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karice67 · 2012-04-30, 04:15

#93 is quite 'heavy' in terms of events, so I only have time to make a quick summary based on one of the blogs (other one hasn't written their entry yet):

Spoiler for chapter #93:

Chihaya's surgery is successful.

When the other members visit her, Chihaya asks them to look at her summer homework, one of which involved writing some tanka poems (i.e. poems like those in the hyakunin isshu). Chihaya wrote 4 poems, two of which are based on poems from the hyakunin isshu, and two of which allude to her feelings for Arata. Kana-chan seems to realise this.

Chihaya then calls Sakurazawa-sensei to thank her for the video of Arata and Shinobu's match, and also asks for her opinion about them. Sakurazawa-sensei says that Arata's way of playing shows a balance in the way he uses both left and right hemispheres of his brain. He doesn't have Chihaya or Suou's level of hearing (感じ), but he can hear the 'half-tones'. i.e. take "ura" and "uka" - Arata doesn't have to hear both syllables to distinguish between them, he is able to react merely from hearing the consonants (k or r) at the start of the second syllable. As for his memory...the way its described seems to suggest that he has a photographic memory... Moving on to Shinobu: Sakurazawa-sensei seems to suggest that one of the reasons Shinobu seems like she's so well connected to the cards is because she has great confidence in the way she plays.

Sakurazawa-sensei then invites the Mizusawa club to a camp with Fujisaki (and several other schools) - hosted by Fujisaki. Chihaya is excited about going with everyone...but Kana-chan tells Taichi that she will "do something about the first years, so please go to Shizuoka with Chihaya-chan, just the two of you".

The camp is quite intense, filled not only with matches, but also running and stretching exercises. She also tells all the attendants to find their greatest contradiction in karuta (which is a sport of contradictions - e.g. if one tries speed up, faults tend to increase and one falls behind the opponent instead).

Sakurazawa-sensei never became Queen, but she was the challenger five times - 'the strongest challenger'.

Er...'love stories' also form a significant part of the camp in terms of the number of 'couples' focused on...but I'll leave that for now.

Taichi goes off to learn some stretching exercises from the new Fujisaki club captain. Chihaya spots them, and seeing that, Hyoro-kun (Retro) tells her that she'd better watch out for Taichi too (as a rival). Chihaya responds with "what are you talking about - I always beat Taichi". But Hyoro notes that that's only during practice matches, and that he thinks that Taichi is stronger when she's not around. (Note also that Taichi won all seven of his matches at the camp.)

The chapter finishes with Chihaya narrating that "It looks like I still don't know anything at all, even about Taichi".

oops...that was longer than I'd expected...

Spoiler for short comments:

2012-04-30, 04:15	Link #98
karice67 さっく♥ゆうきゃん♥ほそやん Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in the land down under...	#93 is quite 'heavy' in terms of events, so I only have time to make a quick summary based on one of the blogs (other one hasn't written their entry yet): Spoiler for chapter #93: Chihaya's surgery is successful. When the other members visit her, Chihaya asks them to look at her summer homework, one of which involved writing some tanka poems (i.e. poems like those in the hyakunin isshu). Chihaya wrote 4 poems, two of which are based on poems from the hyakunin isshu, and two of which allude to her feelings for Arata. Kana-chan seems to realise this. Chihaya then calls Sakurazawa-sensei to thank her for the video of Arata and Shinobu's match, and also asks for her opinion about them. Sakurazawa-sensei says that Arata's way of playing shows a balance in the way he uses both left and right hemispheres of his brain. He doesn't have Chihaya or Suou's level of hearing (感じ), but he can hear the 'half-tones'. i.e. take "ura" and "uka" - Arata doesn't have to hear both syllables to distinguish between them, he is able to react merely from hearing the consonants (k or r) at the start of the second syllable. As for his memory...the way its described seems to suggest that he has a photographic memory... Moving on to Shinobu: Sakurazawa-sensei seems to suggest that one of the reasons Shinobu seems like she's so well connected to the cards is because she has great confidence in the way she plays. Sakurazawa-sensei then invites the Mizusawa club to a camp with Fujisaki (and several other schools) - hosted by Fujisaki. Chihaya is excited about going with everyone...but Kana-chan tells Taichi that she will "do something about the first years, so please go to Shizuoka with Chihaya-chan, just the two of you". The camp is quite intense, filled not only with matches, but also running and stretching exercises. She also tells all the attendants to find their greatest contradiction in karuta (which is a sport of contradictions - e.g. if one tries speed up, faults tend to increase and one falls behind the opponent instead). Sakurazawa-sensei never became Queen, but she was the challenger five times - 'the strongest challenger'. Er...'love stories' also form a significant part of the camp in terms of the number of 'couples' focused on...but I'll leave that for now. Taichi goes off to learn some stretching exercises from the new Fujisaki club captain. Chihaya spots them, and seeing that, Hyoro-kun (Retro) tells her that she'd better watch out for Taichi too (as a rival). Chihaya responds with "what are you talking about - I always beat Taichi". But Hyoro notes that that's only during practice matches, and that he thinks that Taichi is stronger when she's not around. (Note also that Taichi won all seven of his matches at the camp.) The chapter finishes with Chihaya narrating that "It looks like I still don't know anything at all, even about Taichi". oops...that was longer than I'd expected... Spoiler for short comments: ah...so Kana-chan hadn't realised before? Hm... more importantly though...what Kana-chan did in this chapter - and the fact that Taichi accepted it, even though he should really be thinking about what benefits the team because he is their president - leaves me with incredibly mixed feelings... edit: I think I'll need the other blogger's summary before I can comment on the 'love stories'. The blogger I've taken the above from tends to focus on the karuta parts of the manga, whilst the other one tends to write a bit more about all other aspects of the manga. __________________ *How Suetsugu Yuki drew the cover for Chihayafuru* volume 34** Interview translations etc You must free yourself from that illusion, from the illusion that a story must have a beginning and an end. "No, you are not entitled to your opinion... You are only entitled to what you can argue for.” - Patrick Stokes Last edited by karice67; 2012-04-30 at 06:54.