Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai? Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen OVA

It is very deplorable and distasteful that the Kaguya Sama anime we all loved went in this direction with the OVA, especially for the first two parts of it. That said, the jokes are still very much there and I love it.

My grading scale:
Story: /25
Art: /10
Music: /10
Characters: /20
Enjoyment /15
Comedic & Romance themes /20

... Story: 15.5/25

Obviously with OVAs we can’t expect much of a story, and with so much fan service, it’s hard to give it any more than a 6/10 ish. I think the food part was good so therefore I didn’t make it any lower than that.

Art: 9.3/10

With fan service, the art must be spot on, and I do appreciate good art, however “gross” it may be.

Music: 9.3/10

Same music as Season 2, still very nice.

Characters: 15.0/20

They deviate from how they seemed to be in season 2, but they provide the comedy that we needed so it’s all good.

Enjoyment: 14.3/15

I found myself facepalming a lot, but I had many laughs to make up for it.

Comedic/Romantic Timing: 19.6/20

That’s what this anime excels at. Just perfect, even relatable humour.

Overall: 8.3/10

I might be somewhat biased because I thoroughly enjoyed the two seasons so far, but I’ve definitely missed the over the top humour from this series.

I hate it. As a fan of the series and a constant reader of the manga they adapted the chapter where Aka made that chapter to make fun of the fan service in animes and the adaptation turned out to be the opposite. It was pure an extremely ecchi fanservice and if you care about the characters you will find this enormously wrong. For example, the steams in the manga where enormous clouds and in the adaptacion was near to leftover foam that barely hide anything. The part that infuriated me the most was that they sexualized minors which wtf thats not ok in any ... context. They turned a genuinely funny chapter into something that was just painful to watch.
The second part was ok and it was funny, the last part was what Kaguya no sama its about, great comedy.

Overall terrible. The first half of it is just hentai. Am I happy we got high quality hentai of kaguya-sama characters? Yeah, I suppose. But this isn't the right place for it. A-1 shouldn't be making official hentai content. While kaguya-sama isn't family friendly, it has historically prided itself on its lack of fan service. I would have been disappointed if this ova had fan service, but I'm angered by their decision to make it straight up hentai.

A third of it is an unfunny hentai magazine scene, a third of it is actual hentai with kaguya-sama characters, and a third of it is a ... somewhat funny cooking competition which is tarnished by the previous two scenes.

A very disappointing OVA.

I'll start by saying if you dislike fan-service, then avoid this OVA. I read a salty review on here that was mad about this, but do they understand that ova's are specifically for the fan-service scenes? They're delusional.
Moving on to the actual review. This ova was great. Just like the main series, the voice actors went above and beyond, especially the narrator. Furthermore the quality of animation was great. Normally ova's lack the budget and are just still, coloured, manga panels that you could create with PowerPoint. But they genuinely put effort into this anime.
What really made it shine was how it called out ... the typical fan-service tropes before recreating them. I can get behind an inside joke.
As-long as you have some sense of humour and don't get offended by pictures and boobs, it's a blast.
How did Chika get so stacked?

Chika boba 10/10 best ova I have ever seen in my life!!!

They should make an entire side season dedicated to best girl chika.

I don't see the reason why people overreact with the fanservice so much like they never saw anime titties in their life.Let the animators get some bread/

I mean get over it,it is an ova.
Anyways,I loved season 1,2 and the ova, and I cant wait for season 3 to come out.

Friendly advice for the twitter people that cry:delete your account and never use any form of social media ever again so we can all live in harmony

Ah yes, a Kaguya-sama OVA. It already felt wrong when I saw the Ecchi tag, and I felt that Kaguya-sama doesn’t need to be Ecchi. Buuuuut okay lemme clear it out on things.

The first one where the ecchi stuff happens, it’s what I’d call just an imagination to us because Ishigami was reading an ecchi series but this is pretty lewd. The R34 artists should be proud of seeing naked Chika and Kaguya lol. I don’t mind fan service, but I think this was a bit too much. I had a good laugh though with the conversation with Shirogane and Ishigami. The first half of ... the episode is literally horny, and then the second half is just Food Wars. I love it when Chika messes up everytime on the judging it’s just funny. The consistency of Kaguya-sama in terms of comedy is still really consistent, and you should give this a shot.

