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Arata Wataya was a transfer student to Chihaya's elementary school, grandchild of an eternal master karuta player, Arata inspires Chihaya to take up karuta. [5] He has difficulty fitting in at Chihaya's elementary school because of his Fukui dialect and passion for karuta, but Chihaya befriends him. [15] His dream is to become a karuta Meijin.
Aoyama cited the live-action adaptations of Yuki Suetsugu's manga series Chihayafuru among his inspirations for making Hyakunin Isshu and karuta subjects of a Case Closed film. He noted the Kyoto-based Karuta Queen, or national champion in the women's division, as depicted in Chihayafuru, as the model for characters in The Crimson Love Letter. [4]
Iroha karuta (Japanese: いろはかるた) is an easier-to-understand matching game for children, similar to Uta-garuta but with 96 cards. Instead of poems, the cards represent the 47 syllables of the hiragana syllabary and adds kyō ( 京 , "capital") for the 48th (since the syllable -n ん can never start any word or phrase).
Chihayafuru (ちはやふる) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu.It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Be Love from December 2007 to August 2022, with its chapters collected in 50 tankōbon volumes.
Kayli Mills (born December 10, 1994) [3] [4] is an American actress who voices for English versions of anime and Japanese video games.Some of her major roles include Emilia in Re:Zero, Akira Kazama in Street Fighter V, Alice Zuberg in Sword Art Online, Keqing in Genshin Impact, Valac Clara in Welcome to Demon School!
Oishi Tengudo (大石天狗堂) is a Kyoto-based Japanese manufacturer of playing cards and other traditional games, including go, hanafuda, and other karuta. With a handful of exceptions, all their cards are still made by hand. The company logo is a tengu mask with a long nose. [1]
Eri Kitamura (喜多村 英梨, Kitamura Eri, born August 16, 1987) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She was previously affiliated with Early Wing, but is now a freelancer. [1]
Qin Zhong is around 12 when he first meets Baoyu and only survives for a few years. His (adoptive) elder sister is Qin Keqing, Baoyu's nephew Jia Rong's wife, and so he is technically a generation younger than Baoyu. The two boys get along marvelously well and decide to enroll in the Jia clan's school together and become study-mates.