(L) Saki manga

[Hiyono]

Just once I wish Saki would come out and stomp people right from the get-go...

[The Green One]

While that would be fun to watch, it'd make for a terrible boring match. I've said it before in the past but I think a 2nd place finish would work better for Saki this time. A close call to shake her up would give her a good chance for more character development build up the tension to face Shizu, Awai and whoever our mystery 4th turns out to be. Probably Rinkai but you never know...

[Peanutbutter]

Spoiler for ch 144:

Sawaya hasn't caught up yet, that's her plan to get some of the points back.

Sawaya supposely can choose 5 abilities to use (unconfirmed). In this round, she used up 2 already:

1. Field-Control: Make the others unable to draw a "word" tile, i.e. she will get all the word tiles.

2. "Reduce Life" (I came up with this): Make Kyouko draw the winning tile she needs, however, Kyouko got all 4 of them and Kan.

Sawaya = Toyone ver 2.

However...

[Chitanda Eru]

Well for me now, It's not important that Saki can take the 1st place or not. My attention now is what else can Sawaya do. She is "above of the league", right? I wish she can beat Nelly and take the first place at least one time. And in this semi, we still haven't had any yakuman yet, that Yakaman should go to Sawaya and it should be a dealer Yakuman, I wonder who will be dealt in that :">
In final result, may be Sawaya can't beat Saki and Nelly but it will be more interesting for me.
and... @Peanutbutter

Spoiler for asking:

Each of Sawaya's ability can be used one time or not? If it's really can used 1 time per match or day, so she wasted 2 times, right?
And about the "Reduce of life", If she used it on Saki, she will reudce her life instead of Saki :">
And... a lot of kan for this match. So Saki is not only interfered by the others to call Kan, the others call kan too. Wah.. .

[Peanutbutter]

Okay, just read the raw for Ch 144.

All I have to say is (even though I have not read it translated), this current East Round 2 has to be ranked as among the best round/plays in the series thus far and has become one of my favs. For the info, these are my other favs:

Spoiler for including Achiga spoilers:

(1) The very first game where Saki has to go for a 2 han 70 fen.
(2) Yumi's chankan against Saki.
(3) Kana's chankan against Saki.
(4) Saki's 32 000 against Koromo
(5) Toki's "3 draws ahead* round
(6) Shizuno "breaking" all of Awai's abilities (in particular, the All-Last)
(7) Saki defeating Toyone's senpu.

EDIT: Read a rough translation. Should be correct. Now to answer Eru's question:

Spoiler:

About how much Sawaya can use the abilities, this is what she said:

(Note: There's 5 clouds altogether, black, white, red, yellow and green(?)

- "Black and Yellow hasn't come back from yesterday."
- "If I used all the remaining 3 now, I'll have a tough time tomorrow, but there's no meaning if I lose now."

And she used red and black(?) in this round.

Sawaya's done? I dun know.

For now, Nelly's ability seem to be able to "copy" and "block" other people's abilities. But this has to wait until Ritz-sensei
takes a break and continue drawing.

EDIT: Maybe Sawaya's clouds and Kamui are separate sets of abilities for her to use. Hmm.. not sure myself. So
effectively, Nelly "broke" one cloud and one Kamui, instead of two clouds as I thought earlier.

[Chitanda Eru]

Originally Posted by Peanutbutter

Okay, just read the raw for Ch 144.

All I have to say is (even though I have not read it translated), this current East Round 2 has to be ranked as among the best round/plays in the series thus far and has become one of my favs. For the info, these are my other favs:

Spoiler for including Achiga spoilers:

(1) The very first game where Saki has to go for a 2 han 70 fen.
(2) Yumi's chankan against Saki.
(3) Kana's chankan against Saki.
(4) Saki's 32 000 against Koromo
(5) Toki's "3 draws ahead* round
(6) Shizuno "breaking" all of Awai's abilities (in particular, the All-Last)
(7) Saki defeating Toyone's senpu.

