So far, and yet so close.

I don't usually post about news, but there's an exception for everything, and I'm happy to make one for a show like this. It...

I'm going to be really sad next week when there isn't a new episode.

This show keeps plugging along like it wasn't ending next week...

I honestly don't know how this show is going to wrap itself up.

I get why Harada-sensei doesn't like the other karuta society now. This is how their star player and former champion acts in a match?

She's really come a long way, and we haven't even gotten to the Queen rematch yet!

It's the moment we've been waiting for! ..Sort of.

Continuing the trend, this tournament finale was more intense than the last.

They say that if you want to improve at a competitive sport or game, you have to play someone better than yourself.

When we last saw our future champion karuta players, they'd each decided to pursue a goal that would hopefully make them better players...

Even the recap episodes are amazing!

Even thought we're past the halfway point in terms of episodes, it feels like the story is only just beginning.

You know that Sanrio would be all over that. Anyway, after having episodes where the matches were skimmed over, summarized, or cut short, i...

I was not expecting the majority of the tournament episode to focus on an Arata flashback, but I'm not complaining.

Go team, go! Mizusawa fight!

This show just keeps getting better and better. At the rate that we're going, I'll probably explode from suspense at the final tour...

It's finally time for a tournament arc! After getting to know all of the characters as individuals, how will they work as a team?

Note to self: never be concerned when this show reaches the end of a plot arc, because what comes next is always better than before.

Do you play a game for the fun of it? Or do you play to win?