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larryhammerOMGOMG! Chihayafuru!
It's a josei sports manga about uta-garuta, the memory card game based on the Hyakunin Isshu. A tournament sports manga written for younger adult women, with a protagonist who is initially a sixth-grade girl. (The opening prologue shows her six years later, and judging by series artwork there will soon be something of a timeskip to closer that age.) And the art is solidly beautiful in an understated way, in the detailed rather than sketchy sort of josei style. The scanlators do an awkward job of explaining the game, but sensibly (given game mechanics) leave the poems untranslated and eventually provide a link to this version. It is, indeed, good stuff -- award-winning, too.
The title, btw, comes from the first line of Narihira's #17 (it's a stock epithet of uncertain meaning only used to describe the gods) but also with reference to the protagonist's name Chihaya.
Unlicensed (it's so deeply Japanese culture I can't see it getting licensed, outside of in Taiwan), 6 chapters scanned, with a new group just picking it up after it'd been dropped. And I think I need to look up more of Yuki Suetsugu's back catalog.
Or in other words: OMG SQUEEEEE
---L.
It's a josei sports manga about uta-garuta, the memory card game based on the Hyakunin Isshu. A tournament sports manga written for younger adult women, with a protagonist who is initially a sixth-grade girl. (The opening prologue shows her six years later, and judging by series artwork there will soon be something of a timeskip to closer that age.) And the art is solidly beautiful in an understated way, in the detailed rather than sketchy sort of josei style. The scanlators do an awkward job of explaining the game, but sensibly (given game mechanics) leave the poems untranslated and eventually provide a link to this version. It is, indeed, good stuff -- award-winning, too.
The title, btw, comes from the first line of Narihira's #17 (it's a stock epithet of uncertain meaning only used to describe the gods) but also with reference to the protagonist's name Chihaya.
Unlicensed (it's so deeply Japanese culture I can't see it getting licensed, outside of in Taiwan), 6 chapters scanned, with a new group just picking it up after it'd been dropped. And I think I need to look up more of Yuki Suetsugu's back catalog.
Or in other words: OMG SQUEEEEE
---L.