Chihayafuru s1 (episodes 1-25)
Chihayafuru is an anime about high school kids and a game/sport called karuta.
In karuta, there are 100 cards with poems written on them in hiragana. A reader sings out the poems & whomever touches the card with the poem being read on it first gets the card.
When people get super serious about this, they have different techniques - reaching super fast with their arms, developing amazing hearing/senses so that you can intuit what the next syllable's going to be before it's even read, etc.
The first few episodes are pretty heavy on backstory for the series' OT3, and then after that it's a series of recruiting team members, and karuta matches, with some character development on the side.
This is sports anime - each match is super intense and emotional, and Chihaya & the members of her team learn their opponents' strengths/weaknesses & try to beat them.
Because Chihaya is the protagonist, this series is considered a very rare josei anime.
In addition to the main OT3, I also really like Kana, who loves classical Japan & starts playing karuta because she loves the poetry/poets. She lectures her teammates on possible interpretations of the poems (hilarious because karuta players only learn the first 5 syllables or so of each poem - enough to grab the card & be done), and makes everyone wear hakama to their tournaments.
I'd totes read fic for this series, especially Chihaya/Kana, but also the OT3 friendship of Arata, Taichi, and Chihaya.
Tragically, this is yet another tiny anime/manga fandom. There are literally 12 fics over at AO3, ff.net has 49.
This anime is also based on an ongoing manga, & I'd like to check scans out for that at some point, see what the art is like.
Here's the opening sequence, which focuses on Chihaya surrounded by swirling hiragana characters (this was a great series for me to watch immediately after learning hiragana myself!!). It also shows the other important characters, & I like the song a lot, too, ^^
[The YouTube embed isn't working for some reason, so here's a link to the OP on YouTube.]
Now on to season 2, which just finished airing in Japan yesterday!
Speaking of anime,
meganbmoore watched Tari Tari and did a way better write-up than I did over here.
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In karuta, there are 100 cards with poems written on them in hiragana. A reader sings out the poems & whomever touches the card with the poem being read on it first gets the card.
When people get super serious about this, they have different techniques - reaching super fast with their arms, developing amazing hearing/senses so that you can intuit what the next syllable's going to be before it's even read, etc.
The first few episodes are pretty heavy on backstory for the series' OT3, and then after that it's a series of recruiting team members, and karuta matches, with some character development on the side.
This is sports anime - each match is super intense and emotional, and Chihaya & the members of her team learn their opponents' strengths/weaknesses & try to beat them.
Because Chihaya is the protagonist, this series is considered a very rare josei anime.
In addition to the main OT3, I also really like Kana, who loves classical Japan & starts playing karuta because she loves the poetry/poets. She lectures her teammates on possible interpretations of the poems (hilarious because karuta players only learn the first 5 syllables or so of each poem - enough to grab the card & be done), and makes everyone wear hakama to their tournaments.
I'd totes read fic for this series, especially Chihaya/Kana, but also the OT3 friendship of Arata, Taichi, and Chihaya.
Tragically, this is yet another tiny anime/manga fandom. There are literally 12 fics over at AO3, ff.net has 49.
This anime is also based on an ongoing manga, & I'd like to check scans out for that at some point, see what the art is like.
Here's the opening sequence, which focuses on Chihaya surrounded by swirling hiragana characters (this was a great series for me to watch immediately after learning hiragana myself!!). It also shows the other important characters, & I like the song a lot, too, ^^
[The YouTube embed isn't working for some reason, so here's a link to the OP on YouTube.]
Now on to season 2, which just finished airing in Japan yesterday!
Speaking of anime,
meganbmoore watched Tari Tari and did a way better write-up than I did over here.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth. You can comment here or there.
There are <
> comments on this post at Dreamwidth.