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Chihaya and her team are up against an all-star quiz bowl champion team who are freakishly memorized -- her weakness! What is our starry-eyed captain to do? LOCK IN, that's what! Our team faces another tough opponent as Arata is caught between a committee wanting to kick him out of individual matches and an unlikely savior who says they'll forfeit if he can't play?! What a tense and fun episode!

NOTE: I give Taichi a hard time in this one. I love this bean, but my dude...bear with me; I know he's a work in progress! ;)

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Romania Black - CHIHAYAFURU Season 2: Episode 10 Reaction! RAIN TAKES LONGER TO DRY!?

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/7VyCaQadNTC1bbvy4uKi7X **THUNDEROUS HEADPHONE WARNINGS** Chihaya and her team are up against an all-star quiz bowl champion team who are freakishly memorized -- her weakness! What is our starry-eyed captain to do? LOCK IN, that's what! Our team faces another tough opponent as Arata is caught between a committee wanting to kick him out of individual matches and an unlikely savior who says they'll forfeit if he can't play?! What a tense and fun episode! NOTE: I give Taichi a hard time in this one. I love this bean, but my dude...bear with me; I know he's a work in progress! ;) Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #romaniablack #chihayafuru Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

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Will

While I might be a Taichi apologist, I'm not a Taichi defender! Lol, he deserves all the criticism you give him. He is as insecure as he is smart. In this episode he uses his authority in the club to hide his jealousy and own insecurities about Arata. In a way, he is right about trying to get Chihaya to focus in the next opponents and not get distracted by Shinobu and Arata. But the mangaka lets us know that he's actually reprimanding her because of his own jealousy, at least partially. So as tough as you think you are on Taichi, the Mangaka is just as tough on him. I want a horror manga about Shinobu being a yandere Karuta Queen and serial killer of her opponents 😆

sanime

Oh we agree with you Romania that Taichi is being out of pocket we just don't have the same ship 😅 but that's ok. I feel like that parent too I'm not angry just disappointed I could love a character to pieces but if they're being toxic I can't support their actions Taichi is most definitely framing his actions as I'm getting on to Chihaya because I need Chihaya to focus but we all know that's not true he is jealous of Arata and spiralling in some muddy waters of emotions and is using his role of captain to mask all that. Here's the thing I want someone to call out Taichi as well but that would require someone who knows his complicated relationship with Arata and Chihaya and the only person who knows about it is Dr Harada and Nishida kinda knows but I don't think he picks up on this kind of stuff so we'll have to see what they do with that but ughh whenever Taichi gets like this I feel stressed because I can relate the cycle of jealousy is brutal I had a relative that I was jealous of and you compare you self loathe you become bitter you lash out or reject them and then you hate yourself even more and it gets worse and I wanna shake Taichi as well don't worry. Apart from that I find it hilarious that Suo is such an enigma that none of the admin likes him. I can't wait for more Suo in the story. I think something Ive wanted to comment on as well that it's interesting how both Chihaya and Taichi put Arata on a pedestal as do so many characters in the story when Arata is another human being who isn't perfect and has his own struggles. Shinobu greatest skill of intimidation is working wonders for her this episode 😂 because she is just pulling up in all the critical places and inspiring Chihaya and being an advocate for Arata. Shinobu definitely has a score to settle with Arata and I hope she gets her wish to play him. I love that all the Mizusawa players strengths came into play in this match and the Mioka players were stressful but interesting opponents.

Alexandra Q

This episode was so much fun! I loved seeing Arata being so serious and responsible, ready to take on his punishment for doing something he knows very well is not okay, despite the other boys bravely barging in and trying to sway the verdict in Aratas' favor. It was very commendable that he was sticking up for his wrongs, and I love that you can clearly see the effect thid little introduction has on the judges. But, of course, it is Shinobu who comes and pleads for his case, with all the bewilderment that brings. Having the kids from this school actually caring for Karuta was nice, and seeing Chihaya struggle with not being on the group that can memorize the cards was a little bit funny, after all the tenseness. Particulalrly, I loved that little moment when Chihaya sends flying 4 cards and wonders if this is the way she plays karuta. Of course that perfectly acceptable strategy - a strategy that we have seen Tsutomu use before and that I thought was brilliant for him, and yet it had her wondering, becauses she wants to play a clean, precise karuta, and in her moment of desperation to win she defaulted to an inprecise but easier method, and I love that she realized immediately that that is not the karuta she wants to play. Look, even I was telling Taichi to keep it to himself when he shuts Chihaya up at the end. Chihaya wouldn't get distracted, I don't think, but pumped up, HE is the one that gets distracted, and, in any case, that is a choice that she has every right to make.

