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Live-Action Chihayafuru Sequel Series Unveils Club Members' Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for Chihayafuru -Meguri-, the new live-action television series adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga, announced more cast members for the series on Thursday.
The cast members for the Umezono High School Competitive Karuta Club include:
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- Manato Sakamoto as Chikara Yakumo
- Sōma Santoki as Sōta Yono
- Jun Saitō as Fūki Shirano
- Ami Tōma as Meguru Aizawa (previously announced)
- Lina Arashi as Chieri Murata
- Kaito Takamura as Haruma Okuyama
The cast members for the Mizusawa High School Competitive Karuta Club (the club of the original manga's protagonists) include:
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- Raizō Ishikawa as Yōsuke Shinohara
- Kotoka Seto as Oto Yoshino
- Nanoka Hara as Nagi Tsukiura
- Taiyu Fujiwara as Kenshin Orie
- Yūtarō Takahashi as Kōta Niwano
The cast members for the Hokuo High School Competitive Karuta Club include:
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- Kazuki Ōmoto as Hitoshi Arima
- Yūki Tachibana as Arashi Kuroda
- Riku Ōnishi as Shō Okuyama
- Yoshiki Fujieda as Wataru Hisamoto
- Takumi Tsurushiyama as Ibuki Hiiragi
The series will debut on NTV and its affiliates in July and will air on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. JST.
Manga creator Suetsugu is involved with the new show. The original films' director Norihiro Koizumi is serving as the showrunner. Naoya Fujita, Daisuke Honda, Chiaki Matsumoto, and Kazuhiro Yoshida are directing the series. Monogatari Lab and Suzuyuki Kaneko are credited with the screenplay. Masaru Yokoyama is composing the music.
The first live-action film, Chihayafuru: Kami no Ku (Chihayafuru: Upper Phrase), opened in Japan in March 2016. The second film, Chihayafuru: Shimo no Ku (Chihayafuru: Lower Phrase), opened in Japan in April 2016. The third film, Chihayafuru: Musubi, opened in Japan in March 2018. A five-episode live-action tie-in series, titled Chihayafuru -Tsunagu-, premiered on Hulu Japan in February 2018.
Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don't miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!
The manga's final chapter debuted in Be Love in August 2022. Be Love published a spinoff side story in November 2022. The manga's 50th and final compiled book volume shipped in December 2022 with the spinoff manga. A sequel manga titled Chihayafuru plus Kimi ga Tame launched in Be Love in December 2023.
The manga has inspired three television anime seasons. Crunchyroll streamed all three seasons as they aired. Sentai Filmworks released all three seasons with an English dub on home video. HIDIVE is also streaming the seasons with Japanese subtitles and an English dub.
Sources: Chihayafuru -Meguri- live-action series' website, Comic Natalie
