__Height:__ 155 cm (5'1")
__Position:__ Captain

Saki Miyanaga is a first-year student at Kiyosumi High School in Nagano Prefecture and the title character of the manga "Saki". She grew up playing mahjong with members of her family but came to dislike the game because she would lose her _otoshidama_ (New Year's money) if she lost and be scolded if she won. Because of this Saki, developed the ability to end her games with a net score of ±0 in order to avoid winning and losing against them. Over the years, this playing style became a subconscious habit, and she no longer attempts to win a mahjong match. After her parents separated, Saki remained with her father in Nagano while her older sister Teru moved to Tokyo with her mother. She eventually lost touch with her sister but is aware that Teru has become a top mahjong player in her high school. Upon entering Kiyosumi, Saki is invited by her childhood friend Kyoutarou Suga to visit the school's mahjong club. She reluctantly agrees and proceeds to play several rounds with fellow first-year students Nodoka Haramura and Yuuki Kataoka. Club president Hisa Takei becomes aware of Saki's ability to manipulate her score during the match, to the other members' astonishment. Both Nodoka and Hisa confront Saki, and she agrees to return to the mahjong club for another match. Saki continues to display the ability to manipulate her score, but Hisa develops a strategy for her to be able to win the match rather end it with no net score. Upon experiencing the excitement of winning a mahjong match against people outside her family, Saki decides to join the club. She grows close to Nodoka and makes a promise with her to reach the national team tournament, where Saki seeks to reconcile with Teru. ~!Saki has a tendency to end her games with the special _yaku_ called " _rinshan kaihou_", obtained when a player declares _tsumo_ by drawing a tile from the dead wall after she declares _kan_. The yaku's name literally translates to "a flower that blooms on a mountain ridge". Not coincidentally, the kanji for her given name also means "to bloom".!~

Note: Their gender is swapped in [Saki re: King's Tile Draw](https://anilist.co/manga/116824/Saki-re-Kings-Tile-Draw/) and are named 宮長咲基 instead

Miyanaga Saki is a first year high school girl whose family would get angry if she won the family mahjong games. But losing would also have its consequences. Because of this she develops a new way of playing that allows her to stay on the thin line between winning and losing, the plus/minus zero score, an almost impossible score. In a game that relies mainly on luck, the plus/minus zero score is harder than winning, but Saki can achieve this every time. Having always hated the game, her friend from middle school, Suga Kyotoro, forces her to play in the schools mahjong club. Her developed skill and superhuman luck has made her a worthy mahjong opponent, even to the middle school's national mahjong champion. (Source: Anime News Network, edited)

__Agency:__ I'm Enterprise

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__Non-anime roles:__
• Yoimiya - Genshin Impact (VG)
• Hera - Aether Gazer (VG)
• Fu Ji - Mahjong Soul (VG)
• Cermia - Epic 7 (VG)
• Melania - Reverse: 1999 (VG)
• Carlotta - Wuthering Waves (VG)

2003 Tooniverse Voice actor in Korea Rhee Yong Sin (Hangul:이용신) is a Korean voice actor.  She joined the On-Media Voice Acting Division's voice acting division in 2003.  

(Source: Wikipedia)

Saki's never been a big fan of mahjong. A lifetime of being forced to play with family at holidays (and losing her money as a consequence...) has left a foul taste for the game in her mouth. When she's convinced, though, to play a game with her classmates, she discovers that not only has fending off her family left her with an uncanny ability for the game but, more surprisingly, that it can even be fun!
 
Is this revelation enough to cleanse Saki's distaste for the game? Can her classmates convince her to join their club, or is there just too much baggage to make it worth her while?
 
(Source: Yen Press)

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.

After their success in the regional tournament, the Kiyosumi High School mahjong team faces off against a whole new level of competition at the National Tournament in Tokyo. (Source: Anime News Network)

The final 4 episodes of Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A.

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.

Specials included in the DVD volumes 3 through 9 and Blu-ray Box that recounts stories that take place before, during, and after the first season of the anime.
 
(Source: Saki Wiki)

A single episode OVA released with the 14th volume of the Saki manga, consisting of 4-koma gags featuring characters from the first season. The two pros meet up at a family restaurant. The captains of the four teams prepare for a joint training camp. Ikeda keeps her little sisters occupied. The Tsuruga team goes on an unplanned camping trip. Ryuumonbuchi celebrate Koromo's birthday.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Special chapters of Saki Biyori serialized in Big Gangan.

Saki spinoff focusing on Someya Mako as she cooks meals for customers of her family's mahjong parlor. 
 
(Source: Japanese Publisher, translated)

In the 8th Saki spin-off project, Saki and the other first year members of the Kiyosumi High School Mahjong Club are recommended a new way to enjoy mahjong--through the video game, FINAL FANTASY XIV!
 
(Source: MANGA UP!)
 
Note: Includes chapter 0.

A new Saki spinoff that retells the story of the Saki cast... If all of them were boys!