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

What do Shuchiin Academy's model students do outside of their student council duties? After a visit to the swimming pool, Kaguya Shinomiya and Chika Fujiwara take to the showers to wash themselves off. When Chika accidentally drops a bar of soap, the two find themselves in a rather slippery mishap.

Meanwhile, Miyuki Shirogane and Yuu Ishigami examine a discarded pornographic magazine—its content bearing an uncanny resemblance to the other student council members. Later on, an intense fried rice cook-off commences as Chika and Miko Iino seek to crown a master chef amongst the council.

These eccentric activities reveal a side of the student council that has never been seen before!

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Shinomiya, Kaguya Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Ishigami, Yuu Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Fujiwara, Chika Main

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Shirogane, Miyuki Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Iino, Miko Main

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Hayasaka, Ai Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Shirogane, Kei Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Shirogane, Father Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Osaragi, Kobachi Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Ishikawa, Tatsuya Producer

Hayashi, Tatsurou Producer

Kikuchi, Yuuichirou Producer

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Oct 29, 2022

Virgilizartor

Recommended

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Absolutely sublime episode. I learned so much about fried rice and the various ways it can be cooked!

Story 10//10
Very interesting conflict being set in motion by a battle of ideologies. Absolutely explosive results
Character interactions 10/10
Beautiful reactions and a great deal of empathy derived from the various recipes and how they relate to the characters' personalities and backgrounds.
Cinematography 10/10
Lots of well-chosen angles and smart use of lighting made the scenes very memorable.
Art 10/10
Beautifully drawn food. Absolutely mouth watering.
... Music 10/10
Perfect use of the series' soundtrack. Sold every moment perfectly
Personal enjoyment 10/10
Made me look for a pan as soon as I finished watching. Ishigami's recipe definitely strikes my fancy.
Conclusion: Please watch it! It's the best way to use 26 minutes. Even better than sex.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Nov 18, 2025

toxicgreen777

Mixed Feelings

If you were ever watching "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" and was wondering "where is all the raunchy fan-service?", "Kaguya-sama: Love is War OVA" is here to condense it all into 1 OVA episode. Yuu even jokes about how there wasn't any fan-service throughout the "Love is War" series in the magazine he's reading in the first part of this OVA.

This OVA can basically be summed up into 3 parts:
1. Yuu and Miyuki look at a porn mag that coincides with the lewding of their female student council friends
2. Yuu and Miyuki look at a porn mag whose characters look like their female ... student council friends
3. Yuu, Miyuki, and Kaguya cooks off to see who can make the best fried rice

Part 1 is straight-up uncomfortable to sit through, Part 2 is a little funny (but also sullies Miyuki's character a bit), and part 3 reels this OVA back into your regular "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" programming. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say that there isn't any tasteful ecchi of the "Love is War" cast, but Part 1 is way too aggressive. Like at least give the audience a warning before flash banging them like that.

The only thing that really made this OVA great was Yuu screaming at the top of his lungs "FUCK YOU, SHUEISHA!" on top of a picture of Shueisha's headquarters, which just happens to be the producer of the "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" anime series. Never ever will another producer of an anime have the balls to have this type of line air in their show.

If you don't enjoy seeing borderline hentai content involving Chika and Kaguya, you will probably only like the 3rd part of this OVA. If you just like "Kaguya-sama: Love is War"s' characters and their shenanigans no matter what the situation, you will probably like the whole thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 27, 2026

TheNerdWord

Not Recommended

It is shocking that the first half of this episode actually exists. It is SOOOOO out of character for the series. The only reason I gave this episode a 3 is because the second half is formatted like a normal episode. I genuinely would not recommend this episode to anyone I know. Contrasting this to the sheer wholesomeness of the rest of this series makes this episode's existence even stranger. Genuinely who thought that making this episode was a good idea? The bathroom scene is so weird and out of character that it is obviously pure fan service. This feels like a fundamental failure at ... understanding the primary audience for this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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by IK95CZ

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Ecchi OVA of non-ecchi anime. (Also Specials, ONA, etc.)

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Anime not dubbed in english pt 4

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	Poll: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen OVA Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) removed-user - May 20, 2021	200 replies	by topfloorboss45 »» Aug 27, 2025 3:34 AM
	PG-13 Jai_akash - Oct 8, 2023	9 replies	by Repl1ka »» Jun 3, 2025 5:33 PM
	Help, are the first 7 minutes adapted from the manga? Ali-Deeb - Mar 12, 2025	5 replies	by Ali-Deeb »» Mar 13, 2025 5:02 AM
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