Super Real Mahjong is an H-Game series by Seta Corporation. In them, you play Mahjong with a few girls. Win and you may get to see them undress in an anime sequence, though the console versions generally censor the nudity. The gameplay is otherwise very standard, as there are no items to change it.
Games in the series include:
- Super Real Mahjong PI (1987)
- Super Real Mahjong PII (1987)
- Super Real Mahjong PIII (1988)
- Super Real Mahjong Special: Mika, Kasumi, Shōko no Omoide yori (1992)
- Super Real Mahjong PIV (1993)
- Super Real Mahjong PV (1994)
- Super Real Mahjong PVI (1996)
- Super Real Mahjong P7 (1997)
- Real Mahjong Adventure: Umi e Summer Waltz (1998)
- Super Real Mahjong VS (1999)
- Super Real Mahjong Premium Collection (2001)
- Super Real Mahjong for Mobile (2003)
- Super Real Mahjong Dōsōkai (2004)
- On'nanoko + Mahjong=☆ ~Super Real Mah-jong~ (2011)
- Super Real Mahjong Solitaire (2013)
- Super Real Mah-jong (2015, relaunched as Super Real Mah-jong R in 2016)
- SRM Fitness VR: Shōko to Training (2016)
- Super Real Mahjong P8 (2018)
This game series provides examples of:
- 15 Puzzle: Miki's minigame in PV Paradise tasks the player with solving a 4x4 sliding puzzle of her face within 99 seconds.
- Ambiguously Brown: Mizuki has dark skin, brown hair, and brown eyes, unlike all the other girls who have white skin.
- Asleep in Class: The intro for P7 shows Serika scolding Yurina for falling asleep while she's teaching.
- *Bleep*-dammit!: The Switch digital releases have censor light beams to cover all nudity, which actually had to be recalibrated when it was discovered PV didn't have them cover it all that well. The Love 2~7! physical release makes them slightly thinner, but still has them cover the nudity.
- Blush Sticker: Tamami has noticeable pink circles on her cheeks at all times, fitting her cheerfulness and youthfulness.
- Button Mashing: Akira's minigame in PV Paradise has her drink from a bottle as fast as possible which is done when the player mashes the B button, but it's also necessary to make her stop by pushing A once her face is too red, otherwise she chokes on it and you lose precious time.
- Canon Discontinuity: Due to varying so much from the later installments and lacking content, PI is generally ignored and has never received any re-releases.
- The Coats Are Off: Christine enters the match wearing a coat, with the gameplay portrait darkening her face. After losing for the first time, she tosses it to the side and is fully shown to the player.
- Compilation Re-release:
- PII and PIII have always received home releases together, mostly due to their short length.
- Super Real Mahjong Graffiti on the Sega Saturn has PII, PIII, and PIV on it, with some graphical improvements to the older games.
- PII to P7 have been re-released as Super Real Mahjong Love 2~7! in 2020 for Nintendo Switch (in cartridge form) and Microsoft Windows (in DVD form) with some additional features.
- Curtains Match the Window: Most of the girls have eye colors that match their hair. This includes Shoko (green), the Serizawa sisters, as well as Yuu (blue), Yukari (dark green) and Serika (turquoise).
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first game doesn't have defined characters to play against.
- Exergaming: SRM Fitness VR: Shōko to Training has you perform one of four exercises (sit-ups, push-ups, back extensions and squats) with Shoko, who provides encouragement. The game's intended for a VR headset, but that can be disabled.
- Featureless Protagonist: The player character is only known to be male and the only thing that's usually seen is his hand, to make inserting themselves into the game easier for the player. PV Paradise uses a penguin graphic to represent the player, but that's more of a joke than anything else.
- Game-Over Man: The girl you're playing against usually shows up on the continue/game over screen.
- Gorgeous Gaijin: Christine is the only American girl in the otherwise Japanese cast. She has blond hair and is very good-looking and shapely, with the second largest bust size in the series.
- Hotter and Sexier: In contrast to the Tamer and Chaster mobile app games, the official mobile website for the series offers exclusive minigames (that mostly require purchases) to reveal and acquire illustrations of the girls from PII to P7 (and Hinako from Mobile) drawn by series illustrator Ryou Tanaka. A lot of these show the girls in a lot more risque situations and poses than they ever were shown in the main games, with some even implying sex happening.
- Human Snowball: Tripping over the mound in Mizuki's minigame in PV Paradise makes her turn into a snowball, roll down the mountain, and shake off the snow once she reaches the bottom.
- Leitmotif: In the later games, each girl has a musical theme that plays during matches, which are often meant to fit her personality. For example, PV's Mizuki doesn't take herself too seriously and would rather play mahjong for fun, which is why her theme is carefree and upbeat, while Aya has a more no-nonsense personality which is displayed in how she plays mahjong, which is why her theme's significantly calmer with even some slight traditional Japanese influences.
- Letting Her Hair Down: Akira's hair is normally tied and short, but once she starts to lose more of her clothing during the game, she lets her decently long hair loose as well.
- Lucky Charms Title: Some releases put a tilde in the title, while On'nanoko + Mahjong=☆ ~Super Real Mah-jong~ includes a star as well.
- Minigame: PV Paradise has a minigame for each girl, which can be played as long as you want. Most of these are at least somewhat related to the girl's personality and are done through simple arcade-style actions, with her getting happy when you do well or becoming disappointed when you fail.
- Numbered Sequels: Every game in the series used Roman numbers for the title, until P7 which switched to Arabic.
- Oddball in the Series: Real Mahjong Adventure is a Visual Novel where you can date girls from PV, PVI, and P7, rather than a pure mahjong game. Later installments would generally put VN segments between mahjong, but they wouldn't dominate the games as heavily.
- Only One Name: Girls from PII and PIV are only given one name. Every other game gives them a first and last name.
- Prolonged Video Game Sequel: PI and PII have one opponent. PIII has two. PIV and PV have three. PVI and PVII have three and a secret fourth girl unlockable after meeting certain conditions.
- Sexy Packaging: Dōsōkai's boxart shows the girls in bikinis, with mostly Shoko and Akira being visible.
- Strip Poker: You play strip mahjong against several girls here.
- Tamer and Chaster:
- The Super Famicom version of PIV has scenes where the girls wear casual clothes, festive outfits, or swimsuits, to make up for the lack of undressing.
- Dōsōkai lacks nudity. Some pictures show the girls off in a relatively minor state of undress anyway, but it's not on the level of the original games.
- The eighth game has zero nudity, making it perfectly suitable for 12-year-old players.
- There Are No Adults: Averted. Serika seems to be the only adult character in these games.
- Title Scream: Some of the games like P7 and Premium Collection have the girls announce the title loudly. Averted in PV, where it's announced calmly instead.
- Token Mini-Moe: Mana is the shortest girl out of the ones in PIV (but not the series as a whole) and is also meant to appear childish and somewhat spoiled, in comparison to the more tomboyish and teenage-looking Yuu as well as mature and womanly Kaori.
- True Final Boss:
- In PVI, filling the heart meter of all three girls lets you challenge Christine Garland at the end.
- In P7, winning at least one match with a baiman hand or higher grants a chance to play against Etsuko Toyohara.
