodoka!\\
'''Kuro:''' Nagano is in the opposite direction, you know.\\
'''Shizuno:''' Ah yeah, I just feel like it!

* TheWorfEffect:
** Interestingly, Koromo suffers from it in regard to Saki. She, one of the only players that Achiga has never defeated, mentions that she lost to Saki. This makes Saki looks [[BattleAura utterly terrifying]] when Shizuno happens to pass her by in Tokyo.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Or barely lift a Mahjong tile... the result of Toki's multiple use of Double.

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''Saki Achiga-hen -episode of Side A-'' (咲 -Saki- 阿知賀編 -episode of Side-A-) is a spinoff of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', running from 2011 to 2013, written by Ritz Kobayashi and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi (of ''Manga/BambooBlade'' fame), which takes place concurrently with the main series.

!!Tropes:

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The TV season ends at the Vanguards match, while the extra episodes end with Team Achiga redeeming itself for its loss ten years ago and advancing into the finals, while Team Kiyosumi goes to their semifinals match (against quarterfinals bracket-mate Himematsu, Rinkai and Usuzan).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. The translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.
-->'''"Wennai":''' He said, in some interview, that she'd been playing alone for about 18 months. That time He spent alone was not in vain. They made her into who she is.

* CerebusSyndrome: The player whose life is threatened by her power meltdown is already clinging to life to begin with.
* CombatClairvoyance: Or Mahjong Clairvoyance]]. Toki's peculiar ability -- if she concentrates enough, she can see the hands (and moves) of her opponents up to at least one turn in the future, but if she pushes it she can foresee up to two turns. As a drawback however she loses the ability to do so for an equal number of turns. The use of this is extremely taxing on her, given that she's not so healthy to begin with, and prior to the Nationals was only done sparingly. [[spoiler:Later, Ryuuka gets the ability to channel the limited version of this ability, by ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remembering the sensation of Toki on her lap]]''.]]

* CurbStompBattle:
** Shizuno vs. Koromo. Koromo wins. [[ContinuityNod And the moon isn't even full.]]
** Teru against ''everyone''. As Kei warns Team Achiga, she's more like a force of nature than a person, and it shows [[spoiler:in the Vanguard match, where she ran away with a 100,000+ lead over everyone else, while everybody else had to gang up on Teru to survive, including Kuro, whose dora-hogging streak indirectly helped them]].

* DavidVersusGoliath:

-->'''Uta:''' Senriyama's Onjouji just played into another player's hands without having declared riichi! In her official games, this has never happened before! '''A real first time!'''\\
'''Eri:''' Did you have to emphasize it like that?!

* EvolvingCredits:
** In the same manner as the main series: whenever a crisis appears, the ED shift to a non-puni style. The happened after Team Achiga walks past Saki, whose BattleAura causes Harue and Kuro to freeze in terror, and Shizuno to flinch. Even as Saki is just [[NoSenseOfDirection trying to find her way through the competition venue]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The radar is weak in this one, but there are instances where you wonder just how they get it into a {{Shounen}} magazine.
** Case in point: the combination power of Mairu and Himeko. Mairu gets bondaged, Himeko gets ''something big'' entering her.

--->'''Ryuuka :''' I can feel Toki right there.

* IllGirl:

* InformedAbility:
** Surprisingly, Team Achiga's skill level. For much of the series, it's ''mentioned'' that the girls are very skilled, to the point that they defeat all of the second-placer schools in ten different prefectures barring Nagano's Ryuumonbuchi, but it seems that whenever they're pitted against characters from the main series -- Koromo, then Yumi, Momo, Kana, and Mihoko while in Tokyo -- the viewer never gets to ''see'' them win.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Thus Harue treats becoming coach for Team Achiga to be her one last chance to overcome the semifinals, [[spoiler:and the Achiga team does]]. She even declines an offer from a pro-scout until her students reach the finals.

* OhCrap:
** The Achiga girls' reaction [[spoiler:upon knowing that they have to fight Shiratodai in their second match]].

