After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mayu Matsuoka, Mone Kamishiraishi, Yuma Yamoto
Crew: Yuka Kashino (Theme Song Performance), Norihiro Koizumi (Director), Norihiro Koizumi (Writer), Naoaki Kitajima (Producer), Yuki Suetsugu (Comic Book), Masaru Yokoyama (Original Music Composer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Robot Communications
Runtime: 112 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 29, 2016
IMDb: 3.3
