6th-year grade-schooler Ayase Chihaya's dream is for her sister to be Japan's top model. However, transfer student Wataya Arata admonishes her that a dream must be about one's own self. Thus, she takes up karuta, a Japanese card game, competitively. Together with Arata and Mashima Taichi, Chihaya's childhood friend, they have great fun playing each other, but separate after graduation.
4 years later, Chihaya returns to town. Although Arata no longer plays the game, she believes that they will eventually reunite as long as she continues karuta. Together with Taichi, she establishes the Mizusawa High-school Karuta Club.
 | Season 1 Episode 1 Now the Flower Blooms Air Date: 2011-10-05 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 2 A Bright Crimson Air Date: 2011-10-12 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 3 From the Crystal White Snow Air Date: 2011-10-19 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 4 A Whirlwind of Flower Petals Descends Air Date: 2011-10-26 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 5 The Sight of a Midnight Moon Air Date: 2011-11-02 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 6 Now Bloom Inside the Ninefold Palace Air Date: 2011-11-09 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 7 But for Autumn's Coming Air Date: 2011-11-16 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 8 The Sounds of the Waterfall Air Date: 2011-11-23 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 9 But I Cannot Hide Air Date: 2011-11-30 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 10 Over Parting Ways Air Date: 2011-12-07 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 11 The Winds of Heaven Air Date: 2011-12-14 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 12 Set These Forbidden Fields Aglow Air Date: 2011-12-21 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 13 For You, I Head Out Air Date: 2012-01-04 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 14 For There Is No One Else Out There Air Date: 2012-01-11 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 15 As Though Pearls Have Been Strung Across the Autumn Plain Air Date: 2012-01-18 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 16 The Autumn Leaves of Mount Ogura Air Date: 2012-01-25 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 17 World Offers No Escape Air Date: 2012-02-01 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 18 The Plum Blossoms Still Smell the Same Air Date: 2012-02-08 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 19 As The Years Pass Air Date: 2012-02-15 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 20 The Cresting Waves Almost Look Like Clouds in the Skies Air Date: 2012-02-22 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 21 While Snow Falls Upon My Sleeves Air Date: 2012-02-29 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 22 Just As My Beauty Has Faded Air Date: 2012-03-07 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 23 The Night Is Nearly Past Air Date: 2012-03-14 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 24 Nobody Wishes to See the Beautiful Cherry Blossoms Air Date: 2012-03-21 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 1 Episode 25 Moonlight, Clear and Bright Air Date: 2012-03-28 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 1 The Flower's Colors Have Faded Air Date: 2013-01-12 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 2 Though, Indeed, I Love Air Date: 2013-01-19 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 3 From Tsukaba's Peak Air Date: 2013-01-26 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 4 I Set Forth to Proclaim My World's Journey Air Date: 2013-02-02 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 5 More Than Even the Clinging Vines Hanging Beneath Ancient Eaves Air Date: 2013-02-09 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 6 Turn Tatsuta River Into a Colorful Brocade Air Date: 2013-02-16 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 7 They All Exchange Hellos and Goodbyes at the Famous Gates of Afusaka Air Date: 2013-02-23 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 8 Which Shines Over Mount Mikasa Air Date: 2013-03-02 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 9 My Only Thought Air Date: 2013-03-09 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 10 The Drops From a Light Shower Air Date: 2013-03-16 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 11 The Love I Feel Burns Like Ibuki's Mugwort Air Date: 2013-03-23 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 12 The Only Sign of Summer Air Date: 2013-03-30 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 13 In My Dreams, I Creep Closer to You Air Date: 2013-04-06 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 14 So Much That He Asks If Something Is Bothering Me Air Date: 2013-04-13 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 15 When I Take the Path Air Date: 2013-04-20 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 16 Wait for the Emperor's Return Air Date: 2013-04-27 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 17 It Drives the Grass Air Date: 2013-05-04 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 18 My Fear is That You Will Forget Air Date: 2013-05-11 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 19 I Do Not Know Where This Love Will Take Me Air Date: 2013-05-18 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 20 The Fall Paddy Shacks Air Date: 2013-05-25 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 21 Yet, in Name It Ever Flows, And in Fame May Yet Be Heard Air Date: 2013-06-01 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 22 Meeting on the Path Air Date: 2013-06-08 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 23 Cherry Blossoms Bloom on the Slope Below the Peak Air Date: 2013-06-15 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 24 How Can I Tell Her Air Date: 2013-06-22 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 2 Episode 25 I Can Look up and See the Snowy Cap of Mt. Fuji Air Date: 2013-06-29 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 1 May it be that I find Air Date: 2019-10-22 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 2 The hazed early dawn light comes not from the moon Air Date: 2019-10-29 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 3 But from the crystal white snow of Yoshino Air Date: 2019-10-29 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 4 Nobody wishes to see Air Date: 2019-11-05 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 5 Mount Amanokagu Air Date: 2019-11-05 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 6 Tatsuta River Ablaze Air Date: 2019-11-12 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 7 The Storm Blasts Air Date: 2019-11-19 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 8 As friends and strangers Air Date: 2019-11-26 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 9 I recall how my own efforts were in vain Air Date: 2019-12-03 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 10 Scarlet kadsuras Air Date: 2019-12-10 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 11 Leaving a Hovering Mist Above the Trees and Grass Air Date: 2019-12-17 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 12 So the Flower Petals are Scattered Like the Snow by the Passing Storm Air Date: 2019-12-24 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 13 Yet it is I who withers and wilts Air Date: 2020-01-07 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 14 The emotions experienced Air Date: 2020-01-14 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 15 As helpless autumn leaves are caught against the flow Air Date: 2020-01-21 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 16 Takes me away in haste Air Date: 2020-01-28 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 17 As my sleeves are wet with dew Air Date: 2020-02-04 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 18 The storm will soon carry me Air Date: 2020-02-11 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 19 Bring a life of everlasting love Air Date: 2020-02-18 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 20 May the scarlet kadsuras Air Date: 2020-02-25 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 21 To restore my faith Air Date: 2020-03-03 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 22 Just as my beauty has faded Air Date: 2020-03-10 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 23 Like a boatsman adrift Air Date: 2020-03-17 Duration: 30 min |
 | Season 3 Episode 24 When winds send waves crashing Air Date: 2020-03-24 Duration: 30 min |
| Writing | Yuuko Kakihara | Series Composition |
| Visual Effects | Kunihiko Hamada | Character Designer |
| Directing | Morio Asaka | Director |
| Sound | Kōsuke Yamashita | Music |
