
After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.

as Chihaya Ayase

as Taichi Mashima

as Arata Wataya

as Shinobu Wakamiya

as Kanade Ooe

as Yusei Nishida

as Tsutomu Komano

as Akihito Sudo

as Hiro Kinashi

as Taeko Miyauchi

as Hideo Harada

as Young Chihaya

as Young Arata

as Yuuta Ryugasaki

as Nayuta Amakasu

as Hisashi Suo

as Iori Wagatsuma

as Hiroshi Tsuboguchi

as Haruto Takuma

as Young Taichi

as Mari Wataya

as Hajime Wataya