Mahjong in other media

Aside from Saki, riichi mahjong is featured in various other series.

Mahjong is featured

Nobuyuki Fukumoto's works

Ten - Tenho Doori No Kaidanji

Ten is Nobuyuki Fukumoto's first work. It is relatively realistic, and consists primarily of a large tournament arc. Later rounds of the tournament involve unique rulesets, such as tag-team no-gain mangan-restriction mahjong.

Akagi

Akagi is a seinen work that was first published in a mahjong magazine. It is a prequel to Ten. The mahjong is a bit more realistic than Saki, with more emphasis on observation skills. There is also a lot more emphasis on cheating. Matches typically involve Yakuza and large amounts of money. Later portions describe "Washizu mahjong", where 3/4 of the tiles are transparent.

Yamima no Mamiya

A sort of a sequel to Akagi, featuring the young girl Mamiya as the main character. Features a new ruleset called "Yami Mahjong", where players can pay points to hide their discards, and reveal their opponent's hidden discards.

HERO

Sequel to Ten, starring Hiroyuki Igawa from it. Continues the fairly realistic underground mahjong setting of the series, but features some unusual rules and cheating methods. Hiroyuki's observation skills are his main way of winning.

Atsuize Pen-chan

Atsuize Tenma

Washizu - Enma no Touhai

Shorter works by Fukumoto. Pen-chan is realistic and humorous, Tenma unrealistic and Washizu (prequel to Akagi of sorts) focuses mostly on psychological trickery.

Others

Aki

A manga depicting the youth of the real-life mahjong pro player Aki Nikaido.

Death Pie

Detective Tobioka from the narcotics division infiltrates the Yakuza via high-stakes mahjong gambles to stop an illegal drug trading operation.

Gokigenyou, Ikkyoku Ika ga?

A lighthearted 4-koma comedy about girls in a prestigious catholic school playing online mahjong.

Jansou no Saeki-san

A 4-koma comedy manga. The main character Saeki works at a mahjong parlor, and is very skilled at mahjong but clumsy in everything else.

Legendary Gambler Tetsuya

Features the titular character trying to make a living by playing high-stakes mahjong. Cheating techniques that aren't usable on modern mahjong tables are emphasized.

Mahjong Club

Tells the story of a boys' high school mahjong club. Fairly realistic, although potential yakuman hands tend to appear often.

Mahjong Diva Obaka Miiko

The only one of Katayama's numerous mahjong mangas to be translated. Tells the story of the former top pro Namidame and new weak female pro Miiko trying to make their way through the bottom leagues of the Japanese pro mahjong system. With Miiko a beginnger and Namidame her teacher, the manga teaches many lessons in basic mahjong strategy.

Mahjong Hourouki

A quadrilogy of novels by Asada Tetsuya (Pen name; Real name: Irokawa Takehiro) that were serialized in Shukan Taishu between 1969 to 1972. The story stars Bouya Tetsu, a highschooler who is thrown into the gambling world where he must learn various cheating techniques to survive. The series has had several manga adaptions, several movie adaptions and is said to be the origin of many clichés in mahjong manga.

Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku

Political satire that involves world politicians like Junichiro Koizumi, Vladimir Putin and George Bush playing mahjong to settle international issues. Extremely unrealistic, with yakumans a common occurence and power levels measurable with scouters.

Mukoubuchi

A manga whose main character at first appears to be young mahjong pro Mizuhara Yuuta. However, the show is soon stolen by "Rogue Gambler" Kai, who dominates underground gambling matches with his unstoppable strength. Money and stakes are a key focus.

Muteki no Hito

Features the "unbeatable man" M, who dominates the online mahjong world thanks to his perfect memory, which lets him remember all habits of his opponents.

Nakasete Kurenai Kamiya-san

A high school boy who likes to play online mahjong alone gets scouted into his school's mahjong club. The other club members are all girls, including the titular Kamiya who never lets anyone call a tile from her.

Naki no Ryuu

The story of the games of Ryuu, the "crying dragon", who stuns his opponents with unpredictable open hands. In the background is a yakuza turf war.

Shin Janki

A series of live-action movies starring the Sakurai Shouichi, the unbeatable rep player. Cheating techniques are the main focus.

Super Zugan

One of the first ever late night animes, based on the manga by Masayuki Katayama. This gag series features the extremely unlucky Hideyuki Toyotomi, who always loses in mahjong with a negative score. The often-used gag of a point box falling on Toyotomi's head accompanied by him uttering "Zugan!" is directly referenced in the Saki anime with Kyotaro Suga. Toyotomi's bad luck and his opponents' consequent good luck are very unrealistic, but the show is otherwise fairly down-to-earth. Very mahjong-heavy - good mahjong knowledge is both necessary and sufficient to understand most of the humor.

Tetsunaki no Kirinji

The story of Kiriya Rinji, a online mahjong master, trying to earn enough money in legal high-stakes mahjong parlors to raise his daughter. Very realistic, with adapting to different rulesets and advanced reads being the keys to victory.

Tohai

A manga and live-action TV series starring "Ice-cold K", an extremely smart high school boy who descends into the world of underground mahjong, high-stakes gambles and organized crime. Kei's abilities are unrealistic, as are the powers of the strong players who he faces, but there's still a lot of mahjong intrigue in the details.

Tobaku Haouden Lion

Tohai spin-off, starring Dojima, mahjong strongman and master of "waves" of luck, in a series of underground gambles.

Tokyo Game

In a postapocalyptic wasteland stands Golgotha tower, a hotspot of organ and drug trade. A mysterious newcomer called Blue Star attempts to ascend the tower by defeating each of its floor masters in Tokyo Game - death-stakes mahjong.

Touhou - The tiles I cannot cut are next to none!

A mahjong manga based on the pre-existing Touhou universe. Most characters have their own unique superpowers, which they use in the Gensokyo Mahjong Tournament.

Brief appearances of mahjong

Ah! My Goddess

In episode two, when Keiichi and Belldandy look for a place to stay, Keiichi gets yakumans due to Belldandy's presence.

Angel Beats

In episode 8(?), four members of the SSS played mahjong in the back of the classroom.

Bodacious Space Pirates

Members of the Bentenmaru were playing mahjong online. Misa Grandwood was shown casually scoring a suu anko.

CITY

Volume 5 chapter 56: Tsurubishi, Editor-in-Chief, Adatara, and Nagumo are playing a game of mahjong, and then a grim reaper appears. (The explanation given: "In mahjong, if the dealer draws a Nine Gates hand on their first move, they will die.")

Detective Conan

Volume 15 chapters 7-9 / Anime episode 75.

Fushigi no Kuni no Miyuki-chan

Chapter 5 involves strip mahjong.

Gamble Fish

A general gamble manga starring genius middle schooler Shirasagi Tomu. The final arcs feature two unique mahjong gambles: "Change Mahjong" and a 3-player honors-only variant, with both having fatal stakes.

Kaiji

Also by Fukumoto. Consists of extreme high stakes gambling. The third arc, Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji, features a 2-player mahjong variant called "17-step minefield".

Needless

Chapters 10 and 39, episode 18.

Osomatsu-san

In episode 21, the 6 brothers have a pretty intense mahjong match against each other.

xxxHolic

Episode six of xxxHolic: Kei.

Yosuga no Sora

Omake of Disc 2 Episode 3.