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

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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～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished 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, JR East Marketing & Communications

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Manga

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Psychological, Romantic Subtext, School

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.41¹ (scored by 1,054,644 users)

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Ranked: #171²

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Popularity: #53

Members: 1,671,547

Favorites: 38,484

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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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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Hatakeyama, Mamoru

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Aketagawa, Jin

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Utsunomiya, Masaki

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Opening Theme

"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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	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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Sep 6, 2023

SammyBisOli

Recommended

The best novel in the world. Kaguya and Miyuki who are vice president and student body president. At first they think of each other as a romance of convenience, but half a year is enough to make things change. They like each other, but they don't want to be the first to declare themselves, so they come up with various strategies to make the other declare themselves first, which yields hilarious and cute scenes. Kaguya is very ambiguous. She can be extremely sweet and helpful when she wants to be, as well as being spoiled and mean at other times. I like that because nobody ...

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Jan 18, 2023

Not_Burrito

Mixed Feelings

The Good: Kaguya-sama: Love is War is a funny anime. The humor can be a tad repetitive, but it’s creative enough to still feel fresh, even when a lot of the punchlines remain static. The animation itself is particularly good at showing the characters' reactions to whatever strange things happen. They really did a great job with the characters’ facial expressions in these moments, and I always found myself surprised at how ridiculous these reactions could get. The one emotion that this show is best at expressing has to be anxiety. Particularly, the idea of someone overthinking a situation due to their anxiety. This overthinking ... tends to be the major driving force of the series, as Kaguya and Shirogane race to try to get the other to confess first (purely for a minor advantage in their power dynamic). It’s clear to any outsiders that they would be better off together formally, but they’re so focused on their relationship as a zero-sum game that they can’t even see that. On the strictly romance side of things, the later episodes of this season certainly are touching, even if they don’t really go beyond the standard romance anime ideas. Outside of the main two, the other members of the student council could also be really fun. Chika and Ishigami really add to a lot of the situations with their own personalities, especially when Shirogane and Kaguya use them as ammunition.

The Bad: Let’s start with the narrator. I’ve never felt more out of touch with the community than when trying to discuss the Kaguya-sama narrator with other anime fans. Normally when an anime tries to (clumsily) directly inform the viewer about what’s happening on screen, they’ll at least bother to try to put it into some dialogue. This is still a really lazy way of doing things, but it’s miles better than Kaguya giving up entirely and going full “Peter Griffin here to explain the joke” on the audience. It’s even more frustrating because these bits still stand on their own if you just removed the narrator altogether; for a show that heavily uses internal dialogue it should be easy enough. As far as other weaknesses, the development of its characters is not really consistent across the board, some of them end up feeling pretty thin and mostly one-note. I can forgive this to some degree as it's only season 1 of multiple seasons, but I’m a firm believer that a separated season of a show should stand on its own. The animation of the show is also just really up and down in general, as is typical of A1. The show can be incredibly beautiful and creative, but sometimes they just give up drawing the details. (sidenote: I’ve seen some criticize the lack of movement in some of the scenes, but I personally think Kaguya is the type of show where not everything has to be moving all of the time. You may have a different view of that than me, however.) I mentioned that the romantic aspects are well-executed, but they are mostly derivative of previous works, and while Shirogane and Kaguya are very enjoyable characters, they certainly don’t break the mold.

Conclusion: Kaguya-sama: Love is War is a funny anime… but it should have been better than it is. It’s frustrating to watch a series with such strong fundamentals be neutered in this way. I think it’s a mistake for every anime adaptation to try to perfectly replicate the manga, because anime and manga are entirely different mediums with different strengths and weaknesses between them. 6/10.

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Aug 8, 2023

Phasar2022

Not Recommended

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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.

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