CHIHAYAFURU Season 2: Episode 25 FULL LENGTH Reaction!
Added 2026-03-16 13:00:31 +0000 UTC
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It was a season finale for SURE! I would NOT have imagined Chihaya needing surgery, EITHER. I’m glad that it’s over after this season, though, and we were able to move forward - which is a theme of the episode! I didn’t mind the way they handled it here, because I’ve been frustrated in other sports anime where there was an injury or physical ailment that is just DRUG OUT through the series instead of handled properly and dealt with, so in THAT regard, this felt refreshing to me! Chihaya’s poems were cute and perfectly acceptable for high school, haha!! I do love Chitose’s teasing tsundere quality in this series at this point, too! Like you said, VERY sibling-coded! Arata’s attitude towards Taichi at the tournament was super adorable! OOHHHHH I am right there with you on the hanging sentences and incomplete moments - just LET THEM TALK. And yeah, you just don’t know if the moment is going to get completed or not, so it is frustrating at times! Fujisaki’s coach is so great – I love that she just invited the ENTIRE Misuzawa team to train with them - I honestly thought that was REALLY generous because I was expecting it to just be Taichi and Chihaya to be invited in the first place. Which YEAH, leads me to my frustration with Kana, too – uhm – that would help the WHOLE team out, which if Chihaya found out that you got the team (which she treasures most) to NOT go just so Taichi could fail to flirt with her? NOPE. She would be so down about that! I was really frustrated that the mangaka had Kana do that and the fact it will likely have NO repercussions? Nah. Not about that at all. Thanks for the comment!
Romaniablack
2026-03-21 13:24:53 +0000 UTCYes! By the end of the discussion, I realized that Taichi and Arata were the only two without losses, but thank you so much for explaining it here, too! And yes, very impressive for both of them!! Yeahhhhh, Taichi is just…*sighs* He is a coward and seeing him make the babiest of steps after 50 episodes is great, don’t get me wrong, but the series definitely feels like it has an agenda to get to Taichi x Chihaya end game and as an Arata x Chihaya shipper, it’s…a little disheartening to watch and know it’s down the road, especially when you don’t feel it’s earned at the moment. And yes! I would not like it if I found out that Kana and Taichi were doing all this “planning” behind the scenes instead of just coming out and saying it. *shrugs* Thanks for the comment!
Romaniablack
2026-03-21 13:16:15 +0000 UTCAhhhhh, that would explain a LOT about the pacing, so thank you for letting me know that! I wondered if Kana knew the poems were about Arata -- it's just...like I said in the discussion, kind of a weird friend move (if you're Chihaya's friend) to go behind her back and tell Taichi to try and swoop in and "steal her" and not directly talk about Chihaya and her feelings for Arata FIRST. I don't like that, personally. But I do appreciate Kana's like, "DO SOMETHING TAICHI" as I have been all season, haha! Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2026-03-21 13:12:20 +0000 UTCWell, that was a season finale, alright. I have some mixed feelings with this one. First of all, gosh, I never thought that Chihaya was going to need surgery; that was a surprise. Her little hospital stay, though, felt very much like a sidenote. I don't know, I think at this point I should just be expecting this show to speedrun through some things, but I still kinda think that if they were going to make Chihaya's hand injury more than a sprain it deserve a little more screentime, so we could see how she feels about it more, and because surgery is not an easy thing even if it's only in a few fingers. I don't know, maybe they'll touch on it a bit more on season 3, but it did feel a little rushed and out of the blue to me. I did appreciate Chihaya getting her poetic vein to shine a little, though xD Chihaya having written a couple of super silly pieces, and then a set of really beautiful poems tracks perfectly with her personality. Chitose is such a tsundere with her little sister, and I'm kinda loving it at this point. She brings the plushy for her, but gives it at the last moment as an afterthought; lends her the laptop, but cautions against ruining it... it's just funny and a nice sibling relationship. I love that Arata never doubts that Taichi won the class B tournament. Taichi hasn't said anything, but Arata just knows it. One thing that is frustrating me a little is how this mangaka loves incomplete sentences, hanging moments, and unfinished thoughts. Especially becuse nothing in their actions ever really tells me what the completion of those moments was supposed to be. Fujisaki's coach is quikly becoming one of my favorite characters. I was suprised, but oh so pleased, that she invited Misuzawa to train with Fujisaki, that'll be a lot of fun and so good for them. Which reminds me that I was frustrated at Kana for stopping the first years from going to the training, something that would benefit them greatly and is an amazing opportunity, just so that Taichi could... what? Bond with Chihaya? I mean, there still will be a lot of people there, is not like just because the first years didn't go they will suddendly be alone, so I think Kana was way off by doing that.
Alexandra Q
2026-03-18 20:33:59 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly, season 2 caught up to the Manga as it aired. I believe that's why the anime's pacing feels weird. Kana knows that Chihaya's poems aren't about Taichi. That's why she tells him to step up his game.
Will
2026-03-18 17:10:50 +0000 UTCI think what the Fujisaki coach meant, is that Taichi and Arata were the only ones who went through the entire *highschool tournament* without a loss, including both the team and individual matches. Both are impressive feats because it means Taichi won against every single person he was matched with for all the team match-ups along with winning Class B. And while Arata didn't participate in the team tournament, that doesn't make his feat less impressive because he had to beat the Queen herself to win Class A. Also, I really get your frustration with Taichi, but I just chalk all those moments up to him being a coward. I think that's one of his biggest flaws. Even when they were young, Arata called him a coward too. In real life, i would definitely prefer someone more forthcoming and straightforward with their feelings rather than someone who goes behind my back because they don't have the balls to confess, but since it's a shoujo anime we have to deal with these tropes to create more drama.
Alice
2026-03-16 17:41:28 +0000 UTC
