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Mar 18, 2012 10:41 AM

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Taichi of course ! He's always by her side, taking care of her. And he tries so hard!
That would be a shame if Arata, would be the one to get the candy :/.
Mar 18, 2012 5:37 PM

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I really want Chihaya to be with Arata.

I have this strong damn feeling that I want her to be with Arata.

He/is/more/awesome-er/ than Taichi.

Taichi is all cute... but I go for more of glasses guys 8D.

Chihaya D: ... please be with Arata Dx.
I will be sad if she went with Taichi.. even if I don't have a problem with it :/.
Mar 18, 2012 11:05 PM
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bastek66 said:
I read some spoiler that Shinobu has some hots on and/or rivalry with Arata.
I hope they end up matching hair colors.
Arata x Shinobu
Taichi x Chihaya


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Mar 19, 2012 10:29 AM

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Taichi all the way

But its way to painful to see him always getting ignored by Chihaya T_T. Come on girl just realize it already!! That guy is hopelessly in love with you @_@
Mar 19, 2012 12:54 PM

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thrina said:
I chose Arata. I LOVE Taichi and it would be easy for me to choose him for Chihaya if Arata wasn't so damn sweet.
Oh hell, I wish I can change my vote. After the anime series almost finished, I prefer Taichi with her much more. Damn you, self-from-4-months-ago.
Mar 20, 2012 8:05 PM

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Alright, who do you want Chihaya to end up with?

Reasons why Chihaya should end up with Taichi


  • Let's face it, Chihaya have absolutely no realistic future, she has to marry Taichi. I mean is she really going to marry a guy who is plans to feed the both of them with...card games?
  • Taichi cares more about Chihaya A LOT more than Arata
  • Taichi and Chihaya actually looks GOOD together. One is a beauty, and the other is super smart. Imagine brainless beauty pair with cardgame otaku.
  • Arata puts his future on a card game (how is this guy even going to support himself?) and Taichi puts his future on schoolwork and will probably a "future"


^^qft. these are precisely my feelings on this.
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Confucius said:
Alright, who do you want Chihaya to end up with?

Reasons why Chihaya should end up with Taichi


  • Let's face it, Chihaya have absolutely no realistic future, she has to marry Taichi. I mean is she really going to marry a guy who is plans to feed the both of them with...card games?
  • Taichi cares more about Chihaya A LOT more than Arata
  • Taichi and Chihaya actually looks GOOD together. One is a beauty, and the other is super smart. Imagine brainless beauty pair with cardgame otaku.
  • Arata puts his future on a card game (how is this guy even going to support himself?) and Taichi puts his future on schoolwork and will probably a "future"


^^qft. these are precisely my feelings on this.


Lol for me as law student the ff. reason stated above is pathetic, impertinent, no valid no basis at all. your pre judging arata and your not even read the manga before you judge your lay your basis and show your evidence first so that people will know what your saying has a basis. if you reading the manga arata are much much smarter than to taichi and arata can easily go and study to the no.1 state university and be a lawyer or what ever he may desire. Is arata care to chihaya of course he care to chihaya more than taichi care to chihaya. arata is not showy guy that will care to women like a puppy dog remember Arata is a cool guy type. Arata is the one who give a reason and dream to pursue to chihaya,then tell me now who do you think the better guy. your to much connecting real life to fiction in real life there's no guarantee today your family is rich and who knows tomorrow your family is damn poor.
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How can you not want Taichi to win? D:
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Mar 21, 2012 2:26 PM

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Lol for me as law student the ff. reason stated above is pathetic, impertinent, no valid no basis at all. your pre judging arata and your not even read the manga before you judge your lay your basis and show your evidence first so that people will know what your saying has a basis. if you reading the manga arata are much much smarter than to taichi and arata can easily go and study to the no.1 state university and be a lawyer or what ever he may desire. Is arata care to chihaya of course he care to chihaya more than taichi care to chihaya. arata is not showy guy that will care to women like a puppy dog remember Arata is a cool guy type. Arata is the one who give a reason and dream to pursue to chihaya,then tell me now who do you think the better guy. your to much connecting real life to fiction in real life there's no guarantee today your family is rich and who knows tomorrow your family is damn poor.


So what if I haven't the read the manga? This is the anime discussion section.

Arata is just reserved, it's just the mangaka forcing him to be the "cool guy" type or "god" of this show.
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Mar 21, 2012 3:34 PM

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TAICHI FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!! ;_____________;

Taichi is ALWAYS there for her and he cares about her A LOT..while Arata cares about Chihaya like a really good friend...

Taichi is SUPER SWEET AND AMAZING!!! T______T

It sucks though how Chihaya always looks at Arata.. for ONCE, I would like for her to look at Taichi!! T_______T
Mar 21, 2012 8:08 PM
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Taichi all the way.

