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By Rin Sanada
I must say that I love sports anime. I started with the Prince of
Tennis and wanted to find something else, so I ended up watching
Whistle and so that brings me to Kuroko’s Basketball, which I
featured a little while ago and now to The Knight in the Area,
which I had been meaning to check out much sooner, But I’m
glad I didn’t because I was instantly hooked to this series and
now I have over 30 episodes to catch up on unlike Kuroko’s Basketball which is newly airing. I really do loving watching soccer
and tennis series so TKITA because perfect. It’s so thrilling and
heartwarming. But, I wanted to find another series to feature this
month and I came across Dear Boys which is another basketball
anime, but I couldn’t get into it and on the side there was Chihaya
furu and it was about a girl starting a Karuta club, it’s labeled
sports anime, so I decided to check it out and I am again amazed
on how I go hooked. I really enjoy this series because it teaches a
little about Japanese poetry. So over all character personalities are
awesome in both series, anime style is awesome even the not so
normal eye style in Chihayafuru and the storyline is getting better
with each episode.

Plot Summary: Believing himself to be useless at soccer, Aizawa Kakeru instead becomes the manager of his school's soccer
team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good
enough to represent Japan in the championships. However, Kakeru may have a yet unknown strong talent within himself that
only his brother Suguru can see, and they often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more
complicated with the return of Nana, an old friend of theirs that
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Kakeru has a crush on.
Plot Summary: Chihaya Ayase is a frank and ebullient girl who
becomes fascinated by the obscure world of competitive karuta,
a card game based on Japanese poetry. Introduced to the aggressive style of the game by a quiet and thoughtful elementary
school classmate named Arata Wataya, the two quickly become
close friends. They start playing as a group with Taichi
Mashima, Chihaya's smart and athletic childhood friend, until
they have to part ways during their middle school years due to
several circumstances. As their high school life begins, they
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meet once again.