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Shelf Life - The Lonely Hearts Club

I tried watching some episodes of Natsume's Book of Friends, but it wasn't for me... the pace was too slow. I've only seen five episodes of Mushi-Shi and it was too slow for me, too, but I know a lot of people like it. I recognize that both are quality shows too slow for me to watch.

the finer details of the game still allude me.

I understand how you may be critical of kobato, but I do not agree with everyone when they say Chihayafuru is an amazing sport/romance series. The relationships maybe interesting, but the actual game play is boring, the poem songs are atrocious to hear, and it is mostly a memorization game.

The reviewer ERIN was also bashing YU-GI-OH when the game itself is far more entertaining and requires much more skill in building your deck as well as setting up combos. You can OTK *one turn kill an opponent in YUGIOH, making every move you make important.

The reviewer ERIN was also bashing YU-GI-OH when the game itself is far more entertaining and requires much more skill in building your deck as well as setting up combos. You can OTK *one turn kill an opponent in YUGIOH, making every move you make important..

The YU-GI-OH shows themselves WOULD benefit from having a great characters like in Chihayafuru so I ask myself couldn't a show like Chihayafuru been MUCH better to watch if it had a better card game to watch? Yugioh has local tournaments, regionals, and championships in North America/Europe/Japan. .

The reviewer could easily understand the basics of the card game with some quick searches on google, which makes stating not knowing how the game basically works is not realistic.

I have learned the basics by reading wikipedia and googling for it, it's the finer details that I don't get, specifically about passing cards around at the end. I also don't really get why someone who has memorized all 100 poems couldn't just take a card right as the reader reads the first part. It's the sort of thing where if I actually played the game, I'm sure I could understand the rules better (same goes for YuGiOh).

As for why someone who has memorized all 100 poems can't just take a card right as the reader reads the card, they repeatedly make a point of telling us that there are several poems that start with the same syllables or words, so in order to be sure which poem it is, you have to wait until a certain point, as in there would be several "The" cards and you have to wait until "The Cloud" or "The River" etc is read to be sure, and sometimes there might be several "The Cloud" cards and you have to wait until "The Cloud is". If you react too fast and hit the wrong "The Cloud" card, you take a fault, which I think involves your opponent moving one of their cards to your side. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that)

FYI, what is read and what is written on the card is different. They read the first part of the poem and the second part of the poem is written on the card, so you definitely need to have mastered the memorization of the poems.

The moving the cards around thing, at least from what I can gather, is that when you take a card on your opponent's side, you move one of the cards from your side over to theirs... Under what circumstances you're allowed to move cards around on your own side, I'm still not entirely clear.

As for why someone who has memorized all 100 poems can't just take a card right as the reader reads the card, they repeatedly make a point of telling us that there are several poems that start with the same syllables or words, so in order to be sure which poem it is, you have to wait until a certain point, as in there would be several "The" cards and you have to wait until "The Cloud" or "The River" etc is read to be sure, and sometimes there might be several "The Cloud" cards and you have to wait until "The Cloud is". If you react too fast and hit the wrong "The Cloud" card, you take a fault, which I think involves your opponent moving one of their cards to your side. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that)

Chihayaburu
Kamiyo mo kikazu
Tatsuta-gawa
Kara kurenai ni
Mizu kukuru to wa

Even when the gods
Held sway in the ancient days,
I have never heard
That water gleamed with autumn red
As it does in Tatta's stream

Julia-the-Great wrote:

The moving the cards around thing, at least from what I can gather, is that when you take a card on your opponent's side, you move one of the cards from your side over to theirs... Under what circumstances you're allowed to move cards around on your own side, I'm still not entirely clear.

See THAT's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And what's up with "Double Faults"?