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Nov 24, 2011 2:41 PM
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So great show! One of my favorite this season!
Nov 24, 2011 4:45 PM

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The old angry lady playing tennis ...that was kinda weird lol
It's nice they're finally complete!! I hope arata shows up soon *o*!!
Nov 24, 2011 6:56 PM

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Lol at the people who want Arata heh.
Nov 25, 2011 11:24 AM

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Even though it's predictable I still really like this show.
Nov 25, 2011 4:32 PM

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May 2008
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grrr i watched all available episodes in one day.. why do i do this to myself???!
Nov 30, 2011 7:04 AM

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I like Nikuman-kun!
We needed some comedic relief on the team!!
His voice sounds familiar, could it be the same as Bon's from Exorcist? Hmmm...
Anyway, amazing good luck for Chihaya to find him in the same school, though I won't push it~xD

When Taichi was explaining everything I felt so completely lost! I don't think I'd have that much patience and I;d probably forget all the rules of this game!xD

Time to see what the Karuta club can do!!

Nov 30, 2011 10:51 AM

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Xylona said:
I was hoping the 5th member would be a bit better looking.. The last two guys that joined are all pig-nosed and unattractive. :(


Wow... shallow posts are shallow... There are a lot of "unattractive" people in the world, do you want a serious story to only have top models? Jeez.

And I still think these characters are two perfect in one way or another.
Dec 1, 2011 9:07 AM

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aphton said:
This show gets really annoying. I mean the main heroine is selfish and everything is about karuta in her head. I get it, its a game anime but still, she has no character depth whatsoever.
Im thinking of dropping this, but before that, Im gonna wait for a couple of episodes and give it a chance...


The episode was about finding the fifth member, what did you wanted to see? I'm certain that she talked about other things when she went home but the anime is focused on that.
Besides she's a high-school girl, what did you expect her to talk about to get depth, the new economic policies or saving the world?
Oh! wait. talking about boys? If she suddenly had some romance drama she has depth?
That's the depth you are looking? Like we don't have a gazillion anime that girls to nothing else?

Dalek-baka said:

and MAYBE Arata is dead which still would be best case scenario - he got better after visit of his friends, than started to read cards but suddenly it remembered his feelings and decided to pass to Heaven of Karuta Cards - he would be happy and many of viewers also (plus Taichi also)


I agree, everyone seems quite happy now. He will only make things more miserable and cause conflict if he appears.
Dec 30, 2011 4:28 AM
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Nov 2011
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Okay, the ground work has been laid. It's a shame it took this long, but I hope this means things will get interesting. I agree with some though Chihaya needs to tone down a bit.
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Jan 1, 2012 3:14 PM

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Another good episode. Nishida, huh? He's good, and wow does Chihaya have some strong persuasive skills or something. Although she needs to calm down sometimes, like stalking people is not cool o_O
Nice to learn more about the game though, like this "camping" stuff :S So Nishida quit because it wasn't fun and he wanted to win only he was beaten by Arata ... ho hum :P
I STILL SAY THERE'S GONNA BE TOURNAMENTS AS THE NEXT ARC ;O
Feb 13, 2012 9:07 PM
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Dec 2011
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Somehow I found the similarities between Chihaya recruiting methods and Suzumiya Haruhi's ones :P Chihaya is more gentle, though.
Mar 10, 2012 4:02 AM

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Mar 2012
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DONT CALL ME PORKY!!

I love this anime, it's getting better and better. Can't stop watch it^^
Apr 5, 2012 12:38 AM

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Sep 2011
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Chihaya was such a troll in that game with Porky. "Alright that was a nice warm up, shall I go 100%?"

(she didn't really say that btw)
Apr 15, 2012 1:45 PM

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i feel like im wasting my time with this show
Apr 28, 2012 2:45 PM

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Enjoyable but way too predictable..
at least until now.. mhm... hope it'll get less predictable from now on since the members are all assembled now ^^
Apr 30, 2012 3:01 AM

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Lol he's gonna get stuck with the name Porky.
Jul 14, 2012 1:49 PM
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Jan 2012
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Just keeps getting better! Now that their club is official I hope the process of Arata coming back can begin!
Aug 9, 2012 9:47 PM

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Nov 2011
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Yay, Porky's back!

