Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school’s kendo club. He doesn’t have the leeway to spend time on his students–he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year’s worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: to beat his friend’s kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools’ kendo teams, he needs to actually put together a five-woman squad–and the first girl he needs is Tamaki Kawazoe, kendo athlete extraordinaire and daughter of an elite kendo dojo master. The problem is, she isn’t really interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team? (Source: Yen Press) **Note:** Originally published with 117 chapters, but was collected into 102 chapters in the tankoubons. There are also 5 special stories, which makes the total chapter count - 107.
A prequel to the Saki series, focusing on the childhoods of future professional mahjong players and their peers, among them Shino Shiratsuki, a young girl with an affinity for the 1-sou who is seeking out her missing mother.
The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.
No matter how you look at it, Kamijou is an average guy. On the other hand, his ex-childhood friend, Aikawa Itasu, is a popular and intelligent girl. Believing his childhood friend to be in a whole other world than himself, he starts putting distance between them... until one day, Kamijou’s cat, Peace, sneaks off and visits Aikawa. The two of them start talking again. What's Aikawa's motive for feeding Peace? And... will they end up reconnecting? (Credit: Rayns&Lele Scans)

