#taichihayarata

[yutaan]

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

#chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #wataya arata #mashima taichi #oe kanade #chihayarataichi #taichihayarata #arataichihaya #doodles #copic markers #colored pencil #god bless my extremely patient friend who has never seen a single second of this show #but still listened to me ramble on about the taichihayarata dynamic to her #for an extended period of time #now she'll point out random trios of characters and say “look it's your card game ot3” #friend no that's not the card game ot3 it's the Anonymous Noise ot3 they're COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

[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.

#chihayafuru #chihayafuru kami no ku #wataya arata #ayase chihaya #mashima taichi #taichihayarata #chihayafuru live action #yuki suetsugu #suzu hirose #shuhei nomura #mackenyu #arata mackenyu #i'm just not normal about the scene before this where taichi brings up arata just to be cynical about his distance #and directly after gets hit in the face by nostalgia: truly cinematic gold #he's so forlorn lmao #that hallway scene was two people talking about their shared crush and you cannot convince me otherwise #i just heard today it was arata's birthday so i had to rush and make this #first time adding subtitles to gifs and boy it was a whole thing #i started watching the live actions without expectations but i was surprised to really love them #the way the key events change from who's the central character makes the retelling really interesting #i love how here it's arata who gets picked up from the snow #my gifs #my stuff #drama edit

[beldaroot]

they're holding hands in my heart :')

#chihayafuru #taichihayarata #arataichihaya #every time i think i've moved on i get hit with these three in some fashion and i go ballistic - i love them so much OTL #arataichi having matching color schemes.... yaoi is alive and well!! #also love how arataichi are wearing backpacks and chihaya isn't like she's NOT studying looool #cf

[nyoomzz]

au where karuta are like magical powers

#just to be clear chihaya is wind/fire #arata is obviously water #and taichi is wood because of pine tree #so yeah magic is in the form of the incarnation of poems #and their assigned poems are like their main one #it's a fun au to think about #chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #wataya arata #mashima taichi #taichihayarata

[lesbian-kyoru]

they are married

#i didn't realize how badly i needed to see these three together again #taichihayarata #chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #wataya arata #mashima taichi #zoe.txt

[savcir-faire]

taichi, he’s back!

…he’s back. arata’s come home.

#chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #mashima taichi #wataya arata #taichihayarata #this time on: this show makes my brain get hot like an old laptop #i translated taichi’s final line differently than the original subs bc #taichi says that arata ‘’kaette kita’’ [verb] #rather than arata ‘’deteru’’ which taichi said EARLIER THIS SAME EPISODE when he reluctantly informed chy that arata was here #meaning arata ‘’emerged/came out/participated’’ and has a neutral connotation #and taichi didn’t say ‘’modotte kita’’ which is another neutral way to say someone has ‘’come back/returned’’ #taichi saying ‘’kaette kita’’ is an acknowledgment that arata has returned Home/to a place he Belongs #txtit #reftranslation #anyway this show is a dissertation on love and it drives me INSANE!!! #taichi looking past his own jealousy and feelings of inferiority; overturning #the zero sum mindset ingrained in him since childhood bc he looks at chihaya who is overflowing with simple abundant love #and admits to himself that despite all this unnecessary resentment he loves and misses arata too #((there is an interesting clumsily articulated though im having w taichi being the most materially wealthy chara #with the deepest emotional wounds bc of a learned scarcity mindset encouraged by the society that keeps him/his fam wealthy. #capitalism critique??? in my shoujo sports manga???? listen i’ll go there every time baby it’s not likely it’s inevitable.)) #tags outta hand. sry

[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—

#every day I bend and reach so far to entertain my delusions #chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #mashima taichi #wataya arata #taichihayarata #sky.txt

[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.

