__Height:__ 167 cm (5'6")

A determined schoolgirl who "possesses a remarkable hearing ability". She believes that by persevering in karuta, she will meet [Arata](https://anilist.co/character/47165/Wataya-Arata) again, and begins a karuta club at her high school with [Mashima](https://anilist.co/character/47167/Mashima-Taichi). While she is beautiful, she is considered too weird; her classmates refer to her as a "waste of a beauty". She has been described as a "tomboy trapped in a supermodel's body".

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. 
 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

__Height:__ 167 cm

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A Japanese voice actress. Her debut role was Yoshino Takatsuki in Hourou Musuko. She likes to draw, and she became addicted to karuta while dubbing [Chihayafuru](https://anilist.co/anime/10800).

__Non-Anime Roles:__ 
~!- Aika Tenkuubashi - Ore ga Ojou-sama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Rachirareta Ken (CD, Drama)
- Andromeda - Starly Girls -Episode Starsia- (VG)
- Ayaka Kagari - Lord of Vermilion IV (VG)
- Ayame Itou - Corpse Party 2 ~ DEAD PATIENT (CD, Drama)
- Baizhi - Wuthering Waves (VG)
- Beruno Souda - Racing Musume (VG)
- Carmen Sandiego - Carmen Sandiego (TV)
- Clarke Griffin - The 100 (TV)
- Contender - Girls' Frontline (VG)
- Diana Celestine May - Implosion: Never Lose Hope (VG)
- Eri Kumagai - Ongaku Shoujo (CD, Drama)
- EVE - Stellar Blade (VG)
- Hannah - Goosebumps (Movie)
- Hasumi Hanekawa - Blue Archive (VG)
- Isabella - Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet ONLINE FLEET (VG)
- Jessica - Granblue Fantasy (VG)
- Kana - Tales of Link (VG)
- Kujou Sara - Genshin Impact (VG)
- Lili - Street Fighter X Tekken (VG)
- Linde - Fire Emblem Heroes (VG)
- Linde - Genei Ibunroku ♯FE (VG)
- Little Alice - Wonderland Wars (VG)
- Lyfe - Snowbreak: Containment Zone (VG)
- Mai Sakurajima - Seishun Buta Yarou Series (Web)
- Meria Shiranami - Maid ga Oshieru Maou-gaku! (CD, Drama)
- Nagisa - Monster Hunter Mezeporuta Kaitakuki (VG)
- Princess Stella - Grand Sphere (VG)
- Shiranui Nanami - NORN9 Act Tune (VG)
- Shiranui Nanami - NORN9 Last Era (VG)
- Shiranui Nanami - NORN9 Var Commons (VG)
- Shiranui Nanami - NORN9" (VG)
- Sofia Tenma - Racing Musume (VG)
- Sonia Blanche - BLADE ARCUS from Shining EX (VG)
- Sonia Blanche - Shining Resonance (VG)
- Surge - E.X. Troopers (VG)
- Tiki is My Wife P - Genei Ibunroku ♯FE (VG)
- Tsukuyomi - UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late (VG)
- Urara Taguchi - Girl Friends (Drama, CD) -
- Wilbell Vollerslied - Atelier Ayesha ~Tasogare no Daichi no Renkinjutsushi~ (VG)
- Wilbell Vollerslied - Atelier Escha & Logy ~Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsuhi (VG)
- Wilbell Vollerslied - Atelier Shallie ~Tasogare no Umi no Renkinjutsuhi (VG)
- Kasane Randall - SCARLET NEXUS (VG)
- Reina - Tekken 8 (VG)
!~

Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.
 
Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don't miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Notes: 
- It won the 2nd Manga Taisho Award and the 35th annual Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shoujo. 
- It was nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016.

They may have just won their most coveted karuta tournament, but members of the Mizusawa karuta team still have a long way to go. Each member chases their dreams, and with a win under their collective belt, those dreams are closer in reach than ever. Chihaya Ayase is determined to challenge Wakamiya Shinobu and win the title of Queen, and Taichi Mashima is ready to take on Arata Wataya now that he’s made it into the most elite of karuta players — but an unexpected revelation will deal these karuta players a hand none of them saw coming. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Now in their second year of high school, Chihaya and her friends share all the fun and worries that come with welcoming underclassmen to the team as they face tough rival schools. The passion of the Mizusawa Karuta Club burns hotter than ever, but with the same refreshing, youthful mood carrying over from the first season. 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

Original episode bundled with the 22nd manga volume.

Chiyuki talks about the style of a famous person and famous anime characters. Kim Jae-Joong a member of the Korean pop group JYJ is featured in the first episode. His solo song "Ray of Light" was used as the ending theme of anime "Smile Down the Runway". 
 
Videos were posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/runway_anime" target="_blank">Runway de Waratte</a>'s official twitter.

Ritsu Nagara is a new first-year member of the Mizusawa High School karuta club. For some reason, Ritsu is aiming to win the national championship, but after Chihaya and her friends graduate, the Mizusawa Karuta Club has only one A-class player, and he has a difficult time ahead of him... The story depicts Ritsu's growth along with his eccentric friend Akino and the other members of the club who are dedicated to playing karuta. 
(Source: Natalie, translated)

The manga adapts Yui Tokiumi's spinoff novel series for Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga. 
 
The novels feature a series of stories detailing various characters' lives in middle school. (The original manga begins when they are in elementary school and skips to high school.) 
 
(Source: Anime News Network & Be-Love issue 21)

Ayase Chihaya is a cheerful tomboy without any ambitious aspirations in life. At school one day, she meets a boy named Wataya Arata who is an outcast at school. Feeling pity despite peer pressure, Chihaya befriends Arata as he reveals to her his aptitude in karuta which institutes Chihaya's dream to become a karuta queen.