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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War(Japanese:かぐや dạng は cáo らせたい ～ thiên tài たち の luyến ái đầu 脳 chiến ～,Hepburn:Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen,lit. 'Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses' War of Hearts and Minds')is a Japaneseromantic comedymangaseries written and illustrated byAka Akasaka.It was first serialized inShueisha'sseinenmangamagazineMiracle Jumpfrom May 2015 to January 2016, and later transferred toWeekly Young Jump,where it ran from March 2016 to November 2022. Its chapters were collected in 28tankōbonvolumes. In North America, the manga is licensed in English byViz Media.

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Firsttankōbonvolume cover, featuring Kaguya Shinomiya
かぐや dạng は cáo らせたい ～ thiên tài たち の luyến ái đầu 脳 chiến ～
(Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai – Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen)
Genre
Manga
Written byAka Akasaka
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
Magazine
  • Miracle Jump
  • (May 19, 2015 – January 19, 2016)
  • Weekly Young Jump
  • (March 24, 2016 – November 2, 2022)
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 19, 2015–November 2, 2022
Volumes28(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–November 2, 2022
Volumes8
Anime television series
Anime film
Live-action films
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Ananimetelevision series adaptation,produced byA-1 Pictures,aired in 2019. It was followed by a second season aired in 2020, anoriginal video animation(OVA) episode released in 2021, and a third season aired in 2022. An anime film, titledThe First Kiss That Never Ends,premiered in theaters in December 2022. Alive-action filmadaptation, directed by Hayato Kawai, was released in September 2019.

By December 2022, the manga had over 22 million copies in circulation, making it one of thebest-selling manga series.In 2020,Kaguya-sama: Love Is Warwon the 65thShogakukan Manga Awardin the general category.

Premise

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In the senior high school division of Shuchiin Academy, student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice presidentKaguya Shinomiyaappear to be a perfect match. Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthyconglomeratefamily, 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, as they believe whoever does so first would "lose" in their relationship. The story follows their many schemes to make the other one confess or at least show signs of affection.

Halfway through the series, they manage to confess to each other. From there, focus shifts on how they advance their relationship and deal with remaining obstacles. The presence and complexity of several other characters notably increases over time as well.

Production

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Conception

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Akasaka was writing the mangaInstant BulletsforWeekly Young Jumpand wanted to come up with another series. In an interview onLivedoor News,Akasaka said the original plot forKaguya-samawas more of a fantasy and game of death, but his editor wanted something more mainstream and, at the time,Young Jumpdid not have a casualromcomseries. It was Akasaka's first manga in the romcom genre.[4]

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 whilesmoking some food,and came up with the concept of wanting to reclaim some of his emotions of his youth in a fantasy. He envisioned "twotsundereswho 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 likeDeath Notebut the theme changed more to "clashing of romantic emotions". He has also citedSchool Rumbleas an influence on his work.[5]

Character design

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The characters' names were derived from themonogatariThe Tale of the Bamboo Cutter(better known outside of Japan asThe Tale of Princess Kaguya). Akasaka stated that he has long liked princess stories and that Kaguya-hime, the main character from the aforementionedmonogatari,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 author's and his acquaintances' personal experience. He especially liked contrasting characters whose internal personalities differ from their external portrayal.[4]

Development and themes

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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 anotaku,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 withKaguya-hime,but wouldn't mind if it did. He also considered giving each character acurtain callchapter like they do in thedating sims,eventually deciding to do this.[4]

Media

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Manga

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Aka Akasakalaunched the series in the June issue ofShueisha'sseinenmangamagazineMiracle Jumpon May 19, 2015.[7]The series' last chapter inMiracle Jumpwas published on January 19, 2016.[8]The manga was then switched to the publisher'sWeekly Young Jumpmagazine on March 24, 2016.[9][10]A special chapter ran in the debut issue ofYoung Jump Goldon May 18, 2017.[11]On April 23, 2020, a new manga series,Oshi no Ko,written by Akasaka and illustrated byMengo Yokoyari,started its serialization in the same magazine, leading to two manga series created by Akasaka being serialized simultaneously.[12][13]Kaguya would make a cameo in a special chapter ofOshi no Ko.The series finished on November 2, 2022.[14][15]Shueisha has collected its 281 individual chapters in 28 individualtankōbonvolumes. The first volume was released on March 18, 2016, and the last on December 19, 2022.[16][17]

