Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
A school romantic comedy in which Shuchiin Academy student council leaders Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane scheme to make the other confess, before gradually learning to face their own feelings honestly.
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- ラブコメディ / 学園 / 青春 / 心理戦
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- Manga / Anime / Film
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — Timeline12 events
Kaguya and Miyuki's romantic battle of wits begins
Kaguya Shinomiya and student council president Miyuki Shirogane spend six months attracted to each other but too proud to confess. A pair of movie tickets brought by Chika Fujiwara triggers their full-fledged campaign to make the other speak first.
Vol.TVアニメ 第1期 第1話 映画に誘わせたい／かぐや様は止められたい／かぐや様はいただきたいCh. — Official Season 1 Episode 1 synopsis. ↗
Miyuki goes to visit Kaguya while she is ill
When Kaguya misses school with a cold, Miyuki competes in a card game for the task of delivering her worksheets. Conscious that illness makes Kaguya unusually candid, he heads to the Shinomiya residence to visit her.
Vol.TVアニメ 第1期 第9話 四宮かぐやについて①ほかCh. — Official Season 1 Episode 9 synopsis. ↗
Miyuki and the others find Kaguya after she misses the fireworks
Forced to abandon the fireworks by her family's rules, Kaguya escapes the estate with Hayasaka's help but arrives after the show has ended. Miyuki and the others find her in tears, and the group sets out to see fireworks together elsewhere.
Vol.TVアニメ 第1期 第12話 花火の音は聞こえない 後編Ch. — Official Season 1 Episode 12 synopsis. ↗
The 67th Student Council concludes its term
Miyuki, Kaguya, Chika, and Yu clean the student council room and revisit mementos including the movie tickets and game props. The four leave the empty room as the 67th council's term ends ahead of the next election.
Vol.TVアニメ 第2期 第3話 第67期生徒会ほかCh. — Official Season 2 Episode 3 synopsis. ↗
Miyuki and Miko Iino face each other in the Student Council election
Miko Iino challenges Miyuki in a presidential election he is expected to win easily. Seeing Yu's concern that the nervous Miko will be ridiculed during her speech, Miyuki engages her in a serious policy debate onstage.
Vol.TVアニメ 第2期 第6話 伊井野ミコを笑わせないほかCh. — Official Season 2 Episode 6 synopsis. ↗
Yu faces his past and runs the relay
After finding a place in the cheer squad, Yu's reunion with former classmate Kyoko Ootomo forces him to recall the incident that isolated him in middle school. Replacing the injured captain as relay anchor, he takes a step beyond that past.
Vol.TVアニメ 第2期 第11話 そして石上優は目を閉じた③ほかCh. — Official Season 2 Episode 11 synopsis. ↗
Kaguya loses the phone holding her student council memories
During a student council photo shoot, Kaguya cannot appear in the official images because of family rules, so the others propose a private group photo. A gust knocks her phone from the roof, leaving her devastated by the loss of the pictures she took with her friends.
Vol.TVアニメ 第2期 第12話 生徒会は撮られたいほかCh. — Official Season 2 Episode 12 synopsis. ↗
Miyuki chooses overseas study and sets a deadline for confession
At the parent-teacher conference, Miyuki reveals his decision to attend Stanford University. Knowing his time at Shuchiin is limited, he resolves to make Kaguya confess by the Culture Festival.
Vol.TVアニメ 第3期 ウルトラロマンティック 第6話 生徒会は進みたい／白銀御行は告らせたい②・③Ch. — Official Season 3 Episode 6 synopsis; the episode identifies his destination and confession deadline. ↗
Miyuki's confession plan goes into motion at the Hoshin Festival
As Yu invites Tsubame Koyasu around the Culture Festival, Miyuki secretly advances his plan to make Kaguya confess. Fearing that an unexpected incident may ruin it, he continues scheming toward the Hoshin Festival finale.
Vol.TVアニメ 第3期 ウルトラロマンティック 第10話 白銀御行の文化祭ほかCh. — Official Season 3 Episode 10 synopsis. ↗
Kaguya and Miyuki share their first kiss atop the clock tower
Disguised as the phantom thief Arsène, Miyuki waits for Kaguya atop the clock tower and turns his feelings before studying abroad into an elaborate spectacle. They convey their feelings and share their first kiss after their long battle of wits.
Vol.TVアニメ 第3期 ウルトラロマンティック 第13話 二つの告白 後編／秀知院は後夜祭Ch. — Official Season 3 finale synopsis and the film's official introduction. ↗
The day after the kiss, Kaguya's inner selves put her feelings on trial
Miyuki revisits the clock-tower kiss and tries to understand what Kaguya intended. Inside Kaguya's mind, a trial among her different selves exposes the conflict between her perfect mask and her desire to reveal her vulnerabilities.
Vol.劇場版 ファーストキッスは終わらない 第1部 四宮かぐやについて③ほかCh. — Official film Part 1 synopsis. ↗
Kaguya and Miyuki face their true feelings in the park
After the Fujiwara family's Christmas party, Kaguya and Miyuki sit alone together in a park. They confront their desire for each other's imperfect, vulnerable selves rather than performed perfection, moving their ambiguous relationship forward.
Vol.劇場版 ファーストキッスは終わらない 第4部 かぐや様はこれでいいCh. — Official film Part 4 synopsis; the official introduction also frames this resolution. ↗
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