Chihayafuru

The official website for Japanese TV station Nippon TV announced today that Chihayafuru - Meguri -, a new original live-action drama inspired by Yuki Suetsugu's karuta-themed manga Chihayafuru, will begin airing in July 2025.The manga's original series, Chihayafuru, ran in Kodansha's monthly manga magazine BE LOVE from December 2007 to August 2022, printing over 29 million copies with a total of 50 tankobon volumes. The upcoming drama tells a sequel story to the three-part live-action film series in 2016-2018 starring Suzu Hirose as the protagonist Chihaya Ayase, not based on the ongoing manga sequel, Chihahafuru plus Kimigatame.The story of the drama is set ten years after the film series. Suetsugu, the original manga author, also participated from the stage of constructing the plot of the script.