Viz Mediaannounced during their panel atSan Diego Comic-Conon July 20, 2017, that they had licensed the series for a North American release.[10]

Aspin-offmanga by Shinta Sakayama, titledKaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Dōjin-ban(かぐや dạng は cáo らせたい đồng nghiệp bản,transl."Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess – Dōjin Edition" ),was launched on Shueisha'sTonari no Young Jumpwebsite on June 14, 2018, and it was serialized on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.[18]The spin-off finished on June 25, 2020.[19]Shueisha released fourtankōbonvolumes between December 19, 2018, and July 17, 2020.[20]

Ayonkomaspin-off, written by G3 Ida and titledKaguya-sama o Kataritai(かぐや dạng を ngữ りたい,transl."We Want to Talk About Kaguya" ),was serialized inWeekly Young Jumpfrom July 26, 2018, to November 2, 2022.[15]Theyonkomafocuses on two newspaper/press club girls, Karen Kino and Erika Kose, who idolize Kaguya and the gang but have no clue what really goes on inside the student council.[18]Shueisha released the first collectedtankōbonvolume on March 19, 2019, and the eighth and last on December 19, 2022.[21][22]

Anime

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See also:Kaguya-sama: Love Is War(TV series)andKaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends

A 12-episodeanimetelevision series adaptation, produced byA-1 Pictures,aired in 2019.[23]It was followed by a 12-episode second season,Kaguya-sama: Love Is War?,broadcast in 2020;[24]anoriginal video animation(OVA) episode released in 2021;[25]and a 13-episode third season,Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic,broadcast in 2022.[26]A follow-up film,Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends,also premiered in 2022.[27]

Live-action film

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Main articles:Kaguya-sama: Love Is War(film)andKaguya-sama Final: Love Is War

The live-action film adaptationpremiered on September 6, 2019.Sho Hiranowas announced for the role of Miyuki Shirogane, andKanna Hashimotowas 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.[28]

A sequel,Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is Warwas announced on January 6, 2021. It premiered in Japanese cinemas on August 20, 2021. Hirano, Hashimoto, Nana Asakawa, and Hayato Sano, actors of Kaguya Shinomiya, Miyuki Shirogane,Chika Fujiwaraand Yu Ishigami respectively, returned to reprise their roles.[29][30]

Novels

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Two spin-off novels written by Jūichirō Hitsujiyama have been released by Shueisha under their Jump J-Books imprint. The first novel, subtitledShuchin Gakuen Nanafushigi(Shuchi'in học viên bảy không tư nghị,lit. 'The Seven Mysteries of Shuchin Academy'),was released on September 19, 2018.[31]The second novel, subtitledTensaitachi no Renai Jinrosen(Thiên tài たち の luyến ái người lang chiến,lit. 'The Geniuses' Love Werewolf War)'),was released on November 17, 2023.[32]

Reception

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The manga won the thirdNext Manga Awardin the comics division for manga published in print book format in 2017.[33]In 2020, along withAoashi,Kaguya-sama: Love Is Warwon the 65thShogakukan Manga Awardin the general category.[34][35][36]OnTV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150,000 people voted for their top 100 manga series,Kaguya-sama: Love Is Warranked 50th.[37]

Kaguya-sama: Love Is Warhad over 6.5 million copies in circulation by April 2019;[38]over 8.5 million copies by October 2019;[39]over 9 million copies in circulation by December 2019;[40]over 13 million copies in circulation by October 2020;[41]over 15 million copies in circulation by April 2021;[42]over 19 million copies in circulation by October 2022;[43]and over 22 million copies in circulation by December 2022.[44]It was the ninth-best-selling manga in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold.[45]

Rebecca Silverman ofAnime News Networkgave 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]

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