Go Taichi!
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Mar 22, 2012 5:52 PM

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Eh, I don't read the manga, so maybe it's changed, but didn't Chihaya come out with the line, talking to Kana, about one of the Hiundred Poets.

"People think it's a love poem, but it's really about a childhood friend she wants to come back. It fits Arata perfectly."

The "people think it's a love poem" seemed fairly clear to me at the time anyways, maybe the author just giving us a little bit of hope, but either way, I'd feel really bad for Taichi if she went for someone she's spoken to once or twice in three years over him. Pretty sure they're just messing us around at this stage though, and they might very well pull a "her one love will only ever be karuta" ending.
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Eh, I don't read the manga, so maybe it's changed, but didn't Chihaya come out with the line, talking to Kana, about one of the Hiundred Poets.

"People think it's a love poem, but it's really about a childhood friend she wants to come back. It fits Arata perfectly."

The "people think it's a love poem" seemed fairly clear to me at the time anyways, maybe the author just giving us a little bit of hope, but either way,


Errr... That quote is skewed.. What you wrote down was the opposite of what was said. lol

According to crunchyroll:

Chihaya: "It sounds like a love poem, but this poem is about a girl who was her childhood friend, right? It fits perfectly."

Kana: "It sounds like a love poem..."
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ARATA THUG LYF 4EVR

FUCK THAT TAICHI MOFUCKA
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Apopholis said:
Eh, I don't read the manga, so maybe it's changed, but didn't Chihaya come out with the line, talking to Kana, about one of the Hiundred Poets.

"People think it's a love poem, but it's really about a childhood friend she wants to come back. It fits Arata perfectly."

The "people think it's a love poem" seemed fairly clear to me at the time anyways, maybe the author just giving us a little bit of hope, but either way, I'd feel really bad for Taichi if she went for someone she's spoken to once or twice in three years over him. Pretty sure they're just messing us around at this stage though, and they might very well pull a "her one love will only ever be karuta" ending.

If you are referring to poem 57.

As I was wondering
whether or not I had seen it
by chance,
it became cloud-hidden,
the face of the midnight moon!

And here the same poem but translated a little different in the anime.

Long last we meet only for me to leave hurriedly,
For I could not recognize you,
Like the moon hidden behind the clouds.

"It seems to fit Arata. Whenever I get to meet him, he has to leave right away. It sounds like a love poem, but this poem is about a girl who was her childhood friend, right? It fits perfectly." I'm may not have it word for word but it was in episode 20 where Chihaya was riding a train back with Kana it starts at 16:21.

"Professor Mostow explains that the headnote for this poem describes an experience one night when Lady Murasaki had seen someone she had known long ago as a child, but she only saw them briefly in passing as they raced by. But there are many interpretations as to who that person had been. Many propose it was a fellow female acquaintance while others wonder if it was a male lover. Unfortunately we can’t be sure."

Imo I think the poem can be interpret both ways unless your referring to poem 6 the last poem in episode 23. The one about magpies, frosty/misty bridge, and Orihime and Hikoboshi is a love poem.
Kana recites and talks about lots of poem though.
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Peaches_Please said:
Apopholis said:
Eh, I don't read the manga, so maybe it's changed, but didn't Chihaya come out with the line, talking to Kana, about one of the Hiundred Poets.

"People think it's a love poem, but it's really about a childhood friend she wants to come back. It fits Arata perfectly."

The "people think it's a love poem" seemed fairly clear to me at the time anyways, maybe the author just giving us a little bit of hope, but either way, I'd feel really bad for Taichi if she went for someone she's spoken to once or twice in three years over him. Pretty sure they're just messing us around at this stage though, and they might very well pull a "her one love will only ever be karuta" ending.

If you are referring to poem 57.

As I was wondering
whether or not I had seen it
by chance,
it became cloud-hidden,
the face of the midnight moon!

And here the same poem but translated a little different in the anime.

Long last we meet only for me to leave hurriedly,
For I could not recognize you,
Like the moon hidden behind the clouds.

"It seems to fit Arata. Whenever I get to meet him, he has to leave right away. It sounds like a love poem, but this poem is about a girl who was her childhood friend, right? It fits perfectly." I'm may not have it word for word but it was in episode 20 where Chihaya was riding a train back with Kana it starts at 16:21.

"Professor Mostow explains that the headnote for this poem describes an experience one night when Lady Murasaki had seen someone she had known long ago as a child, but she only saw them briefly in passing as they raced by. But there are many interpretations as to who that person had been. Many propose it was a fellow female acquaintance while others wonder if it was a male lover. Unfortunately we can’t be sure."

Imo I think the poem can be interpret both ways unless your referring to poem 6 the last poem in episode 23. The one about magpies, frosty/misty bridge, and Orihime and Hikoboshi is a love poem.
Kana recites and talks about lots of poem though.


