FAQ

The free trial period is for a month.

There are four things you can do with the free trial:

• Card registration
• Play alone
• Participate/play in invited multiplayer matches
• Violation report

The following two services are offered in the free trial:

• User account: 1
• One set of Karuta you want to create (this is free)
  *Enjoy creating your own cards.

Here’s what you need for your free trial:

• Karuta data to register
  • Illustration or photo
  • Text
  • Audio

The website to apply for a paid plan is here.

Select “Plans” from the top right menu. 

The free trial does not automatically switch to a paid plan.

Please be sure to manually change it. 

If you apply for a paid plan after the trial, you will be able to use the cards you registered during the trial.

The reason why you can’t login after applying for a paid plan after the trial may be that your payment has not yet been confirmed.

Once your payment has been confirmed, you will be able to login. 

Even though you have registered your email address, the reason you may not login is that the email address of the ‘business operator’ and the ‘facilitator’ may be the same.

The same e-mail address cannot be registered. Use different email addresses for different functionalities.

If you forget whether you logged in as a “user” or a “facilitator”, please check the “Profile”.

• The password users the hash mathod “SHA256”.
• When applying for a user, there is a step of e-mail authentication, so that user can be confirmed firmly.
• Since KARRUTAP is a web application, there is no problem if your browser and computer are equipped with virus protection.
• We have an SSL certificate created by a publicly trusted certificate authority.

Some users don’t see Karuta because the facilitator hasn’t ‘invited’ the user.

To invite users:

• login with facilitator privileges.
• After selecting any karuta, Invite the users.
• “Add” any user and click “confirm”

【Reference】

• Facilitator Manual P11～P14（PDF file）
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When you create a karuta, the facilitator will be notified.

The karuta will not be displayed unless the facilitator confirms whether the karuta created is in line with the theme and “accepts” it.

Please wait for the facilitator to confirm.

【reference】

• User Manual P12/13（PDF file）
• Facilitator Manual　P15-P17（PDF file）
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The registered image is distorted because the original image is landscape.

KARUTAP displays images vertically. As a result, landscape images will appear distorted. 

Images are best displayed when the aspect ratio is 3:2.

There won’t be any problem even if you register “Voice” longer than “Text”. The registered voice will be read aloud as it is.

The standard audio recording time is about 30 seconds.

If it is longer than that, you may be unable to register with KARUTAP. 

The number of cards can be changed with facilitator authority, and there is no upper limit.

However, KARUTAP is designed to compete for the time it takes to collect all the torifuda,
so if you increase the number of cards too much, it will take a long time to play karuta.

Please take this into consideration when setting the number of cards.

For reference, when we held the “Hyakunin issyu Tournament”, it took an average of 15 o5 20 minutes for all the participants to finish collecting all the cards.

• Rights related to copyrighted works (including, but not limited to, text, images, sounds, videos and other data) of user’s karuta and cards registered in KARUTAP (rights stipulated in Articles 27 and 28 of the Copyright Act) ) belong to the administrator.
• Registered facilitators and users must not exercise moral rights.
• The administrator may request the Company to modify the contents of Karuta and cards (including but not limited to images, sounds, videos, and other data) to the extent necessary to prevent any hindrance to the use of KARUTAP. Please accept my permission.
• Regarding the texts registered in Karuta, please allow only duplication or adaptation. In this case, the administrator shall not exercise the author’s moral rights against the Company, except for the rights stipulated in Article 20, Paragraph 1 of the Copyright Law regarding the Karuta text.

If you register with KARUTAP and play with your friends without a usage fee, the following will not constitute copyright infringement.

• When registering your own drawing in KARUTAP by imitating anime or manga
• When you take a picture of a character card (such as a Pokemon card) and register it in KARUTAP to play
• If you take a picture of the character figure you purchased and register it in KARUTAP

If you record anime lines in your own voice as ‘sound/voice’ in KARUTAP, it may be judged as follows.

• Possibility of not falling under copyright infringement
  • For short lines
  • In case of dialogues without originality
• Possibility of copyright infringement
  • In case, the lines used will help guess the story etc.
  • In the case of unique lines such as ines an anime is known for

It is difficult to determine the degree of copyright infringement, so please be careful whie working on these sets.

If you use the sound /voice (voice actor’s voice) of animation or movie, it corresponds to copyright infringement.