{"id":2246,"date":"2009-05-13T21:40:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2009-05-13T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:40:38","slug":"saki-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/saki-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Saki 06: Not your average sports-ish anime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture pretty much unrelated.<\/p><\/div>\n

…which isn’t to say that “unique = good,” because Saki<\/em> clearly ain’t that good.<\/p>\n

There were some pretty bad parts,<\/p>\n

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Why is the “all-girl” school so damn bad at mahjong? \u00a0It’s insane how bad they are! \u00a0Getting owned by the loli, the ahoge girl, and that unattractive one before the big guns<\/em> even come out? \u00a0PITIFUL.<\/p>\n

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You should be ashamed, man-woman!<\/p><\/div>\n

What really cracks me up, though, is how smug the transvestite above looks. \u00a0It’s like she didn’t watch her teammates fail hard to some pretty bad mahjong players. \u00a0It’s not like the president, Yuuki, or maid-girl were as covered by the media as Nodoka was! \u00a0If anything, Ugly here should be trembling in fear instead of looking so full of herself.<\/p>\n

From previous episodes, I got the impression that the blonde girl who went first was the captain of the all-girls-and-one-man-woman school. \u00a0Why, then, does Tranny think that she can beat Nodoka, who is obviously much stronger than the previously-unknown Yuuki?<\/p>\n

Bah.<\/p>\n

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You sure did, only-actual-female-in-your-school girl!<\/p><\/div>\n

kso why is this bad again?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, the point of it is obviously to show how awesome the mahjong club is.<\/p>\n

Does this usually happen in this genre of anime? \u00a0I’m pretty sure it doesn’t. \u00a0The usual sports-ish anime deals with a person\/people overcoming lots of seemingly impossible things to emerge out on top. \u00a0That plotline is used so often because it shows best how awesome a character\/the characters become.<\/p>\n

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Definitely not a poker player.<\/p><\/div>\n

When you’ve got green-head owning the opponents when you’ve never seen her display any bit of skill at mahjong before… not only is it a shocker, but it also defeats the purpose of the “opposite team sucks” plotline.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a hopelessly obscure supporting character suddenly baring her fangs<\/a> and beating the shit out of the ex-champs. \u00a0Okay… \u00a0We’ve seen Saki and Nodoka win over this character-whose-name-I-don’t-remember plenty of times, and we’ve been getting the impression that she sucks ass. \u00a0And she does. \u00a0So if she sucks this much, yet can beat the ex-champs, what does it say about the qualifiers tourney?<\/p>\n

So instead of a victory-through-struggles plotline, we have a domination-through-natural-skill plotline that honestly seems pretty boring. \u00a0Now I’m not sure if this choice was supposed to parody the “first match puts you in your place” scene, but it doesn’t interest me that much. \u00a0I really don’t care how much Nodoka can own Tranny in the next episode. \u00a0It’s no competition, given that their team captain was defeated by a loli.<\/p>\n

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Wake me up when they face off with this ahoge-man + Teito Klein team.<\/p><\/div>\n

In other news, FAT LASERS<\/p>\n

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