The young Chihaya Ayase once rescued her classmate Arata Wataya from his then-bully, Taichi Mashima, which became an inciting incident for her to pick up Arata’s sport, playing competitive Hyakunin Isshu Karuta, a Japanese card finding game based on the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry collection. The three separated in middle school, but in high school,…