 If you liked
Chihayafuru
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 ...then you might like
Kono Oto Tomare!
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Chihayafuru and Kono Oto Tomare! each involve a club for a niche Japanese competitive activity/sport. There is a similar feel to the storytelling revolving around the clubs for karuta (traditional Japanese card game) and the koto (traditional Japanese stringed instrument). The clubs in both have male and female members, with friendship and teamwork playing a big part as they strive together to improve and hope to reach the nationals. In Chihayafuru, Chihaya decides to become the Queen of karuta (top female karuta player), after witnessing her friend's passion for the game. Similarly in Kono Oto Tomare!, Chika finds out he wants
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If you like Chihayafuru I think you will like Kono Oto Tomare!. If you are interested learning about traditional Japanese culture in manga, these mangas feature a club dedicated to that. In Chihayafuru, we have a girl starting a club dedicated to a traditional Japanese game- karuta - while in Kono Oto Tomare! we have a boy continuing a club in danger of disbanding for the playing of a traditional Japanese musical instrument - the koto. They have to go through trials to run clubs that are not popular and don't have a lot
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Crafted by motivation and involving a group of young people, Kono Oto Tomare! and Chihayafuru builds on the foundation of fulfilling a dream. Both series adapts a setting where we have a club and the members in them has a passion for a certain hobby. While they contrast in adapting the same hobby, their motivations are what keeps them going. The main characters from both series is dedicated and tries their best to bring together people in their club. While they start off as newbies, they develop over time through skill and experience. Both series learns to adapt with their style especially when it comes
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I think both are similar.Both are about forgotten forms of art (Karuta in Chihayafuru and Koto in Kono Oto Tomare!) and both are about people who still have passion for that art. Both have interesting and deep characters.Both are the kind that look average before you actually read them, and when you do, you are pleasantly surprised by how interesting the manga is. and you end up liking it very much! If you like one, you will most likely like the other.
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Recommended by TRC-PH-Lover
Both deals with fields that are not highly recognized by common people, i.e. karuta game for chihayafuru and koto instrument for kono oto tomare. Both have characters that try to reestablish their clubs.
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Recommended by GreenCotton
Because both centers about friendships, realationship and it is about their club which isnt popular.
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Recommended by Marija-Chan