* OpeningShoutOut:
** The animation used in the opening is a shout-out to the original ''Saki'''s first opening.

* PowerStrainBlackout:
** Toki, the first time she tries demonstrating her prescience. When she comes to, she realizes that she's falling to the floor.
--->'''Toki:''' [[MaleGaze I see Ryuuka's thighs. Why are they upside-down?]]

--->'''Toki:''' The floor here is colder than the school.

%%* TrainingMontage

* UnknownRival:
** Shizuno, the main character, considers herself a rival to Nodoka. She assembles a mahjong club just to get to the nationals and challenge her again. Meanwhile in the main manga, Nodoka has lost touch with her friends from Nara until she recognizes Kuro on TV, and meets with the Achiga team again after the Vanguard match of the semi-finals.
--->'''Shizuno:''' (''facing the scenery outside the opened windows'') Alright! Just you wait, Nodoka!\\
'''Kuro:''' Nagano is in the opposite direction, you know.\\
'''Shizuno:''' Ah yeah, I just feel like it!

* TheWorfEffect:
** Interestingly, Koromo suffers from it in regard to Saki. She, one of the only players that Achiga has never defeated, mentions that she lost to Saki. This makes Saki looks [[BattleAura utterly terrifying]] when Shizuno happens to pass her by in Tokyo.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Or barely lift a Mahjong tile... the result of Toki's multiple use of Double.

----

''Saki Achiga-hen -episode of Side A-'' (咲 -Saki- 阿知賀編 -episode of Side-A-) is a spinoff of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', running from 2011 to 2013, written by Ritz Kobayashi and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi (of ''Manga/BambooBlade'' fame), which takes place concurrently with the main series.

!!Tropes:

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The TV season ends at the Vanguards match, while the extra episodes end with Team Achiga redeeming itself for its loss ten years ago and advancing into the finals, while Team Kiyosumi goes to their semifinals match (against quarterfinals bracket-mate Himematsu, Rinkai and Usuzan).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. The translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.
-->'''"Wennai":''' He said, in some interview, that she'd been playing alone for about 18 months. That time He spent alone was not in vain. They made her into who she is.

* CerebusSyndrome: The player whose life is threatened by her power meltdown is already clinging to life to begin with.
* CombatClairvoyance: Or Mahjong Clairvoyance]]. Toki's peculiar ability -- if she concentrates enough, she can see the hands (and moves) of her opponents up to at least one turn in the future, but if she pushes it she can foresee up to two turns. As a drawback however she loses the ability to do so for an equal number of turns. The use of this is extremely taxing on her, given that she's not so healthy to begin with, and prior to the Nationals was only done sparingly. [[spoiler:Later, Ryuuka gets the ability to channel the limited version of this ability, by ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remembering the sensation of Toki on her lap]]''.]]

* CurbStompBattle:
** Shizuno vs. Koromo. Koromo wins. [[ContinuityNod And the moon isn't even full.]]
** Teru against ''everyone''. As Kei warns Team Achiga, she's more like a force of nature than a person, and it shows [[spoiler:in the Vanguard match, where she ran away with a 100,000+ lead over everyone else, while everybody else had to gang up on Teru to survive, including Kuro, whose dora-hogging streak indirectly helped them]].

* DavidVersusGoliath:

-->'''Uta:''' Senriyama's Onjouji just played into another player's hands without having declared riichi! In her official games, this has never happened before! '''A real first time!'''\\
'''Eri:''' Did you have to emphasize it like that?!

* EvolvingCredits:
** In the same manner as the main series: whenever a crisis appears, the ED shift to a non-puni style. The happened after Team Achiga walks past Saki, whose BattleAura causes Harue and Kuro to freeze in terror, and Shizuno to flinch. Even as Saki is just [[NoSenseOfDirection trying to find her way through the competition venue]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The radar is weak in this one, but there are instances where you wonder just how they get it into a {{Shounen}} magazine.
** Case in point: the combination power of Mairu and Himeko. Mairu gets bondaged, Himeko gets ''something big'' entering her.

