Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

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Kaguya-sama: Love is War
Kaguya-sama - Love is War, volume 1.jpg
Cover of the first manga tankōbon volume, featuring Kaguya Shinomiya
かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～
(Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen)
Genre
Manga
Written byAka Akasaka
Published byShueisha
English publisher
Viz Media
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
Magazine
  • Miracle Jump
  • (May 19, 2015 – January 19, 2016)
  • Weekly Young Jump
  • (March 24, 2016 – present)
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 19, 2015 – present
Volumes23 (List of volumes)
Manga
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Dōjin-ban
Written byShinta Sakayama
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineTonari no Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runJune 14, 2018 – June 25, 2020
Volumes4
Manga
Kaguya-sama o Kataritai
Written byG3 Ida
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 26, 2018 – present
Volumes5
Anime television series
Directed byShinichi Omata[a]
Produced by
  • Tatsuya Ishikawa
  • Naoto Nakajima
  • Taku Funakoshi
  • Toshihiro Maeda
Written by
  • Yasuhiro Nakanishi
  • Yukie Sugawara
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed by
Aniplex of America
SEA
Muse Communication
Original networkTokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, MBS, CTV, TVN
Original run January 12, 2019 – March 30, 2019
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
Directed byShinichi Omata[a]
Written by
  • Yasuhiro Nakanishi
  • Yukie Sugawara
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed by
Aniplex of America
SEA
Muse Communication
Original networkTokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, MBS, CTV, TVN
Original run April 11, 2020 – June 27, 2020
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed byShinichi Omata[a]
Written byYasuhiro Nakanishi
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioA-1 Pictures
ReleasedMay 19, 2021
Anime television series
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 3rd Season
Live-action films
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～, Hepburn: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen, transl. "Lady Kaguya wants to make them confess: The Geniuses' War of Hearts and Minds") is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series by Aka Akasaka. It began serialization in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump in May 2015 and was transferred to Weekly Young Jump in March 2016. In North America, the manga is licensed in English by Viz Media.

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired in Japan from January to March 2019. A second season aired from April to June 2020. An OVA episode was released in 2021, and a third season has been announced. It was also adapted into a live-action film directed by Hayato Kawai, which was released in Japan in September 2019. The anime series is licensed in North America by Aniplex of America.

As of April 2021, the manga had over 15 million copies in circulation. In 2020, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.

Premise[]

See also: List of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War characters

In the senior high school division of Shuchiin Academy, the student council president and vice president, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya, appear to be a perfect match. Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate family, and Miyuki is the top student at the school and well-known across the prefecture. Although they like each other, they are too proud to confess their love, coming up with many schemes to make the other confess.

Production[]

Conception[]

Akasaka was writing the manga Instant Bullets for Young Jump and wanted to come up with another series. In an interview on Livedoor News, Akasaka said the original plot for Kaguya-sama was more of a fantasy and game of death, but his editor wanted something more mainstream and, at the time, Young Jump did not have a casual romcom series. It was Akasaka's first manga in the romcom genre.

Akasaka set the series in high school as it was a time when he did not have much experience with dating and romance himself. He was thinking of high school relationships while smoking some food, and came up with the concept of wanting to reclaim some of his emotions of his youth in a fantasy. He envisioned "two tsunderes who like each other having battles of the mind". He thought that was a very common concept, but was surprised to find that readers were telling him that his premise was innovative. Also at first, he wanted to do more intellectual battles like Death Note but the theme changed more to "clashing of romantic emotions".[4] He has also cited School Rumble as an influence on his work.[5]

Character design[]

The characters' names were from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. He liked princess stories, and Kaguya-hime was one of the most famous princess stories. In developing the characters, he said that Kaguya and Miyuki initially have the same personality and thought process, like twins, which made their exposition to the reader easier to understand. He then developed more divergence between the two. Other characters were developed in the same manner, starting as shallow and template-like, but being filled with realistic feelings and drawn from the experience of the author and of others he knew. He especially liked contrasting characters whose internal personalities differ from their external portrayal.[4]

Development and themes[]

In developing a chapter or story, Akasaka would think about emotions first and then write about experiencing the emotions, such as what Kaguya would feel if she were jealous. He would then arrange the characters and events around that emotion. When he thinks of some emotion that he hasn't developed into a story yet, he writes it on a sticky note or notebook to be used later.[4]

Akasaka said that he originally wanted to make a manga that would help office ladies relax, but since he is an otaku, it seems to follow in that. He also believes the manga is more about providing the reader with something exciting and conveying meaningful messages about human relationships rather than to showcase a number of character gags and reactions.[4]

Akasaka said that Miyuki and Kaguya's becoming third-year students marks the second half of the story.[4][6] When asked about the ending, he said he does not know whether he will go with the bad ending as with Kaguya-hime, but wouldn't mind if it did. He is also considering giving each character a curtain call chapter like they do in the dating sims.[4]

Media[]

Manga[]

See also: List of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War chapters

Aka Akasaka launched the series in the June issue of Shueisha's Miracle Jump magazine on May 19, 2015.[7] The series last chapter in Miracle Jump was published in its February 2016 issue on January 19, 2016.[8] The manga was then switched to the publisher's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump on March 24, 2016.[9][10] A special chapter ran in the debut issue of Young Jump Gold on May 18, 2017.[11]