sanime

I had a few more thoughts about this episode since I was sort of in a rush when I made my previous thoughts. Knowing how much Arata and Shinobu has played each other in the past it cant be overlooked that Shinobu's motivation and improvement in karuta Im sure is somewhat because she wanted to beat Arata once they met again which is similar and different to Chihaya who wanted to reach Class A to be able to play in a match against Arata and Im sure beat him as well but mainly play in a match against him. However, as unnecessarily hard on himself as Taichi is this sort of does give credibility to his thoughts back at the start of season 1 that it would have been better if Arata had been in Tokyo to play against Chihaya for her growth. I think both Taichi and Arata are vital to Chihaya's growth and motivaton towards karuta because of their promise as children and their unique approaches to karuta and the same goes for Arata and Chihaya being vital for Taichi's growth and Chihaya and Taichi for Arata so I dont fully agree with Taichi but now that we've revealed this connection between Shinobu and Arata I see his point. Another detail in this episode that if I had a Taichi point system Id give him one point for is that during the match after Chihaya gets fired up because of Arata and Shinobu she remembers when she was freaking out after the fight with Tsutomu and Taichi tells her to remember to breathe which is when she exhales and inhales deeply it might have been season 1 Taichi but it shows that when Taichi steps up as a leader and karuta player it does leave a lasting impression on Chihaya so I wish he would leave all the angst and jealousy over one side and be the great guy leader and karuta player we know he can be. On that point just as much as Taichi needs to embrace his freak lol can you imagine if Chihaya knew the effect she had on Taichi this would be a different series if that was the case. I could just imagine how much Taichi would have melted and relaxed if Chihaya had said you know Taichi your advice to breathe helped me today in the match but thats wishful thinking on my part lol. We all saw how motivating it was for Taichi when Chihaya said she wanted to see him make Class A so that thought entered my mind. I made a point in another comment that the only person who would be able to call out Taichi other than Chihaya herself and Dr. Harada if he were present would have to pick up on the patterns that Taichi has been angsty with Chihaya twice in one day and while ideally they wouldnt have to necessarily but realizing its about Arata would help and the only person there to do that is Nishida and Kana the two people who were there on both occasions when Taichi got upset with Chihaya especially Nishida because he knows that Arata Taichi and Chihaya were old friends. Sumire wasnt there the first time it happened so from her perspective she's probably thinking that Taichi is upset because she is gossiping about the Queen and this Fukui person with Chihaya. The only problem in this theory I have about Nishida specifically calling out Taichi because of Arata is that neither Kana or Nishida heard when Chihaya and Taichi were discussing that Arata might be there but they did hear when Taichi said a bit too strongly that she needs to focus on the next round. I brought up this whole rant because I think it would be interesting if Nishida did pick up on why Taichi is behaving strangely because that would lead to an interesting conversation between the two. One of the first things we learn about Nishida is that similarly to Taichi both of them stopped playing karuta due to an inferiority complex to Arata. I always wondered if Nishida would feel that he wouldnt have much advice to give to Taichi because he was in the same boat once. Anyways this episode had me thinking alot of different things which I thought Id share.

romaniablack

I appreciate that about the criticism - I love Taichi as a character because of how deep and layered he is, and I relate to him a lot - but that doesn’t excuse him doing some things that I feel should be called out, even if the mangaka does (though they DO torture him, so that makes up for it, haha!!). The thing is, Chihaya proves *in the episode* that she was focused! So his chiding her really wasn’t warranted as he thought it was. I’m glad the mangaka is tough on him as she should be! Hopefully he grows out of this phase as the series goes. And yes, I really want a horror manga side story of Shinobu as this yandere Karuta Queen, hahaha! I’d read that all day, every day! Thank you for the comment!

romaniablack

I enjoyed this episode a lot and seeing Arata take responsibility was good - literally ANY content we get with him is good! Shinobu is PERSISTENT, that’s for sure, though, to get what she wants! I did enjoy the tenseness that facing this “smart” team brought in this episode - it was refreshing to see new struggles for our team. And yes, I love Chihaya’s internal monologues when she has them! I love she’s trying to figure out what she wants to do with her play style! And yesss, Chihaya gets pumped up and excited about the chance to see Arata and for her to show off to him - Taichi is definitely the one that’s insecure around Arata right now - thank you for saying that and the comment!