Now that we finally have all five members for Chihaya's karuta club, it's only natural that we'll start to focus on their training for tournaments. While I was expecting them to really start teaching Kanade and Komano the ropes in terms of playing karuta, I wasn't expecting the last half of the episode at all. Taichi, you really got one over on me! Anywho, the episode starts off with Chihaya and the other members appealing to the teacher who hates Chihaya (or at least is incredibly stern with her) to allow them to become an official club. She finally agrees, but tells them to make someone other than Chihaya president of the club. While offended at first, Chihaya takes it in stride and declares herself captain for all intense and purposes. They then head back to the club room and Kanade starts going through their budget and figuring out what they'll need to buy in terms of supplies. She's disheartened to find that after purchasing the karuta decks, their 3,000 Yen budget will be pretty much spent. Taichi then starts telling people who they'll practice against and that they have to have Chihaya do a special kind of training since she's Class A. Kanade asks if being Class A is really all that special and both Taichi and Nishima explain to her that being Class A means you've won at least two national tournaments. Kanade and Komano seem awed at this information and are shocked to find that both Taichi and Nishima are Class B players. Chihaya suddenly bursts into the room and informs everyone that she wants to play against Kanade and that Nishima should play against Komano. Taichi objects at first, saying that there's no reason to pit beginners against her, but Chihaya tells him that as captain, she gets more say that he does. The other four group members relent and the matches start.
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