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* CrushBlush: Chihaya and Arata. A lot.
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* ScaryBlackMan: The team of students from Chiba International School [[PlayingWithATrope Play With]] this. Tsukuba has some decidedly [[UnfortunateImplications cringe-worthy and uncomfortable]] interactions with the team's black member, Matt, but Matt turns out to be a total sweetheart and a bit of a GentleGiant.
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* ScaryBlackMan: The team of students from Chiba International School [[PlayingWithATrope Play With]] this. Tsukuba has some decidedly [[UnfortunateImplications cringe-worthy and uncomfortable]] interactions with the team's black member, Matt, but Matt turns out to be a total sweetheart and a bit of a GentleGiant. More than anything, Tsukuba comes away looking like a bigot.
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* ScaryBlackMan: The team of students from Chiba International School [[PlayingWithATrope Play With]] this. Tsukuba has some decidedly [[UnfortunateImplications cringe-worthy and uncomfortable]] interactions with the team's black member, Matt, but Matt turns out to be a total sweetheart and a bit of a GentleGiant.
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* MeaningfulName: ''All'' of the major characters have a karuta poem with which they are associated, often times this card is considered their "signature card". The most blatant one is Chihayaburu, which is both Chihaya's signature card and the series namesake. However, Kanade's signature card is Ooeyama, and the card Sumire identifies with is Hananoiro, which both of their last names reference.
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* MeaningfulName: ''All'' of the major characters have a karuta poem with which they are associated, often times this card is considered their "signature card". The most blatant one is Chihayaburu, Chihayafuru, which is both Chihaya's signature card and the series namesake. However, Kanade's signature card is Ooeyama, and the card Sumire identifies with is Hananoiro, which both of their last names reference.
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* ShipperOnDeck: When Kana starts to notice Chihaya may have feelings for Arata, she strongly encourages Taichi to visit her without other club members, insists he should make his feelings known, and even arranges for them to have time alone together.
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* MeaningfulName: ''All'' of the major characters have a karuta poem with which they are associated, often times this card is considered their "signature card". The most blatant one is Chihayaburu, which is both Chihaya's signature card and the series namesake. However, Kanade's signature card is Ooeyama, and the card Sumire identifies with is Hananoiro, which both of their last names reference.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashBack: The flashback when Chihaya is pinning up the notice about the karuta club starts halfway through episode 1 and doesn't end until the end of episode 5.
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** Kana - the dependable, [[WomenAreWiser wise]] and [[WomenAreWiser Closer To Earth]] wife.
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** Kana - the dependable, [[WomenAreWiser wise]] wise and [[WomenAreWiser Closer To closer to Earth]] wife.Wife.
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* XMeetsY: CardfightVanguard meets Manga/BambooBlade, [[RecycledInSpace AS A SHOUJO!]]
** Although neither show really fits ''Chihayafuru'''s tone.
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* TheGlovesComeOff: At the end of episode 21 of season 2, Chihaya [[spoiler: unwraps her injured right hand in preparation for the match with the Queen]]
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: While trying to decide on a new design for the team uniforms, Chitose comes up with some pretty good concepts; but then Chihaya hears a "voice from the heavens" (the author) vetoing the designs.
-->'''''Sidetext:''' "Those are a pain to draw, so no thanks!"''
** In the second season, it's revealed that Chihaya doesn't actually know what "Chihayafuru" means Kanade says, "We're in the second season and she still doesn't know what the title means?!"
-->'''''Sidetext:''' "Those are a pain to draw, so no thanks!"''
** In the second season, it's revealed that Chihaya doesn't actually know what "Chihayafuru" means Kanade says, "We're in the second season and she still doesn't know what the title means?!"
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* XMeetsY: CardfightVanguard meets Manga/BambooBlade.
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* XMeetsY: CardfightVanguard meets Manga/BambooBlade.
Manga/BambooBlade, [[RecycledInSpace AS A SHOUJO!]]
