Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~23 min/episode
- Length
- 3 seasons · 74 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.
- competition
- card game
- strong woman
- training
- high school
- growing up
- romance
- slice of life
- unrequited love
- coming of age
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Hiroki Touchi
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Satsuki Yukino
- Aya Hisakawa
- Takashi Oohara
- Mihoko Nakamichi
- Kazuya Nakai
- Daisuke Sakaguchi
- Mitsuki Saiga
- Houko Kuwashima
- Yoshiyuki Nishida
- Directed
- Yusuke Onoda, Atsuko Ishizuka, Mitsuhiro Yoneda, Yukihiko Asaki, Masaki Matsumura, Akiko Nakano & 33 more
- Written
- Naoya Takayama, Satoshi Suzuki, Akemi Moriyama, Ayako Kato, Sumino Kawashima, Yuko Kakihara & 2 more
Production
- Network & studio
- Nippon TV, Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
