Raden teaches Hajime the basics of Mahjong [Todoroki Hajime/Juufuutei Raden]

[@statskytl]

"Put yo hands up!" Watching Raden teach Hajime so carefully was so interesting and fun that I wanted to share it with everyone. I figured that it could be used to teach the basics and I thought it'd be perfect so that people could watch the tournament that Koyori is hosting on April 6th (JST).

[@kephalai]

thank you so much for sharing :D as a part time kindergarten teacher in the past this gave me happy memories

[@JujuShinobi]

Hearing Raden go into teacher mode was so cute, I love it

[@agmohdadi]

Raden is seriously so good at teaching, like for real. The way she explains stuff are so easy to follow and understand. Props to the TL as well for the great translations and editing!

[@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke]

Well Raden did say that her previous occupation was a teacher of some sort and that her students were adults.

[@agmohdadi]

@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke Yeah I'm aware of that but actually seeing her in action really makes me admire her even more.

[@rektl2036]

The othet teachers we got either only know war. Or know lava 😂

[@alexman313]

That's such a god-tier video, the long translation is already great but the editing with the mahjong hands and visual explaination makes it even better

[@zacswain887]

Long raden translation, doesn't get better than this! looking forward to learning the intricacies of mahjong hehe

[@egotisticallily]

I've saved this video for when I try and play mahjong. As a side note, raden going along with hajime's antics is too cute.

[@ikr9358]

I shall now call the Bamboo tiles Caterpillars.

[@jcuum]

Dude I've always wanted to try mahjong but was too intimidated by it so this is HUGE for me. Will def try playing it on an app sometime soon, thanks for this!

[@saetharion]

Yo, actually the goat of ReGloss clipping! I've always wondered how Mahjong works and while I had no idea what was going on in the last 5 or so minutes I def feel like I learned a lot. Really fun video as well, thanks a bunch!

[@TMirwansah]

what a great Translation clip!

[@thomasfalkenberg8549]

Now I feel like re-watching Saki

[@notmaru]

the goat statsky does it once again

[@Meonium]

Finally a video teaching mahjong that I can enjoy. Now I can revisit those erotic mahjong games lol

[@ranvamilioun1549]

After a month finally I really understand about "yaku", thx Raden

[@eddster1987]

After a while all this makes my head spin, but I guess I got some of it.

[@nuclearconsensus385]

This would have come in really handy back when I was watching Saki.

[@moderndayvampire1469]

The Saki episodes I watch has mahjong notes, so it depends on which sub you watch I guess.

[@yamiRic]

Saving this video and must watch this before mahjong tournament tomorrow

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

fun learning mahjong from holomems! thanks raden!

[@piusjong6644]

Thanks for the hard work translating!

[@Voicelet]

You know instantly that this is not the generation that grew up watching Saki lol This is the best clip around this topic I've ever seen. I'll be looking forward to tomorrow tournament and for you to spread the greatness of mahjong. But man I really miss Janryumon, best mahjong game.

[@shalomanderj2555]

Looking forward to learning about this! Thank you!

[@shoobydoobydoooo]

Algo assist, lets go!

[@Ikelon__]

This was a long video so it took me a few days to finish it but the level is editing in this video is impeccable and masterfully conveys what Raden is talking about, you have really outdone yourself! Good work!

[@tvickk]

I’m so glad more holomen are getting into the beautiful game of riichi mahjong

[@SnobbyOctopus]

Thanks so much for the long clip! I never thought I'd sit through a 30 min long vid on Mahjong, mostly because I never bothered to learn the rules, and the game seemed overwhelmingly complex. Now I know that was only half true (the graphics and sound effects in the game are still overwhelming!) Your translation and additional images helped make the rules clear and engaging. I could really get a sense of Raden's experience as an educator during her methodical, piecemeal explanations, and Hajime was the perfect conduit to learn alongside. Now I'll be able to watch the tournament and cheer for Team D live, so thanks again!

[@TempMask]

You did an amazing job translating this long clip and adding the extra visual notes and definitions. Thanks so much!

[@jcudejko]

oh my gosh, thanks for doing so much translation!! I was so excited with them for 29:46 thanks to understanding the game a little better

[@venkaramon]

Really appreciate the clip i enjoy watching mahjong still trying to learn the difference with how the jp play it

[@MinhPaprika-pu6yg]

Finally i can understand a bit of Mahjong, it's time for me to actually learn this game

[@VieShaphiel]

Great explanations by Raden, now even more understandable with great editing by Statsky!

[@Kristhanos]

Raden is simply a god-tier edutainment. No words can express her better.

[@SamanthaSam13]

Thank you for the translation!

[@BlueKnight_EXE]

I shall now share this video with anyone I want to play Mahjong with Awesome Work!

[@dashidashiii]

I'll watch later, but thank you for the clip!!!

[@shaunwong5350]

Yeah!

