After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.
広瀬すず
as Chihaya Ayase
野村周平
as Taichi Mashima
新田真剣佑
as Arata Wataya
松岡茉優
as Shinobu Wakamiya
上白石萌音
as Kanade Ooe
矢本悠馬
as Yusei Nishida
森永悠希
as Tsutomu Komano
清水尋也
as Akihito Sudo
坂口涼太郎
as Hiro Kinashi
松田美由紀
as Taeko Miyauchi
國村隼
as Hideo Harada
久家心
as Young Chihaya
