ちはやふる 12 [Chihayafuru 12]

ちはやふる [Chihayafuru] #12

by Yuki Suetsugu

全国大会団体戦、決勝トーナメント。
各ブロック予選を勝ち上がった強豪8校がぶつかりあう
負けたら終わりの勝ち抜き戦。
そこには、千早たちが目に焼き付けた
クイーン位挑戦者決定戦の舞台を知る逢坂恵夢の姿も――。
“クイーン候補”率いる注目校の猛攻に、瑞沢高校かるた部は!?


全国屈指の激戦区・東京都予選を制した瑞沢高校かるた部と北央学園は、決戦の舞台を近江神宮に移し、ともに頂上を目指す。常識破りの戦術、桁外れの選手層、全国の高く厚い壁――。掲げ続けてきた日本一という目標。それは、勝ち抜く努力と、勝ち抜く執念を燃やし続けるチームだけがもぎとれる遥かなる夢。自分を信じ、仲間を信じ、千早たちの戦いがいま始まる!

Genres: Manga, Josei, Romance, Slice Of Life, Sports, Comics, Fiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2011

About the author

Yuki Suetsugu (末次 由紀 Suetsugu Yuki, born September 8, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist. Her career was put on hiatus after she was discovered of being accountable for plagiarism, including tracing. She later resumed her work on March 2007.

She debuted in 1992 in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine with Taiyō no Romance. Her works later moved to Bessatsu Friend magazine, also published by Kodansha.

On 2009-03-24, her work Chihayafuru was chosen for the Manga Taishō.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Sue...

Reviews

[Bianca · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love to see the panels in which my boys and my girls appear playing so intensely karuta.

[Athena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nontraditional sports manga stay winning, i'm afraid

[Annemarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I generally love the Chihayafuru series, this isn't one of my favourite volumes. A large part of it has to do with the first chapter. Our team plays against an international school. We find out almost immediately that these students are born and raised in Japan, and only speak Japanese. They just look foreign/have foreign names. So far, so good, right? But then we proceed to have our main characters marvel about how foreigners play karuta, and how they know the same things, and react to the same sounds, and have talents too, and it just felt so weird. Because for all intents and purposes these people have been raised in a similar way, and Japan/Japanese is their homeland/language. There is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be just as good? Because looks have no impact on your ability to play karuta at all???
I'm not saying this is unrealistic, because I know there are plenty of people in Japan who actually believe that. That foreigners can't speak Japanese (or that they can only speak English and all other languages just don't exist or something?) But why does it have to be everyone? Why are they so surprised despite knowing these people only know Japanese/have never left Japan in their lives??? It's just kinda disappointing.
Then we also have Taichi being really annoying whenever Arata comes up, despite also being Arata's friend, and I didn't really like that either. And the final scene also left a bad taste in my mouth. I know it's supposed to make you want to read more with a cliffhanger and all that, but it just wasn't working for me.
As always the art is great, and I love the matches. Arata's part in this manga was cute too. It's not a bad volume, it's just not as good as it could have been.

[Littlebookterror · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arata is just cursed, nothing is going his way. I wish he would show up more often.

We also learn more strategy, from card placement to player lineup. Chihaya and Taichi have grown so much and its so cool to see how far they have come in a year. And so many of the usual suspects are also there - it's so sweet to see how passionate everyone is.

[AsianMerr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mangaka got creative in the art department this time around, using a lot of darker panels for shading and I dug it. The matches played were nice, we see opponents start to love Karuta and that’s fun. Hanano and Desk ship??? I was not expecting that! Tsukuba being in the starting line up was fun, now he needs a win lol. Also nice cliffhanger, Nishida what are you thinking???? 😮

[afton · Rating 5 out of 5]

arata knew better but also how noble

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how everybody has grown so much on their playing skills.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

theyre getting there. im proud of chihaya for overcoming obstacles that wouldve been detrimental for her before ( her memory lol ) and im proud of arata for becoming more open to the idea of teams.

also taichis getting so jealous now isnt he😨😨

[Manisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

~~~~~LOOOOOVED IIIITTTTTTT~~~~~~~~~