Light Novel Movie Chihaya Furu Kami no Ku (KCDX)

[Machine Translation] Chihaya and Taichi learned competitive karuta from Arata. One day, Shin leaves Tokyo for Fukui, and the three elementary school students go their separate ways, promising each other that they will meet again if they continue playing karuta. Chihaya, now a high school student, struggles to create a competitive karuta club at Mizusawa High School in Tokyo. Chihaya is reunited with Taichi at school, who is supposed to have gone on to a private preparatory school. He gathers members for the club to be recognized as a club activity, becomes the head of the club, and gets caught up in Chihaya's pace. With his unique group of friends, they compete in serious competition on the tatami mats. Chihaya gives her all and faces karuta straight on. Taichi, knowing Chihaya's feelings for Arata, continues to play karuta to get closer to Chihaya. Each one of them holds on to their own feelings for the distant Arata, and they put their youth on the line to play karuta. ......

競技かるたを新から教えてもらった、千早と太一。ある日、新が東京を離れて福井へ行ってしまうことになり、「かるたを続けていれば、また会える」と誓い合って、小学生の3人は別々の道を進んでいく。高校生になった千早は、都立瑞沢高校で競技かるた部を作ろうと奮闘する。千早と学校で再会したのは、私立の進学校へ進んでいたはずの太一だった。部活として認められるように部員をかき集め、部長にもなり、千早のペースに巻き込まれていく。個性的な仲間達と、畳の上での真剣勝負。全力で、かるたにまっすぐ向きあう、千早。千早の新に対する気持ちを知りながらも、千早に近づきたくてかるたを続ける太一。遠く離れた新への、それぞれの想いを抱きながら、かるたに青春を懸ける……。