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ARATA THUG LYF 4EVR

FUCK THAT TAICHI MOFUCKA


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Mar 23, 2012 11:47 AM

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Apopholis said:
Eh, I don't read the manga, so maybe it's changed, but didn't Chihaya come out with the line, talking to Kana, about one of the Hiundred Poets.

"People think it's a love poem, but it's really about a childhood friend she wants to come back. It fits Arata perfectly."

The "people think it's a love poem" seemed fairly clear to me at the time anyways, maybe the author just giving us a little bit of hope, but either way,


Errr... That quote is skewed.. What you wrote down was the opposite of what was said. lol

According to crunchyroll:

Chihaya: "It sounds like a love poem, but this poem is about a girl who was her childhood friend, right? It fits perfectly."

Kana: "It sounds like a love poem..."


Different wording, but that's really not the opposite at all :P Just 'cause Kana repeated what she said doesn't change that Chihaya basically said "Arata is a childhood friend", didn't she?

It's up to you to decide whether she means "Chihaya's not sure if she's in love", or if it means "Arata's been friendzoned", but whatever about the manga and how much it pushes Chihaya/Arata, the Anime crowd aren't exactly doing the best job of that at the moment, and if it did end that way, it would either feel like an asspull, or just completely shafting Taichi. I really, really hope they don't go that way.
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FYI, Taichi is also a childhood friend... even before Arata :/
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Mar 24, 2012 7:03 AM

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wakka9ca said:
FYI, Taichi is also a childhood friend... even before Arata :/


I know. I'm not just playing on the whole "The childhood friend never wins" thing, I'm just wondering if that's just how Chihaya sees him. A childhood friend who made her discover what she loved and then left, and that she wants to come back.

This is all speculation on my part, and is how I would continue the story if I was the writing team. In reality? I just don't know.
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In reality I would prefer Taichi over Arata... because he's the one who spent more time with Chihaya and directly supported her.
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Mar 26, 2012 2:01 PM

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annnd Im all for TaichiXChihaya~xD srusly i love this couple.
n i saw someone already posted this but i cant agree more.

Arata x Shinobu
Taichi x Chihaya

HELL YA! I SUPPORT!! x3 (i would be really happy if this is how the manga/anime ended *3*)
But..Everyone support diffrently. Thats what makes this so intresting to see the result in the end *grin*
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I'm rooting more and more for Taichi, it feels like he kind of deserves it more, while Chihaya seems to drift throught his fingers in Aratas direction. D: It hurts so much to watch the poor guy. T_T
Mar 27, 2012 10:21 PM

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arata x taichi here (no homo)

3 some is another option also..

though Chihaya seems to be begging for arata's c*** throughout the anime..
Mar 28, 2012 12:26 AM

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I initially voted Arata back during like episode 8 or something, but after seeing the rest of the season, I really, really like Chihaya x Tachi. But it looks like Chihaya x Arata will win out. Just look at the way Chihaya reacts every time she sees Arata in the later episodes. She's always entranced every time he appears.
Mar 28, 2012 10:53 AM

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I don't think Chihaya is now in love with Arata or Taichi,
we know Taichi is in love with Chihaya ("Hopeless... Hopelessly in love.")
"Chihaya reacts every time she sees Arata in the later episodes"
oh course she will be happy!
He is her friend, she don't meet him every day like rest friends...
so of course she will be happy if she get a chance to see him
and she will pick to talk with Arata instead of Taichi
(he goes to the same school and club as she)
she can talk with him every day, in contrast to Arata.
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You know, this isn't a fair fight. Taichi has been with Chihaya the whole series and Arata's been in what.. 5 episodes, not even. Of course people are going to vote for Taichi, and he's had many opportunities to get close to her. Yet, the way Chihaya lights up when she sees Arata play karuta or hears his voice is such a magical moment, it makes my heart melt. <3

The fact is, if it wasn't for Arata, Chihaya wouldn't have found her dream. Even Taichi wouldn't have started playing karuta and probably wouldn't have seen Chihaya ever again after they grew up. Taichi is very sweet and loves Chihaya a lot but Chihaya seems to fit MUCH better with Arata.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=AezB-1OiWgY

Ahh this is exactly what I'm talking about.! x3 Those two just work together so well.
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Arata.
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wakka9ca said:
In reality I would prefer Taichi over Arata... because he's the one who spent more time with Chihaya and directly supported her.


this

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Arata x Shinobu
Taichi x Chihaya



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Chihaya is going nuts about Arata, he's the reason why Chihaya has a dream.
But still Taichi all the way.
May 5, 2012 12:44 AM

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Arata. He and Chihaya have more chemistry whereas Taichi and Chihaya are more like friends.
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i think volume 17 from the manga pretty much settles it.
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Arata. He and Chihaya have more chemistry whereas Taichi and Chihaya are more like friends.


