Kaguya sama love is was turned out to be the biggest disappointment of the year for me, i knew about the manga for quite a long time and had high expectations because of the rave reviews it received.
So i kept myself back from reading manga because of anime.
But the anime turns out to be mediocre at best. there is literally nothing apart from forced drama that makes it any different from the shows in its recommendation tab.
Story : 4 - At first the plot seemed appealing to me. But the way the story was executed is just a atrocious. Most episodes can be summed up as, One of the main character encounters a problem and makes a huge deal, involving that scenario our two childish main characters fight to get the other confess. rinse and repeat over the span of 12 episodes and we get this stagnated show.
Comedy in the show is also poorly done. What we get for the tag of psychological is forced drama which accounts to nothing. You can literally kick the word plot-development out of the window.
Characters : 4 - There isn't any endearing character in this series. We have our main cast shirogane whose only role is to overthink and complicate matters. Kaguya is our go to tsundere whose only salient feature is to say "O Kawaii Koto" after long nonsensical rhetoric. Chika is our ubiquitous big boob , cute voice galore character, whose role in the anime was to ruin the little shenanigans our main cast were playing with each other. Basically a redundant character.
Plot twist: When i thought we only had three characters this anime pulled the one and only plot twist of the show and introduced this gloomy otaku whose name i forgot as soon as i saw his character. This otaku guy was as tedious as our plot. you guys can just ignore this wanker he is only put in the show to fill some useless space.
Art : 7 : This is probably the only redeeming feature of the show, the art was pretty crisp some of the dance sequences of chika were animated amazingly well. Use of bright, contrasting colors gave this worth a try , Overall, art department turned out to be the saving grace of this show.
Sound : 6 - This department of the show was good, Opening song was mellifluous. Ending song was also Ok and didn't leave much of an impression on me. As for Voice acting, voice actors did pretty good job to give life to these lifeless, dull characters. So big prop to the voice actors.
Enjoyment : 3 - All in all the only thing this show thrived on was, Chika performing her kpop moves and showing her love and support for the girl bands. As for some comparing it to the likes of Death Note, they are doing nothing but committing sacrilegious act Neither the characters have the charisma or ingenuity of Light and L nor the story is good enough to warrant this show to be said in the same breath as death note.
Overall : 4 - If you're into romcom maybe you should give it a try. As far people looking for something seinen or psychological. I would encourage to steer as far away from this show as possible and watch some other good shows or spend your time in doing something productive.
Thanks for your kind time.