--->'''Ryuuka :''' I can feel Toki right there.

* IllGirl:

* InformedAbility:
** Surprisingly, Team Achiga's skill level. For much of the series, it's ''mentioned'' that the girls are very skilled, to the point that they defeat all of the second-placer schools in ten different prefectures barring Nagano's Ryuumonbuchi, but it seems that whenever they're pitted against characters from the main series -- Koromo, then Yumi, Momo, Kana, and Mihoko while in Tokyo -- the viewer never gets to ''see'' them win.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Thus Harue treats becoming coach for Team Achiga to be her one last chance to overcome the semifinals, [[spoiler:and the Achiga team does]]. She even declines an offer from a pro-scout until her students reach the finals.

* OhCrap:
** The Achiga girls' reaction [[spoiler:upon knowing that they have to fight Shiratodai in their second match]].

* OpeningShoutOut:
** The animation used in the opening is a shout-out to the original ''Saki'''s first opening.

* PowerStrainBlackout:
** Toki, the first time she tries demonstrating her prescience. When she comes to, she realizes that she's falling to the floor.
--->'''Toki:''' [[MaleGaze I see Ryuuka's thighs. Why are they upside-down?]]

--->'''Toki:''' The floor here is colder than the school.

%%* TrainingMontage

* UnknownRival:
** Shizuno, the main character, considers herself a rival to Nodoka. She assembles a mahjong club just to get to the nationals and challenge her again. Meanwhile in the main manga, Nodoka has lost touch with her friends from Nara until she recognizes Kuro on TV, and meets with the Achiga team again after the Vanguard match of the semi-finals.
--->'''Shizuno:''' (''facing the scenery outside the opened windows'') Alright! Just you wait, Nodoka!\\
'''Kuro:''' Nagano is in the opposite direction, you know.\\
'''Shizuno:''' Ah yeah, I just feel like it!

* TheWorfEffect:
** Interestingly, Koromo suffers from it in regard to Saki. She, one of the only players that Achiga has never defeated, mentions that she lost to Saki. This makes Saki looks [[BattleAura utterly terrifying]] when Shizuno happens to pass her by in Tokyo.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Or barely lift a Mahjong tile... the result of Toki's multiple use of Double.

----

''Saki Achiga-hen -episode of Side A-'' (咲 -Saki- 阿知賀編 -episode of Side-A-) is a spinoff of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', running from 2011 to 2013, written by Ritz Kobayashi and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi (of ''Manga/BambooBlade'' fame), which takes place concurrently with the main series.

!!Tropes:

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The TV season ends at the Vanguards match, while the extra episodes end with Team Achiga redeeming itself for its loss ten years ago and advancing into the finals, while Team Kiyosumi goes to their semifinals match (against quarterfinals bracket-mate Himematsu, Rinkai and Usuzan).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Much to everyone's horror, ''Achiga-hen'' gets its own version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s infamous DUWANG scans for its last few chapters, due to the delay in the good scanslators receiving cleaned scans and the spoilers usually appearing on the (mostly Chinese) Baidu forums. The result? Scripts directly copied and pasted from those forums, resulting in gems like Daixing Dan[[note]]Oohoshi Awai, not DiscoDan.[[/note]] and Gaoya "Wen" Wennai[[note]]Takakamo "Shizu" Shizuno[[/note]], and generally causing a whole lot of confusion for readers. The translation is actually official -- that's how ''[[Manga/{{Saki}} Mahjong Genius Girls]]'' is translated in the Chinese edition -- and it gives us the uber {{badass}} name '''Lionghua'''[[note]]Dragon Flower, i.e. Ryuuka[[/note]]. Amusingly enough, Haramura Nodoka is called "Yuancun He", and the scanlators have to point out that it's not a male pronoun, but her name. Note that the following quote has no capital letters in the scanlation.
-->'''"Wennai":''' He said, in some interview, that she'd been playing alone for about 18 months. That time He spent alone was not in vain. They made her into who she is.

