Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Connection is the driving force behind everything in the narrative of Chihayafuru. With each connection stemming from Chihaya's love of karuta and the poems in the game.

Copy editor: Cass Moulton

0:00 Intro
2:33 Disclaimers
3:45 Title Sequence
4:05 Opening and Plot Synopsis
8:40 Character Intros
9:30 Chihaya's Beginning
13:08 Arata's Beginning
16:47 Taichi's Beginning
21:28 Mizusawa Karuta Club
23:10 Kanade Ooe
24:18 Hyakunin Isshu
25:47 The Meaning of the Chiha Poem
29:33 Arata and Taichi Parallels
31:50 The Romance
35:28 Sharing the Passion
36:56 The Antagonists
38:11 Shinobu Wakamiya
42:14 Suo Hisashi
46:57 The Importance of Connections
47:40 Arata's Strongest Connection
50:28 Taichi's Strongest Connection
53:10 Chihaya's Strongest Connection
55:19 Closing
55:59 Outro

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