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Though there isn’t a ton of mahjong in this episode, I managed to squeeze quite a bit out. This is actually the episode where I decided to write this series, as the subs were finding such new and exciting ways to blow it on terminology.
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This wasn’t necessary to specify before, but I’ll restate that I’m using Bilibili’s subs, with all of the mahjong-related flubs that they make. There are a few fansub efforts around Pon no Michi that fix incorrect translations, but I conceived of this idea while looking at
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This introductory week has to introduce the girls, reveal the parlor, reveal Chombo the mascot character, teach the girls mahjong, and get them in a game all in one shot, so it's very heavy on mahjong stuff. This post is even bigger than the last one, so let&
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I had been looking forward to Pon no Michi (The Way of Pon), or perhaps I was looking forward to what I thought Pon no Michi might have made happen. Anime series about niche interests always bring new converts into the fold— I was myself inspired to learn mahjong by
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Some of you will probably want to know what the mystery of Quaschika is, and to be quite honest this show can be a bit of a slog. A few episodes in I was only slogging through it to find out for myself as the show waved “this week, Quaschika!
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I’ve been looking at my stacks of Blu-Rays, a collection started largely during 2020 Covid lockdown, and realizing maybe I oughta watch some of them. You never know when a Discotek title is going out of print— in fact the only way you can buy the series I’m