jmal said:
Even if that were true (I'd argue it is a strong overstatement, though I agree some others get developed more than Chihaya in some ways, especially Taichi), "all but one character gets developed" is not "nothing accomplished", which was what you claimed initially.
She's the main protag, of course it matters this is suppose to be the person who is the focus of the show and yet she has zero arc, zero depth and really serves no purpose.
The manga itself isn't complete, and the anime did not cover all of the available manga, so... Would it be rude to say "duh"? If so, then I'll say "this should not be surprising to anyone". I can't imagine the relationships will be resolved before the manga concludes. That may actually be a problem for me (I'm not too fond or Arata so having the romance dragged out too long could get annoying) but I found more than enough other stuff to like about the show, personally.
using then WELL IT'S GONNA BE EXPANDED ON IN THE SEQUEL is literally the laziest excuse in writing.
There was no reveal there was no build up, there was no nothing, you could have easily removed it and have no effect on the narrative at all.
As for her sister complex, but I feel like it's served its purpose already. The sister worship served to show us that Chihaya used to define her life in terms of another (her sister in this case), whereas through karuta Chihaya learned to think about improving hersef, to generate her own identity, rather than defining herself as her sister's lackey. I suppose it could be revisited later on too, but I feel like that plot thread already wrapped up well enough even if it doesn't.
Is by your "resolved" you mean completely ignored right? Because it never had any closure, her parents still don't give a shit about any of her achievements, her sister doesn't give a shit either and never once is there a revaluation the Chihaya needs to make her own identity when the only reason she's playing the game is cause that told her she should. She never came to any realization.
From amateur to A-class, so yes.
She's been playing for years, and she still almost gets beat by a child (the anime even says the child literally started months ago) who was also in A class.
The Karuta premise was pretentious at best
Pretentious how? Because it heavily dramatizes it? It certainly does dramatize it, but so does every "competition" anime. It's anime after all.
there's a difference between dramatizing and just trying way too hard. They can't trying to drive home the point repeatably that Kaurta was a "sport" that it was above simply being a card game, but it wasn't it's just a crappy card game.
...And the rant that follows this gets kind of bizarre. Still, does it matter if it's called a "sport" or a "game"? The important point is "competition". Running around a field kicking or hitting a ball isn't the only form of human competition. There are also literally dozens of anime about baseball/soccer/traditional popular sports. One reason Chihayafuru got such a following is likely because it's about something so unconventional. That's a big part about why I watched it, despite generally avoiding more mainstream sports anime.
it wasn't unconventional it was basically Yugi-oh but instead of duel monsters it's some game not even Japan gives a crap about.
you're not judging the game in the real world based on its presentation in an anime, I would hope. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there are probably not any 8 year old Karuta champs... fiction, and all that. Most competitive "game" (whether it fits your definition of sport or now, that's irrelevant really) anime pile on all sorts of unusual situations and opponents so you're not just facing off against 20-30 year old men all the time.
Your missing the point, if they want to drive home that this so called game is actually "sport" then it needs to present it as such, By showing how psychically demanding it is and how much skill it takes.
shoving in little kids, house wives and old men as having enough ability to compete at the top tier of this sport undermines all that. It;s fucking conflicting when we see Chihaya and her team working their ass off at this sport, then all of a sudden they are nearly beat by a child who probably just got out of diapers last week.
Go watch Major it's literally all the same themes and tropes just done 10000 times better. Guro takes a bunch of nobodies and helps them get to the paint where they can stand toe to toe witht he toughest team in the league and even though they eventually lose, it's the Hardest win the other team ever had to work for.
where as Chihaya doesn't even do that much she just goes "omgosh they are so good, I can't beat them, oh look I lost that was fun :D" and just gets demolished.
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