Dammit Suetsugu-sensei – you got me again. Chapter 143 Once again Chihayafuru clocks in with a deceptive chapter – one which seems like a relatively low-key change of pace, only to amp up the stakes exponentially in the final few panels and leave you feeling a bit breathless and on-edge. […] Read more
There are no uneventful Chihayafuru chapters any more – only varying magnitudes of earthquakes. I should know better than to be lulled into suspecting Suetsugu-sensei is going to give us a breather chapter. Until you’ve read the last panel you’d damn well better keep looking up, because sooner or later […] Read more
Suetsugu-sensei, just what in the world do you have planned for our put-upon male lead? There’s never a dull moment in Chhayafuru these days, as pretty much every chapter is packed with drama fit to bursting. The only thing that seems certain is that things can never be the same […] Read more
Fittingly for a series about a card game, the deck seems to have been thoroughly shuffled. By the standards of the highly dramatic series Chihayafuru has become, this has to count as something of a breather chapter. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of angst here – only […] Read more
“A Garden For Two” The story of Anis and Shirin (let’s be honest – it’s really the story of the cat) finally draws to a close, and while it finishes with a strong and beautifully-drawn chapter I can’t say I’m going to miss it. I’m ready for Otoyomegatari to move […] Read more
There’s just no such thing as an uneventful chapter anymore. I was feeling pretty low after Chapter 138 of Chihyafuru, for reasons that I don’t think require a lot of explanation. I’m certainly no less invested in the story than I ever was, but this series has become so heavy […] Read more
“If It’s For You…” Husband standing in the way of the yuri goggles? That’s easy – kill him off! I’m really not sure what to make of this latest plot twist from Mori-sensei, which has Shirin’s husband (I mixed up last time and thought it was Anis’ husband that had […] Read more
Be careful what you wish for, indeed. Well, I wanted “progress” – and I guess I got it. And in pretty much exactly the form I speculated on in my post on Chapter 136, too – a disastrous confession with disastrous results. It was definitely “movement”, anyway, and at this […] Read more
“The Ceremony” I’ll be honest – I’ve pretty much run out of things to day about this arc. This pictures are gorgeous, the story is a bore, and how many times can I say how great the cat is? Though the cat is pretty great – one of the all-time […] Read more
Chihayafuru thought for the day: there’s a big difference between “movement” and “progress”… When you consider that there are plenty of long-running manga that are 300-400 chapters or even many more, Chihayafuru really hasn’t been around all that long (though of course its 130+ chapters are closer to monthly than […] Read more