Mahjong in other media

Aside from Saki, riichi mahjong is featured in various other series.

Mahjong is featured

 * Ten - Tenho Doori No Kaidanji
 * Ten is Nobuyuki Fukumoto's first work. It is relatively realistic, and consists primarily of a large tournament arc. Later rounds of the tournament involve unique rulesets, such as tag-team no-gain mangan-restriction mahjong.


 * Akagi
 * Akagi is a seinen work that was first published in a mahjong magazine. It is a prequel to Ten. The mahjong is a bit more realistic than Saki, with more emphasis on observation skills. There is also a lot more emphasis on cheating. Matches typically involve Yakuza and large amounts of money. Later portions describe "Washizu mahjong", where 3/4 of the tiles are transparent.


 * Yamima no Mamiya
 * A sort of a sequel to Akagi, featuring the young girl Mamiya as the main character. Features a new ruleset called "Yami Mahjong", where players can pay points to hide their discards, and reveal their opponent's hidden discards.


 * HERO
 * Sequel to Ten, starring Hiroyuki Igawa from it. Continues the fairly realistic underground mahjong setting of the series, but features some unusual rules and cheating methods. Hiroyuki's observation skills are his main way of winning.


 * Atsuize Pen-chan


 * Atsuize Tenma


 * Washizu - Enma no Touhai
 * Shorter works by Fukumoto. Pen-chan is realistic and humorous, Tenma unrealistic and Washizu (prequel to Akagi of sorts) focuses mostly on psychological trickery.


 * Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
 * Features the titular character trying to make a living by playing high-stakes mahjong. Cheating techniques that aren't usable on modern mahjong tables are emphasized.


 * Jansou no Saeki-san
 * A 4-koma comedy manga. The main character Saeki works at a mahjong parlor, and is very skilled at mahjong but clumsy in everything else.


 * Naki no Ryuu
 * The story of the games of Ryuu, the "crying dragon", who stuns his opponents with unpredictable open hands. In the background is a yakuza turf war.


 * Mahjong Club
 * Tells the story of a boys' high school mahjong club. Fairly realistic, although potential yakuman hands tend to appear often.


 * Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku
 * Political satire that involves world politicians like Junichiro Koizumi, Vladimir Putin and George Bush playing mahjong to settle international issues. Extremely unrealistic, with yakumans a common occurence and power levels measurable with scouters.


 * Muteki no Hito
 * Features the "unbeatable man" M, who dominates the online mahjong world thanks to his perfect memory, which lets him remember all habits of his opponents.


 * Mahjong Hourouki
 * A quadrilogy of novels by Asada Tetsuya (Pen name; Real name: Irokawa Takehiro) that were serialized in Shukan Taishu between 1969 to 1972. The story stars Bouya Tetsu, a highschooler who is thrown into the gambling world where he must learn various cheating techniques to survive. The series has had several manga adaptions, several movie adaptions and is said to be the origin of many clichés in mahjong manga.


 * Mukoubuchi
 * A manga whose main character at first appears to be young mahjong pro Mizuhara Yuuta. However, the show is soon stolen by "Rogue Gambler" Kai, who dominates underground gambling matches with his unstoppable strength. Money and stakes are a key focus.


 * Shin Janki
 * A series of live-action movies starring the Sakurai Shouichi, the unbeatable rep player. Cheating techniques are the main focus.


 * Super Zugan
 * One of the first ever late night animes, based on the manga by Masayuki Katayama. This gag series features the extremely unlucky Hideyuki Toyotomi, who always loses in mahjong with a negative score. The often-used gag of a point box falling on Toyotomi's head accompanied by him uttering "Zugan!" is directly referenced in the Saki anime with Kyotaro Suga. Toyotomi's bad luck and his opponents' consequent good luck are very unrealistic, but the show is otherwise fairly down-to-earth. Very mahjong-heavy - good mahjong knowledge is both necessary and sufficient to understand most of the humor.


 * Mahjong Diva Obaka Miiko
 * The only one of Katayama's numerous mahjong mangas to be translated. Tells the story of the former top pro Namidame and new weak female pro Miiko trying to make their way through the bottom leagues of the Japanese pro mahjong system. With Miiko a beginnger and Namidame her teacher, the manga teaches many lessons in basic mahjong strategy.


 * Tetsunaki no Kirinji
 * The story of Kiriya Rinji, a online mahjong master, trying to earn enough money in legal high-stakes mahjong parlors to raise his daughter. Very realistic, with adapting to different rulesets and advanced reads being the keys to victory.


 * Tohai
 * A manga and live-action TV series starring "Ice-cold K", an extremely smart high school boy who descends into the world of underground mahjong, high-stakes gambles and organized crime. Kei's abilities are unrealistic, as are the powers of the strong players who he faces, but there's still a lot of mahjong intrigue in the details.


 * Tobaku Haouden Lion
 * Tohai spin-off, starring Dojima, mahjong strongman and master of "waves" of luck, in a series of underground gambles.


 * Touhou - The tiles I cannot cut are next to none!
 * A mahjong manga based on the pre-existing Touhou universe. Most characters have their own unique superpowers, which they use in the Gensokyo Mahjong Tournament.

Brief appearances of mahjong

 * Ah! My Goddess
 * In episode two, when Keiichi and Belldandy look for a place to stay, Keiichi gets yakumans due to Belldandy's presence.


 * Angel Beats
 * In episode 8(?), four members of the SSS played mahjong in the back of the classroom.


 * Bodacious Space Pirates
 * Members of the Bentenmaru were playing mahjong online. Misa Grandwood was shown casually scoring a suu anko.


 * CITY
 * Volume 5 chapter 56: Tsurubishi, Editor-in-Chief, Adatara, and Nagumo are playing a game of mahjong, and then a grim reaper appears. (The explanation given: "In mahjong, if the dealer draws a Nine Gates hand on their first move, they will die.")


 * Detective Conan
 * Volume 15 chapters 7-9 / Anime episode 75.


 * Fushigi no Kuni no Miyuki-chan
 * Chapter 5 involves strip mahjong.


 * Kaiji
 * Also by Fukumoto. Consists of extreme high stakes gambling. The third arc, Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji, features a 2-player mahjong variant called "17-step minefield".


 * Needless
 * Chapters 10 and 39, episode 18.


 * Osomatsu-san
 * In episode 21, the 6 brothers have a pretty intense mahjong match against each other.


 * xxxHolic
 * Episode six of xxxHolic: Kei.


 * Yosuga no Sora
 * Omake of Disc 2 Episode 3.