I saw about 20 episodes of Hikaru no Go. That was a fun seires. The release got kind of messed up and I have to go see if they ever finished releasing it here. But, that's kind of what I was thinking about during the Mahjong tutorials. With Go, it's a territory game and you don't even have to know the rules to make an assessment. The rules are easier to grasp, so the teaching portions are actually effective in HnG. With Mahjong, not so easy to do it quick and painlessly, so they either need to slog through it to increase understanding or proceed knowing most the audience doesn't understand the game and present accordingly. I still like Saki so far, after all, it's still a tournament show with cute characters.