Chihayafuru

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Name: Chihayafuru (ちはやふる)
Abbreviation(s): CHF, CF
Creator: Suetsugu Yuki
Date(s): 28 December 2007 – 1 August 2022 (manga)
4 October 2011 – present (anime adaptation)
19 March 2016 – 17 March 2018 (film adaptations)
Medium: Manga, anime, live-action film
Country of Origin: Japan
External Links: Official website (JP)
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Chihayafuru is a josei sports manga created by Suetsugu Yuki that ran from 2007 until 2022. It was adapted into an anime beginning in 2011, and into three live-action films that released between 2016 and 2018.

Canon Overview

Chihayafuru tells the story of a girl named Ayase Chihaya who falls in love with karuta as a child and, along with several friends, establishes a karuta club at her school as a teenager.

Fandom Overview

Chihayafuru has a small but relatively active English-language fandom, with fic posted mainly on Archive of Our Own and fanart posted mainly on Tumblr and Twitter. Gif making is also popular on Tumblr among fans of the anime adaptation.

Characters and Ships

For both fic and art, the most popular characters tend to be the canon's three main characters: Ayase Chihaya, Mashima Taichi, and Wataya Arata. Various combinations of these characters are also consistently among the fandom's most popular ships.

Popular ships include:

Ships not involving the canon's main characters also exist, but typically as rarepairs. Examples of these include Inokuma Haruka/Sakurazawa Midori (F/F) and Komano Tsutomu/Ooe Kanade (F/M).

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