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There's not much to speak of in terms of analysis for this series of short web presentations. In various settings within mini-stories, the original Sohoku team go through a series of 6 common-sense rules for safe and practical cycling. It's not a bad collection of clips, featuring chibi characterisations and breaking the fourth wall, with some cute original content drawn from various parts of the series and featuring other prop and secondary characters in support. At only a minute apiece, you can't really go wrong if you're a fan of the series and just looking for a contextual breather.

So, here we are again, in the post Chihayafuru wasteland... Thankfully, this time I must qualify that there is at least a little stirring of the long (looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong) neglected sub-plots, developments, character relation and forward momentum. It's still a pretty simple formula of a high school student's journey through trials and tribulations with a passion/skill and determined goals, centred wholly around the card game, Karuta. If you find Karuta boring, then stay the sweet flying shit away from this anime; Karuta is not only the central focus (again) it's also... See full review

Story It's a pretty simple formula of a high school student's journey through trials and tribulations with a passion/skill and determined goals. Chihaya is a beautiful high school student, who is perceived to 'ruin' her beauty when she opens her mouth to speak and reveals herself to be a little less dazzlingly intelligent than her beauty might complement. Despite this, she is painted as always being up against this image - which never sat quite right with me, as her character was never particularly stupid, and I thought this consistent reinforcement cheapened her character a little, which dulled a... See full review