.Before writing my review, you should know that I am a big fan of ¨Kaguya sma and her friends¨ and something I like the most is their lack of fan service, and it is because I consider myself a total enemy of this.
(And if you want to see waifus or lolis naked, go find hentai, and I do not understand why they have to put this in the anime that we love so much and that is that some are not funny and are a total waste). Since the premiere of Kaguya's OVAS I went immediately to see him and I already knew thanks to ... the trailers and everything that this OVA was going to show his sexiest side, I was going to see fanservice, I honestly did not worry, maybe I would be in the least and that's when I finish to see the OVA ...... ayyyyyyyyy, well it seems that the fanservice is never going to abandon us and it is that the first and second short of this OVA really impacted me, I was about to leave that, however I do not like that lie to me and be superficial I admit that in general it was great and fun, also the last short was the one that the series was used to and it was good, until the second it was fun, my problem and that of several is the first short ... But, what can you do? It was funny, yes, but I think they went a little (a lot) out of place, really friends, I thought I had entered a Hentai page.
At the end of the day, I ended up enjoying the OVA and its fanservice, so to speak, I know there are many who love fanservice and will have no problem enjoying it, but for those who don't, well ... I would recommend that you watch only both last shorts, but if you see everything remember that it is only an OVA and is for "fun", so friends, this was just a brief opinion and remember that tastes are tastes .. So do not be influenced by other reviews. Before From seeing this Ova, first look at yourself and draw your own conclusions.

As the title says, it's on OVA of 24 minute. These minutes contains full of fan service. Even though, I wasn't impressed with those services, as those steam and soap bubble ruined my enjoyment. Storyline is there is no storyline, just unusual behaviour by the characters. But there is fantasy adult magazines and cooking contest. As always art style is fascinating. 9/10 for me.

It all starts with Ishigami's disappointment in adult magazine, led him and president Shirogane to peak up on a adult magazine dropped on the road side. For those few minutes, show seemed to be a serious one and quite interesting. Most common ... thing in any of OVAs are, it contains foods or related to food stuff in it. That's similar here as well with cooking contest among our council members. Winner and losers are part of the game, applies to any competition unless the judge is trash. That's how it goes.

Overall 7/10 for me.

ଏହା ମଧ୍ୟ ମୁଖ୍ୟ କାହାଣୀ ର ଗୋଟେ ଅଂଶ, ସେଥିପାଇଁ OVA ଯାହାମାନେ ହେଲା ଓରିଜିନାଲ ଆନିମେସନ ଭିଡିଓ । ଚିତ୍ର କଥା ଟି ପ୍ରସ୍ତୁତ କରାଯାଇଛି ପ୍ରଶଂସକ ଙ୍କୁ ଧ୍ୟାନ ରେ ରଖିକି, ଯୋଉଥିରେ ସେମାନେ ଚରିତ୍ର ଗୁଡିକୁ ନଗ୍ନ ଅବସ୍ଥା ରେ ଦେଖି ପାରିବେ ଆଉ ଆନନ୍ଦ ଉଠାଇପାରିବେ । ଆନିମେ ପରମ୍ପରା ର ଇଏ ଭି ଗୋଟେ ପ୍ରକାର ର ଅଂଶ । ଏ ୨୪ ମିନିଟ୍ ର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟଦର୍ଶିତ ଟି ୨ ଟି ଭିନ୍ନ କ୍ଷୁଦ୍ର କାହାଣୀ ର ଗତି ଉପରେ ଗଠନ ହେଇଛ । ପ୍ରଥମ ଗତି ର ବିଷୟ ହେଲା ସାପ୍ତାହିକ ନଗ୍ନ ପତ୍ରିକା ଏବଂ ଦ୍ଵିତୀୟ ଟି ହେଲା ଅନ୍ନ ରନ୍ଧା ପ୍ରତିଯୋଗିତା ।

It was fun, to be honest I really hate the fan service in anime and manga, and within the first seconds of this OVA I thought it was awful, but the joke of the bathroom door made me laugh, so I continued, and I was surprised, It was really funny.
Yeah sure, maybe they went a little to far with the soap scene but it's just a fucking anime, no harm here.
So If you are planning to watch this OVA but feel a bit indecisive for the comments of fan service or because supposedly they defiled a cartoon girl, just give it a chance, it ... is funny, but be sure to have in mind that i'ts just a fucking anime.

