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Hisa Takei is one of the main characters from the Saki anime and manga.
Hisa is the Student Council President (or "Student Congress President", as she'd rather have it) of Kiyosumi High School, as well as club leader of its mahjong team, now in her final playing year. Having once went by the surname "Ueno", back in middle-school she shared a rivalry with Mihoko Fukuji, currently of Team Kazekoshi, but mysteriously withdrew from individual competition.
In the AWA fics, Hisa is a student at the AWA Academy.
In the XP4 fics, Hisa debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Tales in Mega-Tokyo.
In the DAMNiverse fics, Hisa debuted in DAMNiverse! Tales of Minor Awesomeness.
Appearance[]
She has brown eyes, red shoulder length hair, and wears a standard Kiyosumi uniform with black pantyhose. She sometimes has an ahoge (emotional hair) on the top of her head.
Personality[]
Hisa is shown to be a great leader both while playing mahjong and outside of it. Hisa is very caring for her underclassmen like when she comforts Yuuki after her defeat in the prefectural tournament. She has good foresight and can be very scheming, with people noticing that Yuuki's shift in playstyle during the semifinals was an intentional play by someone else who had something bigger than winning the semifinals in mind.
She is shown to have great confidence in her mahjong ability and will not back down from a challenge. However, she did waver during the national tournament's second round but recovered soon after. Opponents have described her as having bad manners due to her slamming of the tiles during matches.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Hisa is member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Maiden Knights. She also attends the Heartcross Academy as a student.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Tales in Mega-Tokyo[]
In Chapter 3, Hisa is seen walking in the streets at the nearby neighborhood of Mega-Tokyo where she witnessed the Inoki Family getting kidnapped by the members of the Bite Gang. She then proceeds to call Miyako Kougami, Airi Kagari and Chitose Suzuya for help and after meeting up with them, they decided to work together in searching for the Inoki Family and managed to rescue them by defeating the members of the Bite Gang in an abandoned building somewhere in Mega-Tokyo. Afterwards, everyone decided to have dinner at the Inoki Household.
In Chapter 4, Hisa is seen in a cafe somewhere in Mega-Tokyo when Yuura Inoki met up with her, the two had a conversation and when Yuura left, she got attacked by the Molotov Stalker and despite her shock, she came out unscathed. Later that night, Hisa met up with Yuura in a different cafe where they had a conversation about the day's events.
In Chapter 5, Hisa, alongside Yuura Inoki, are seen inside one classroom of the Heartcross Academy where she is seen watching Yuura do her homework. After Yuura handed her homework to Kyouko Tachibana, Hisa and Yuura came across Yayoi Yutenji bounded inside a restroom before helping her and after Yayoi told them that Suzuka Inoki is in danger, Yuura rushed off to find her sister while she stayed behind to help Yayoi. She later found Suzuka and Yuura in a classroom alongside Usami the Ninja with the ninja beating up Yuura, she then shot Usami with a gun before advising her to stay away from her friends. After Usami fled, Hisa, alongside Suzuka and Yuura, decided to go home.
In Chapter 9, Hisa is mentioned by Yuura Inoki.
In Chapter 10, Hisa, alongside Yuura Inoki, Sakie Kawakami, Nanase Amaya, Renji Kazama, Kiyoshi Kageyama and Creeper Ushida, are seen inside a cafe watching the news where Kyouka Shiohama discussed about the criminal that steals clothes.
In Chapter 16, Hisa made a phone call to Yuura Inoki and told her that she'll be coming over to the latter's house. Later, Hisa is seen inside HoopsLuv where she bought a cake from Kagari Toudou. Later that day, Hisa arrives at the Inoki Household but finds that Yuura is gone and immediately realized that something is wrong. Using her Gift, Hisa managed to find Yuura in an abandoned warehouse where she saved her from a strange figure and after subduing the criminal, the two left the place. Back in the Inoki Household, Hisa is seen comforting Yuura when Sakie Kawakami arrives and afterwards, they decided to eat some cakes.
In Chapter 19, Hisa is mentioned by Sakie Kawakami. Later, Hisa is one of the many people that Yuura Inoki invited to the Kaidou Restaurant.
In Chapter 21, Hisa is seen having a conversation with the unseen headmistress inside the latter's office somewhere in the Heartcross Academy where is revealed that Hisa has been promoted into hero status and is now a member of the Maiden Knights, and it's also revealed that she is related to Marcus "The Kane" McGee.
Abilities[]
Outside of an important competition, Hisa sticks to playing a rational style of mahjong, much like Nodoka. However, during key moments in such tournaments, she relies on bad waits because she feels that she always wins with them. However, as the caliber of her opponents gets higher and higher, Hisa recognizes that the nature of her bad waits must also change - during the semifinals, while attempting to take a bad wait, she played into Hiroe's hand, and later she picked a wait she knew to be bad only because she relied on Choe's playstyle and drawing habits. She likewise believes that there is a meaning to each tile you grab, utilizing the flow of the game, and changes her hand accordingly. Although not as skilled as Jun Inoue at sensing flow, she still has a very good grasp on it, and picks her moments to declare riichi and win.
Hisa is very astute when it comes to noticing her opponents' (and even teammates') current psyche. She knows that she plays a very different style than most others, and capitalises on it. For example, in the Nagano finals she called an empty riichi, hoping to capitlise on her surreal wins from the first half to scare her opponents, which worked.
She is also skillful at intimidating her opponents into her traps, as well as collaborating with other players to help take down a more potent opponent in a match. Hisa also plays a solid defensive game, willing to back down from Hajime Kunihiro's riichi, even when Hajime was in last and Hisa first. Her signature move is when she draws her winning tile and then "shoots" the tile into the air and slams it down, revealing her winning hand.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Hisa is a Blessed with an unnamed Gift. This gives her the ability to track and find anyone like a GPS.
It is later revealed that she's an Error and with her superior fighting skills, masters of weaponry and her keen intellect, she's an unstoppable force.
Trivia[]
- Hisa made it to the semi-finals of the Saimoe 2012 tournament.
- Hisa, in the first turn of her matches, has a habit of comparing herself and her hands to how her teammates would play.
- In the Prefectural finals, she wonders what Nodoka would do with her 5-shanten hand
- In the National semifinals, she wonders if she'll start off with a good hand like Yuuki does, as Hisa was the first dealer.
- In the XP4 fics, Hisa is in-love with Yuura Inoki.
- In the XP4 fics, Hisa is often referred as Mega-Tokyo's version of Marcus the Kane. Coincidentally, Hisa would often wears similar clothes to Marcus.
- In the DAMNiverse fics, Hisa seems to have an interest towards Edd.
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