Episode 3 - HS




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For some reason this seems to have taken Hanasaku Iroha's place on my currently airing anime list. That means this feels like one of the best shows this season. I certainly wouldn't have expected such a thing from a show centered around an outlandish card game I'd never heard about. But the characters, mainly Chihaya, really do the trick. She's so awesome. I suppose I find her so much an opposite of my own personality that it's immensely entertaining (since this isn't an action show where it could be equally annoying). Like the scene where she just bursted through the doorway into the playing room, disturbing all the players and halting the games. Or when she honestly and without reservation told she knows hardly half of the poems but still will join the club.