#chihayafuru #ayase chihaya #mashima taichi #wataya arata #taichihayarata #*meta #like i think as a whole the ending really cements for me that suetsugu isn’t concerned with establishing endgames #she’s concerned with telling a story about life and how it always moves forward #and we can either fight it or we can move with it as one #you never know what will happen tomorrow. you never know whether things will stay the same or whether they’ll change #but as long as you have just one thing to which you tie your faith you can move forward in earnest #for the trio that’s karuta #as long as they have karuta they can overcome anything #like i think it’s a true mark of adulthood. to be able to have faith in each other and move separately #bc they know they’re not really separate. they’re together in heart #and the romantic ending is really really clever to me like #i think it’s perfectly emblematic of her philosophy that you can’t know who you’ll be with for the rest of your life #when you’re that young. you can’t! but it doesn’t have to be a cause for worry it’s just a fact of life #chy could stay with tc for the rest of her life. chy could break up with him and date art. chy could date someone else! we don’t know #that last conversation is just so comically perfect to me for that #we don’t know what will happen in the future and we don’t need to know #we can appreciate this moment and this place for what it is and that’s beautiful

[catboykacchan]

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? 🤨

#like to me he's bi and poly ofc because taichihayarata but that line was so repressed gay coded #chihayafuru #mashima taichi

[nuoc7mia]

congrats to suetsugu for creating the best trio in existence with chihaya, taichi, and arata

#moon talks #starting AND ending their karuta journey togehter #it genuinely is so heartwarming to see taichi so loved and cherished by them despite feeling like an observer for so long #he was a part of their process! a part of their life and being! TAICHIHAYARATA STAYS STRONG #i just realized that their names fit so well lmfaoo #but also :’))))))) i’m actually soxjajxjajdjksnxnsjdjcjjskdcnkdkskdjdjkdsksokdndncndjkdndjdkdkckckcoksnskskwnqnqnqjskkdixicignf r ewkwodicij #the way that chihaya literally inhaled the vision of taichi as a means of calming down. and they bet the entire game and their title on the #tachi card. TAICHI’S card. says so much. suetsugu is actually smthing else for this entire chapter let alone this set #series***** #genuinely gonna reread the entire series soon just to pick and a rebuild my emotions fo this v moment

[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!!

#tag game #i love things like this but tagging other people makes me anxious fdjklfs #no pressure ofc!!! only do if you want to :) #also thanks sou for reminding me to do this #i saw yours and i was like oh yeah!!!

[kitkcttt]

THE NEW RECEBT TAICHIHAYARATA ARTTTT

#chihayafuru #anime art #yuki suetsugu #taichi mashima #chihaya ayase #arata wataya

[apamates]

Getting Old: Poem Number 34

Whom, then, shall I have as someone who knows me— since even the ancient pines of Takasago are not friends from my past.

#chihayafuru #chihayafuru kami no ku #i like the crunchyroll trans. of 'what friends do i have that know my heart' but it seems like that one takes liberties to make it musical #taichihayarata #the promises they refuse to let goooo offfffffffff #that last tag can be read to the rythm of me rehuso by danny ocean #wataya arata #ayase chihaya #mashima taichi #chihayafuru live action #yuki suetsugu #suzu hirose #shuhei nomura #mackenyu #arata mackenyu #my gifs

[beldaroot]

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

#chihayafuru #cf #arataichihaya #taichihayarata #while i still have some grievances about the chapter in general.... nothing will ever beat seeing these three together :') #i ended up choosing 'se' for the caption instead of 'tachi' bc i think the symbolism of them running downstairs is like a river flowing OTL #and i also can't get over the imagery of the THREE water bottles falling even though he was holding five lol #while there is a romantic conclusion to this story... i hope people still appreciate this trio's journey and friendship; they are the heart

[nyoomzz]

taichihayarata twitter dump bc i haven't been posting here 😔😔

#chihayafuru #taichihayarata #mashima taichi #wataya arata #ayase chihaya #they invented love and romance #best conclusion to their arc ever god i hope they get to hang out like normal kids next chapter #also the ot3 template is so embarrassing #but i know im correct

[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.

#chihayafuru #wataya arata #taichihayarata #chiharata #arataichi #today is so about him!!!!!! #first chapter is chyrt focus and second chapter will be arataichi and then after that im hoping ot3 occurs in chapter 3 #but who knows this could become a mammoth i have no idea #anyways happy birthday to the most special brooding sag boy of all time #could not decide who to ship him with which is why he will be getting a gf and a bf for his birthday. hope this helps #chihayafuru fic #my fic #zoe.txt