Karakter & Staf — Chihayafuru

Chihaya Ayase

Utama

Female · Umur 12-18 · Gol. darah B

Height: 167 cm (5'6") A determined schoolgirl who "possesses a remarkable hearing ability". She believes that by persevering in karuta, she will meet Arata again, and begins a karuta club at her high school with Mashima. While she is beautiful, she is considered too weird; her classmates refer to her as a "waste of a beauty". She has been described as a "tomboy trapped in a supermodel's body".

Asami Seto

Taichi Mashima

Utama

Male · Umur 12-18 · Gol. darah A

Height: 172 cm (5'7") Taichi is from a wealthy family (His father & Grandfather are both doctors). Chihaya's childhood friend is quite the golden boy. Smart, good looking, and mature, he excells at nearly everything he does which makes him the voice of reason in the Misusawa Karuta Club. While he sees himself as keeper of Chihaya and the less experienced members, he demands a lot of himself both in games and as a leader and can overthink even the most simple situations. Taichi's karuta leverages his incredible memory to give him a sense of which cards might be called next and the ability to out-think opponents. He also has a crush on Chihaya but is hesitant to do anything as he thinks that she only has eyes for Arata.

Mamoru Miyano

Arata Wataya

Pendukung

Male · Umur 12-18 · Gol. darah O

Height: 173cm (5'8") School: Fukui Prefecture East Hitsufujioka High School Karuta Society: Fukui Nagumo Society - A Class Arata Wataya was a transfer student from Fukui that went to Chihaya's elementary school. The grandchild of a master karuta player, Arata inspires Chihaya to take up karuta by telling her that he thinks she has a talent for it. He had difficulty fitting in at Chihaya's elementary school because of his Fukui dialect and his family's poverty. His passion for karuta is inspired by his grandfather, a Meijin (master). After their first game at Arata's house, Chihaya befriends him. His dream is to become a Karuta Meijin. After graduating from elementary school, he returned to Fukui to care for his sick grandfather. He stops playing karuta because his grandfather died while Arata was competing in a karuta tournament to rise to A-rank. However, after Chihaya and Taichi visit him in Fukui, he regains his resolve to play competitive karuta again.

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Kanade Ooe

Pendukung

Female · Gol. darah O

Height: 150 cm School: Municipal Mizusawa High School - Year 2 Class 5 - Karuta Club accountant Karuta Society: Shirohoku Society - C Class A girl with a taste for the classics, Kanade is a quiet girl who works in a kimono store and loves all kinds of traditional clothing. She is quite knowledgeable about the true meanings behind the One Hundred Poems and joins the karuta club on the condition that they start wearing hakama. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ai Kayano

Yuusei Nishida

Pendukung

Male · Gol. darah B

Height: 176 cm School: Municipal Mizusawa High School - Year 2 Class 9 - Karuta Club member Karuta Society: Suihoku Society - A Class A rather tubby boy who is reluctantly often called 'Porky' by Chihaya. Once a top karuta player who had previously played against Chihaya, Arata and Taichi in an elementary school tournament, Yusei quit karuta after suffering a defeat against Arata and took up tennis as a refuge. However, Chihaya manages to remind him how he used to play for fun and he ends up joining the karuta club.

Tooru Nara

Tsutomu Komano

Pendukung

Male · Gol. darah AB

Height: 157 cm School: Municipal Mizusawa High School - Year 2 Class 1 - Karuta Club secretary and recorder of matches Karuta Society: Shirohoku Society - B Class An intelligent boy in Chihaya's class who is second only to Taichi in test scores. Often tied to his desk and anti-social, he feels that nothing is worth doing unless it makes you smarter. However, Chihaya and Taichi help to convince him that karuta involves a lot of strategies and he joins the club. He is also left-handed.

Tsubasa Yonaga

Hiro Kinashi

Pendukung

Male

An eccentric member of the Hokuou Academy Karuta Club. His rank is Class B.