* CerebusSyndrome: The player whose life is threatened by her power meltdown is already clinging to life to begin with.
* CombatClairvoyance: Or Mahjong Clairvoyance]]. Toki's peculiar ability -- if she concentrates enough, she can see the hands (and moves) of her opponents up to at least one turn in the future, but if she pushes it she can foresee up to two turns. As a drawback however she loses the ability to do so for an equal number of turns. The use of this is extremely taxing on her, given that she's not so healthy to begin with, and prior to the Nationals was only done sparingly. [[spoiler:Later, Ryuuka gets the ability to channel the limited version of this ability, by ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remembering the sensation of Toki on her lap]]''.]]

* CurbStompBattle:
** Shizuno vs. Koromo. Koromo wins. [[ContinuityNod And the moon isn't even full.]]
** Teru against ''everyone''. As Kei warns Team Achiga, she's more like a force of nature than a person, and it shows [[spoiler:in the Vanguard match, where she ran away with a 100,000+ lead over everyone else, while everybody else had to gang up on Teru to survive, including Kuro, whose dora-hogging streak indirectly helped them]].

* DavidVersusGoliath:

-->'''Uta:''' Senriyama's Onjouji just played into another player's hands without having declared riichi! In her official games, this has never happened before! '''A real first time!'''\\
'''Eri:''' Did you have to emphasize it like that?!

* EvolvingCredits:
** In the same manner as the main series: whenever a crisis appears, the ED shift to a non-puni style. The happened after Team Achiga walks past Saki, whose BattleAura causes Harue and Kuro to freeze in terror, and Shizuno to flinch. Even as Saki is just [[NoSenseOfDirection trying to find her way through the competition venue]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The radar is weak in this one, but there are instances where you wonder just how they get it into a {{Shounen}} magazine.
** Case in point: the combination power of Mairu and Himeko. Mairu gets bondaged, Himeko gets ''something big'' entering her.

--->'''Ryuuka :''' I can feel Toki right there.

* IllGirl:

* InformedAbility:
** Surprisingly, Team Achiga's skill level. For much of the series, it's ''mentioned'' that the girls are very skilled, to the point that they defeat all of the second-placer schools in ten different prefectures barring Nagano's Ryuumonbuchi, but it seems that whenever they're pitted against characters from the main series -- Koromo, then Yumi, Momo, Kana, and Mihoko while in Tokyo -- the viewer never gets to ''see'' them win.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Thus Harue treats becoming coach for Team Achiga to be her one last chance to overcome the semifinals, [[spoiler:and the Achiga team does]]. She even declines an offer from a pro-scout until her students reach the finals.

* OhCrap:
** The Achiga girls' reaction [[spoiler:upon knowing that they have to fight Shiratodai in their second match]].

* OpeningShoutOut:
** The animation used in the opening is a shout-out to the original ''Saki'''s first opening.

* PowerStrainBlackout:
** Toki, the first time she tries demonstrating her prescience. When she comes to, she realizes that she's falling to the floor.
--->'''Toki:''' [[MaleGaze I see Ryuuka's thighs. Why are they upside-down?]]

--->'''Toki:''' The floor here is colder than the school.

%%* TrainingMontage

* UnknownRival:
** Shizuno, the main character, considers herself a rival to Nodoka. She assembles a mahjong club just to get to the nationals and challenge her again. Meanwhile in the main manga, Nodoka has lost touch with her friends from Nara until she recognizes Kuro on TV, and meets with the Achiga team again after the Vanguard match of the semi-finals.
--->'''Shizuno:''' (''facing the scenery outside the opened windows'') Alright! Just you wait, Nodoka!\\
'''Kuro:''' Nagano is in the opposite direction, you know.\\
'''Shizuno:''' Ah yeah, I just feel like it!

* TheWorfEffect:
** Interestingly, Koromo suffers from it in regard to Saki. She, one of the only players that Achiga has never defeated, mentions that she lost to Saki. This makes Saki looks [[BattleAura utterly terrifying]] when Shizuno happens to pass her by in Tokyo.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Or barely lift a Mahjong tile... the result of Toki's multiple use of Double.

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