"I like to expose what people hide. I'm an intellectual rapist." - Furudo Erika
Sep 3, 2012 9:52 AM

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Hopefully this is the last of these "recruiting" episodes.
Dec 17, 2012 12:24 PM
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Jun 2012
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They finally got their fifth member and things are progressing!

Allthough they explained the rules quite well, I still don't get how you play Karuta...
Jan 30, 2013 6:09 PM

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porky boy!!!

he's freaking fast!!

pushing Chihaya like that towards the end O_____O

Chihaya your making it to obvious you know that :P



in the end, he always love Karuta and only quit because he didn't want to lose badly.

i was weary about that teacher, i thought she was gonna sabotage the whole thing.

good thing it was not the case :P

Chihaya moments!!!

she looks like an Angel ;)



all we need is Arata to finally complete the group :P

i wonder if Chihaya will indeed became the Queen of Karuta? :)
Mar 16, 2013 12:27 PM

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I totally forgot nikuman-kun was number 2 on the national level! :O But now that he's joined, hopefully the club will get stronger!

I wonder when we'll get to see Arata playing karuta again?
May 13, 2013 3:47 PM

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Jan 2013
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I really like Chihaya's eye design.
I want an episode not focused on Karuta
Jul 2, 2013 9:31 AM

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May 2012
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Amazing episode with an even more amazing match! Really great a talented member joined this time, and now they can be a real club! Lets see what's next but damn this episode was good!
Dec 30, 2013 4:51 AM

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5/5

The game of Karuta becomes more and more interesting, though tedious, using the right narrative and the passion conveyed by the characters, it's a whole other thing.
Plot a bit too obvious, the evolution, but there is at least as mentioned before the narrative to make the series very addictive.
Chihaya always head and shoulders above the others.
The kids are cute when they make those funny faces! XD
Arata knows what he's doing, curious to know what will focus on the plot! * _ *
May 8, 2014 11:56 AM
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Jan 2013
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Nishida got his body much lighter by playing tennis. He beats Chihaya at the end but stil joins the karuta club since he quit the tennis club.

These past few episodes really gave support to the supporting characters.

Did Nishida just pick up that bread from the floor and eat it? O.O

Jun 27, 2014 4:40 PM

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Porky-kun xD

Aug 26, 2014 12:40 PM

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Yo its porky! He seems like he will be a funny character.

Wait a minute was there always a scene at the end of the ending? Great now I have to go back to watch each eps ending. ok it seems it was just this ep that had a scene after the credits.
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Sep 3, 2014 5:51 PM

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''Stop calling me Nikuman-kun!''
''Okay, Nikuman-kun! Lets play karuta!''
Chihaya, you airhead xD

She now got friends to back her :3
And so the group is completed. Now, she need to rise to get at Arata level so she can face him.

Nikuman is such a tsundere.
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Mar 10, 2015 6:17 PM

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Jan 2015
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Chihaya was being a bit eager jumping on Porky like that...lol Now they have their 5th member. (*^0^*)
Mar 11, 2015 7:28 AM

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Oct 2013
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Great episode. They finally have all members and we got to see more rules to play karuta and techniques to use against you opponent. I liked that. As a kid, Arata was so cute but I like how Taichi grew up. Sexy :)
Sep 8, 2015 9:54 PM

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Some people are pretty impatient. They're introducing the rest of the characters, no shit it's gonna be slow lol. Plot should be moving at a better pace from here on out.
Sep 25, 2015 1:12 PM
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May 2015
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Nice episode
Nov 6, 2015 8:37 PM

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Hot girl calling the fattie "Piggie".

Seems accurate.
Nov 6, 2015 9:18 PM
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now that the main characters seem to have their foot in the door hopefully it's time for the story to move now.
The only thing I didn't like was how they had porky go get the tennis ball that went over the gate, but there was a basket full of them on the court....

