Chihayafuru

Chihayafuru (2011)


  • Genre: Animation, Drama
  • First Air Date: 2011-10-05
  • Last Air Date: 2020-03-24
  • Total Seasons: 3
  • Total Episodes: 74
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 23 min.
  • Production Company: Madhouse
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Network: Nippon TV
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From 53 Ratings

Summary

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

  • Keywords: competition, card game, strong woman, training, high school, growing up, romance, slice of life, unrequited love, coming of age, female protagonist, based on manga, high school student, old friends, friends in love, anime, school club, karuta, prodigy, josei, japanese high school, bukatsu
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    Chihayafuru Seasons

    Season 0

    First Air Date: 2013-09-13
    2 Episodes

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2011-10-05
    25 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 2013-01-12
    25 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 2019-10-22
    24 Episodes

    Chihayafuru Episodes

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    • Asami Seto

      as Chihaya Ayase (voice)
    • Mamoru Miyano

      as Taichi Mashima (voice)
    • Yoshimasa Hosoya

      as Arata Wataya (voice)
    Visual Effects Tatsuya Nakata 3D Artist
    Costume & Make-Up Taiki Imamura Costume Design
    Costume & Make-Up Akiko Konno Costume Design
    Production Takuya Shiroshita Producer
    Production Kazunari Sengoku Producer
    Production Tadafumi Shimomura Other
    Production Hideyuki Igarashi Other
    Production Hironori Orime Other
    Production Masahiro Takahashi Other
    Production Toshio Nakatani Executive Producer
    Sound Minori Ueda Music Producer
    Visual Effects Daiki Suzuki CGI Director
    Camera Akane Fushihara Director of Photography
    Visual Effects Harue Ohno Color Designer
    Production Ayuri Taguchi Producer
    Production Hidetada Soga Producer
    Production Natsuko Tatsuzawa Producer
    Production Hiroyuki Inage Producer
    Sound Sae Miyoshi Other
    Crew Keiko Kimoto Supervising Technical Director
    Production Masaki Shiode Associate Producer
    Production Nakuru Yamitani Associate Producer
    Production Yuki Hirao Associate Producer
    Production Shinnosuke Tonaka Other
    Crew Chika Anzai Dialect Coach
    Sound Tatsuya Sato Other
    Writing Yuko Kakihara Series Composition
    Editing Kazunori Okuda Other
    Sound Fujio Yamada Sound Mixer
    Sound Kenji Koyama Sound Effects
    Directing Morio Asaka Series Director
    Editing Kashiko Kimura Editor
    Art Shinji Sugiyama Art Designer
    Visual Effects Kunihiko Hamada Character Designer
    Sound Masafumi Mima Sound Director
    Visual Effects Kunihiko Hamada Supervising Animation Director
    Sound Kosuke Yamashita Original Music Composer
    Editing Mariko Tsukatsune Assistant Editor
    Art Tomoyuki Shimizu Art Direction
    Writing Yuki Suetsugu Comic Book

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