#Taichihayarata

[yutaan]

Found some old Chihayafuru doodles from back when I was watching Season 1! Get hugged, Taichi

[apamates]

just thinking silly thoughts as per usual, but image both chihaya and taichi at different points of post-manga showing up on karuta online spaces (probably featured by shinobu) wearing arata's old club shirt (black one with the cloud, you know the one) and people being like "huh"

[beldaroot]

they're holding hands in my heart :')

[lesbian-kyoru]

they are married

[savcir-faire]

taichi, he’s back!

…he’s back. arata’s come home.

[aboatmanadrift]

this sequence where taichi takes out the cards to place them and chihaya says that chihayafuru is a poem about deep red love, and then the shot cuts to arata touching the cards and finally returning to karuta: taichihayarata have always been SO connected & canon, in this essay I—

[ekparavani]

ultimately i think taichi is extremely bisexual but sometimes i think about his whole "love is when it's not fun to be with that person" thing and im like... hm... what does he mean by this.. could this be... comphet? 🤨

[silver-sandstone]

PEAK IS COMING BACK

[monstrsball]

rules: tag nine people you want to know better/catch up with, then answer the questions below.

got tagged by @conartisthaiji thanks!! <3 was fun :3

four ships: choosing not to list the obvious... orufrey from witch hat atelier (OUGHHH), charthur from red dead 2, also sadie x molly from red dead 2 which exists entirely in my mind but it is so good i promise, and taichihayarata from chihayafuru :3

last song: turn by the wombats!!! very good. the line "i like the way your brain works" does something to me...

currently reading: nothing at the moment :( i have all systems red on my phone, i just haven't started it yet. i also want to read the mob psycho manga soon.

last film: brother bear :)

craving: my mind is drawing a blank... goldfish (the crackers)? or maybe some fruit... cantaloupe sounds really good right now.

i tag @homosubtext, @mrs-nubenueve, @malewifeandgirlboss, @enno-shita, @teddybear-tebbydear, @eurydicees, @red-elric, and anyone else who wants to do it!!

[nyoomzz]

au where karuta are like magical powers

[mamohiru]

team chihayafuru shining on ‘be love’’s covers!  ♡ (part i)

[apamates]

Maybe he found something more important to him than karuta. Is there such a thing? Like what? Nothing comes to mind, give me an example. Like a girlfriend. Arata?! Having a girlfriend? No way! We're already highschoolers, we won't be playing karuta forever. Things are different... compared to then.

[beldaroot]

swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end - chihayafuru chapter 247

[lesbian-kyoru]

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ayase Chihaya/Mashima Taichi/Wataya Arata, Ayase Chihaya/Wataya Arata, Mashima Taichi/Wataya Arata Characters: Wataya Arata, Ayase Chihaya, Mashima Taichi Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Birthday, Fluff and Angst, Polyamory, Mutual Pining, OT3, Getting Together, Emotional Baggage, you think your life is hard? arata was born in december, eventual polyamory they will just need a second

Summary

"If you could go back, would you still come to Tokyo?" Chihaya asks.

A poem repeats in Arata's head, meguri aite, was that really, really you, and he's never been the best with their meanings, but this one sinks into his bones. He remembers right after he moved to Tokyo, nothing the way that he wanted it to be, and he remembers the first time he saw Chihaya surrounded by the cityscape. She seemed as tall as every skyscraper before him, and he recognized Taichi's silhouette in every negative space.

Tokyo felt so lonely to him then, in the way only a home can. It still does.

[formashimataichi]

As someone who follows your blog and admires your meta to the bone and also advocates the tchyrt nobody-gets-left-behind trio friendship together together agenda til my dying day, i honestly am looking forward to reading your reaction once the full final chapter is released 🥲🥲🥲🥲😭😭😭

It’s going to be a while before proper translations are out, but I think my main mindset with regards to the trio is this: I believe what Suetsugu has endeavored to do throughout the entire narrative is build a friendship between three people that can stand the tests of time, or distance, or rivalry, or whatever else obstacle can possibly come their way. In that sense, the ending is unexpected for me in the way it’s executed, but ultimately I believe it’s emblematic of the themes I always felt were most important for Suetsugu to espouse. From the beginning, she’s repeatedly emphasized, As long as we have karuta we'll see each other again, won't we? As long as we keep playing, we'll see each other again. To me, what’s being perceived by some readers as a devaluation of the trio’s friendship is in fact a testament to it. They’re by this point in time so completely secure in their relationships with each other that nothing can cow them or break them apart. The distance is no longer an intimidating obstacle to overcome—it’s a fact of life, but a bearable one, because karuta ultimately acts as their lifeline to each other. Regardless of whatever they’re doing in their individual lives, they will always come back to each other because karuta will bring them back together. That prior experience of urgency and desperation and dread is no longer there; they’re completely at peace with each other because they’re at peace with themselves. Solo matches are team matches, team matches are solo matches. You have to be able to trust the people around you to fight their own battles so you can fight your own battles, and vice versa. Suetsugu has done a really masterful job of building up this self-sufficiency and endurance in each of her characters while nonetheless maintaining a message that people need people in order to survive. It’s clear that she values community, but she also understands that it’s important to be sure of ourselves because that’s when we can be most appreciative of the community that exists around us and supports us. The fact that there’s still physical distance between the trio in the conclusion doesn’t at all feel like a source of concern to me. I was initially in the camp of readers who wanted for all three characters to go to college in Tokyo and be best friends forever who hung out every other day, utterly inseparable, but in retrospect, I think this ending is far more realistic and cathartic because it acknowledges the presence of distance but doesn’t bow down to it as an overseer. You can continue to maintain deep, important relationships with people even while you’re each leading your own lives that contain an entire world within them separate of those relationships. The relationships aren’t less important for that fact nor are they suddenly fragile.

Even the final conversation between the trio with regards to the romantic conclusion feels emblematic of that to me. The trio of old may have been threatened to break apart because of those warring emotions, but the trio of present is secure and liberated of antagonism so that they may fully, wholeheartedly enjoy the present. I don’t think it’s supposed to be a bad thing that Arata expresses he wants to be with Chihaya when he’s older. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that Taichi is with Chihaya after having come to terms with his own demons. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that this is how Chihaya feels now, but how she feels could also change. Youth comes many times. You can experience it many, many times, so make sure you work hard each of those times, okay? This is where each of them are at now. They’re comfortable with that. They’re young adults moving into a new world of trials and tribulations. They don’t have to dread the future the way they may have in years past. They can look to it with hope and comfort that the present shifts and changes, but so long as we put our best foot forward, it’s worth it to experience it to the fullest. Our experiences are not lesser for when we experience them—what’s important is how we experience them. Youth is impermanent, but it’s also beautiful, and we can value that. That’s what makes the ending really special to me.

[aboatmanadrift]

I am never getting over this art, LOOK AT THEM!!!! THEY ARE SOOOOO *incoherent noises*