New raw chapters for Achiga, Toki and Shinohayu!
Saki: Tanoshii
Aaron Parker
Connor Howard
Achiga 26: Flashback to Matsumi mom and the family ryokan.
Kevin Johnson
Kuro wants to help mom with the cleaning.
Josiah Garcia
Mom gently refuses.
Kuro heads for the kitchen.
Easton Peterson
The kitchen workers don't trust 4 year old Kuro around fire and knives.
Cameron Hill
Little Kuro is frustrated at being useless.
Jonathan Bell
Mom is conspiring to block Kuro from helping around the inn.
Eli James
Why would she do that?
Let's find out.
Jackson Lee
Senriyama coach appears.
Masae Atago wants to talk with the Matsumis.
Brandon Perez
Coach Akado approves.
Evan Hill
The timing of this meeting was difficult.
Robert Campbell
Atago was best friends with Matsumi's mom.
Christopher Edwards
But Atago didn't want to let her hidden Achiga friendship be a distraction from her Senriyama coaching duties.
Her boss is at the tournament.
William Taylor
And she didn't want to hurt Achiga's chance in the final.
This scene is happening between the end of the 5th place match and start of the final.
Kevin Smith
Kuro wants to know more about her mother.
Can she handle the truth?
Kayden Powell
Lucas Turner
Enter Flashback #3.
Young Atago (bottom left) and young Tsuyuko Matsumi (bottom right).
Tsuyuko tells Masae that she's quitting mahjong to focus on the inn.
Chase Martin
They have an argument about it.
Atago looks hot in the Achiga uniform.
Chase Barnes
Why even bother with school when you've decided to be an innkeeper?
Tsuyuko still wants to learn more about foreign languages and business management.
Isaiah Walker
Young Tsuyuko has made up her mind.
Flash forward "...yet several years later..."
Connor Howard
Flashback #4 - same time frame as Flashback #1.
They both have kids now, and Tsuyuko tells Masae about Kuro wanting to help around the inn/ryokan.
Joseph Wood
Little Kuro wants to please others by helping around the inn.
But mother doesn't want Kuro to live her life just pleasing others.
Christian Powell
Kuro needs to choose her own path in life, and experiencing lots of things.
Whether that means discarding the inn, the dora, or even her mother.
Masae is shocked at her pure intentions.
Nicholas Morgan
She knows that she will not live long.
Ayden Smith
Whatever Yuu and Kuro do, mom wants them to be happy.
Owen Myers
And if they're happy, mom will be happy, even when she's dead.
Benjamin Scott
Saint Mom
Jacob Brooks
Exit Flashback #4
Kuro sees the big picture now.
Brody Torres
Mom was planning for Kuro's long term happiness all along.
Jacob Perez
Flashback #5 (same time as #1 and #4)
Tsuyuko loves the mountain fog.
Have no fear of the unseen, but excitement of what will be revealed.
Jack Rodriguez
Exit flashbacks; back to vanguard match.
Kuro dueling Satoha in the fog.
Parker Long
Champion Teru is still in the fight.