** Although neither show really fits''Chihayafuru''s tone, and neither are ''shoujo''.''Chihayafuru'''s tone.
** Although neither show really fits
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The current Master and Queen, Suo and Shinobu respectively.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The current Master and Queen, Suo and Shinobu respectively.As Komano says it best:
->"All the best Karuta players, are all weirdos."
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** Taichi called Matsuke/Eyebrows by Dr Harada, though he's not really an owner of BigOlEyebrows.
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** Taichi called Matsuke/Eyebrows Matsuke/Eyelashes by Dr Harada, though he's not really an owner of BigOlEyebrows.
*** The word matsuge in "Matsuge-kun" actually means eyelashes, not eyebrows.Harada. Which fits as Taichi is a {{Bishounen}}.
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* AnimeAccentAbsense: Subverted. Taichi actually notices that the Chiba team, while speaking English, spoke with a strong Japanese accent. Afterwards, they dropped the act and admitted to being raised in Japan.
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**Although neither show really fits ''Chihayafuru''s tone, and neither are ''shoujo''.
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Chihaya Ayase dreamt of seeing her sister become Japan's next top model until the day a new transfer student, Arata Wataya, tells her that she needs to work at her dream by herself. Arata's own dream is to become a top Karuta player; this dream also becomes Chihaya's own after she experiences the game firsthand and becomes entranced .
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Chihaya Ayase dreamt of seeing her sister become Japan's next top model until the day a new transfer student, Arata Wataya, tells her that she needs should have a dream for herself to work at her dream by herself. at. Arata's own dream is to become a top Karuta player; this dream also becomes Chihaya's own after she experiences the game firsthand and becomes entranced .
entranced by it.
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* {{Kawaiiko}}: Kanai Sakura, whom Chihaya is playing during her first A Class tournament, dresses and speaks in a manner of a teenager.
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* TheThreeFacesOfEve:
** Chihaya - the innocent, naive and ObliviousToLove Child.
** Kana - the dependable, [[WomenAreWiser wise]] and CloserToEarth Wife.
** Sumire - the flighty, vain and boy-crazy LoveFreak of a Seductress.
** Chihaya - the innocent, naive and ObliviousToLove Child.
** Kana - the dependable, [[WomenAreWiser wise]] and CloserToEarth Wife.
** Sumire - the flighty, vain and boy-crazy LoveFreak of a Seductress.
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* SameSexTriplets: Tsukuba's three younger brothers aren't really triplets (they're year apart), but their StrongFamilyResemblance and characterization in general fits the manner of showing SameSexTriplets in fiction. Chihaya even mistakes them for triplets.
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An [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptation]] was made, and has aired as part of the Fall2011Anime season. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-08/chihayafuru-anime-2nd-season-to-launch Second season cofirmed]].
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An [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptation]] was made, and has aired as part of the Fall2011Anime season. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-08/chihayafuru-anime-2nd-season-to-launch Second season cofirmed]].
A second started to air as a part of the Winter2013Anime season.
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Zero Context Example of renamed trope (Aloof Dark Haired Girl). Please explain how this example fits the trope when readding.
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* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Shinobu.
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Eye Of Gold (now Supernatural Gold Eyes) is for when gold eyes mean a character has supernatural origins. It\'s not for anyone who just happens to have them.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the anime Chihaya has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], eyes, Arata blue eyes and Taichi EyesOfGold.gold eyes. Not so much in the manga, where Chihaya's stated to have 'big, serious black eyes' and Arata has GrayEyes.
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* YamatoNadeshiko - Kanade wants to be one so badly.
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because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well
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Chihaya Ayase dreamt of seeing her sister become Japan's next top model until the day a new transfer student, Arata Wataya, tells her that she needs to work at her dream by herself. Arata's own dream is to become a top Karuta player; this dream also becomes Chihaya's own after she experiences the game firsthand and becomes entranced .
