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


Kaguya-sama: Love is War

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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~
English: Kaguya-sama: Love is War
German: Kauya-sama: Love Is War
Spanish: Kaguya-sama: Love is War
French: Kaguya-sama: Love is War
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 12, 2019 to Mar 30, 2019
Premiered: Winter 2019
Broadcast: Saturdays at 23:30 (JST)
Licensors: Aniplex of America
Studios: A-1 Pictures
Source: Manga
Genres: ComedyComedy, RomanceRomance
Theme: SchoolSchool
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.401 (scored by 11614931,161,493 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #2002
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #51
Members: 1,852,099
Favorites: 41,316

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Synopsis

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


Staff

Nakashima, Naoto
Producer
Hatakeyama, Mamoru
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard


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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) (eps 1-12)
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Ending Theme

1: "Sentimental Crisis (センチメンタルクライシス) " by halca (eps 1-2,4-12)
2: "Chikatto Chika Chika♡ (チカっとチカ千花っ♡)" by Chika Fujiwara (Konomi Kohara (eps 3)

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Reviews

May 21, 2025
This thing is just hilarious, that I can assure. The anime is the episodic type: inside one episode, there are "sub-episodes", each one corresponding to a "battle", usually between the main couple. The MCs internal dialogues is hilarious, that kind of overthinking and scheming that's so absurd it gets laughable. It can remind Kakegurui, but like funny and PG-13. Romance stories that are kept alive by miscommunication only is usually frustrating, but this one somehow excels at it, probably because the characters have very exaggerated traits. The only bad part is towards the ends, around episode 10, that it gets sad and static, but that ...
Mar 19, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Honestly, it was okay. I finished the series thinking we would finally get somewhere with this relationship but every episode was basically the same.

The childish way they looked at loving someone as a weakness annoyed me alot because anyone who has truly experienced love knows it's not a weakness. I know they eventually kinda realize this but it took forever.

I agree it was funny,but in no way did it deserve all the hype it recieved. Overall average. Beautiful animation and voice acting. But after a while got boring. Stick it out till season 3, atleast there's some character growth.
Aug 8, 2023
FunnyFunny
Kaguya: Love is War is the product of training a GPT-3† model on the corpus of anime and manga, then asking it to generate two of the most basic tsundere (Kaguya and Miyuki) characters available and a deredere (Chika) character. These characters can never act like real people or else the only thread holding the plot together, that both Miyuki and Kaguya are too prideful to admit they like the other, would immediately collapse. Chika, effectively an agent of chaos, is Schrödinger's idiot: she is simultaneously an expert and utterly incompetent at reading emotions and superficially dumb while being an expert in many things.

Both Kaguya ...

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