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

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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Shinomiya, Kaguya Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Ishigami, Yuu Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Fujiwara, Chika Main

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Shirogane, Miyuki Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Hayasaka, Ai Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Shirogane, Kei Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Shirogane, Father Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Shijou, Maki Supporting

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Kashiwagi, Nagisa Supporting

Asakura, Momo Japanese

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Ishikawa, Tatsuya Producer

Nakashima, Naoto Producer

Hatakeyama, Mamoru Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Dec 8, 2025

Ethai808

Recommended

This series is literally comedy gold. It doesn't rely on overly sexual jokes like many other rom-com series, and it's jokes are always unique and absolutely hilarious. There is great dynamics between the characters, and each character is built very well, especially the student counsel members. The music is also perfect adds perfectly to each situation.

Not everything is absolutely 100% realistic, some things being done to make it so the jokes work, but it is fine in my view because it creates even funnier situations and just makes you laugh harder.

Overall a very good anime and achieves what it was going for. If you just ... want a good laugh, and would to see unique jokes based on the romantic tension between the two leads, then you will enjoy this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 25, 2025

minhazmorgul

Mixed Feelings

I'm not rating each season separately so this review is for the entire show. First season was a decent 7. Second season was an improvement scoring an 8 for me. The third season was mediocre and felt really dragged out, giving it a 5 for now. It's not the a good romance at all, it's more of a comedy in my book. Chika and Ishigami (the Persona 3 looking dude) carry the show the entire way through. The main characters are very unlikeable, Kaguya much more so than Shirogane. The show should have ended by season 2 instead of being milked try, when it came ... to actually seeing the premise conclude the writers bottled the job and the MC's don't live up to be as captivating as the side cast in the third season.

Not enough Chika in the third season, Ishigami and Hayasaka who helped the show so much in the first couple seasons are either not utilized or given story arcs that don't help their journeys in the show at all. The girl who joins the student council late and her four-eyed friend were so unforgettable I don't even remember their names. Kei, the sister and Kaguya's cousin or whatever and that background couple were all so unnecessary. Shows like this make you appreciate no-fluff compact masterpieces who conclude their arcs within a cour or two. Shame, because this show definitely had tremendous potential and personality in the second season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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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.

Both Kaguya ... and Miyuki construct scenarios where they can trap the other into confessing their love for them, so the two can date since they are too proud to admit it themselves. Both are clever, scheming, and intelligent, well, supposedly. They concoct situations where every they have conceived every possible outcome, ensuring the other has no room to maneuver. Well, sort of. It's an excellent premise if the characters weren't so generic and the execution hollow.

In an early episode, both Kaguya and Miyuki pretend not to have an umbrella so they can share the other's, a staple of anime romcoms. Since both planned ahead, both pretend not to have an umbrella and now have to trick the other into admitting they have one. Kaguya walks through how Miyuki knew it would rain so he took the train rather than rode his bike, which she knows because she did not see his bike at school. Which, if Miyuki had a modicum of intelligence, would let him know Kaguya looked through the bike rack to trap him, so she too had planned ahead. But rather than have any real battle of wits, so the characters act how we're told they should be, Chika suddenly appears to offer Kaguya her umbrella. We're given a cheap way out of a poorly contrived scenario.

These characters can't act like real people or there wouldn't be a plot. It's at best boring, and for a show revolving around the antics of the two leads, the characters are shallow and generic. It's astounding just how popular this show is for how dull it is.

† GPT-3 is a a machine-learning model that produces realistic output, and can be applied to many things, such as writing code snippets or news articles.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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