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.
Stars: Asami Seto, Mamoru Miyano, Yoshimasa Hosoya
Crew: Daiki Suzuki, Taiki Imamura, Natsuko Tatsuzawa, Minori Ueda, Hiroyuki Inage, Ayuri Taguchi
Country: JP
Studio: Nippon TV
Runtime: 23:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First air date: Oct 05, 2011
Last air date: Mar 24, 2020
Episode: 74 Episode
Season: 3 Season
IMDb: 3.4
Keywords:competition, card game, strong woman, training, high school, growing up, romance, slice of life, unrequited love, coming of age, female protagonist, based on manga, old friends, friends in love, anime, school club, karuta, prodigy, josei, japanese high school, spokon, japanese high school student