''Chihayafuru'' is an anime based on a manga by the same title and winner of Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shoujo and the Manga Taisho Award. It also marks [[CareerResurrection the recovery of the author]], Yuki Suegutsu, after the infamous [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-10-19/yuki-suetsugu-copies-art-from-other-manga plagiarism scandal]] that almost ruined her career.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptation]] was made, and has aired as part of the Fall2011Anime season. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-08/chihayafuru-anime-2nd-season-to-launch Second season cofirmed]].
There is currently a [[Characters/{{Chihayafuru}} Character sheet]] in development.
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* AbusiveMom: Taichi's mother is a bit of an EducationMama, for any competition.
* TheAce: Subverted in Taichi's case, as Kanade [[BrutalHonesty quite harshly]] sums his up in one omake: "{{Jack of all trades}}, {{master of none}}".
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the anime Chihaya has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], Arata BlueEyes and Taichi EyesOfGold. Not so much in the manga, where Chihaya's stated to have 'big, serious black eyes' and Arata has GrayEyes.
* AlliterativeFamily: Chihaya, her sister Chitose and their mother Chieko.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Karuta Guy]]: Oh, Sudo.
* AsYouKnow: Kanade gives her knowledge of karuta's backstory in this fashion, not knowing that Chihaya knows next to nothing about it.
* {{Bishounen}}: Arata and Taichi; they were also cute young boys in the flashback episodes.
* BlindWithoutThem: Arata.
* BookDumb: Chihaya. It's been noted by the others that she is one of the last twelve people in terms of grades.
* BookEnds: The first episode and the last episode of the first season has Chihaya pinning up notices for the karuta club.
* BreatherEpisode[=/=]ClipShow: Episode 16 is a mix of these. Coming hot off the episode where Chihaya just lost to "The Queen" and Taichi losing in the final round of B group, a comedic episode is due. These joke scenes take place in between clips from past episodes, which seem to serve solely as framing for when the scenes occur.
* BrattyHalfPint: Young Taichi.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Chihaya's older sister and seemingly Taichi's younger sister in their respective teenage years. Chihaya's sister takes it UpToEleven.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The current Master and Queen, Suo and Shinobu respectively.
* BuxomIsBetter: Kana-chan, who is also a NiceGirl and is shown as getting approval as the most attractive dating candidate from all of the club members (quite begrudgingly from Taichi's side). [[LesYay Yes,]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer even Chihaya's]].
* {{Cast Of Snowflakes}}
* CharacterDevelopment: Everyone gets some.
* ChildProdigy: Tachikawa Ririka, who made Rank A at grade 4.
* ComedicSociopathy: Chitose sure is a JerkAss, but the New Year's money omake was so darn funny anyway.
** ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving
* ConspicuousCG: Episode 13, when Arata drops the cards.
* CoolOldLady: Kanai Sakura is a skilled and friendly karuta player who beat Chihaya in the latter's first Rank A tournament, and in doing so, gave her the epiphany she needed to really realize her weaknesses. They parted on good terms and hoped to see each other in the Eastern qualifiers.
* CurbStompBattle: The Queen to Nayuta, Chihaya and Sudo in the Omi Jingu tournament.
* DistaffCounterpart: Shinobu to Arata.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Funnily enough [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tai]][[MrFanservice chi]] ends up as this to [[ObliviousToLove Chi]][[YouGoGirl haya]].
* DudeMagnet: Chihaya is one due to her looks, but men are usually driven off by her personality.
** Kana-chan is this, along with EvenTheGirlsWantHer, as all the other karuta club members unanimously decided that she's the person they would all want to date (Chihaya included).
* FanDisservice: In-universe example with Chihaya and Shinobu, both are often complimented on their looks and at the same time they're considered weird. The former's personality and the latter's fashion sense.
* FightingYourFriend: The [[spoiler:Individual Tournament Class B and D matches ends with Taichi vs Nishida and Kanade vs Komano respectively.]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Chihaya
** TheLancer: Taichi
** TheBigGuy: Nishida
** TheSmartGuy: Komano
** TheChick: Kanade
* {{Gainaxing}}: By Kana-chan in episode 17 during the relay race. Cheers from the male crowd were extra loud when it was her turn to run.
