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Chihayafuru Manga Ends with 49th Volume

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Suetsugu launched the manga in Kodansha's releasing the manga digitally in English.

Amazon had listed the 47th volume of the manga as heading toward the story's climax in June 2021.

The manga inspired an anime, and the first 25-episode television anime season ran from October 2011 to March 2012. The second season, hosted a premiere screening for the anime in August 2019.

Crunchyroll seasons with Japanese subtitles and an English dub.

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

Chihaya Ayase is a beautiful and headstrong young woman with a ion for karuta, a card game inspired by classical Japanese poetry. As a child, Chihaya was introduced to the game by a quiet, gifted transfer student named Arata, and she was instantly drawn to it. Now in high school and reunited with her childhood friend Taichi, Chihaya dreams of finding Arata and the three resuming their love of karuta, only to discover that Arata has quit the game due to personal reasons. Determined not to let Arata's ion go to waste, Chihaya and Taichi form the Mizusawa High School Karuta Club, where they learn that in karuta - as in life - working toward your dreams is the key to winning, even when what you want seems just out of reach.

Suetsugu's manga has also inspired three live-action films. The first film, Hulu Japan in February 2018.

Source: Comic Natalie