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i think volume 17 from the manga pretty much settles it.


yes indeed. chapter 92 and 93. XD

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Taichi x100. Sure he was immature as a kid, but that's due to the fact he didn't know how to express his feelings. Go Taichi! You're so good looking, smart and considerate!!
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Taichi is kinda like Syaoron from cardcaptor sakura lol
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I don't like Taichi at all and Arata is my favorite character lol.

Also, Arata and Chihaya seem like a great couple when they're together. So I choose them.
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I've seen enough drama/romance anime to know where this is going. It's sooooo obvious that Chihaya will end up with Taichi. I'd vote Arata though, I love how he develop their relationship progress since they're young, and I love long distant relationship too.
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Taichi!!!! i just love his character development!!! and i hope he will win Chihaya's heart in the end!!! He's had a crush on her since the beginning that's why he was such a jerk with Arata...........little pest, lol. But he has been growing up so wonderfully, the manga is coming to a climax, so we will see.............
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Arata. As I wear glasses and have dark colored hair as well. ( =.=)
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Taichi's voice is to die for... Miyano Mamoru's best performance. Beats all his other main characters by miles. So therefore Taichi all the way!
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I love Taichi ^^



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Hmmm...I'm only 15 eps in and to be honest I really like Chihaya x Arata but up until this point I'm at I've not really seen anything from Arata that suggests anything but a platonic relationship on his end. Chihaya is constantly seeing him in the clouds and stuff but he doesn't really seem to think about her the same way. He thinks about Karuta.

I may end up eating these words through the next 10 eps though, we'll see.

Also:

Friendzone Level = Taichi


EDIT: So after all 25 episodes I didn't feel that Arata really cared for Chihaya. He likes her and thinks she's pretty, but he's incapable of really doing anything about it so he doesn't. Maybe it would be a different story if he was in the same city she was. I feel like maybe he'd make a move then but aside from that he doesn't even call her. Chihaya is oblivious to Taichi and doesn't see him romantically. She may someday, but currently, it's platonic.

I don't really see any pairing here. I prefer Arata x Chihaya but it doesn't exist. Neither does Taichi x Chihaya. Something that shined in this anime was the boys relationship with each other. They both seem to understand how the other feels and respect that. That must be a Japanese thing because it sure as hell doesn't happen in America very often. :P

Bottom Line: If Arata ever moves to the same city as Chihaya it's over. If he never does then maybe she'll eventually notice Taichi. The End. XP
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I really want for Chihaya to end up with Taichi! I can not wait for Season 2! I really hope they take things a step further ;) Haha, I don't hate Arata though.
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would go to Taichi as well!!

it's funny because i hated Taichi back in the childhood flashbacks since he pushed Chihaya like that.

but as the episodes keep going, i began to appreciate him more and more.

poor him though, the series will definitely pander towards Arata and Chihaya even though they haven't had any intimate interactions in the first season so far.

probably by season 2 T__T

either way Taichi all the way!!

you've made me a believer :)
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In my perfect ending (which, alas, doesn't seem very likely at this point, but a girl can still dream), the couples would go something like:

Taichi x Chihaya,
Arata x Shinobu,
Desktomu x Kana,
Akihiro x Sumire

And I want poor Yusei to end up with someone too, but there's no one left...at first I thought, "Yumin!" Then I remembered she's 24 and he's still in high school. :s
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The idea of the Taichi romance seems too one sided. Give me more Arata x Chihaya!
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Taichi the baws of course.
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but i still want Taichi with her.
But in most anime, it never ends to be the closest childhood friend that usually has the most affection.

And here is a thing i managed to find...

"this is a josei manga which the romance aspect is less, but if you consider the hint in the story
chihaya x arata is the most probable outcome.

There are 3 important hint that chihaya harbor a feeling towards Arata this factual and undeniable.


This is a Fact :

Chihaya and Arata Love is somehow similar to Orihime x hikoboshi situation (long distant Love)- Poem #17
As long chihaya x arata represent orohime and hikoboshi, taichi love is just a wishful thinking.

Another Fact Whose better in Karuta?:
Suoh- Talent
Taichi - Hard Work
Arata- Hard Work + Talent

They forgetting chihaya is the main character here, chihaya heart is rooting for Arata
that's undeniable fact. a fine girl like chihaya deserve a humble downtown boy like Arata."
~ By: Some guy that posted on Chihayafuru Wiki.

I had to put spoiler tags on a lot of the info. Since it contains tons.
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i vote for taichi, really i did like arata with her but i started to ship arataxshinbu hard and taichixchihaya hard to, i dont know what happen it started at vol 14 before then i was on arata/taichi team but now well its how i am here today
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