TV series
Chihayafuru
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2011-10-05
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 3 seasons
- Episodes
- 74 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Asami Seto as Chihaya Ayase (voice)
- Mamoru Miyano as Taichi Mashima (voice)
- Ai Kayano as Kanade Oe (voice)
- Toru Nara as Yusei 'Porky' Nishida (voice)
- Tsubasa Yonaga as Tsutomu 'Desktomu' Komano (voice)
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Arata Wataya (voice)
- Megumi Han as Sumire Hanano (voice)
- Chika Anzai as Fuyumasa Tsukuba (voice)
- Yuya Murakami as Isami Kuriyama (voice)
- Kensuke Sato as Akio Kitano (voice)
- Miyu Irino as Akihiro Tsukuba (voice)
- Takashi Ohara as Akihito Sudo (voice)
Creators and crew
- Toshio Nakatani - Executive Producer
- Seiji Okuda - Executive Producer
- Toshio Nakatani - Producer
- Manabu Tamura - Producer
- Yuka Oshima - Producer
- Atsushi Kirimoto - Producer
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