They are both high school sports shows focusing on both personal and team growth. The sports introduced in both shows are traditional and recreational for the most parts, and their competitive nature isn't popular with the general public.

The Chihayafuru series has 3 (+1 summary) movies, unlike Asahinagu's 1. This allows for Chihayafuru to cover more character depth and growth, which is fortunate.

If you feel Asahinagu was fun to watch, I'm certain that you'd find the Chihayafuru series just as exhilarating, if not more!

(Plus cute girls looking fierce, what more do you need ^^)
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Kiriyama Rei is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in a traffic accident when he was little. One day, Kiriyama Rei meets three sisters who are his neighbours. The three sisters are Kawamoto Akari, Kawamoto Hinata and Kawamoto Momo. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Kiriyama Rei. As Kiriyama Rei continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbours allow him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.
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Both movies revolve around friendship, parting and reuniting through common passion.
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The genre type is different I believe, but the same strong underlying friendship focus places these two as similar and the top of my list.
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Yuki Rio, the daughter of an old, prestigious family in Kyoto with over 1,000 years of history, enters into an arranged marriage at the age of 16 with a man she’s never met. Her husband is Takamine Masatomo, a handsome CEO in the IT industry. Every year on her birthday, she would receive 50 million yen, making their relationship one based solely on money. One day, after ten years had passed with no contact, Rio decided to move to Tokyo. She asks her husband, whom she’s meeting for the first time, for a divorce. On the other hand, Takamine finds himself unexpectedly attracted to Rio and doesn’t want a divorce. Thus begins a romantic battle between a wife who wants a divorce and a husband who refuses to let her go.
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