Chihayafuru -Cycle-
Starts on July 2025 Wednesdays on 10PM
In the end, the strongest feeling was just pure happiness.
Honestly, I feel like just calling me Kana is fine.
When the evening comes, From the rice leaves at my gate,
What made you want to become a teacher in the first place?
The meaning of "dedicating yourself" means...
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
I had, of course,
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. How did you feel when you found out you were going to appear?
I had been watching the movies for a long time.
So when I heard the news, I was really happy.
The main thing was an overwhelming sense of joy,
but at the same time, I also felt a bit anxious.
After all, everyone had built up
this amazing world of Chihayafuru in the films,
and whether I could carry that forward properly,
I was honestly very nervous.
But still, happiness was the biggest emotion for me.
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. Who were the first people who told about it?
The first people I told were my family.
Since we had watched the movies together,
they were like, "Oh, really?!"
they were really thrilled about it.
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. How did you feel when you found out you were going to appear?
I felt the joy of being able to return to that world again,
along with the sense of duty that I needed to properly pass the baton,
and feelings of responsibility and anxiety sprang up at the same time.
With my heart pounding,
I waited for the day filming would start.
But now, I'm really
having a great time. Even though there's still tension every day,
we're all filming together happily and getting along well.
Q. Is this your first time acting together?
It's the first time.
I had seen her in the movies,
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. Tell us about your experience first time acting together
and while watching the movies,
I was totally just calling her Kana in my mind,
but once we got on set, I had to call her Ms. Oe,
and honestly, it still feels a little weird.
I'm acting while carrying that strange feeling around.
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. Tell us about your experience first time acting together
Being called Ms. Kanade or Ms. Oe,
I'm also not at all used to it at all.
I keep thinking, "You can just call me Kana, you know."
But everyone calls me as their teacher anyway.
I also devoted my teenage years to competitive karuta.
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. Tell us about the character you play
The character I play, Meguru Aizawa,
is basically a ghost member of the karuta club,
and she's the type who doesn't like
wasting time on useless things.
She's a very efficiency-oriented girl.
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. Tell us about the character you play
Ten years after the first movie,
Kana, at a school called Umezono High,
becomes a classical literature teacher
and ends up supervising the karuta club.
As the advisor, she watches the students sweat it out playing karuta,
and seeing all the high schoolers like that,
and I feel like I'm sitting in the best seat,
watching "Chihayafuru" unfold every day.
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. What was the most memorable scene you performed together?
There's a scene where Ms. Oe and I talk in the nurse's office
really stuck with me.
The Meguru I play
isn't the type to open up honestly, even to family or friends.
She's a girl who keeps things bottled up.
But there's one scene where Meguru actually speaks from the heart,
and from there,
an important turning point to the story that connects to later scenes.
That day of filming left a strong impression on me.
What do you think you have to do?
And what do you have to accomplish to become like that?
I was actually going to say exactly the same thing.
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. What was the most memorable scene you performed together?
Ami's acting back then
was truly amazing. I was so moved
and gained so much from it.
Doing that scene in the nurse's office
made me feel like I finally understood what I want to express now in this drama.
I still remember how deeply it shook my heart.
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. When have you felt most like you were living your youth?
Back in middle school, it just so happened to overlap with the pandemic,
when I couldn't really meet up with friends.
So being totally absorbed in something,
or making those classic youthful memories,
are something I didn't have much of.
But right now, I truly feel like I'm living my youth as I get absorbed on something
and it's happening through this filming.
We've been filming for a little over a month now, and everyone's gotten really close.
Lately, we're totally into taking photos of each other.
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. When have you felt most like you were living your youth?
Back in middle school, I was temporarily pulled into the track team once.
I actually ran in a competition that time.
And during that period, we had this super hardcore, Spartan-like coach, that pushed my limits.
I practically coughed up blood during practice.
Those few months were the very essence of my youth.
The only real memories of my youth are that
and the karuta club in the Chihayafuru movies.
©2018 "Chihayafuru" Film Production Committee ©Yuki Suetsugu/Kodansha
For me, they are really
precious treasures to me.
Seeing everyone shining and having fun now
makes me really happy.
They're my treasures.
Whenever I see an article about our (Umezono High) karuta club members,
Kanade Oe Mone Kamishiraishi
Q. What's something you're into lately?
I always end up reading it.
Like, "Ooh, let's see, let's see..."
Like, "Hey, there's Ami giving a stage greeting!"
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. What's something you're into lately?
I've totally become a fan of everyone that whenever I see their names online,
I can't help but click right away.
Meguru Aizawa Ami Touma
Q. What's something you're into lately?
Though it's not news about them,
but the movies they are in,
like Ms. Kamishiraishi's "35-Year Love Letter",
and all the other films everyone else has been appearing in.
You make time to go see each other's films.
That's what I've been doing.
Together with the original author, Ms. Yuki Suetsugu, we're weaving a brand-new original story.
Chihayafuru -Meguri- (2025) JDrama Special Interview unofficial fan English subtitles: v2025.04.28
A new generation of Reiwa-era high schoolers takes up the baton
If you find our translations useful to enjoy the title, kindly consider supporting us through: https://patreon.com/tl_skeweds/ | https://ko-fi.com/tlskeweds
putting their whole youthful spirits into the game of competitive karuta.
These English subtitles are free (as in freedom and not for profit) translations from Skeweds Translations.
tl.skeweds.com | Translator – yakujutsu | Timer – timang | Typesetter – zeldAIS | QC – kalidad
The new drama "Chihayafuru -Cycle-"
TL-Skeweds' translations may contain errors. If you find any, please point them out as specifically as possible and suggest how to improve them through our email (tl.skeweds@gmail.com). There may be improved translations in the future.
starts this July.
You may use our translations freely, but do not exploit us for our releases and the original media that was translated. We also allow others to make variations (fork) under the same conditions.
Please look forward to it!
Please support the official releases of the title. All rights belong to the production company. These are unofficial fan translations.