Chihayafuru might be top 5 with the music. I could just listen to this ost on repeat for forever.
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Dec 27, 2015 9:59 PM

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Sorry but can I say that I love Taichi's voice when he read *o*
Oct 11, 2016 12:30 AM

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well this seemed like an interesting episode... More members I like the pace of this anime
Oct 25, 2016 5:41 AM

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Jun 2016
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This has become quite a varied and interesting team. Now for Arata to join and mix things up!
Mar 18, 2017 7:50 AM

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Oct 2012
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Well we have meat bun on Chihaya's team
It's all good now, right? xD
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Apr 20, 2017 11:16 AM

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The subs annoyed me a lot, how can they translate nikuman into porky lol.
Aug 19, 2017 3:26 PM

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Yay, Porky joined the club.

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Oct 30, 2017 7:47 AM

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So Chihaya is successful in creating the club with all total 5 members. But I miss Arata. It would have been nice if he joined the same high school of Chihaya and Taichi and play together at the club.
Nov 26, 2017 2:07 AM

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It’s obvious the author doesn’t know much about tennis lol

I’m really liking Porky so far.
Jan 17, 2018 10:08 AM
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They're an official club now. Nice!

But seriously tho. Chihaya's persistency is so annoying.
Apr 29, 2018 7:21 AM
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MissileSoup said:
I don't see selfishness in Chihaya as much as her determination, which is shown in both the way she recruits and the way she plays Karuta. When you make a club, you want people to join. That's how clubs get started. I don't see how people think she's forcing this on the members. The point was that all the members wanted to join, but had a reason they didn't. All Chihaya did was get them to observe their activities, typical recruiting method if you ask me.

My only concern with this anime is if they spend 3 episodes on this trio, but only focus on the 3 main characters for the rest of the series. If that happens, these three episodes would be excessive.

agreed! i don't think she was being selfish at all. it's quite easy to see that, deep down, the characters all wanted to join the club, but like you said, had something keeping them from it (mostly emotional blocks). what she did was seek to solve these internal problems by forcing the characters to face them.

in addition, i don't think she lacks depth either, i just believe it to be shown in a different way; we rarely see her complaining about a lack of skills or something that keeps her from getting better. she's confident and determined, and the fact that she doesn't break down every time something goes wrong shouldn't mean that she's any less deep than the other characters. it's called passion, and she has a lot of it.

i do believe that we should get to see more of the family dynamics, though, since that is the focal drama point when it comes to chihaya. i wonder if her mom and sister still treat her the same way (which they probably do), and if so, how it influences chihaya's behavior in regards to the game and from a general point of view.

anyway, i really liked nishida, and i didn't find the introductory episodes to be stagnant at all. they were necessary, and in my opinion, executed quite well, especially considering that they used the time to bring even more rules to the table. the show definitely presents karuta in an entertaining way; through passion, character and good values, and i find it a shame that some people can't seem to like it even now.
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Jan 31, 2019 10:15 PM

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i genuinely enjoy chihaya as a character. she's pretty for one, but her personality is very likable and i can't find any bad intent so far. whilst she is annoyingly persistent, it's also a good thing if you look at it.
i want more arata though
Feb 2, 2019 1:43 PM
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Damn, Porky didn't play for so long, and was good only years ago, yet he could equally play against Chihaya... What a beast... Finally 5 members! Great episode.
Feb 14, 2019 10:26 AM

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They finally got their final member. Porky is still good at playing karuta.

Nov 18, 2019 12:59 PM

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Good episode about escapism in the sphere of hobbies. Sometimes if we cannot succeed in what we really love and enjoy, we tend to escape to doing something else, just to lessen the pain.

As much as I like Chihaya, how dumb a person can be to not notice that calling somebody as "Porky" might be offensive and annoying? And she expected to recruit him like that...?
Dec 29, 2019 12:16 AM

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Looks like the club can officially be recognized!
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