Nodosaki

Nodosaki is the femslash ship between Nodoka Haramura and Saki Miyanaga from the Saki fandom.

Canon
Nodoka and Saki are first-year high school students and fellow clubmates at Kiyosumi High School's Mahjong Club. Nodoka is a very talented mahjong player who won the National Middle School Individual Champion a year prior to the beginning of the series, while Saki is considered as one of the "national-class monsters" due to her natural talent in mahjong as well supernatural luck and being able to control the flow of the matches. However because of Nodoka's nature and pride, she often denies supernatural powers' or abilities' existence in mahjong.

Prior to their very first meeting in the series, Saki notices Nodoka walking past her and blushes while thinking to herself how pretty she was. Later on the day, Saki's friend Kyoutarou drags her to the Mahjong Club, where Saki and Nodoka meet properly for the first time. Nodoka mentions she saw Saki reading a book at the bridge while walking past her, leading to Saki being embarrassed. Saki initially turns down their offer to play mahjong, but upon seeing Nodoka's smile, she joins the table. During the matches, Saki plays badly and in an odd way on purpose and manipulates things so she gets a ±0 score each time. After Saki leaves, the other club members discuss Saki's playing and when Hisa suggests that she might have "an incredible ability", Nodoka runs out to chase after Saki despite the rain pouring down heavily. She catches up to Saki and with a grim look on her face, asks if Saki purposefully finished each game with a ±0 score.

Saki then admits she developed her style because of the bad times she had while playing Mahjong with her family: they would punish her whether she won or lost, either by taking away her New Year's gift money (in the manga) or not giving her candy (in anime), or getting angry at her. Nodoka, in disbelief, asks if Saki could have a rematch against her, but Saki turns her challenge down, citing that she dislikes mahjong, and Nodoka's pride takes a hit.

After returning home, Nodoka attemps to get a ±0 score herself but fails to do so each time, leading to her wondering out loud if it's even possible to begin with. The next day, Hisa manages to get Saki to come and play again in exchange for lending her [Saki] a book. During the game, Nodoka attemps to get Saki to not get a ±0 score but fails to do so. Afterwards, everyone in the club becomes flabbergasted when Saki sheepishly agrees to play mahjong with the intent of winning. Hisa then manages to convince her to play by thinking with the handicap that Saki starts out with 1000 points. In the next game, Nodoka glares at Saki and thinks to herself how Saki's luck will eventually run out before going on offensive. Saki senses Nodoka's power activating - which is later revealed to be her "Nodocchi Mode" - and blushes while she sees Nodoka growing rainbow-colored wings before they vanish. During the last hand, Saki asks if it's alright for her to win before scoring a yakuman, especially shocking Nodoka. When Saki finds out she actually won because the handicap wasn't real, she's utterly relieved, but this leads to Nodoka feeling bitter and running out in frustration. This time Saki decides to run after her and finds Nodoka sitting on a bench by the river.

Saki sits next to her and mentions her past with mahjong again, before telling Nodoka how them playing mahjong together made her happy. Nodoka retorts that of course people are happy when they win, but Saki says it was fun specifically because she was playing with Nodoka. Nodoka then counters how she, who loves mahjong, feels frustrated over losing against someone who dislikes mahjong. Nodoka mentions there are stronger opponents for Saki to face against in the Nationals before leaving. Later that night Nodoka is shown to feel sad but she eventually becomes relieved and smiles when Saki comes into the club next day, announcing that she wants to join the team. Saki smiles and says she wants to play more and win against Nodoka even more as well, and Nodoka takes the challenge on, telling Saki that isn't going to let her win this time around.

Fanon
Nodosaki is one of the most popular ships in the Saki fandom. It quickly sailed thanks to the amount of ship tease they have as well as the way their relationship developed. In the Eastern fandom, where the more common name for the ship is also Sakinodo, it is mainly rivalled by Saki's ship with her sister and their clubmates (Kyoutarou included), while in the Western fandom, it barely has any rival ships.

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Trivia

 * They have a height difference of 1 cm, with Saki being 155 cm, and Nodoka being 154 cm tall.