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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
It may make you a better person, but when it comes to karuta, whatever good the story has to say about playing with people and working hard is undermined by thee fact that both the Queen and the Meijin are loners. In fact, the Meijin is a slacker who doesn't even bother with tournaments aside from defending his title.
If anything, the story so far is skewed toward talent rather than hard work. Even Arata - he doesn't have a flashy gift like Suo, but his talent has been recognized from early on. And his talent is so great - his one year blank didn't ruin him. Though he does work hard now.
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Is that what the story is saying though? As Arata told Taichi last season, there are ways to take cards faster than someone with better 'hearing' than yourself. And as Harada-sensei and Nishida's teacher point out, there are ways to shape the match in your own favour. In other words, there are other ways to win.
And the Queen has now been defeated. Even if she was slightly ill, the repeat of her defeat to Arata and the way he managed to dominate her early in the match shows that there is something that she has not realised about how he was playing her.
Lastly, so far we've only really considered talent and hard work/training. But is that all that there is to winning at karuta?
I really don't think the story is going to leave the debate about what makes someone strong as it being 'all about talent', though it's up in the air just when and what the next piece of evidence presented in the debate is.