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Saki Kurosawa Takes Kindai Mahjong’s November Cover for Her First Photo Essay

The October 1 issue includes her opening gravure, a 30- and 40-fu scoring workbook and three complete tournament games on DVD.

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Saki Kurosawa (黒沢咲) wearing a dark patterned kimono and holding a multicolored paper balloon, with her name and a photo-essay announcement beside her.
— Photography: Shigeo Hase. Image supplied with the PR TIMES press release
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A patterned kimono and multicolored paper balloon give Saki Kurosawa’s opening portrait in Kindai Mahjong a different setting from competitive play. Takeshobo presents the cover and gravure feature as a celebration of the M.League player’s first photo essay.

The November 2026 issue was released on October 1. Kurosawa appears both on the cover and in the opening photography pages, and also contributes the separately listed column Haiomoi Emi Saki Hokore Hanafubuki. The supplied portrait credits photography to Shigeo Hase.

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Kindai Mahjong’s November 2026 cover featuring Saki Kurosawa (黒沢咲) in a patterned kimono, surrounded by Japanese headlines, player photographs and manga illustrations.
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Saki Kurosawa (黒沢咲) wearing a dark patterned kimono and holding a multicolored paper balloon, with her name and a photo-essay announcement beside her.
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Gray cover of the 30- and 40-fu mahjong scoring workbook, with illustrated mahjong tiles and a photograph of a person in a pale jacket.
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Color illustration of a black-haired man standing with folded arms in a navy suit and a blue, pink and black patterned tie.
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Black-and-white SOGA manga page showing a lantern-decorated summer festival and characters serving drinks and food beneath the series title.
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SOGA manga panels showing characters at summer-festival stalls, a dance area and a lantern-decorated seating area.
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SOGA manga panels showing a group talking over festival food and drinks, including grilled corn and squid.
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SOGA manga panels showing characters eating shaved ice before noticing a festival shooting-gallery stall.
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Peakout manga page showing a curly-haired player in a team jersey calling a tile, a mahjong hand and spectators eating.
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Peakout manga page with spectators talking above an illustration of players gathered around a mahjong table and the chapter title.
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Peakout manga panels showing a player discarding a tile, a bespectacled opponent’s mahjong hand and spectators watching a screen.
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Peakout manga panels showing a smiling bespectacled player, his mahjong tiles, reacting spectators and a hand selecting a tile.
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Black-and-white Tsuioku no M title page featuring a suited illustration of Yasuharu Asakura with folded arms and Japanese text.
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Tsuioku no M manga page showing two men talking across an office table and a large portrait labeled Yasuharu Asakura.
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Tsuioku no M manga panels showing a seated man, computer and arcade-game scenes, and a close-up of a wrist.
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Tsuioku no M manga page showing young men talking around a mahjong table, with dialogue panels and a book advertisement.
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Mukoubuchi title page featuring a dark-haired illustrated man touching his chin, surrounded by Japanese lettering and book advertisements.
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Mukoubuchi manga panels showing an apartment building and a man handling and speaking into a phone in a cluttered room.
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Mukoubuchi manga page showing a man reacting during a phone conversation, with close-ups of the phone and Japanese dialogue.
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Mukoubuchi manga panels showing a man continuing a phone conversation while seated among scattered objects in an apartment.
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Scoring practice and tournament footage

Alongside Kurosawa’s feature, the issue includes the booklet 30.40-fu Maajan Tensu Keisan Doriru, a scoring workbook focused on 30- and 40-fu hands.

Its second supplement is a DVD containing three complete hanchan from Mahjong Saikyosen 2025: Saikyo no Idenshi: Table A, Table B and the final. The release does not specify the disc’s running time.

Beyond the photography pages

The issue’s M.League coverage includes a Tsuioku no M installment about Yasuharu Asakura, whom Takeshobo describes as returning to the league. The series is credited to Shinobu Shiozaki and ZERO. A new strategy series by Takaharu Oi, Dare Demo Tsukaeru Maajan no Kachikata, also begins in this issue.

The manga lineup includes SOGA, Peakout and Mukoubuchi, alongside Inaba Haneru no Haneman Maajan, Lady Noir wa Warawanai, Karasu Tengu wa Tsumoritai, Setomai and Janso de Atta Honto no Hanashi. Columns and articles by professional players and VTubers round out the magazine.

Issue details

  • Publication: Kindai Mahjong, November 2026
  • Release date: October 1, 2026
  • Publisher: Takeshobo
  • Format: B5
  • Price: ¥1,000 including tax
  • Cover and opening gravure: Saki Kurosawa
  • Supplements: Scoring workbook and tournament DVD
  • Regular schedule: Monthly, on the first day of the month

The official Takeshobo product page lists the issue. The publisher also maintains Kinma Web and the magazine’s official note account.

Source: Takeshobo via PR TIMES

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