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