EDIT: Read a rough translation. Should be correct. Now to answer Eru's question:

Spoiler:

About how much Sawaya can use the abilities, this is what she said:

(Note: There's 5 clouds altogether, black, white, red, yellow and green(?)

- "Black and Yellow hasn't come back from yesterday."
- "If I used all the remaining 3 now, I'll have a tough time tomorrow, but there's no meaning if I lose now."

And she used red and black(?) in this round.

Sawaya's done? I dun know.

For now, Nelly's ability seem to be able to "copy" and "block" other people's abilities. But this has to wait until Ritz-sensei
takes a break and continue drawing.

EDIT: Maybe Sawaya's clouds and Kamui are separate sets of abilities for her to use. Hmm.. not sure myself. So
effectively, Nelly "broke" one cloud and one Kamui, instead of two clouds as I thought earlier.

Spoiler for Confusing:

Hmm, I feel so confused, do u mean each cloud represents for 1 Kamui. Anyway, Her power is absolutely stunning if it isn't limited.
And here is the score : Kyosumi 84100, Rinkai 177300, Himematsu 111300, Usuzan 27300. Maybe with the power of Nelly and that high score, Rinkai has a guarantee for the first place till the end of the match

And Usuzan has only 1 ability left. Even if it is an ultimate skill of Yakuman, It cannot help this time due to the low score. But may be two others cloud can comeback in the next hanchan.

However, it means Usuzan has no hope of going to the final cause Sawaya must use all of her power now then she will have nothing in the final. So It could be an interesting match but it's still boring someway cause the result is clearly

[Peanutbutter]

Spoiler for reply to Eru:

I am sliding towards the thought that the clouds are separate from the Kamui, since she stated the colour of the cloud when using her first ability, but not the second. For the second, she calls it the "Controller of Life" (or something like that.)

Need more people to share their views too.

P.S: Never thought I say this, but when the red cloud was used, Saki seems to be looking at it while it was beside Sawaya, and that's rather moe for some reason.

Spoiler for raw image:

[Chitanda Eru]

Originally Posted by Peanutbutter

Spoiler for reply to Eru:

I am sliding towards the thought that the clouds are separate from the Kamui, since she stated the colour of the cloud when using her first ability, but not the second. For the second, she calls it the "Controller of Life" (or something like that.)

Need more people to share their views too.

P.S: Never thought I say this, but when the red cloud was used, Saki seems to be looking at it while it was beside Sawaya, and that's rather moe for some reason.

Spoiler for raw image:

Spoiler for spoil:

Hmm, I think I undestand a little more. So u mean she have 2 ability, one is "Cloud Colour" and the other is "Controller of life". That means the "Cloud" is limited with 5 colour but the "controller of life" is permanent.

[Peanutbutter]

Originally Posted by Chitanda Eru

Spoiler for spoil:

Hmm, I think I undestand a little more. So u mean she have 2 ability, one is "Cloud Colour" and the other is "Controller of life". That means the "Cloud" is limited with 5 colour but the "controller of life" is permanent.

Spoiler:

More like 2 sets of abilities. You're right on the clouds.

Based on what I understand on the Kamui (after reading wiki), the Kamui are some gods she can invoke.

The Controller of Life is using one of the gods apparently.

EDIT: Re-reading it, there's also 3 gods when she's talking about the "Kamui" she bought.

So effectively, ya, I think she's left with 2 clouds and 2 gods.

[Kamieichi]

Those clouds are related to the world creation of Ainu myth.
https://japanesemythology.wordpress....olored-clouds/

In the myth, there were five-colored clouds and Gods used them to create the world. According to the article from Wikipedia, blue one became the sea, yellow one became the soil, red one became the treasures like gold, silver, and gems, white one became the plants, birds, beasts, fishes, insects. Remaining black one was later used for the creation of the sun and moon.

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Sawaya only has red, blue, and white one because she used black and yellow in the previous match.
In this chapter she used the red one and which lets her monopolize the honor tiles. Maybe because the honor tiles are treasure-ish, I guess.

[King-Slayer]

Chapter it out. Crazy stuff in Saki is nothing new but Sawaya has some weird abilities.

