Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen

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English: Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Synonyms: Kaguya Wants to be Confessed To: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains

Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Jan 12, 2019 to Mar 30, 2019

Premiered: Winter 2019

Broadcast: Saturdays at 23:30 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Magic Capsule, Shueisha, East Japan Marketing & Communications

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.36¹ (scored by 49,715 users)

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Ranked: #199²

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Popularity: #412

Members: 216,662

Favorites: 2,344

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At the renowned Shuchiin Academy, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya are the student body's top representatives. Ranked the top student in the nation and respected by peers and mentors alike, Miyuki serves as the student council president. Alongside him, the vice president Kaguya—eldest daughter of the wealthy Shinomiya family—excels in every field imaginable. They are the envy of the entire student body, regarded as the perfect couple.

However, despite both having already developed feelings for the other, neither are willing to admit them. The first to confess loses, will be looked down upon, and will be considered the lesser. With their honor and pride at stake, Miyuki and Kaguya are both equally determined to be the one to emerge victorious on the battlefield of love!

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Characters & Voice Actors

Fujiwara, Chika

Main

Kohara, Konomi
Japanese

Shinomiya, Kaguya

Main

Koga, Aoi
Japanese

Ishigami, Yuu

Main

Suzuki, Ryouta
Japanese

Shirogane, Miyuki

Main

Furukawa, Makoto
Japanese

Hayasaka, Ai

Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri
Japanese

Shirogane, Kei

Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka
Japanese

Shirogane no Chichi

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Kashiwagi, Nagisa

Supporting

Asakura, Momo
Japanese

Tsubasa

Supporting

Yashiro, Taku
Japanese

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Omata, Shinichi

Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin

Sound Director

Utsunomiya, Masamitsu

Episode Director

Sugawara, Yukie

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"Love Dramatic feat. Rikka Ihara (ラブ・ドラマティック feat.伊原六花)" by Masayuki Suzuki (鈴木雅之)

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"Sentimental Crisis (センチメンタルクライシス)" by halca

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Feb 2, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Karhu (All reviews)

409 people found this review helpful

Considering the circumstances that have lead us to these conditions, I conclude the state we're currently facing is refreshingly cuddly in a soothing manner.

I.e. How cute.

I don't really like A-1, but this time they are doing pretty darn impressive job. Even the character design which A-1 fucks up approximately 100% of the time is quality here. Unbelievable. Sure the stares and GAZES could deliver more, and the how cute moments can only be so cute, but otherwise this is a ridiculously high quality adaptation which success was unpredictable.

The first and last thing that stands out here is the directing. Those who have seen basically any anime at all will immediately recognize that this style is close to SHAFT's Shinbou Akiyuki, who is known as the nro. 1 anime director in the world pretty much. The director of Kaguya seems to be his old underling/coworker and, needless to say, he has learnt a great deal from the master himself. However -- unlike Tomohiro, who is the underling of the other big anime director (2nd biggest if you will), Ikuhara Kunihiko -- Kaguya's directing is much closer to its director's very own innovation, and to say that this is just a copy-paste would be a blind insult. This man has vision and style and doesn't seem to be afraid of anything. This is creativity and detail at its finest. It's rare to see modern anime even try and even more so: to success at anything new, but what our director, Shinichi Omata is doing here is nothing less than impressive. It's damn fresh to be accurate. Fully approved.

Now that this nerd stuff out of the way, the content:

'Love is War' is a rom-com series aimed for mature audience. It centers around 2 main leads and few other leads who are kinda as important as the other two but also practically in the side roles. Our main 'couple' are Shirogane and Kaguya who have made the concept of 'love' their battlefield. In this battle they are quite literally trying to outwit each others with the power of psychology, logic and pure rhetoric. Why do this, then? Because they both share this fundamental idea that love is weakness of the mind and confessing it an act so against ones pride that doing so makes them.. losers. So, what they are doing instead is try and make the other one confess first. Hence the battlefield.

The series heavily relies on both: interactions between characters and silent monologue that plays inside the heads of our different POV's. The catch being how different the characters are inside their own head and how they appear to others in real life. They have lots of personality and can show different sides of it. Perhaps my favorite part of all of it are the "war planning" and also how overly dramatic Kaguya often is. To say few words about the other cast members, Fujiwara is criminally cute and the rest are pretty much weirdos.

There is one entity in the series that is highly important to the overall execution and that's the narrator. He appears to add lots of missing links and initial reasoning for the characters' thoughts, actions, and real purpose among other things. It balances out the comedy and "plot side" of the series as well as simply makes the overall narrative work/more solid.

As of currently, I'm extremely happy with this show. There are no major issues, only few small things that are questionable but also necessary to make the series' core idea hold water. As far as rom-coms go, this is already among the better things anime has to offer. Also +1 for Fujwara's dance scene which animation budget is higher than the entire season of Date A Live III's cashmoney.

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Feb 2, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Quantum-Arc (All reviews)

231 people found this review helpful

A masterpiece that evokes every emotion I want to feel from a Romantic comedy.
President Miyuki and Vice President Kaguya are in love with each other, but both view themselves as the ultimate object of desire, and thus see no reason to confess, in fact when you are as perfect as they are shouldn’t it be the duty of other people to aspire towards you? However, this is quickly revealed to be a front used by two egotistical Teenagers who can’t quite work up the courage to ask out their crush. What follows from this is a sequence of over thought-out plans in order to force read more

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Feb 2, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Hexasexual (All reviews)

139 people found this review helpful

Disclaimer: This is a more critical view of Kaguya sama than something commented just on pure enjoyment overrall.
Kaguya sama is one of the newest and most popular comedy animes in the current times, be it due to simple jokes being shared or the dance in the ending that literally everyone decided to talk about, however, the overall quality of the anime itself should'nt be ignored because like everything else, it has it's flaws.
First of all, the anime is extremely episodic almost to the point of being predictable, it sticks to it's formula and never decides to change or take absolute advantage of being formulaic which read more

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Feb 2, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Krunchyman (All reviews)

55 people found this review helpful

“Wieners sliced to look like an octopus! They really exist! I want to try one…” — Kaguya Shinomiya

“Ohh, gawd. Did I accidentally stumble upon Shokushu Goukan….(again)?!” — Krunchyman

Overt references to tentacle erotica aside, Kaguya-sama: Love is War is an anime about two people — Kaguya and Miyuki — who secretly love each other, but are unwilling to confess their affections in fear that the other person will gain the upper hand. This, invariably, commences a series of events in which Kaguya and Miyuki attempt to psychologically outmaneuver one another, generating a conglomerate of awkward/comedic circumstances. Whether or not these ventures read more

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