Kei Arakawa

Kei Arakawa (荒川 憩 Arakawa Kei) is a second year member of the Sangamaki mahjong club in North Oosaka. She was last years individual tournament runner up after Teru Miyanaga. Kei also appears at the end of the Saki Anime as one of the strong opponents in the national individual tournament. It was stated that she is one of the few people that can put up a good fight against Shiratodai.

Appearance
Kei is always seen wearing her nurse outfit. She has brown hair matching with her brown eyes.

Personality
Kei is a very friendly who was the only one who accepted to help Achiga when they called and she is constantly seen smiling.

Playing Style/Abilities
Although it is not fully shown, Kei gets an exponentially good chance to get high-scoring hands if she doesn't win for a few turns in the Achiga and Zenkoku-hen games where she is the individual tournament runner up which indicates that she is indeed a national class monster.

Kei has stated that her ability is perfect for playing against Teru Miyanaga.

Preparation Arc
All of the Achiga Girls mahjong members were not able to defeat her during a friendly match between their schools. However her school ended up losing the match, despite her strength.

Final Eight Arc
Kei appears to help the Achiga mahjong club get stronger in order to prepare for their semi-finals match. She was the only one to answer their call to play and ended up calling some of her friends from the individual tournament to help out. At halftime of the side B quarterfinals, she asks the Achiga girls if they are okay not watching the matches and says that there are others who might want to see their match. After Rise says that its alright, Kei says that its fine but there is a tv in the lobby just in case.

She appears in a flashback of Satoha Tsujigaito when they played each other from the Inter High Individuals last year.

National Championship Arc
Kei watches the championship game with Ranko Nakiri and was praised by her for stopping Teru. She says that although her ability is perfect against her, she didn't do it alone.

After the vanguard match, Ranko says that Teru isn't human and asked Kei if the power is really that different. Kei explains that Teru is beyond normal humans and they are very different. She then says she hopes to shorten that distance this year.

Etymology

 * The name Kei means "rest" (憩).
 * Kei's surname Arakawa means "rough" (荒) (ara) and "riverm stream" (川) (kawa).

Trivia

 * In a recent blog, Ritz says that Kei would love to work in the medical sector someday.