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga: Obviously, although it overlaps with SliceOfLife genre sometimes.
* GenkiGirl: Chihaya.
* GreenEyedMonster: Taichi in regard to Arata.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: InUniverse example. Taichi had this attitude for a while, even quitting karuta for a while because he felt that he wouldn't be able to catch up to Arata even if he kept it up his whole life. Harada-sensei told him that it's a waste to think like that if he never even tried. Ultimately [[AvertedTrope averted]] when it comes to any player who's at all good, even Arata and the Queen, who all achieved their levels of skill through determination, hard work and practice.
* HotBlooded: Chihaya is very dedicated to playing karuta and will make very sure that everyone around her knows it.
** So is Sudo, who manages to drive Chihaya to tears by bullying her 'lack of motivation' (ie. passing out during the match).
* InSeriesNickname: Most of the cast.
** Tsutomu is called Tsukue/Desktomu due to his studiousness and hilarious devotion to his school desk.
** Kanade goes as 'Kana-chan'.
** Nishida is Nikuman/Porky, [[BigEater no points for guessing for what reason]].
** Chihaya is known 'Beauty in Vain' in the school.
** Taichi called Matsuke/Eyebrows by Dr Harada, though he's not really an owner of BigOlEyebrows.
*** The word matsuge in "Matsuge-kun" actually means eyelashes, not eyebrows. Which fits as Taichi is a {{Bishounen}}.
** Hiro is 'Retro-kun'.
** Taichi's mom is, quite fittingly, 'Mrs Pressure'.
* {{Josei}}
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Arata gets teased because of his.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Kanai Sakura, whom Chihaya is playing during her first A Class tournament, dresses and speaks in a manner of a teenager.
* KickTheDog: The entire childhood of Taichi.
** TheBGrade
* KidsAreCruel
* {{Jerkass}}: Taichi and his mom, but the first one kinda leans to JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Sometimes.
** As of the timeskip, Taichi is more firmly within the JerkWithAHeartOfGold category.
** Also, Chitose, who withheld from giving Chihaya her New Year's money to buy herself some new clothes (since she'll be giving them to Chihaya in two years anyway) can't bring herself to continue acting that way seeing how nice and cheerful Chihaya always is and immediately gave her that fashionable new jacket she bought as an indirect apology.
** Sudo also qualifies.
* LadyOfWar: Kana tells Chihaya that she needs to be more graceful at all times even in the heat of battle.
* LoveTriangle
* {{Megane}}: Arata and Tsutomu.
* AMinorKidroduction: Played straight in the manga, which actually takes a few chapters to get through. The anime starts with Chihaya in high school and turns the childhood stories into a few [[WholeEpisodeFlashback whole episode flashbacks]] in order to make the GrandFinale come full circle.
* NewTransferStudent
* TheNicknamer: Chihaya
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The rules of Karuta are amazingly lax when it comes to unfair playing tactics. For example, if you aren't sure which card to remove, you can swipe a whole bunch out of the playing area with one move. If the correct card is among them, you get the point; if not, there's no penalty. Since players are allowed to array their own cards as they choose, they can even maximize the effectiveness of this tactic.
** On the other hand, Taichi rearranging cards in the middle of the match is improper behavior.
** There are penalties for touching a card when the poem being read isn't on the field, or touching one side of the field when the correct card is on the other side. You still have to have some idea of where each card is to win (or a really, really quick hand, which is Chihaya's strong suit).
** Desktomu-kun uses this to his advantage in episode 19 to stage a comeback by rearranging his remaining cards so he can swipe them all without having to identify which one's being read.
* ObliviousToLove: Chihaya seems to be oblivious to Taichi's crush on her.
* RecapEpisode: Episode 16 is mostly one, with a few other things.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Chihaya is a nicer variant.
* RichBitch: Taichi's mother, emphasis on ''bitch''.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Taichi and Arata fit to a T during Chihaya's childhood.
