Chihayafuru Commemorates Manga’s End With Japan-Wide Celebration Campaign

 

Today marks the release of the 50th and final volume of Yuki Suetsugu’s popular Chihayafuru manga series in Japan, ending a series that brought popularity back to kurata with an adorable heartfelt tale of love and growing up. To commemorate the release, ten advertisements for the series were scattered around Japan in this morning’s edition of the Asahi Shimbun.

 

The ten different images, which were made up of covers from the original manga, were released in different regions of the country. The image of the first volume was released in Tokyo and Okinawa’s Asahi Shimbun while the cover of Chihayafuru’s 39th volume was published in Hokkaido and so on. Here are the posters:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chihayafuru manga inspired three TV anime seasons with 75 episodes in total, broadcasting from October 2011 to March 2020. Crunchyroll is currently streaming all three anime seasons.

 

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Three live-action films based on the manga were also released. Kodansha publishes the manga in English — which first launched in Be Love magazine back in December 2007 — and has released 32 volumes digitally so far. Here’s how they describe it:

 

Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.

 

Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don’t miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.