/jp/ - Otaku Culture

It never was. My grandparents play.

>>90084
they're both men????

>>90083
A game of pretend?

>>90095
they need to be all men to play pretend.

>>90083
It's largely a women's game in Japan.....

Oh god, those arent Jr Idols are they? They look rather young.

>>90111
the /jp/ mahjongfags ain't gonna wanna hear that.

>>90083

Damn I want to join in and touch magical sands on them...

>>90115
no they look like gankuro girls without their warpaint on.

>>90111

No they arent, in Japan Mahjong is a predomently male oriented sport. Women play, but they are in the minorities (like the WNBA).

whats all that shit written on their table?

>>90129

Yaku cheat sheets, because their tiny women brains cant possibly memorize all the hands and their payouts.

Dibs on the cute one at the far right.

>>90125
"sport"?

The ONLY people who play in my extended family are women.

>>90125
see
>>90117

>>90111
I thought it was for old people, yakuzas, and yakuza wannabes

one game i haven't see women play is shogo.

>>90157

Yes, I called it a sport. And your family is not an accurate representation of Japan's mahjong playerbase no matter how important you think you are.

why are there tiles missing from the dead wall?

mahjong will always be second to pachinko in terms of gambling popularity, though

In 1998, in the interest of changing mahjong from an illegal gambling game to an approved 'healthy sport', the China State Sports Commission published a new set of rules, now generally referred to as Chinese Official rules or International Tournament rules. The principles of the new, ‘healthy’ mahjong are: no gambling – no drinking – no smoking. In international tournaments, players are often grouped in teams to emphasize that mahjong from now on is considered a sport.

Mahjong is played by all age groups and sexes with perhaps the exception of kids under 16.

It's played by:
Teens
Men from their 30s-50s
Women from their mid 40s onwards

>>90203

It's not, alot of people do this now days where the last replacement tile in the deadwall is moved to the left. See how there are still 4 replacement tiles? I have no idea why they do this though, but all the professional matches I see they do this.

>>90209
Fuck yeah!

>>90157

>http://www.pripix.com/captain/mahjong.htm
>"Mahjong has finally come to be understood as a sport and a competition at last," beamed Kyoichiro Noguchi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mahjong Museum and Director of the Japan Mahjong Organizing Committee, who was interviewed shortly before the games began.

>>90230
it's not as cool if it's not being played in seedy back rooms

>>90242

Thats only in the movies.

;_; back then in China my parents never allowed me to play Mahjong because they considered as a 'criminal's game', only played by Triad-members and mafiosi-wannabes, and poor bastards who have to pay back their depts to them - and lost more than only their money afterwards...
But actually mahjong is a very fine game - a bit too addictive perhaps, but by all means better than poker!

real mens play mahjong - faggot-cowboys play poker

First game of mahjong I saw was in that Jackie Chan movie with the drunken boxing.

In China, Hong-Kong and Singapore, it's also played by diplomats' wives, both native and foreign. Bridge too.

>>90083
My grandma was russian yet she had a big play group only of women who played Mahjong.

Junior idols and/or child models are banned. Posting this will get you banned.
Stop fucking doing it--it's not allowed you pedo creeps.

My Nan plays mahjong. In New Zealand.

>>90221
What I heard was that it's so the one on the top isn't at risk of falling over.

Old Jew ladies like mahjong.

>>90221
It's to remind you that you draw from the other side.

>>90083
I bet they couldn't even do pin fu hands hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>91286
>I bet they couldn't even do pin fu hands hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Just about our level, then.

I want to Japanese learn mahjong/majan.
Links to good tutorials and also software to learn?

>>91319
http://reachmahjong.com/
http://rapidshare.com/files/1598379/4_Winds_MahJong.zip.html
http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447

>>91311
Damn you, I can do ikkitsuukan and san an kou hands among others. Least I could do is huan pai.

>>91345
Thanks! Are there any other software though?
I don't like the interface of 4 Winds. Anything with an interface that looks like the actual table? (Like in http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447 )

>>90083
i'd ron the one with purple kimono, if you know what i mean

>>91856
search on our rs 3d mahjong and dl it.
there are also female fappable challenger chars ready to yakuman you, if you know what i mean

>>91251

I thought those 4 WERE the replacement tiles to draw from when you form a kan. When you flip a dora, it's flipped on the tile in the other direction. And with that number 4, upon a 4th declaring a 4th kan, the round ends in a draw, so....

AANNNNDDDOOOOUUUUU