Chihayafuru – Series Review
Scouting the field of Anime Nano blogs and one becomes disheartened to realize a great anime has just slipped under the radar of most fans. Many blogs covered Chihayafuru and praised it to no end every week, but the anime viewing populace just didn’t give a shit. It’s like when those old farts at the Oscars or Emmys give the award to something so artsy fartsy with the public just scratching their heads figuring out what it even is. Well this situation is just kind of like that with the elitists trying to garner some attention for Chihayafuru while normal viewers just headed off to watch Guilty Crown instead.
Chihayafuru – 06
Oe is a great addition to the group. Compared to Chihaya, Taichi, and Arata, she’s certainly different but in her own good way. She’s enjoyable to watch and her unique perspective on karuta will serve as both a history lesson on the game and a sort of toning down of the competitive atmosphere of karuta so far. We’ll just have to see how successful she gets in the long run since apparently she doesn’t even know the basics to the game. I hope she won’t end up as a support type of character cheering on from the sidelines. Here’s wishing that her greater interests in the history of karuta and wearing fancy kimonos won’t get in the way of her mastering the game.
Chihayafuru – 05
This episode was gold, cheesy at the end, but nonetheless gold. Okay, okay, watching Taichi with his jealousy issue throughout the episode with his not so subtle actions to another guy who isn’t even remotely interested is so painful to watch. Someone slap him, he’s not here for the karuta! Didn’t like him as a jealous brat, sadly my opinion of him has not changed after the time skip. I see through your crappy intentions Taichi, forming the karuta club is only a means of sticking close to Chihaya. Please tone it down with the high school drama, pretty please!
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