A third year student serving as the Captain of the Kazekoshi Mahjong Club as well as being the team's ace player.  She has a very kind nature, being nice to everyone she meets regardless of who they may be; her kindness extends even to the point where she offers Yuuki, an opposing player from the contending school team, Kiyosumi, her bento so that she would calm down. She even becomes very teary when her teammates help her out, as she feels that it was her fault that her teammates had to work in her place because it was her responsibility. She has been revealed to be very ineffective when working with technology.   ~!She keeps her right eye closed to hide her heterochromia from others; while her left eye is reddish-gold, her right eye is actually sapphire blue. She never opens her right eye unless confronted with a dire situation during a Mahjong game. With both eyes open, she is shown to able to have better perception skills during the game, comprehending her fellow player's discards and figuring out their gameplan. She appears overwhelming to her opponents when both eyes are open, intimidating them and causing them to avoid confrontation.  She appears to be familiar with Takei Hisa, recognizing her despite her name change as they had previously met at a tournament three years prior to the present plot. Due to her talent, she unknowingly kept her right eye open the whole time and when she tried to hide it, Hisa complemented her instead, stating that her right eye was "pretty". This caused her to admire Hisa even to present day.!~

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)

__Height:__ 155 cm

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She is a voice actress and singer currently affiliated with vims. She hosts a radio show called "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" (堀江由衣の天使のたまご "Yui Horie's Angel Eggs") and is the founding member of the singing group, Aice5. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai, with the name YUIEL. Her hobbies include shoulder massaging, reading and eating. She has been affectionately nicknamed "Hocchan" (ほっちゃん) by her Japanese fans.

**Non-anime roles:** 
- Faruzan - Genshin Impact (VG)
- Freesia - Memento Mori (VG)
- Miranda - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Maiden - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Wagon - Ressha Sentai ToQger (Tokusatsu)
- Mine Aomori - Blue Archive (VG)
- Cotton Cookie - Cookie Run: Kingdom (VG)
- Surtr - Arknights (VG)
- Ai-chan - Honkai Impact 3rd (VG)
- Charlotte Corday - Fate/Grand Order (VG)

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 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)

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

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)

Mihoko Fukuji