North American publisher Viz Media announced their license to the series during their panel at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 20, 2017.[10]

A spin-off manga by Shinta Sakayama, titled Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Dōjin-ban (かぐや様は告らせたい 同人版, transl. "Kaguya Wants to be Confessed to - Dōjin Edition"), was launched on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website on June 14, 2018, and it was serialized on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.[12] The spin-off finished on June 25, 2020.[13] Shueisha released four tankōbon volumes between December 19, 2018 and July 17, 2020.[14]

A yonkoma spin-off, written by G3 Ida and titled Kaguya-sama o Kataritai (かぐや様を語りたい, transl. "We Want to Talk About Kaguya"), launched in Weekly Young Jump on July 26, 2018. The yonkoma focuses on two newspaper/press club girls who idolize Kaguya and the gang but have no clue what really goes on inside the student council.[12] Shueisha released the first collected tankōbon volume on March 19, 2019.[15] As of August 18, 2021, five volumes have been released.[16]

Anime[]

See also: List of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War episodes

An anime television series adaptation was announced by Shueisha on June 1, 2018.[17] The series is directed by Shinichi Omata under the pseudonym Mamoru Hatakeyama and written by Yasuhiro Nakanishi, with animation by A-1 Pictures. Yuuko Yahiro is providing the character designs, while Jin Aketagawa is the sound director. Kei Haneoka is composing the series' music.[18] The series aired from January 12 to March 30, 2019, broadcasting on MBS, Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, Chukyo TV, and TV Niigata.[18][19] The series ran for 12 episodes.[20] Masayuki Suzuki, Rikka Ihara, and Yoshiki Mizuno performs the series' opening song "Love Dramatic feat. Ihara Rikka", while Halca performs the series' ending theme song "Sentimental Crisis".[21][22] Aniplex of America have acquired the series in North America, and streamed the series on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow.[23] In Australia and New Zealand, AnimeLab simulcasted the series within the region.[24] The series is licensed by Muse Communication and released on Netflix in Southeast Asia.

A second season titled Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? was announced on October 19, 2019. The staff and cast returned to reprise their roles.[25] It aired from April 11 to June 27, 2020 on the Tokyo MX, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, BS11, Abema TV service, MBS and TV Niigata. The second season will feature Kaguya's character song "Kotae Awase" and a key visual with the new characters Miko and Osaragi as they join the returning main characters of the series.[26] Suzuki returned to perform the season's opening theme "Daddy! Daddy Do!" with Airi Suzuki, while Haruka Fukuhara's "Kaze ni Fukarete" ("Blown by the Wind") was used as the ending.[27] The season received its world premiere prior to Japanese broadcast at Anime Festival Sydney on March 8, 2020.[28] Funimation acquired exclusive streaming rights for the season in late March; the company began airing an English dub for the second season on July 25, with the first season dub streaming on March 9, 2021.[29][30][31] In Southeast Asia, Muse Communication released the season on Netflix.[32]

On October 25, 2020, an original video animation episode and a third season were concurrently announced for production during the “Kaguya-sama Wants To Tell You On Stage” special event.[33] An OVA was bundled with the manga's twenty-second volume, which released on May 19, 2021.[34]

Live-action film[]

Main article: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (film)

The film premiered in Japan on September 6, 2019. Sho Hirano was announced for the role of Miyuki Shirogane, and Kanna Hashimoto was announced for the role of Kaguya Shinomiya. Hayato Kawai directed the film, Yūichi Tokunaga wrote the screenplay, and principal photography was conducted in March to April 2019.[35]

A sequel to the film was announced on January 6, 2021. It premiered in Japanese cinemas on August 20, 2021. Hirano, Hasimoto, Nana Asakawa, and Hayato Sano, actors of Chika Fujiwara and Yu Ishigami respectively, are confirmed to return to reprise their roles.[36][37]

Reception[]

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War had over 6.5 million copies in circulation as of April 2019,[38] over 8.5 million copies as of October 2019,[39] over 9 million copies in circulation as of December 2019,[40] over 13 million copies in circulation as of October 2020[41] and over 15 million copies in circulation as of April 2021.[42] It was the ninth-best-selling manga in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold.[43] The series won the 3rd Next Manga Award in the comics division for manga published in print book format in 2017.[44] In 2020, along with Aoashi, the manga won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.[45][46][47] On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War ranked #50.[48]

Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network gave the first two volumes of the manga a positive review, calling it "one of the more unique rom-com premises out there". She noted that the second volume was better than the first, indicating development on the part of the author, and commenting that it boded well for the lastingness of the series. She was more ambivalent about the art, saying that it lacked polish and that faces in particular tended to suffer.[2]

At the 2020 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime was selected for Best Comedy, Best Couple, and Best Ending Sequence ("Chikatto Chika Chika").[49] The character Chika Fujiwara was nominated for Best Girl in the awards.[50] At the 2021 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the second season of the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime was selected for Best Comedy, and the main character of the series, Kaguya Shinomiya, was selected for Best Girl. The anime's opening "DADDY! DADDY! DO!" by Masayuki Suzuki was nominated for Best Opening Sequence in the awards.[51]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Credited under the pseudonym Mamoru Hatakeyama.

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