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May 2, 2020
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
Competition between Kaguya and Shirogane has continued. There aren't many anime that have love stories like Kaguya-sama: Love is War. It takes the theme of the love story of anyone who falls in love first so the person who falls in love is the one who loses. This love story is quite unique because each character uses their brains to develop strategies so they can make their opponents feel in love with the winner. The winners themselves are determined in each chapter in the episode and sometimes the results cannot be predicted. Each of the two main gets their turn to tell the plan but their delivery style is similar to the game where in each person who tells the story does not always win sometimes draws and also loses.

Focused on two geniuses named Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya. They are members of the student council of the shuchiin school (this is not an ordinary school of shuchiin taken from the word Shu which means species while chuen in other languages ​​is genius, as it means that the school is inhabited only by selected people, conglomerates, wealthy and elected people) undergo activities as usual. But behind that all peace there is a war and it is a war of love. Expressing love directly is not an easy matter especially when we enter adolescence. However, love is a difficult thing, and teenagers are at the most confusing stage of their lives.

Meanwhile women like Chika Fujiwara have no doubt that she has a friendly nature. She occupied the secular position of the student council administrator, besides occupying a secretary position he was sometimes too excited to forget that he was a secretary. As the third main she acts as a tritagonist whose role is only to help or support the atmosphere.

In the Student Council there are four known members and one of them is Yuu Ishigami. He held the position of treasurer. His expertise in analyzing data about finance is undoubtedly the son of a well-known accounting in Japan. In contrast to the previous main, this main one has a mere contradiction in nature, which is quiet and anti-social. He is one year younger than all the major. Even though one year's adrift did not make Ishigami behave politely sometimes he made words that made everyone annoyed.

Art is something that is very valuable. Character design looks no different from other characters it makes a contradiction in character recognition, besides that as a background it should support the nuances of dialogue and clarify the scene here instead. Apart from that, there are some points that deserve to be appreciated, such as the drawing stops like shounen anime and the angle of shooting or camera position.

With the position of the camera that supports making the dialogue and monologue delivered can be easily accepted, therefore it is not surprising why we are always dragged in the flow of conversation. The idea to make the opening theme is also very interesting and unique because in it does not contain any spoilers at all, not only that just changing the closing theme is also a good idea especially in the third episode. Chika dance is increasingly rising along with the title of this anime. The staff is very attentive to this and make modern dances like dance become very interesting and funny.

The opening theme they were carrying out was also quite good. Love Dramatic carried by Masayuki Suzuki and collaborating with Rikka Ihara seized many viewers out there and received many positive responses. On the other hand, Seiyuu is very compatible with their respective characters, even though to determine your personality, accuracy is needed because their age is different from the characters they play. To fill the voice of the narrator is also good enough to convey the narrator is very easy to digest because it is indeed the job of the narrator, but keep in mind that being a narrator is not an easy word. This takes the theme of teenage love so they inevitably have to bring in young voices and are in harmony with the characters they play.

I will admit that I am very interested in Kaguya-sama: Love is War. This is not because I follow other people, but because it aims to convey how I once fell in love in adolescence and to express it is not that easy.

Maybe they want to drop the scoreboard with their illogical judgments. But I will make sure you feel something, about dropping something.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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