Janki Hokutosei - Recommendations
Alt title: Mahjong of the North Star
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Harukaze ni Youkoso
- Vol: 1; Ch: 11
- 1988
Pro: Mahjong-kai no Hikari to Kage
- Vol: 2
- 1981 - 1984
Mahjong Diva Obaka Miiko
- Vol: 15; Ch: 135
- 2004 - 2010
Miiko is a girl with a problem. She's passed all the tests and become a Mahjong Pro, but she stinks at Mahjong! She was starting to even hate the game, but then she runs into a man who used to be a Top-Tier Mahjong Pro named Namidame in a parlor and asks him to teach her how to play right! The two strike a connection and Namidame vows to help Miiko work her way up to the top leagues.
Kirinji Gate
- Vol: 5+; Ch: 36+
- 2018 - ?
Someya Mako no Jansou Meshi
- Vol: 2+; Ch: 24+
- 2019 - ?
Focuses on Mako Someya, a member of the mahjong team at Kiyosumi High, and her combination of mahjong parlors and gourmet.
Aki
- Vol: 2; Ch: 17
- 2011 - 2012
Mahjong is all Nikaido Aki knew growing up. With her parents operating a Mahjong shop where people would gather to play the game, it served as a good time for Aki, her older sister Rumi and their family. But when their mother leaves them out of the blue, their father is forced to close the shop and he leaves Aki and Rumi with relatives. With no real goal in life and not even sure if she wants to continue on to high school, Aki has to figure out what she wants out of her life.
Toki
- Vol: 8+; Ch: 59+
- 2016 - ?
Follows the characters Toki Onjouji, Ryuuka Shimizudani and other girls from Osaka during their elementary and middle school years.
Atsuize Pen-chan
- Vol: 2; Ch: 21
- 1986 - 1995
Watanabe Yuuichi, also known as Pen-chan, loves mahjong. It's just too bad that he's not very good at it. Follow Pen-chan's wins and losses (mostly losses) in a series of short tales about his friends, family, co-workers, and local yakuza until the final conclusion where Pen-chan makes the biggest gamble of his life...
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku: Princess of Zipang
- Vol: 8+; Ch: 48+
- 2017 - ?
Yamima no Mamiya
- Vol: 2+; Ch: 8+
- 2019 - ?
Japan has entered a new era called "Reiwa", after moving past the Heisei Era on April 30th 2019. It is in this era, past the time of people like the legendary Akagi Shigeru and others like him who gambled on mahjong for a living, that a new gambler has arisen known only as "Yamima no Mamiya".