I found this anime more or less by chance. I was actually looking for a nice and neat romance anime rather than a sports anime about a card game called competetive karuta i had never heard of before.
And i started watching it and i had really no idea what Karuta was. As i finished the first episode I realized that this Anime is just awesome. And i started to google the 100 poems used in Karuta and I tried to understand them but they are kind of difficult to understand ~_~.
The Art and the sound were perfektly fit for the atmosphere in each Karuta match you are kind of tense watching a game and you want chihaya and taiichi win so badly and you also want to see taiichi and chihaya or chihaya and arata ending up together that one y´just can´t stop watching ~.
With each episode you were able to learn more about the characters about karuta and how to never ever give up on the things you want to archieve :D
I still don´t know whats Karuta like in real life, but after this anime i guess it´s awesome and i now really want to see a real life match -_-.
This anime is more than worth watching