I felt so happy when I discovered this OVA. I can't describe how exactly I felt, it felt like your favorite show that you've watched two or three times has another episode that you haven't seen yet.
So when I first discovered this OVA an hour ago I went to buy ice cream then took a shower to prepare both physically and mentally.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this OVA. During the first half of the episode I felt betrayed disappointed and I basically thought this wasn't the Kayguya-sama I know.
However, during the second half I felt kind of nostalgia although I watched the ... third season when it aired not too long ago. The second part was usual that I actually felt relived.

In conclusion, if you'd like to feel betrayed then nostalgia for a kind of "Mixed feelings" feeling. Just be careful! The first part is very inappropriate, especially regarding to the rest of the series. If you just want to feel some nostalgia, go watch from the second half.

"Haha we're aware of the joke so it's okay."

No. It makes it worse. They mentioned how porn objectifies and devalues women, AND THEN DID IT. It shows how they value their characters. It really is disgusting. Titties are great and all, but don't do it for your characters if you want them to hold any value other than being sexualized. Also it's not the audience's fault if the creators are CLEARLY trying to get a sexual reaction, which they did here.

Don't know what to say other than this being sad and pathetic. This is just trying to hide under the guise of irony by trying ... to be "self-aware." That is the worst part that probably creates the cringe for most of us. By being "self-aware," it doesn't excuse anything. Again, it makes it worse.

I personally gave it a 4 because of the great "Food Wars" bit but the first part really did leave a nasty feeling. I give the review a 1 because of all the reasons I mentioned above. Pathetic and appalling are the labels MAL gives along the 1 scores. I think those words fit this OVA perfectly.

An OVA that is a fantastic parody in all 3 segments of the episode, using its first 2 parts to parody both the fans of fanservice, and the creators that continuously churn out fanservice story segments in manga and anime. It does so by grabbing the essence of these topics, and waving it in the face of the viewer, utilising Love Is War's blunt form of comedy and the quirky personalities of its cast to highlight how ridiculous these things are.

In the 1st segment, Ishigami is used to critique manga readers who post on the internet or write in with complaints about how the fanservice ... wasn't explicit enough. Even the ecchi scenes themselves were making fun of other manga which repeatedly put their characters into similarly raunchy situations, just for the sake of fanservice.

The 2nd segment pokes fun at fans of more >hrmm< CULTURED works, who can sometimes be found squabbling on the internet over how best to enjoy doujins and the like. It also makes a point of mocking how these men of culture may react differently to doujins if they contain characters that resemble characters from their favourite manga and anime, with Shirogane's interest only being truly peaked when Ishigami points out one's similarities to Kaguya.

The 3rd segment contrasts greatly with the first 2 segments due to its lack of fanservice, as it parodies another show I am very fond of. It takes the premise of this show, Shokugeki no Souma, and inverts everything iconic about the show, making for some brilliant comedy. Where Food Wars gives fanservice-filled visualisations during tastings, this OVA leaves Chika fully clothed; where the tasters in Food Wars showcase masterful insight by identifying specific uncommon ingredients, Chika tries to show off and gets every single statement wrong. It even parodies the backstories behind the cooks' inspirations for dishes that Food Wars often provide and the emotional high viewers get when they triumph. Instead, this OVA shows the audience that the reason Shirogane knows how to make this basic recipe so well, is because he is poor, and he is granted the win because of his sad financial state, not because he cooked the best dish.

These 3 stories are fantastic examples of parody, that I have already seen being misunderstood as just regular fanservice segments and a regular cooking segment, which is a shame, and does a huge disservice to the writer's storytelling skills.

