Sarah Chihaya examines our obsession with books — why they sustain us, how they perhaps cage us, if there can be too many — ...

While Chihaya does have two main love interests featured throughout the series, the story doesn’t base the protagonist’s entire character arc around the love triangle created by Taichi and Arata.

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood ...

Critic Sarah Chihaya probes our obsession with books — why they sustain us, how they perhaps cage us, if there can be too many — in her stylish, if uneven, memoir-cum-essays, “Bibliophobia.” ...

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little.