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Turns classical hundred-poem competitive karuta into a white-knuckle test of reflex, memory, and unrequited devotion.
Inspired as a child by Fukui prodigy Arata Wataya, high-schooler Chihaya Ayase recruits lifelong friend Taichi Mashima to form Mizusawa High's competitive karuta club. Director Morio Asaka and Madhouse make swiping hundred-poem Ogura Hyakunin Isshu cards as tense as heavyweights trading blows.
Inspired as a child by Fukui prodigy Arata Wataya, high-schooler Chihaya Ayase recruits lifelong friend Taichi Mashima to form Mizusawa High's competitive karuta club. Director Morio Asaka and Madhouse make swiping hundred-poem Ogura Hyakunin Isshu cards as tense as heavyweights trading blows. Makes split-second syllable recognition, card memorization, and tatami-burn reflexes gripping even if you speak zero Japanese. Weaves hundred-year-old Hyakunin Isshu tanka poetry meanings directly into Chihaya, Taichi, and Arata's emotional triangle. Gives Taichi Mashima one of sports anime's most sympathetic arcs as a hard-working realist competing beside natural geniuses. Maintains lush, shimmering floral color design under josei specialist Morio Asaka and composer Kosuke Yamashita.
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Inspired as a child by Fukui prodigy Arata Wataya, high-schooler Chihaya Ayase recruits lifelong friend Taichi Mashima to form Mizusawa High's competitive karuta club. Director Morio Asaka and Madhouse make swiping hundred-poem Ogura Hyakunin Isshu cards as tense as heavyweights trading blows.
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