Saki Zenkoku-hen (National Tournament Arc)
 

Via official twitter:
It says what the title of the thread is. Nothing's been said about season or length yet, but Side-B will be aired on TV!

Edit: Here's the PV shown at the Saki festival today (Starts at 1:58 after Achiga previews):


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Oh my gawd, oh my gawd! My fanboy tears are coming out.

Looks like we're seeing the stuff for the rest of the 3 episodes in Achiga-hen, especially Shindouji's final two, which is very intriguing.

Also, who will voice Awai and Jindai? :heh:

We're finally going to see Nationals animated w00t w00t w00t! This and the announcement of Achiga's 13th episode just made my day.

Seeing Saki, Nodoka and company in cameos in Achiga was nice, but seeing them in the spotlight once again will be even better.

ah... so episode 13 is for december and they don't show any spoiler for Awai's ability in that preview.

good good good

more Saki fever and its good to see Saki torment someone but lol in the ending. That part is when she walks in the corridor and the achiga seeing her. That part was priceless but in reality. The ending part of this preview shows what's happening.

omg the best news!!!! can't wasit for saki and her rinshan

Well this is great news, I can't wait :).

Assuming things ends with Achiga and the main team in the finals, I really look forwarded to Hisa vs Ako vs ??? vs ??? round :heh:.

That skirt, that Buchou's skirt!

Finally more Kiyosumi! (Though I actually like Achiga more now)

Woohoo! Looking forward to this. Need more Saki Kamisama modo! :D

Look like next year Saimoe will be full of Saki again :heh:

Yeah! I can't wait to see abilities of the rest characters.

I'm rooting for Senriyama to win Side A though. It feels terrible if Senriyama doesn't win the other side after the hell Toki went through.

So you want Toki to go against Teru again? :p

And you want to see more Kuro crying instead?:p

I feel bad for Senriyama girls too but it's obvious that Achiga and Shiraitodai would be in finals from Side A

I can't image how will Ryuuka feel when her team lost.

Should she feel sad because everything Toki did become meaningless?
Should she feel happy because Toki won't have to face Teru and risk her life again?

Oh, the long wait for this series... :(

But since then, my mahjong powers have grown. Bwahahahaha :D (But not enough yet)

I wonder how long or on what part of the tournament will Kiyosumi be in the manga by the time the anime of it will start airing.

This is what I was waiting for as I haven't really followed Side A or whatever due to it having a totally different cast, but this I suppose marks the proper return of Super Moe Moe Moejong. The first series was pretty fun even if it seemed that everyone who wasn't a girl in the Saki universe just kind of flat out blows at Mahjong.

Well, there exists some powerful male players in the Sakiverse -- except, they're unknowns. Why waste extra screen time on them? Kyoutaro played some of 'em -- and was utterly destroyed.