This week on Fanbyte’s premiere anime rewatch show, our Secretary of Anime (Eric Thurm) brought the surprisingly intense card-game series Chihayafuru to Features and Trending Editor merritt k. The show is about a club that plays the ancient Japanese game of Karuta, where players match lines of poetry on cards in a heated battle of wills.

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