/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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You can't replace the extra flower set with the red fives. The ordering is important on those tiles, because each tile is associated with a seat similar to the winds, and if you get your seat, that's an extra point. You need a full set of Chinese tiles. But you can play a full game of Japanese with Chinese tiles, so essentially you have that backwards.

I really need to get around to that tile buying guide. I also might wind up making a new paste bin since we seem to need one and no one else seems to be stepping up.

Here are the things I need to help us:
Links to English rules. Preferably ones that are easy to print out, but not tournament related (ESA and WRC focus on tournament rules, so a lot of what you'd expect in a normal game setting gets glossed over or outright ignored), but I'll take what I can get.
Links to current and active offline games, or titles that hold up really well. Preferably fully translated. Also will accept console game names as well.
Links to any online games. I know Tenhou, Majsoul, and Sega MJ. Anything else is fine. I know about the Tenhou English extension.
Links to intermediate material. I have a link to Daina, but anything else would be good.
Anything actively tracking where Mahjong clubs are gathering
Names of Anime/Manga asides from Akagi, Ten, and Saki.
Youtube links you feel would demonstrate good play or just fun stuff.

I'm not going to include discord links on here cause I feel that's somewhat Anti-4chan in nature, but you can find me pretty easily given my name, which I'll be taking for these threads.

>>19495129
>it has superpowers
>The series is much more thoughtful about strategy and tactics
You already shot yourself in the foot. The fact that it has super power in general makes strategy a completely meaningless point. The reason people complain about it and how its not real Mahjong is because they literally are using super powers to get around the need of super powers in general. It's literally a mechanic that's put into series like these so they can asspull wins out of nowhere just by being angry, or believing in the TANOSHII of my NAKAMA. Much like Saki's unbelievable win in the end of the first season where she asspulls a win off of 3 Kans in a row to get a Kazoe Yakuman.

What makes it extra shitty is that after the first three or four characters, they just start throwing out all pretenses of giving these characters any real logical explanation for their shit, and they even upgraded Saki's lame power of "being so good at math mid-game that she can intentionally get a +/- 0" to "lol Rinshan Kaihou" because it was starting to lose ground against the other super powers.

The worst part about all of this is that the show doesn't even have the general excuses that other shows have for their asspulls, like Nen, Stands, Ki, Spells, or Nanomachines. They just have super powers dedicated to this one, single game, which won't really affect their lives in any other meaningful way. All because the author couldn't think of actually interesting situations like the greats that you mentioned to keep the story compelling.

If you want real Mahjong, go read Testunaki no Kirinji. Main character here gets this 7d bitch wet just by calling a garbage hand while in first to move the dealer game along.