[@faisalaldahlawi6560]

I learned mahjong for my completionist run of Yakuza 0, oh how i wish this video existed then, their explanations are so much easier to understand

[@MrSmoople]

i was looking forward to seeing clips of this stream as a regloss and mahjong enjoyer so thanks for going above and beyond on this one ❤ PUT YO HANDS UP

[@elctrcblnket]

"yeah," raden and hajime said calmly. thank you for the great translation!!!! i love regloss and i wanna play mahjong now lol

[@-imupu469]

I just recently started playing majong and everything was a mystery to me. Raden is a very good teacher and I feel like I can finally rank up in the game I'm playing! Thank you for the great editing as well!

[@OtroTenedor]

Thank you for the long clip🙏🏼

[@sen6516]

Honestly curious myself about mahjong, looks complicated remembering those score combinations

[@WriggleNB]

Once you play a bunch, you start to memorize a lot of them. I thought the same thing when I first started, but as I played more, I started to remember a lot more of them.

[@moderndayvampire1469]

For beginners, I recomment just get the basic 4 -triplets- melds and a pair. As long as you keep that in mind when making your hand, you can ignore everything else.

[@Kazu_Tsukiri]

​@@moderndayvampire1469Saying to get a "basic" 4 meld and 1 pair hand is a huge trap. That's how you get people starting out to call out terminal tiles and then wonder why they can't win when they have a hand like 123 234 678 555 99 consisting of different suits. The easiest thing to do when starting out is to not call any tiles an opponent plays, as in keep a closed hand, because that in itself is a yaku. You can look at the opponents hands when they win and see what their yaku were and start to remember those in the future.

[@totorikisaragi6901]

If you're playing online the game (any game out there) automatically tells you the total score. If you're playing IRL there's an app called Riichi Calc that allows you to enter everything: the tiles in your hand, the doras, seat wind, winning tile, etc So there's no excuses my dude 👌

[@Subberguy]

It’s actually not too bad. There are also tons of “cheat” sheets out there that can help you out.

[@non-existentasukamain766]

This was a really great and informative super clip, thank you for going to the effort to translate it all and add additional information to help explain how thr game works

[@ケザー]

Sasuga Raden-sensei, she's good at teaching!

[@lonelycrystalizinethedork]

7 months later, this clip got me into mj hell...

[@WriggleNB]

Finally, a video I can show my friends on how to play Mahjong. Now they have no excuse.

[@ashurayasha]

「21歳拳で組 」 Love this ReGLOSS pairing.

[@lemonsgalore93]

This is so damn cute. 😂 Thank you for the effort to sub! It’s so much appreciated!

[@statskytl]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@MARfilms]

I am a man that lives my life with no honor, the always throw my winds and dragons...unless the pair is there baby!

[@squivoil]

First of all, many thanks for this translation. It's a joy to watch and your additional input is actually very welcome. Quick question, before I forget (it may be answered later in the video, I'll see): At 20:25, discarding the second 4, would that invalidate the 3&4 that's left, too, when you'd pull a 2 or 5? Or does discarding it only affect newly drawn tiles, meaning if, for simplicity's sake a dumb example, I had three 4s, discarded one and pulled another 4, it would invalidate the triplet?

[@statskytl]

Furiten only comes into play when you're tenpai(waiting on a winning tile) and only disallows you from calling Ron(winning from opponent discard). You can still win via tsumo(self-drawn winning tile). For the 3.4 example, since she still has a 4, she doesnt have to worry because she'd be waiting on a 2 and 5. However, say she discards the 4, draws a 2 and becomes Tenpai with a double wait of 1 and 4. She can't call Ron on either the 1 or the 4 because she's Furiten. For your specific example, that would invalidate it, but also never happen because there's only 4 tiles each so someone paying attention would come after you lol. Also, fun thing since I'm here, this doesn't happen online because the programming doesn't allow, but IRL when you declare Ron when your hand is Furiten, that's something called a Chombo. This means you've broken the rules and are penalized. Standard at my table for this specific Chombo was Mangan sized(8000 points spread out to the other players) There are also less severe Chombo, like drawing from the wrong place, but trying to win on a Furiten is pretty egregious since the other players might not notice and can be considered cheating if it goes through so it's penalized pretty heavily.

[@squivoil]

@@statskytl I see, so because the 4 wouldn't be the deciding tile, it's fine. Makes sense and is kinda obvious, but yeah..lol. Thank you! Your fun thing makes me think of how I've never thought of the RL Mahjong...so used to seeing anime or Mahjong Soul, that I never thought about how effectively invisible cheating can be in RL. Very enlightening! Absolutely love watching decent Mahjong players, whereas pros would probably go well over my head (plus, watching playing for fun is much more entertaining than competitions).

[@swtiger]

Now we know the rules, too. You couldn't find a cuter conversation with a cuter teacher.

[@bread-number_2]

LETS GO I ALWAYS WNATED TOP LEARN MAHJONG WOOOO

[@melevestelanie7360]

This game was designed by a crazy person. So many rules crossing other rules.

