Where Does Chihayafuru Anime End In Manga

When it comes to me and Chihayafuru, the reply to pretty much whatsoever question is "it'southward complicated".

At that place were some odd choices by Asaka-sensei for this terminal episode.  I'yard grinding on whether they make a 4th season more or less likely (if anything I'grand leaning towards the erstwhile), or whether they're merely choices he fabricated based on what he felt this episode should be.  I can't really get into the details simply there was an awful lot of important stuff that happened in the manga that didn't get in into this ep, for whatever reason Asaka had in mind.

Of course there's some other question I take to ask myself – practice I even want at that place to be another season?  When I said that with the benefit of hindsight I would have stopped the manga where the anime was a couple weeks agone, I wasn't just venting – I meant it.  A quaternary season for the anime forces me to put my money where my mouth is.  In effect, to throw the baby out with the bathwater because to be certain, there is some skillful stuff in the upcoming chapters.  Very good.  And some good stuff that was skipped, likewise, that might make information technology dorsum in.

I suppose I tin only make that decision when the time comes (as I doubtable it probably will, all things considered).  As for this episode, to give it over almost entirely to Arata and the germination of his karuta lodge at schoolhouse was certainly unconventional.  Nigh of what happened here is in the manga, though there was some padding too, merely to get in the centerpiece of the finale when things in Tokyo are moving so dramatically?  A very curious call, it seems to me, and one that leaves this final episode feeling only a little anti-climactic.

Looking at the big flick, Suetsugu is obviously drawing out attention to the contrary directions Arata and Taichi/Chihaya's courses are taking.  As they each migrate apart from each other and the guild (Chihaya quitting happens off-screen) the perpetual loner Arata strives to become part of a squad.  His motivation seems pretty articulate – he's gained an appreciation (largely by measuring himself against Chihaya and Taichi) of what he'southward been missing from his life with his unmarried-minded obsession with the meijin title.  Arata has always felt isolated and lonely to an extent being in Fukui – now he'southward using karuta to try and build new bonds with the world.  And that's a positive for him, certainly.

Arata is obviously shocked when he learns (fourth-hand, from Sakurazawa-sensei via Retro-kun) that Chihaya and Taichi have quit the karuta club at Mizusawa.  I was half-expecting him to put the pieces together in his mind, just if he did so in that location'south no evidence of it to be gleaned here.  And trying to become the leader of a order is taking up much of his attention anyhow.  Not only is this something he has no feel with, information technology clearly doesn't come naturally to him.  He's the opposite of Taichi in that sense – he's a natural leader without an innate connection to karuta (which is what the egoist Chihaya provided the team).

Of the two cardinal figures in the story, there'south about zippo that makes it onto the screen.  We do at least see Chihaya trying to dedicate herself to her studies – which she certainly needs to do – but her breakup with the karuta club is clearly wrecking her emotionally.  Equally has often been the case, she finds an unlikely confidante in Fukusaku-sensei (my apologies for never crediting Endou Daichi for this performance – and information technology's hard to believe he'southward only 39 years former).  He may non share her passion for karuta just he understands the connections the poems themselves create.  And he sees the sincerity of Chihaya'south desire to teach, fifty-fifty if she seems like an odd fit for the office.

Taichi tells Mrs. Pressure – who'south horrified that he lost his #1 form ranking to Tsutomu-kun – that he's quit the karuta club, but she doesn't seem every bit pleased as you'd expect.  Taichi is focusing on higher, with a focus on somewhen going to medical school.  But it must exist fate that his cram school teacher turns out to exist none other than Suou-meijin.  Harada has been a slap-up mentor to Taichi in both karuta and life, but the hard truth is that as people – and players – they're so unlike that in that location are things Harada-sensei but can't teach Taichi.  Suou could hardly be more different from his meijin opponent both on the tatami and off it, but perhaps he'due south not and then different from Taichi that he can't offer him a different sort of mentorship than Harada does.

Even if it leaves the states in what for me is a pretty dark place equally a viewer, there's no question in my mind that this third season of Chihayafuru was better than the 2d.  While information technology was yet pretty karuta-heavy the contest was generally more than compelling, especially where Harada-sensei and his opponents are concerned.  And the non-karuta developments make up in seismic impact what they lack in screen time.  Simply of form I tin can't divorce myself from the manga experience, and that leaves me extremely conflicted about the anime going forward (assuming it does).  As with everything involving Chihayafuru, it'southward complicated.  The merely thing that's straightforward is the grip this series has on my psyche – that's something I can never deny.  For better or for worse…

Source: https://lostinanime.com/2020/03/chihayafuru-3-24-end-and-series-review/

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