Kazuya Nakai

Hideo Harada

Pendukung

Male · Umur 57

Level: Class A, 6. Dan Group: Shiranami Karuta Society Hideo Harada is the head of the Shiranami Society for karuta that Chihaya and Taichi are part of. He used to teach Arata as well, while Arata was in primary school with Chihaya and Taichi. He taught Chihaya throughout Junior High School and is currently mentor to both Chihaya and Taichi. He is also a medical doctor and married. Harada Hideo is portrayed as a kind man with a deep and insightful knowledge of the game of karuta. He states that he teaches his students offensive karuta, which aims to take cards from the opponent's side. He is extremely competitive, whether on behalf of his students or as a competitor himself, or even as a figurehead, representing his karuta society, and is his students' staunchest supporter.

Unshou Ishizuka

Chitose Ayase

Pendukung

Female · Umur 13- · Gol. darah AB

Height: 159cm Chihaya's older sister. She's a model and the complete opposite of Chihaya's tomboyish personality.

Aya Endou

Yuu Ashino

Pendukung

Female

Arata's neighbor.

Chika Anzai

Mari Wataya

Pendukung

Female

Arata's mother.

Houko Kuwashima

Akira Wataya

Pendukung

Male

Arata's father.

Jin Horikawa

Hajime Wataya

Pendukung

Male

Arata's grandfather, a karuta master.

Kinryuu Arimoto

Michiru Horikawa

Pendukung

Miho Hino

Chieko Ayase

Pendukung

Female

Chihaya's mother.

Satsuki Yukino

Yasuda

Pendukung

Male

Tokuyoshi Kawashima

Taeko Miyauchi

Pendukung

Female

The adviser for the tennis club, badminton club, chemistry department, and karuta club. Although against karuta at first, she eventually warms up to the game after witnessing Chihaya and the others play. From then on she started actively cooperating with the team.

Toshiko Fujita

Reiko Mashima

Pendukung

Female

Taichi's mother.

Yuu Shimamura

Shinobu Wakamiya

Pendukung

Female · Umur 16-18 · Gol. darah O

Height: 160 cm Favourite Song: Poem #40 Though I would hide it, In my face it still appears-- My fond, secret love. And now he questions me: "Is something bothering you?" Shinobu Wakamiya is the current Queen of Karuta, she is also the youngest Queen in history. She is left-handed. Shinobu has been described as someone who is cute, but having the fashion sense of a rock. She often feels as if her opponents are vigorous and active at the beginning of match, but when on verge of losing, it feels as if she was back to playing karuta alone again. Arata and Shinobu know each other very well, she has never beat him in a karuta match. Shinobu started playing karuta when she and her divorced mother moved to her Grandma's house and found the box of karuta cards, which she fell in love with. Shinobu became a Class A karuta player when she was in fourth grade.

Mihoko Nakamichi

Akito Sudou

Pendukung

Male

Akito Sudo is another Class A karuta player. Together with his teammates from Hokuō Academy Karuta Club he was playing against the Mizusawa Karuta Club. After his team loses to them, he gains respect for them and supports Chihaya. It has been noted that Sudo has incredible potential that is stifled by his tendency towards sadism.

Takashi Oohara

Ririka Tachikawa

Pendukung

Female

A young girl heralded as the next Shinobu Wakamiya and a future Queen of Karuta.

Ikue Ootani

Hisashi Suou

Pendukung

Male · Gol. darah AB

School: 8th Year University student Karuta Society: No society - Super A Class Height: 180 cm Hobby: Karuta Favourite Song: Poem #2 The spring has passed And the summer come again The reigning Master. He possesses the most intuition out of all the current karuta players, and has 28 one-syllable cards. [Wikipedia] ; For the silk-white robes, So they say, are spread to dry On the "Mount of Heaven's Perfume." Suoh started Karuta during university, and became Meijin within 3 years, and has held the title for 4 consecutive years. Everyone acknowledges his god-like abilities, but he is on constant lookout for someone stronger than himself. He is a solitary genius who always suffers from hunger, and is hard to become excited. It is his 4th time repeating a year at university. Personality: The current Meijin is a weirdo? At first glance he may look like a typical university student, but in reality he is tall, has a questionable beard, an extremely quiet voice, and loves Japanese confectionery. His personal favourite idol is “Kyokotan” (Yamashiro Kyouko) who is a professional Karuta reader. He once asked her for a recording of her reading the poems, after offering her a gift of confectionaries. He is a man who wants to only fight strong people, and so he rarely makes an appearance at tournaments. In an interview, he has started that he wants to quickly be Meijin 5 years in a row, become an eternal-Meijin, then retire.