Mahjong Pros announced two new manga licenses on Thursday at Anime Expo 2026, adding to the new publisher’s growing catalogue of titles. The new arm of Mahjong Pros publishesmahjong-themed manga in an effort to expand cultural interest in the game, especially among English readers.
Here are the details on its new licenses.
Golden Sakura
Story by Sayaka Okada
Art by Kazuo Maekawa
On sale November 2026
Broke, betrayed, and buried under $50,000 of debt, failed pro Mahjong Player Takuya Saotome takes one last gamble: crossdress as Sakura Shindou and enter the women’s professional mahjong scene.
Maetel of the Glassy Sea
By Katakei and Yoshiki Suda
On sale November 2026
Akina Mizuhara’s first love was film. As a college student chasing a future in movies, she studied abroad in Portland and came face to face with a painful question: what if loving something is not enough to make it your life? Then she found mahjong: a game with the same drama, tension, and emotional pull she had always searched for on screen.
Maetel of the Glassy Sea follows Mizuhara from private doubt to the M.League spotlight, through marriage, rivalry, team glory, losing streaks, MVP pressure, and the fight to keep moving forward as U-NEXT Pirates’ “Noble Female Pirate.”
