Saki (manga)

Saki
Cover art of the first Japanese manga volume featuring the title character Saki Miyanaga
咲-Saki-
Genre	Sport
Manga
Written by	Ritz Kobayashi
Published by	Square Enix
English publisher	NA Yen Press
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Young Gangan
Original run	February 3, 2006 – present
Volumes	15 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Manabu Ono
Written by	Tatsuhiko Urahata
Studio	Gonzo, Picture Magic
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 6, 2009 – September 28, 2009
Episodes	25 (List of episodes)
Game
Saki Portable
Developer	Alchemist
Genre	Mahjong
Platform	PlayStation Portable
Released	JP: March 25, 2010
Manga
Saki Biyori
Written by	Saya Kiyoshi
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Young Gangan Big Gangan
Original run	June 17, 2011 – present
Volumes	5
Manga
Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A
Written by	Ritz Kobayashi
Illustrated by	Aguri Igarashi
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Original run	September 2011 – April 2013
Volumes	6 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A
Directed by	Manabu Ono
Written by	Tatsuhiko Urahata
Studio	Studio Gokumi
Original network	TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, AT-X
Original run	April 9, 2012 – May 25, 2013
Episodes	16 (List of episodes)
Game
Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A Portable
Developer	Alchemist
Genre	Mahjong
Platform	PlayStation Portable
Released	August 29, 2013
Manga
Side Story of Saki: Shinohayu the Dawn of Age
Written by	Ritz Kobayashi
Illustrated by	Aguri Igarashi
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Big Gangan
Original run	September 25, 2013 – present
Anime television series
Saki: The Nationals
Directed by	Manabu Ono
Written by	Tatsuhiko Urahata
Studio	Studio Gokumi
Original run	January 5, 2014 – April 6, 2014
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Saki Biyori
Produced by	Kenji Seto
Written by	Tatsuhiko Urahata
Studio	Studio Gokumi
Released	July 25, 2015
Manga
Toki
Written by	Meki Meki
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Big Gangan
Original run	June 25, 2016 – scheduled
Television drama
Directed by	Yuichi Onuma
Written by	Hayashi Mori
Original network	TBS
Original run	December 4, 2016 – present
Live-action film
Saki (film)

Saki (咲-Saki-^?) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The story revolves around a first-year high school girl named Saki Miyanaga who is brought into the competitive world of mahjong by another first-year, Nodoka Haramura. The manga has been serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan since February 3, 2006 and is licensed in English by Yen Press. A 25-episode anime adaptation by Gonzo aired between April and September 2009 on TV Tokyo.

A side-story manga illustrated by Aguri Igarashi, Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A (咲 Saki 阿知賀編 episode of Side-A^?), was serialized between the September 2011 and April 2013 issues of Monthly Shōnen Gangan, with an anime adaptation by Studio Gokumi airing between April and July 2012, with four additional episodes airing between December 2012 and May 2013. A third anime series, Saki: The Nationals (咲-Saki-全国編, Saki: Zenkoku-hen^?), also by Studio Gokumi, aired between January and April 2014. A spin-off series to Achiga-hen, Side story of -Saki-: Shinohayu the dawn of age, began serialization in Big Gangan from September 2013. A gag manga series by Saya Kiyoshi, Saki Biyori, began serialization in Young Gangan from June 2011, with an original video animation released on July 25, 2015. Another spin-off manga illustrated by Meki Meki, Toki, began serialization in Big Gangan from June 2016. A live-action television series will begin airing in December 2016 and a live-action film will be released in 2017.