* SeriousBusiness: Traditional Japanese clothing is this for Kanade, to the point where she joins the club on the condition that they start wearing hakamas.
** She gets it from her mom.
** The actual hundred poems, also to Kana, who takes it as a personal affront to be berated on her card arrangement by Nishida when he doesn't know any more about the cards than how he arranges them for ease of play compared to her, who knows them all by heart.
** Karuta to the karuta players, who don't let the fact that few others care for karuta, only that they play their best.
*** Arata's grandfather who was diagnosed with early dementia and was on his sick bed, for a brief moment remembers the tournament and demands that Arata goes.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Chihaya
* SternTeacher: Miyauchi-sensei, who is feared for her strictness but is also supportive of her students. She initially doesn't think much of competitive karuta until she sees how seriously the karuta club was practising, after which she decides to personally chaperone them to Omi Jingu and learn some about the one-hundred poems herself.
** She's also pretty accepting of the karuta club's formation before she even got serious with it at all, giving them a room to use (even if it's a storage room) and immediately recognizing them as an official club as soon as they got all five members, the only other condition being that someone other than Chihaya becomes the president.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Shinobu.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Chihaya is the {{Tomboy}}, meaning she will wear leggings under her skirt or heft a desk carrying a possible recruit into her clubroom. In comparison her sister Chitose, a model, and club member Kanade are girly girls.
* {{Tsundere}}: Taichi.
** Nishida's older sister. To the max.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: And how.
* UnderdogsAlwaysWin: The karuta club won against all the athletic clubs during their school's athletic meet. While they did regularly train to build up their stamina (with Chihaya having done so since she started karuta) and that Taichi and Nishida were in athletic clubs before, Tsutomu and Kana-chan started only relatively recently, and they won against even the track team.
** Subverted when it comes to Karuta itself.
* TheUnfavorite: Chihaya. Subverted as her parents seem to come off as uncaring toward her at first when they seem to have endless picture albums of her older sister and her modeling career, but it turns out that they're overjoyed at the fact the can collect newspaper clippings of both their daughters. Chihaya's only just started.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend
* UnknownRival: The Queen treats Sudo this way, although it's quite obvious that she's mocking him.
* UnmovingPlaid: in the OP.
** It comes back any time a patterned hakama is worn, usually by Chihaya.
* UnskilledButStrong: Chihaya. She's incredibly fast, but has no technique. In episode 17, both Tsutomu and Kana-chan point out her weaknesses, which actually pulls her out of her HeroicBSOD after Harada-sensei points out to her the problem of relying over much on speed. In episode 18, it's all but spelled out to her why her over reliance on her speed and sharp ears isn't the best way to play.
* WeakButSkilled: Tsutomu and Kana-chan aren't the quickest to react in a karuta game, but after some time, they've devised personalized playing styles that utilize their strengths. The former keeps track of his games with everyone, figuring where their strengths and his are. The latter can tell apart the cards with a certainty, to the point where multi-syllabic cards that start similarly are two totally different cards to her. They haven't won much, and still lose often to those faster then them, but in such a short amount of time, they've already closed the gap against ranked players.
** Kana-chan's arrangement of cards on her side of the field (by season instead of by sound) probably also confuses the heck out of her opponents, although it hasn't been mentioned as a competitive advantage.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
* WholeEpisodeFlashBack: The flashback started halfway through episode 1 and doesn't end until the start of episode 4.
** If the flashback is from when Chihaya is pinning up the notice about the karuta club at the start of episode 1, we don't return to that until the end of episode 5. Episodes 4 and 5 are backwards in time from that moment, even if they are (mostly) in the fairly recent past.
* XMeetsY: CardfightVanguard meets BambooBlade.
* YamatoNadeshiko - Kanade wants to be one so badly.
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Chihaya Ayase dreamt of seeing her sister become Japan's next top model until the day a new transfer student, Arata Wataya, tells her that she needs to work at her dream by herself. Arata's own dream is to become a top Karuta player; this dream also becomes Chihaya's own after she experiences the game firsthand and becomes entranced .
