Harue Akado is the mahjong club coach at her alma mater Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara Prefecture and is a protagonist in the spin-off manga "Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A". Harue was once known as the "Legend of Achiga" for taking the school to the national high school team mahjong tournament. After the team's defeat, she lost confidence and stopped playing mahjong for some time, leading to the team's eventual disbandment. She was later scouted by a professional team but returns home several years later when the company decides break the team up.   ~!Harue's defeat in the national semifinal came at the hand of Sukoya Kokaji, who would eventually become a professional player and commentator in subsequent national high school tournaments in the main "Saki" manga.!~

The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. 
Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. 
When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.

__Hobbies:__ tennis    

She voiced young Kohza (One Piece) and young Balsa (Moribito).

The final 4 episodes of Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A.

The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.

Side stories of the "Saki" manga in 4-koma format. 

Note: Chapter count includes 7 omake chapters, 1 from each Volume.

Special chapters of Saki Biyori serialized in Big Gangan.

A prequel to the Saki series, focusing on the childhoods of future professional mahjong players and their peers, among them Shino Shiratsuki, a young girl with an affinity for the 1-sou who is seeking out her missing mother.