I may have been giving Saki too much credit when I watched the first ep. In each ep, there's MAYBE five minutes of legit Mahjong, and the rest of episode is shameless loli fanservice.
It'd be hard to say if it's even legit Mahjong playing anyway, since the scenes are condensed down to "I gotta good hand", "Yeah, lucky draw!" "Ron bitch!" "I just tsumo'd you for points bro!" and that's it. I mean, I don't know enough about Mahjong for in-depth playing to be really meaningful to me, but come on!
I'm not quite sure where the demographic for Mahjong lovers and schoolgirl fanservice fans overlaps, but if you knew nothing about anime and watched this, you'd think it was a circle with how shamelessly they go about it. In the second ep there's a joke about a camera guy focusing his attention on the bust of one of the main characters; this guy might as well just be controlling the perspective camera in each scene and episode, cause it's FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR too often where the camera just lingers on a character's chest and ass. Alot of scenes OPEN with the camera resting right on somebody's rump, and there seems to be scenery-censored bathing scenes just awkwardly inserted into each episode Popotan-style. That's kind of doing it a disservice though, I mean, Popotan was VERY LITERALLY a hentai game translated into an anime, and it's bathing scenes were frequent but they never felt gratuitous, or even sexual in alot of cases and that was full softcore nudity! Saki's are just forced as all hell, and it's obvious and it's irritating.
It often feels that these guys just are not sure how to make something intrinsically entertaining, so fallback to something that seems like a safe bet.These guys need to take a page from Fukumoto, cause Jesus Christ...
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