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Akagi X Mahjong Soul Collaboration Summary

Yostar has revealed details about the upcoming Akagi collaboration in a special live stream. The live stream was hosted by VTuber Airi, and twitch streamer Tipzntrix. It started with a brief introduction to Mahjong Soul and the Akagi series (as well as Ten), viewers were then shown a trailer featuring

Mahjong Soul

Mahjong Soul X Akagi Collab Announced

Yostar has announced that the popular online mahjong game Mahjong Soul will hold a collaboration event with Nobuyuki Fukumoto's hit mahjong manga/anime series Akagi. This will be Mahjong Soul's fourth collaboration, previous collabs were with Linovel, Saki and Kakegurui. Details are scarce but will be posted here when more

Mahjong News

The Japanese Mahjong Wiki Has Moved + Open to Suggestions

Since 2013, bps, author of the definitive (at the time) English Tenhou Documentation (http://arcturus.su/tenhou/) has hosted the Japanese Mahjong Wiki however, due to their life getting busier they were looking for someone to take over as webmaster so I volunteered and have now taken over. This handover

Photos from Aachen 2017

A collection of photos from the 2017 Aachen Riichi Open.

Photos from the Swedish Riichi Championship 2017

A collection of photos from the 2017 Swedish Riichi Championship in Linkoping.

Photos from European Riichi Championship 2016

A collection of photos from the 4th European Riichi Championship that took place in Farnham, UK on October 7th 2016.

Photos from Russian Riichi Championship 2016

In 2016, I and a small group of players from the UK travelled to Moscow for the 5th Russian Riichi Championship.

Photos from Shigekazu Moriyama's Riichi Study Session

A collection of photos from a 2015 study session by Japan Professional Mahjong League's president, Shigekazu Moriyama.

World Riichi Championship

Photos from World Riichi Championship 2014

A collection of photos from the first World Riichi Championship that took place in Paris on July 16th 2014.

M League

First M League Team Draft

Team 1st Pick 2nd Pick 3rd Pick Konami Mahjong Fight Club Hisato Sasaki Mari Takamiya Yuudai Maehara Shibuya ABEMAS Ooi Takaharu Sho Shiratori Yoshiro Matsumoto* Sega Sammy Phoenix Yuumi Uotani Seiichi Kondo Sayaka Kayamori EX Furinkazan Aki Nikaidou Kazunori Takizawa Kenji Katsumata TEAM RAIDEN Masato Hagiwara Naoki Setokuma Saki Kurosawa

M League

M League - What is Known So Far

CyberAgent, Inc, an internet service company, announced the creation of a new professional mahjong league, M League. M League aims to promote mahjong as a competitive sport, with the goal of including mahjong in the Olympics. Here’s what is known so far:

Players

History of Japanese Mahjong

Mister Mahjong, Takeo Kojima, passed away in May. I believe it was known for some time that Kojima’s health was failing. In September Mondo released a documentary about his life (Mister Mahjong: Takeo Kojima's Footprint) I met Kojima at the first World Riichi Championship. I don’t believe we

Guides

[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part 2 (Calling when cornered, chasing after riichi)

In the first part, we introduced ASAPIN’s criteria for opening his hands, and calling to elongate and switch out shapes. This time, we will discuss melding when you’re cornered, chasing after riichi by melding, this is the essence of ASAPIN’s mahjong technique.

Mahjong News

Fuzz Releases New Mahjong Server, Jong City

Japanese developer Fuzz released a new mahjong server in February called "Jong City" with support from pro leagues Real Mahjong Unit and Nihon Pro Mahjong. The server's key feature is webcam support and the ability to play top professionals from RMU and NPM as well as special guests,

Guides

[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part I

Original article by Kentaro on his blog, but was republished on Mahjong Watch recently. Translated by an annoymous translator. Looking at ASAPIN (@asakarapinpin’s) paifu, there are plenty of cases where he makes unexpected melds, from pushing his chances of winning to the absolute max, to unexpectedly chasing after a

Mahjong News

ASAPIN Joins a Pro League

ASAPIN, the legendary player who reached Tenhou's summit twice, announced this week that he will be joining the Saikouisen Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyoukai (Saikouisen). In his announcement post on his new blog, ASAPIN says, although he has received offers from several professional leagues, he felt he will fit in at

Mahjong News

End of an Era, Tonpuusou Shuts Door After 21 Years

Online mahjong game Tonpuusou announced it is turning off the servers in March after 21 years of service. Created by Katsu "mjman" Azuma, Tonpuusou made its splash on the mahjong world in December 1996. It quickly became popular and after 3 years had reached 500,000 active accounts.

Statistics

[Paifu Analysis] Is their Riichi hand expensive?

Orginal post: http://doraaka.exblog.jp/15552053/ by Kita Haz. Translation by Butane with permission Hi. Sorry to be getting straight to the point, but let’s say that you’re the dealer in a normal round, and on the 8th turn someone declares Riichi while your hand looks like

Mahjong News

Yuudai Maehara Defends Hououisen Title

Yuudai Maehara 9 Dan held on to Japan Professional Mahjong League's highest title for the 2nd year. Yuudai has won the Hououisen four times (1995, 2008, 2016. 2017) and shares the record of winning the Hououisen the most times with the late Mitsuru Andou-pro.

tenhou

A History of Tenhou - Part 1

Release history until Tenhou: June 2000 - 25-year-old Tokyo University School of Engineering Postdoctoral student Shingo "C-Egg" Tsunoda released his first game, a free to play RTS 'Egg Market'. Egg Market gained a small fanbase, attracting, on average, 30-40 concurrent users. There was a premium membership option for

Tournaments

International Mahjong Battle @ RTD

(Featured photo and various parts of this post are from Mahjong Watch in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno of PML, I emailed Shingo Tsunoda, creator of the online mahjong game Tenhou.net, to ask when the next Tenhou Real Trial

World Riichi Championship

Profile: Masaharu Tomotake

Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: 24th Hououi (2004) 2nd World Riichi Championship (2017) International Tournament Results: 1st World Riichi Championship 2014 (6/120) 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 (1/224) Ron2

World Riichi Championship

2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 2 - Tournament

Day 3 - Thursday 5th I woke up rather early. Even though I went to bed at 3am, I woke up at 6am. Jet lag? I wasn't feeling tired though. While confirming where the breakfast was, I saw Toshiyuki Tomozoe-pro (Afro-pro) from Saikouisen in the shop next door to the

World Riichi Championship

2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 1 - Prologue

The 2017 World Riichi Championship took place in Las Vegas last week and attracted 224 players, almost doubling the participant size from its predecessor, making it no doubt the largest Japanese mahjong tournament outside of Japan. Day 1 I arrived in Vegas on the 3rd of October and after attempting

World Riichi Championship

Profile: Hiroshi Yamai

Hiroshi Yamai made history in 2014 by winning the first WRC. Will he be able to defend his title in 2017?