Can I watch Akagi without understanding Mahjong?

>>150379677
You can learn mahjong if you watch it multiple times

>>150379677
Yes and this >>150379858

It might help to learn the basic rules but ultimately, the mahjong itself is not why Akagi is great.

>>150379677
from watching it once I got the simple understanding its like poker with tiles your in a wait for a good hand certain hands beat others its best you familiarize yourself with the tiles value at least the show trys it best to help you get it

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>>150379677
Sure you can but it would help to at least learn the rules.

Go download a mame pack and experience some of the weird strip mahjong games for a few hours while learning the basic rules. Then you will at least have some idea of what is going on when they are playing.

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You can.

>>150382482
Heh...see you on the boards.

>>150379677
You don't need to know what Akagi stealing tiles from the pond to form a daisangen means, the narration and the reactions of the characters make it clear what kind of thing it is.

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>>150382871
Except this guy.
His reaction doesn't make anything clear desu.

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>Washizu still didn't draw his tile

>>150384907
>three chapters to draw a fucking tile
This is hell

Are we still on Namek?

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>>150385224
dude we're still on the fucking spaceship.

>nobody knows what Akagi is doing

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>>150384907
He's drawn his tile now, the translation is just slow.

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Akagi's death is the only time I've cried while reading manga. Not even ashamed.

it's better than saki for understanding mahjong

>>150385673
That's because Saki is hyper-mahjong with superpowers while Akagi's mahjong is believable and well explained even if it would never happen in real life without his devilish luck.

Kaiji vs Akagi in a game of Mahjong. If Kaiji loses he dies but the harder Kaiji plays the better Akagi gets.

Who wins?

>>150386015
Akagi

>>150386030
But Kaiji's life is on the line. Kaiji literally has divine protection that only activates when he might die.

>>150386065
No he doesn't

>>150386015
Akagi of course. Kaiji is a genius when backed into a corner but too much of mahjong is based on luck, which Akagi has the upper hand with.

>>150386071
Yes he does. That is the entire plot of the series. He is the ultimate survivor.

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>>150385634
>Ten anime never

>>150385109
But the sands in hell are magical sands!

How many years until Washizu finally loses?
We already know Akagi will win so why is he dragging it out so much?

>>150387883
He does it for the zawas

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>>150379677
Of course.

>>150379677
Yes, it's even better with a rewatch after you have learned Mahjong.

There's almost always a thread on /jp/, with a pastebin for beginners.

>>150386107
Kaiji would get BTFO hard by Akagi. Kaiji sucks shit when he's even a little off-kilter, and Akagi's whole deal is getting people to play like shit for him.

>>150379677
Yes.

Can you enjoy it without being an edgy manboy? Questionable.