''Chihayafuru'' is an anime based on a manga by the same title and winner of Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shoujo and the Manga Taisho Award. It also marks [[CareerResurrection the recovery of the author]], Yuki Suegutsu, after the infamous [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-10-19/yuki-suetsugu-copies-art-from-other-manga plagiarism scandal]] that almost ruined her career.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptation]] was made, and has aired as part of the Fall2011Anime season. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-08/chihayafuru-anime-2nd-season-to-launch Second season cofirmed]].
There is currently a [[Characters/{{Chihayafuru}} Character sheet]] in development.
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!!This work contains
* AbusiveMom: Taichi's mother is a bit of an EducationMama, for any competition.
* TheAce: Subverted in Taichi's case, as Kanade [[BrutalHonesty quite harshly]] sums his up in one omake: "{{Jack of all trades}}, {{master of none}}".
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the anime Chihaya has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], Arata BlueEyes and Taichi EyesOfGold. Not so much in the manga, where Chihaya's stated to have 'big, serious black eyes' and Arata has GrayEyes.
* AlliterativeFamily: Chihaya, her sister Chitose and their mother Chieko.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Karuta Guy]]: Oh, Sudo.
* AsYouKnow: Kanade gives her knowledge of karuta's backstory in this fashion, not knowing that Chihaya knows next to nothing about it.
* {{Bishounen}}: Arata and Taichi; they were also cute young boys in the flashback episodes.
* BlindWithoutThem: Arata.
* BookDumb: Chihaya. It's been noted by the others that she is one of the last twelve people in terms of grades.
* BookEnds: The first episode and the last episode of the first season has Chihaya pinning up notices for the karuta club.
* BreatherEpisode[=/=]ClipShow: Episode 16 is a mix of these. Coming hot off the episode where Chihaya just lost to "The Queen" and Taichi losing in the final round of B group, a comedic episode is due. These joke scenes take place in between clips from past episodes, which seem to serve solely as framing for when the scenes occur.
* BrattyHalfPint: Young Taichi.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Chihaya's older sister and seemingly Taichi's younger sister in their respective teenage years. Chihaya's sister takes it UpToEleven.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The current Master and Queen, Suo and Shinobu respectively.
* BuxomIsBetter: Kana-chan, who is also a NiceGirl and is shown as getting approval as the most attractive dating candidate from all of the club members (quite begrudgingly from Taichi's side). [[LesYay Yes,]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer even Chihaya's]].
* {{Cast Of Snowflakes}}
* CharacterDevelopment: Everyone gets some.
* ChildProdigy: Tachikawa Ririka, who made Rank A at grade 4.
* ComedicSociopathy: Chitose sure is a JerkAss, but the New Year's money omake was so darn funny anyway.
** ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving
* ConspicuousCG: Episode 13, when Arata drops the cards.
* CoolOldLady: Kanai Sakura is a skilled and friendly karuta player who beat Chihaya in the latter's first Rank A tournament, and in doing so, gave her the epiphany she needed to really realize her weaknesses. They parted on good terms and hoped to see each other in the Eastern qualifiers.
* CurbStompBattle: The Queen to Nayuta, Chihaya and Sudo in the Omi Jingu tournament.
* DistaffCounterpart: Shinobu to Arata.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Funnily enough [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tai]][[MrFanservice chi]] ends up as this to [[ObliviousToLove Chi]][[YouGoGirl haya]].
* DudeMagnet: Chihaya is one due to her looks, but men are usually driven off by her personality.
** Kana-chan is this, along with EvenTheGirlsWantHer, as all the other karuta club members unanimously decided that she's the person they would all want to date (Chihaya included).
* FanDisservice: In-universe example with Chihaya and Shinobu, both are often complimented on their looks and at the same time they're considered weird. The former's personality and the latter's fashion sense.