[@HercahyoAdiSaputro]

9:59 if you can only focus on one thing: then focus on defense, discarding tiles that are safe when your defense are solid then you can start improving on speed (tile efficiency) then lastly learn to get high score by learning yaku probabilities

[@HercahyoAdiSaputro]

28:47 hajime is right here the "safest" tile to discard is the 6 bamboo she learn so fast 👌 30:42 12k points if she won, too bad 😅

[@moderndayvampire1469]

Yeah, generally you won't lose if you don't get ronned. Most of the time, that is. If the other three players keep tsumo-ing you'll have to take risk.

[@DEN15_512]

This is actually really helpful I know like some basic chinese mahjong and i tried to learn some mahjong to join some of ririka's viewer participation streams but i just had no idea why some hands could win and others couldn't So thanks for this

[@krysbrynhildr]

As someone who dabbles in Mahjong any time a video game has it as a minigame, I feel like Raden's explanation has taught me so much more than any in game guide that expects you to understand basic mahjong gameplay already and only cares about listing off all the different sorts of yaku. Thank you for clipping and TLing this @statskytl !

[@statskytl]

I put a lot of love into this clip so I'm super happy you enjoyed it and found it useful!!!

[@sphear4231]

Thank you for the long video!!

[@shikikatana1737]

While I do know about about making, I didn't know that there was a rule about not being able to win with discarded tiles that shows up again. Good to know

[@statskytl]

She did leave out that you can still draw the tile yourself(tsumo) even if you're furiten, but you shouldn't count on that of course! In general, it's good to avoid furiten which is probably why she didn't mention it

[@moderndayvampire1469]

Easy rule of thumb is everything the opponent discard is safe against them. Because they can't win with it.

[@shikikatana1737]

So I can still draw and use tiles that I discarded earlier myself to get a winning hand, just that I can no longer chi etc those discarded tiles. Wakarunderstando

[@statskytl]

You can still chi and pon tiles you discarded too! You just can't ron it!

[@moderndayvampire1469]

@@shikikatana1737 Even in tenpai, you can call the tile. Just not win with it. For example, if you discard a chun early, and you wait on chun to win (but furiten), if someone discard a chun you can pon it. In this case you have to wait on some other tile to win the hand, but at least you have a yaku.

[@moderndayvampire1469]

As a mahjong player, very looking forward to their tourney tomorrow. There are a lot of beginners this time around, would be amazing to see if anyone can get a yakuman.

[@Iser-]

I really enjoy the detail and edits of these long translation clips. It makes the already interesting conversation easily understood and entertaining. Also, the edits are not obtrusive or excessive - I wish more people could discover your channel.

[@fancytoasty2259]

Thank you for the video! It was so interesting to learn these rules since i always was interested in playing majong. Your editing with the example builds really helped a lot. I would love to see more since this was surely only a fraction of the possibilities to play and win. Can someone recommend me a game (preferably on steam) where i can play majong?

[@statskytl]

I dunno about steam, but I think the most popular Mahjong app in the west is Mahjong Soul? I play on the same one everyone in Hololive does though.

[@fancytoasty2259]

@@statskytl Ah, so it's an app for mobile. Sweet!

[@Kasugano]

yeah like others have said the most popular one has to be mahjong soul they also recently added a windows app version so you can play on your pc (since before we would have to play on the browser) the game is a lot of fun and learning curve isnt too crazy i would recommend to have a cheat sheet of all the possible yaku since that is the part where most people (me included) struggle

[@fancytoasty2259]

@@Kasugano Yeah, i just played a few rounds (and i get beaten pretty hard). Do you have a specific recommendation for a cheat sheet? :D Its fun anyways!

[@Kasugano]

​@@fancytoasty2259 not sure how to post links but google around and you should be able to find one that makes sense to you also in mahjong soul you can set up a room with bots to get a better feeling for the game friendly match > create room > 4 player | Vs AI | 300+0s

[@kiryukaimemorial]

A lot of love was poured into the creation of this highlight video, thank you so much for creating this for us overseas barbarians!

[@gawrgami_gurone]

Downloaded this for research purposes 😅

[@legitopotamus5394]

I can't watch this yet, but I like and comment so daddy youtube gives some love

[@Melcor2304]

Tbf, Raden did say in her debut she likes gambling, so mahjong is pretty much up her alley.

[@aspearberryjuice]

Man, I miss mahjong but idk how to build yaku while avoiding furiten, her teaching is pretty useful

[@SonicBoom0]

I don't have a clue what's going on, I just love listening to Raden's voice.

[@NOName-wh3wc]

Thank for translating i love watching her but i don't understand japanese 🤍 any have any recommendations for learning jp?

[@sdsogiuemaniax]

Japanese mahjong is the most beautiful game with the most convoluted ruleset you will ever see. Navigating those bizarre rules while dealing with the mindgames of your opponents and the mercilessness of Lady Luck is what makes Japanese mahjong great and terrible.

[@prowse321]

lolz raden content is for adult

[@melisaartemis]

Well... Raden used to be a teacher I believe? or a tutor?