Firstly, let's start with a glaring issue people have. There seems to be a lot of hate going around this OVA and talk of the "perverted portrayal" of the female characters. I don't understand the hate now. Even before in the series, there have been scenes, such as the beach scene with Fujiwara and her family on vacation, there has been fan service. While some may argue that it is on a different level of severity than previously seen, I don't see that much of an issue. The only way I could see someone being "appalled" by this is by justifying it by saying they ... are friends and that they shouldn't sexualize each other. Firstly, Kaguya and Shirogane are in love and that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that he reacted the way he did. If you actually look at the panel where Shirogane had that hilarious reaction, it wasn't even bad. It just showed that character's face and said it looked like Kaguya. Secondly, the first scene in the shower was not Shirogane and Ishigami actually looking at the events of the shower. I would think it doesn't take that much mental process to realize that it was just meant to be a demonstration of the events happening in the magazine that Ishigami was reading. The people in the magazine were not literally Kaguya and Fujiwara. With all this being clear, the last thing I could imagine people having issues with is seeing that stuff animated and shown to them. I mean...if you're mad at that then I don't know what to tell you. You should probably just not watch anime. It's literally fan service non more special than any other just like there's been before. Nothing new, nothing to be in awe at, nothing to be surprised about.

With that all out of the way I can get onto everything else. I think that this OVA was hilarious and held all the things that we really love about Kaguya-sama as a series. Let's get on the specifics.

Story - 9: I think that the story is superb. It was hilarious with all the right elements in it to just perfectly give enough clues to allow readers to figure out the humor embedded while at the same time not having super 1-dimensional humor that is so mind-numbingly clear and unfunny it puts you to sleep. This is what I would consider very skilled writing. The pacing of the episode was done very well as well. It was able to fit in many different stories into a 20 minute OVA with nothing feeling like it was underdeveloped or left hanging.

Art - 9: I would say that the art is very good but not the best I've seen. There is nothing wrong with the art. It's the same as the previous animation and style. The only reason why I would not be able to give it a 10 is that there are just some crazy animations out there such as Violet Evergarden, Demon Slayer, Fate Series, etc. Those being the level of animation I would feel is deserving of a perfect 10. But the reason why it is not an 8 is that this series has an amazing way of pulling the art and animation together with the moment in the story to make some truly hilarious scenes. The cook-off and basically every part of this OVA had some part where the camera angle, lighting, change in style killed me.

Sound - 9: I can't say there was anything wrong with the sound. I really like the music and the sound effects along with the voice acting in this series. It really gives each character and scene a really multi-dimensional feeling it. There's nothing to it that I would say makes it the greatest sounding anime of all time but I would say it is done very well. Again, the reason why I wouldn't give this an 8 is that the sounds are placed so well that it makes some scenes that are truly comedic gold.

Character - 9: I would say out of all the anime I watched, it's so easy to make a one-dimensional character. It is so easy to go into a specific mold that allows for writers to be lazy and give the audience something generic. In this show, the characters all have the depth to them, and if you can't see that then I'm sorry but you likely need to use your brain a little harder to see. This OVA had all the hilarious and unique parts of the cast involved. For example, we all Kaguya's quick switch of thoughts on someone, Fujiwara getting caught red-handed, etc. I think that this is made so smoothy with everything else in the story and anime that it deserves a solid 9. I don't think that the show hasn't had enough time to develop into a truly perfect 10.

Enjoyment - 10: This is subjective and I think that it doesn't require any explination.

This OVA for Kaguya-sama: Love is War consists of two different parts. First fanservice up to 11:30 and then a normal skit.

The fanservice part was quite extreme as far as fanservice goes and at some points it seemed indistinguishable from hentai. The way the fanservice was added was okay but there were narrational gaps and it really didn't add anything to the main anime.
The second part was a cooking match between Miyuki, Kaguya and Yuu and this seemed like a perfectly normal skit and was enjoyable to watch.

The characters are the same as the characters in the second season and if you ... want to watch this OVA I'd recommend watching the second season first.

The animation, voice acting and sound are all the same or comparable to the second season.

I don't recommend watching the hentai-like part since it doesn't add anything but the second part is nice. Therefore I only recommend watching the second part that starts at 11:30.