* FightingYourFriend: The [[spoiler:Individual Tournament Class B and D matches ends with Taichi vs Nishida and Kanade vs Komano respectively.]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Chihaya
** TheLancer: Taichi
** TheBigGuy: Nishida
** TheSmartGuy: Komano
** TheChick: Kanade
* {{Gainaxing}}: By Kana-chan in episode 17 during the relay race. Cheers from the male crowd were extra loud when it was her turn to run.
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga: Obviously, although it overlaps with SliceOfLife genre sometimes.
* GenkiGirl: Chihaya.
* GreenEyedMonster: Taichi in regard to Arata.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: InUniverse example. Taichi had this attitude for a while, even quitting karuta for a while because he felt that he wouldn't be able to catch up to Arata even if he kept it up his whole life. Harada-sensei told him that it's a waste to think like that if he never even tried. Ultimately [[AvertedTrope averted]] when it comes to any player who's at all good, even Arata and the Queen, who all achieved their levels of skill through determination, hard work and practice.
* HotBlooded: Chihaya is very dedicated to playing karuta and will make very sure that everyone around her knows it.
** So is Sudo, who manages to drive Chihaya to tears by bullying her 'lack of motivation' (ie. passing out during the match).
* InSeriesNickname: Most of the cast.
** Tsutomu is called Tsukue/Desktomu due to his studiousness and hilarious devotion to his school desk.
** Kanade goes as 'Kana-chan'.
** Nishida is Nikuman/Porky, [[BigEater no points for guessing for what reason]].
** Chihaya is known 'Beauty in Vain' in the school.
** Taichi called Matsuke/Eyebrows by Dr Harada, though he's not really an owner of BigOlEyebrows.
*** The word matsuge in "Matsuge-kun" actually means eyelashes, not eyebrows. Which fits as Taichi is a {{Bishounen}}.
** Hiro is 'Retro-kun'.
** Taichi's mom is, quite fittingly, 'Mrs Pressure'.
* {{Josei}}
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Arata gets teased because of his.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Kanai Sakura, whom Chihaya is playing during her first A Class tournament, dresses and speaks in a manner of a teenager.
* KickTheDog: The entire childhood of Taichi.
** TheBGrade
* KidsAreCruel
* {{Jerkass}}: Taichi and his mom, but the first one kinda leans to JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Sometimes.
** As of the timeskip, Taichi is more firmly within the JerkWithAHeartOfGold category.
** Also, Chitose, who withheld from giving Chihaya her New Year's money to buy herself some new clothes (since she'll be giving them to Chihaya in two years anyway) can't bring herself to continue acting that way seeing how nice and cheerful Chihaya always is and immediately gave her that fashionable new jacket she bought as an indirect apology.
** Sudo also qualifies.
* LadyOfWar: Kana tells Chihaya that she needs to be more graceful at all times even in the heat of battle.
* LoveTriangle
* {{Megane}}: Arata and Tsutomu.
* AMinorKidroduction: Played straight in the manga, which actually takes a few chapters to get through. The anime starts with Chihaya in high school and turns the childhood stories into a few [[WholeEpisodeFlashback whole episode flashbacks]] in order to make the GrandFinale come full circle.
* NewTransferStudent
* TheNicknamer: Chihaya
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The rules of Karuta are amazingly lax when it comes to unfair playing tactics. For example, if you aren't sure which card to remove, you can swipe a whole bunch out of the playing area with one move. If the correct card is among them, you get the point; if not, there's no penalty. Since players are allowed to array their own cards as they choose, they can even maximize the effectiveness of this tactic.
** On the other hand, Taichi rearranging cards in the middle of the match is improper behavior.
** There are penalties for touching a card when the poem being read isn't on the field, or touching one side of the field when the correct card is on the other side. You still have to have some idea of where each card is to win (or a really, really quick hand, which is Chihaya's strong suit).
** Desktomu-kun uses this to his advantage in episode 19 to stage a comeback by rearranging his remaining cards so he can swipe them all without having to identify which one's being read.
* ObliviousToLove: Chihaya seems to be oblivious to Taichi's crush on her.
