Chihayafuru 39

Chihayafuru 39
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Game 2 of the East-West Challenger Finals for the Master and Queen Match. Taichi prevents Arata from attacking with his thoroughly defensive karuta. Chihaya struggles with being able to hear “too much.” Everything the three have done has been for the sake of these matches. What will the outcome be…?!

Chihayafuru 34

Chihayafuru 34
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1684914671

"The third-year students have taken on the individual tournament of their final high school national championship, each carrying their own resolutions in their heart. The final between Queen Shinobu Wakamiya and Arata concludes with a gripping battle of fates that ultimately leaves Arata with the victory. Chihaya and Arata have vowed to one another that they'd become stronger. After a long summer where they all fought with passion, it's now time for Chihaya and the other third-years to take their next step. While Chihaya promised Shinobu that they'd meet again at the Queen Match, she finds herself unsure of what to do now...! Autumn comes as she decides to move forward, even if she has to do it alone. It's time to make it to that promised match together with her determined heart!"

Chihayafuru

Chihayafuru
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1682339963

The qualification tournament for the Master Match and Queen Match draws near, which only players at the highest rank, Class A, are allowed to enter. A flustered Taichi enters a tournament alone in search of a promotion to Class A, hoping to catch up to Chihaya and Arata. But not only does he meet Arata there, Chihaya also decides to pursue Taichi so that she can cheer him on. The three are reunited by fate, but what could be going through their hearts and minds? As the three chase after their dreams, the bonds that karuta built bring them face to face once more!

Chihayafuru 21

Chihayafuru 21
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1646596188

Atop the tatami mats at the Master and Queen Match preliminaries, players chase after their dreams. As everyone arrives at the preliminaries with special hopes in mind, Chihaya is in Kyoto on a school trip, there to make a different dream, one given to her by her precious friends and teachers, come true. Meanwhile, Taichi, who is absent from the school trip after claiming to feel unwell, heads to the East Japan preliminary, while Arata goes to West Japan's. What kind of path into the future will be paved by their efforts, hopes, and beliefs?

Chihayafuru, Volume 12

Chihayafuru, Volume 12
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1642125598

Both the Mizusawa High Karuta Club and Hokuou Academy have made it out of the Tokyo qualifiers, one of the toughest districts across the country. They go next to Omi Shrine for the finals, aiming to win it all. There they find a daunting wall consisting of unconventional tactics and the extraordinary players who use them. Mizusawa's goal has always been to be the best in Japan, a distant dream that can only be attained by a tenacious team that puts in the effort to win their way through the tournament. Chihaya and the rest believe in themselves and in their friends as the battle begins!

Chihayafuru, Volume 11

Chihayafuru, Volume 11
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 1642122300

The Mizusawa High Karuta Club has won its way to the final round of the preliminaries for the national tournament in part thanks to the confidence and trust in each other that they've built. In a rematch from last year, they now face off against the powerhouse Hokuou Academy in five evenly matched bouts that are high-strung from their opening moments. Will Mizusawa prevail, or will Hokuou? Both sides refuse to cede a single step as the matches near their end, until something takes place that no one could have ever expected...!

Chihayafuru 27

Chihayafuru 27
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1636992846

Taichi faces Arata at the Takamatsunomiya Cup Tournament. Though they both share the rank of Class A, Taichi is overwhelmed by frustration at the difference in level between them that his time and familiarity with the game makes all the more stark. In order to return a smile to his face, Chihaya puts together the ""Taichi Cup,"" an unofficial karuta tournament attended by those who love karuta and who have supported Taichi. A few days later, Taichi happens to be alone with Chihaya in the club room. As the spring breeze comes fluttering in, he opens up to Chihaya about the way he's always felt about her. But this would also be the start of the two embarking on separate paths... Chihaya and the rest of the Mizusawa High Karuta Club have to make it through a spring without Taichi, and the qualifiers for the national tournament are just around the corner!

Chihayafuru 38

Chihayafuru 38
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1684919592

The East-West Challenger Finals for the Master and Queen Match. Though Arata and Taichi had once stepped away from karuta, both they and Chihaya are able to savor the joy of being in this place together. Momo Yuikawa, representing the West, throws off Chihaya's pace by playing her own style of karuta. Meanwhile, Taichi uses new tactics to attempt to overcome the wall that is Arata and battle Master Suou…?! It's time for best-of-three matches as they all seek out a landscape that none have ever seen before!

Chihayafuru 22

Chihayafuru 22
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1646597443

The time has come for the top challengers who made their way through the East and West Japan preliminaries to face one another and decide who will play in the Master and Queen Matches. Representing West Japan is Megumu Ousaka, showing her tenacity by making it to this deciding match two years in a row, and Arata, who navigated his way through his match with Murao, another member of his club. Facing them from East Japan are former Queen Haruka Inokuma and Harada, a veteran player. These four powerhouses have now come together to play a best-of-three match. It's time for never-before-seen battles to begin between these players who strive to make it to the distant summit!

Chihayafuru 40

Chihayafuru 40
Author: Yuki Suetsugu
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Chihaya punches her ticket at last to the Queen Match after a fierce battle. Chihaya sees where Shinobu, with her unmatched talents, stands, and it is a wasteland beyond anything she could have imagined. Shinobu comes to Chihaya with a proposal in order to achieve her goal of becoming the world's first karuta pro. Meanwhile, Taichi and Arata each have one win and one loss as their feelings for karuta and one another butt heads on the tatami mats! The East-West Challenger Final is determined at last! What is it that they're going to see after this battle they've put their entire youth into?!