[kona~chan]

great chapter.
well done kyouko not only she able to distupt saki for made a kan now she also use saki's reaction as danger detection, great
but im interested with nelly's rinshan tho, whatever it done normally or using an ability?

[Flower]

Hafta agree that Kyouko keeping her eyes on Saki is a pretty clever strategy - helped by the fact that when Saki is not in super serious mode she wears her emotions and reactions on her sleeve.

But I found it interesting that Nelly flew under Saki's radar like she did. Perhaps Sawaya's ability was so externally "shocking" that Nelly was able to quietly submerge into the flow of the game? From some time back it was mentioned that Nelly was one of those "creatures of the flow" like Jun from Ryuumonbuchi, but a much more powerful version, on "national monster" level.

Regardless though, it looks like Kyouko has already been targeted (can Sawaya switch targets "on the fly"?), and if there is yet another player on the table that can do the "rinshan kaisho" move I wonder how that will affect her gameplay? Sawaya and Nelly are also quite dangerous, it seems.

[Chitanda Eru]

wah.. There's a lot of anti-Saki's power for this match.
Sawaya and Nelly is really strong although I still don't know what exactly Nelly's power is. Kyouko is somehow just like Shizuno, kind of anti-monster, but she uses her strategy instead of "mountain".
This semi is much better than the side A till now. All of these girl are very dangerous and strategic whereas side A had 2 auto-win-monster, powerful-stupid monster and a ridiculous mountain. However, Sawaya, Nelly and Kyouka just can be dangerous until Saki's monster mode is unlocked. After that, Saki will crush them all :">

[Rava]

Originally Posted by Flower

Hafta agree that Kyouko keeping her eyes on Saki is a pretty clever strategy - helped by the fact that when Saki is not in super serious mode she wears her emotions and reactions on her sleeve.

But I found it interesting that Nelly flew under Saki's radar like she did. Perhaps Sawaya's ability was so externally "shocking" that Nelly was able to quietly submerge into the flow of the game? From some time back it was mentioned that Nelly was one of those "creatures of the flow" like Jun from Ryuumonbuchi, but a much more powerful version, on "national monster" level.

Regardless though, it looks like Kyouko has already been targeted (can Sawaya switch targets "on the fly"?), and if there is yet another player on the table that can do the "rinshan kaisho" move I wonder how that will affect her gameplay? Sawaya and Nelly are also quite dangerous, it seems.

Maybe Nelly works by being able to leech off of the abilities of others at the table?

[Chitanda Eru]

New chapter is finally out. Sawaya said that she was Lucky cause there are times that she didn't win when using the red cloud (actually this time she didn't win too). Can I consider that means she will definitely win when she use another cloud. Moreover, It's pretty sure that the 2 other clouds that she used will come back in the 2nd hanchan (cause she said she used them in the 2nd hanchan of the last match)

If I'm not wrong, the next match Nelly will be the dealer and she might have another win before Sawaya will be really shined when the dealer is hers

[Subayai]

Sawaya was nearly certain she was going to win a daisangen. Using the red cloud doesn't guarantee winning the hand, let alone with a yakuman, that's why she said she was lucky this time. I don't know if this tells us anything about the other clouds though.

Also I checked both the original and the translation and I think Sawaya only says she used them in 2nd round (quarterfinals), she doesn't say in which hanchan. But I guess it's possible they'll come back later anyway.

[Marina2]

Shinohayu new chapter spoiler
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/katsu666/e/2ae...7314f89a9039dd

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They added blood group and height to characters info...

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4th player.

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The Match

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[King-Slayer]

Chapter is out. Well I was wrong about who advanced but eh. I liked the new girl and the way Shino acted towards everyone. Not a fan of kokoro.

[einhorn303]

Saki just got licensed in English by Yen Press: https://twitter.com/debaoki/status/617768840991109120

I would have never, ever thought this was possible. But I'm super glad it did happen! I'll definitely be getting this. I just hope it sells well enough for them to license Shinohayu too, since I like Shinohayu much more than the main series these days.