* RecapEpisode: Episode 16 is mostly one, with a few other things.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Chihaya is a nicer variant.
* RichBitch: Taichi's mother, emphasis on ''bitch''.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Taichi and Arata fit to a T during Chihaya's childhood.
* SeriousBusiness: Traditional Japanese clothing is this for Kanade, to the point where she joins the club on the condition that they start wearing hakamas.
** She gets it from her mom.
** The actual hundred poems, also to Kana, who takes it as a personal affront to be berated on her card arrangement by Nishida when he doesn't know any more about the cards than how he arranges them for ease of play compared to her, who knows them all by heart.
** Karuta to the karuta players, who don't let the fact that few others care for karuta, only that they play their best.
*** Arata's grandfather who was diagnosed with early dementia and was on his sick bed, for a brief moment remembers the tournament and demands that Arata goes.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Chihaya
* SternTeacher: Miyauchi-sensei, who is feared for her strictness but is also supportive of her students. She initially doesn't think much of competitive karuta until she sees how seriously the karuta club was practising, after which she decides to personally chaperone them to Omi Jingu and learn some about the one-hundred poems herself.
** She's also pretty accepting of the karuta club's formation before she even got serious with it at all, giving them a room to use (even if it's a storage room) and immediately recognizing them as an official club as soon as they got all five members, the only other condition being that someone other than Chihaya becomes the president.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Shinobu.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Chihaya is the {{Tomboy}}, meaning she will wear leggings under her skirt or heft a desk carrying a possible recruit into her clubroom. In comparison her sister Chitose, a model, and club member Kanade are girly girls.
* {{Tsundere}}: Taichi.
** Nishida's older sister. To the max.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: And how.
* UnderdogsAlwaysWin: The karuta club won against all the athletic clubs during their school's athletic meet. While they did regularly train to build up their stamina (with Chihaya having done so since she started karuta) and that Taichi and Nishida were in athletic clubs before, Tsutomu and Kana-chan started only relatively recently, and they won against even the track team.
** Subverted when it comes to Karuta itself.
* TheUnfavorite: Chihaya. Subverted as her parents seem to come off as uncaring toward her at first when they seem to have endless picture albums of her older sister and her modeling career, but it turns out that they're overjoyed at the fact the can collect newspaper clippings of both their daughters. Chihaya's only just started.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend
* UnknownRival: The Queen treats Sudo this way, although it's quite obvious that she's mocking him.
* UnmovingPlaid: in the OP.
** It comes back any time a patterned hakama is worn, usually by Chihaya.
* UnskilledButStrong: Chihaya. She's incredibly fast, but has no technique. In episode 17, both Tsutomu and Kana-chan point out her weaknesses, which actually pulls her out of her HeroicBSOD after Harada-sensei points out to her the problem of relying over much on speed. In episode 18, it's all but spelled out to her why her over reliance on her speed and sharp ears isn't the best way to play.
* WeakButSkilled: Tsutomu and Kana-chan aren't the quickest to react in a karuta game, but after some time, they've devised personalized playing styles that utilize their strengths. The former keeps track of his games with everyone, figuring where their strengths and his are. The latter can tell apart the cards with a certainty, to the point where multi-syllabic cards that start similarly are two totally different cards to her. They haven't won much, and still lose often to those faster then them, but in such a short amount of time, they've already closed the gap against ranked players.
** Kana-chan's arrangement of cards on her side of the field (by season instead of by sound) probably also confuses the heck out of her opponents, although it hasn't been mentioned as a competitive advantage.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
* WholeEpisodeFlashBack: The flashback started halfway through episode 1 and doesn't end until the start of episode 4.
** If the flashback is from when Chihaya is pinning up the notice about the karuta club at the start of episode 1, we don't return to that until the end of episode 5. Episodes 4 and 5 are backwards in time from that moment, even if they are (mostly) in the fairly recent past.
* XMeetsY: CardfightVanguard meets BambooBlade.
* YamatoNadeshiko - Kanade wants to be one so badly.
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