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Chihayafuru Anime Season 3 Reveals Video, Casts Maaya Sakamoto

posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Series premieres on October 22

The official website for Maaya Sakamoto will play Haruka Inokuma. The video previews Sakamoto in her role.

Maaya Sakamoto as Haruka Inokuma

The new season was cours (two quarters of a year), for a total of 24 episodes.

The three main cast return, including Miyu Irino as Akihiro Tsukuba.

away last year.

band harassment performs the ending theme song "Hitomebore" (Love at First Sight).

The first 25-episode television anime season ran from October 2011 to March 2012. The second season, streaming the first season with Japanese subtitles and an English dub.

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

Chihaya Ayase is a beautiful and headstrong young woman with a ion for karuta, a card game inspired by classical Japanese poetry. As a child, Chihaya was introduced to the game by a quiet, gifted transfer student named Arata, and she was instantly drawn to it. Now in high school and reunited with her childhood friend Taichi, Chihaya dreams of finding Arata and the three resuming their love of karuta, only to discover that Arata has quit the game due to personal reasons. Determined not to let Arata's ion go to waste, Chihaya and Taichi form the Mizusawa High School Karuta Club, where they learn that in karuta - as in life - working toward your dreams is the key to winning, even when what you want seems just out of reach.

Suetsugu launched the manga in releasing the manga digitally in English. The manga has 24 million copies in print.

Suetsugu's manga has also inspired three live-action films. The first film, Hulu Japan in February 2018.

Sources: Chihayafuru 3 anime's Twitter , Comic Natalie


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