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Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again. (Source: Crunchyroll)
Yuki SuetsuguOriginal Creator
Morio AsakaDirector
Naoya TakayamaSeries Composition
Kunihiko HamadaCharacter DesignAkiko KonnoProp DesignTomoyuki ShimizuArt Director
Satoshi HashimotoColor Design
Kenji FujitaDirector of Photography
Kashiko KimuraEditing
Masafumi MimaSound Director
Kenji KoyamaSound Effects
Kousuke YamashitaMusic
Yuusei NishidaTooru Nara
Tsutomu KomanoTsubasa Yonaga
Hiro KinashiKazuya Nakai
Hideo HaradaUnshou Ishizuka
Chitose AyaseAya Endou
Yuu AshinoChika Anzai
Mari WatayaHouko Kuwashima
Akira WatayaJin Horikawa
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__Karuta__ (かるた) , a card game unheard of outside of Japan. Competitive Karuta, an even rarer version of Karuta, is unheard of even for many Japanese people. Chihayafuru, however, changed all of this. At its core, Chihayafuru is a series about a girl’s love for Competitive Karuta. Her love for Karut…
Read full review on AniList →・ English is my <a>second language</a>, there may be errors in my grammar.. ・I try to make a <a>spoiler-free</a> review, however, in the section <a>**opinion**</a> if something important happens I mention it. ・General experience <a>≠</a> Final score. My personal score is *based in 5 star system*, so…
Read full review on AniList →# ~~~__Chihayafuru: Fighting to find your passion.__ ~~~ Prepare for a decently lengthy one, because I watched 74 episodes of anime in a shorter time than I usually do, so I have a lot of compressed feelings that I want to express thoroughly. Chihayafuru was one of my friends (whom I met o…
Read full review on AniList →Chihayafuru is an extraordinary confluence of the sports, shojo, and even literary genres. The show successfully balances its different components to deliver a compelling personal narrative for its main characters and painting an exquisite picture of Karuta and its community. Unfortunately, although…
Read full review on AniList →___This review contains spoilers!___ I will probably never play One Hundred Poets karuta in my life, but it's enriching just to scratch the surface of its rich cultural background and present-day strategy through the wonderful cast of _Chihayafuru_. _Chihayafuru_ is a story of that culture, but it'…
Read full review on AniList →_?Impassionate gods have never seen crimson that lies in the Tatsuta River?_ > The poetry of Ariwara Narihira tries to express too much content in too few words. It resembles a faded flower with a lingering fragrance. This is a quote that I think applies well to Chihayafuru S1, because the story i…
Read full review on AniList →As much as everyone wants to make this Karuta game the center of focus, I just don't think that's the strongest point of this show. I found it interesting to learn how the game is played and what makes it competitive at the beginning but ultimately I was more interested in the character relationship…
Read full review on AniList →#####This review is spoiler free. --- The challenge of any sport anime, or TV show or film for that matter, is getting the viewer invested in the game. It’s easy for a basketball show to grab a basketball fan, but it can quickly fall apart when you’re trying to attract a wider audience than just t…
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