Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-

2/14/20231h 36m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Romance can be a little melancholy. ~

Overview:

After pining for one another and plotting for so long, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane finally have their climactic first kiss. However, they struggle to define their relationship. After all, how much of their true selves have they really shown to one another?

Director:

Mamoru Hatakeyama

Status:

Released

Language:

Japanese

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Revenue:

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Key words:

high school
romcom
based on manga
school life
seinen
christmas
anime

Cast

Makoto Furukawa

~ as ~

Miyuki Shirogane (voice)

Aoi Koga

~ as ~

Kaguya Shinomiya (voice)

Konomi Kohara

~ as ~

Chika Fujiwara (voice)

Ryota Suzuki

~ as ~

Yuu Ishigami (voice)

Miyu Tomita

~ as ~

Miko Iino (voice)

Yumiri Hanamori

~ as ~

Ai Hayasaka (voice)

Momo Asakura

~ as ~

Nagisa Kashiwagi (voice)

Rina Hidaka

~ as ~

Kobachi Osaragi (voice)

Taku Yashiro

~ as ~

Tsubasa Tanuma (voice)

Kana Ichinose

~ as ~

Maki Shijou (voice)

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
First things first - what's with the ridiculously long title? Thereafter, though, this is quite a cleverly constructed teen romance that sees the student president "Shirogane" share a kiss with the adulatory "Kaguya" only for us to find that cementing that kiss into something more substantial proves quite a challenge. It seems that the young girl has multiple personalities vying for pre-eminance in her relationship with her (their?) beau. These characterisations vary from the young, lovestruck and naive to the young, cynical and suspicious. Poor old "Shirgane" has to deal with all three and is soon completely phased by the erratic, frequently quite funny, behaviour of the young woman who seems as likely to stab him between the eyes as to make love to him. On that last point, it is adult themed - and the writing reflects an honesty about teen adoration, but also about sex, lust and a dose of good, old fashioned, jealousy. It packs quite a lot of story into ninety minutes and raises quite a few smiles - of laughter and of appreciation (we've probably all been here, at some point, as we grew up and remember the intensity of that "first kiss") and is well worth a watch.