*Spoiler warning!*
*SUPER SHORT REVIEW!*


Story/Plot 7/10 - This was super ecchi. Characters were always put into situations where it could be considered border-line hentai but it never ended up there. I enjoyed it, they also had a cooking bit that was really good. Pretty sure it was a parody of Food Wars! so that was funny!

Art 7/10 - Same as the main anime.

Sound 6/10 - Same as the main anime.

... Characters/Personalities 7/10 - For the most part there personalities stayed the same, but we saw lowkey perverted Miyuki and that was nice!

Enjoyment/Overall 7/10 - Not much to say, I'm happy we got a OVA to hold us over till the next season, and I enjoyed it! :D

People that dislike fanservice must NOT watch it lmao.
I mean, in a way it's interesting because it's like a meta commentary by the authors, saying: we deliberately don't put fanservice in the normal story but this is to show you we're very well capable of it.
The thing is, this ain't fanservice, it's straight up hentai. Meaning not only excessive but even bad looking (the anime aesthetics and animation style are objectively not really fit for that kind of visuals in my opinion).
I was flabbergasted and I'm really thankful this is separate from the series I know and love, which does feature spicy innuendos ... but in a tasteful and funny way.
The only thing I personally enjoyed about this episode was Shirogane desperately trying to remain virtuous and not admit his lowly desires like Ishigami lol.
The second part with the "Masterchef challenge" was ok but I never really laughed, probably also bc I was still jaded about the previous part.
Altogether a small, weird treat for the fans, but not worth watching.

This is how Love is war should be all the time. You still have your love battles, and your funny moments, but you spend the first bit on ' fleshing' out the characters along with having cute accidents.
Like watching them help each other get the Soap out of the drain was such a wholesome and lovely moment, with great sound to.
The magazine they happened to find showed a man's pride and a man's weakness at the same time and also revealed that even amongst other weaknesses pride is a man's greatest weakness if only they had taken the magazine in the beginning ... after giving into man's other great weakness then they would have been able to enjoy forever, and make connections to their friends forever. Sadly pride won and the magazine was lost for good.
My only regret with this episode was in the swimsuit part all of the side characters had the same body type and were doing the same thing jiggling around which I did appreciate but come on A-1 diversity is always a good thing mix in some size differences you know?

I though it was okay. The first 10 minutes were a bit much but the cooking competition got me really hyped up for season 3. Also, did anyone else feel like Shinomiya was acting strangely throughout the episode? I don't know what it was but she didn't seem like herself. Also Shirogane showed 0 interest in Shinomiya (except for the ecchi comic incident), which is strange.

Overall it was a decent episode. My only complaint, which isn't really a complaint, is that the fan service was too heavy. But I guess that's to be expected, this is a 'Fan Service' episode after all

This ova in part 1 went too far with the fanservice i mean they went way too far with the jiggle physics especially with chika part 2 it was fine with fanservice minus the characters being drawn like the student council members and part 3 had none and im really happy it got better with each part.honestly it could have been way worse


The thing that carries this ova from being bad is the comedy its so fucking good

ishigami and shirogane lines and their delivery makes part 1 more bearable to watch especially part 2 where they are the main focus and both of ... their characterizations are superb and dont get me started on part 3 the dialogue too is really good



overall its a 8/10 even with the problems it has

While I'll try to not go over the top, I still have to wholeheartedly agree with people disgusted with parts of this OVA. The fanservice scenes it opens with, basically 90% of its first half, are completely detached from the tone of the show and honestly quite distasteful even by the average fanservice episode standards. Particularly because you don't get just fanservice happening in some typical setting like a beach of a swimming pool, but the male part of the Student Council imagining it while browsing magazines, which just goes directly against their characters. If this was some very brief skit that immediately let to ... some karmic retribution against them, I wouldn't complain much, but it also drags for an uncomfortable amounts of time and offers no real punchline.

Honestly, if the second half of the episode didn't bring the very wholesome and relatively fun cook-off skit, I'd be tempted to give it all a 1 or 2. There's just nothing witty or fun about the whole porn arc – it clashes horribly with what the show is about usually and isn't even good fanservice by any measure. If you watch this OVA, just skip to around the 13 minute mark immediately and enjoy the funny parts.