Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Mayian_Kobushi
Unfortunately, I watched the anime maybe 5 times... and the question is, did I like it? Unfortunately, no.
Story: 0/10
The story is simply about how a girl and a guy are fighting over who falls in love first and that's all, so the story progress is completely zero.
Characters: 0/10
The characters do not have any sympathy in themselves, the only thing we learn is that they are vice-presidents and thats all, so I can't even empathize with the characters.
Art: 2/10
The art style would be great if they didn't use too much effects, which maybe the creators thought were cool, the only thing I got from it was that I thought in my head "is this even a series? Or try to promote the effects?''
Romance: 0/10
basically you can't see any chemistry in the characters, we just see how in the ch…
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Another over hyped show
Story 2/10
The plot can be summed up in haha new prank to make senpai love me oh no plan failed.
Art 8/10
The art and editing don’t deserve a show like this.
Sound 1/10
The Chika dance is hella overrated and the openings one redeeming quality is the editing.
Character 9/10
The characters were actually really fun to watch sucks they were placed in this hell hole. Enjoyment 1/10
Now you may be wondering “but what about the characters” well good characters can only take a crappie plot so far
Overall 2/10
The only thing stopping me from giving it a 1 is that technically it’s impressive and the characters are charming.
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Not more than a year ago... One of the few friends I had messaged me the link of a YouTube video and said "watch it.. It's great". I wondered what it was so I clicked on it. As soon as the video started.... An anime girl with pink hair and a bow dressed in a school uniform was dancing in a room overlooking an open window. She was incredibly cute and the dance was great. And the beats in the song could give even the coolest of club bangers a run for their money. On further Googling I found out that the girl was Chika Fujiwara from the anime that I am going to talk about. It was a comedy anime from spring 2019 season. It was flooded with great reviews and rule 34 artists were going haywire because of the two female main characters. So I said to myself "go on. Try it. It's not like you have a…
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One of the overhype anime. It's above average but there is not enough strong point to keep you to watch. If it's not that i want to watch romance between Kaguya, I would already drop this.
The start of the anime is not bad. The mind game is still tolerable and kinda cool, but later it turned to be just plain gag. Worst is the dub, author thought something very ordinary you might not know and have to explain it in detail that it felt like filler. I'm not sure if that's japanese joke but it's so repetitive.
The thing I don't like the most is creativity, there is none. Nothing new in confession war, but the same idea.
The only thing I like and recommend in this anime is romance. It's not super romantic but still not bad.
Edit: This is my subjective review on season 1. The story+romance is…
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A fun show in the same vein as "Kare Kano", However unlike "Kare Kano" it doesn't advance the relationship until the end, mostly filling the time with skits. It's more or less a one trick pony, different jokes in the same vein. Personally got stale after a while, and since I already saw a similar show that did more it didn't help. The characters do their jobs, but they're mostly cliches.
Romantic comedies in similar qualities are pretty common, and by itself there's not much that stands out. There's no fantasy elements like in "The Devil is a Part Timer", there's no gimmick to the characters like "Science Fell in Love.." or "Gran Blue" and the variation of the jokes are pretty non-existent. For a time-waster there are better ones out there, however it's not like time-wasters are watched…
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I’ll keep this review simple Love is war isn’t terrible because it’s popular, it’s terrible because nothing happens in the show. I want you to imagine two of your friends wanting to date each other however they both are too proud to admit it to one another. Stretch that for 12 episodes and what you get is a show that will make you sit down for 20 good min of literally nothing. Every episode is like a lead up to progressing the relationship only to go back square 1 with slight variations between each other. For example in one episode they say some endearing things to each other which lead up to a scene that literally would make anyone say now is the time they end up together. Then they instantly fall back to square 1 with now the one of the Mc thinking wow other Mc is so cool. Like that kin…
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War is a romantic comedy focused on two student council members of a prestigious and elite high school, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya, having romantic interest in one another. However, both are too prideful to want to confess their feelings to one another and are in a battle of wits to try getting one another to confess their love with the first to confess being the loser of their battle.
Kaguya-sama’s episodes are formatted as such where there are 2-4 separate segments within each episode that revolve around either Miyuki and Kaguya’s battle of wits to get one another to confess or each character interacting with family and friends. The series is meant to poke fun of typical cliches of the rom-com genre that involve the budding relationships between classmate…
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In Spring season, i was looking forward to two anime in particular Promised neverland and kaguya sama love is war.
Kaguya sama love is was turned out to be the biggest disappointment of the year for me, i knew about the manga for quite a long time and had high expectations because of the rave reviews it received.
So i kept myself back from reading manga because of anime.
But the anime turns out to be mediocre at best. there is literally nothing apart from forced drama that makes it any different from the shows in its recommendation tab.
Story : 4 - At first the plot seemed appealing to me. But the way the story was executed is just a atrocious. Most episodes can be summed up as, One of the main character encounters a problem and makes a huge deal, involving that scenario our two childis…
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War
As much as this show can be as stereotypical an anime can be, it wasn't a surprise to see the show using the same tropes used in the past, in these days finding out a new way to make a love comedy anime interesting is quite hard. So rather than focusing on changing the tropes, other aspects of the anime can be changed to make it alluring towards the viewer, and that's what this anime did.
Rather than focusing on the plot of the story, since hardly there is really no plot, it's focused more on the antics, plotting of the characters, to make the other one confess their love. The synergy between these characters is what separates this show towards all other love romantic comedies out there, all the characters are in a way, in correlation to, connected to each othe…
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Every season there is one entry the anime community overhypes beyond belief and this time it's Kaguya sama.
Story? There’s no story beyond two teen high schoolers failed love attempts at getting the other person to confess. Fans have dubbed Kaguya sama as the "Death Note of romance", which is laughable because the mind games here are pretentious, basic tactics.
The comedy is hit or miss most of the time, with the odd joke being able to crack a smile from me. The jokes and gags are repetitive and become stale e.g. the skit where the President and Kaguya gave love advice dragged on too long. The episode about the wiener joke (no, I’m not kidding) was so childish.
The characters are a bunch of troupes who receive no character development: Kaguya is a rich, childish, pampered tsundere with…
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When a genre has been around for a long time and has been oversaturated, there could be no doubt that sometimes you get a show that decides to put a spin on things. To freshen up and give a new perspective on the genre while still acknowledging what makes the genre enjoyable and why we keep watching them. They will normally have their own gimmick that makes them stand out. In the case of this anime, it asks us the question. What would happen when a Tsundere and a Tsundere liked each other? Well we get this golden gem of an anime.
Sit back, relax and try to get hired as the narrator for someones love life as I present to you the anime review for Kaguya-Sama: Love is War. Lets begin.
Story: 9.5/10
A relationship is a beloved thing. It is something that can when seen, it is a beautiful t…
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“See, this show's what having a good director can do for your fuckin' show. You can make A-1 Pictures look like a competent studio. That's fucked up!” -DEEsidia from REVEL HOUSE, 2019
Pride is cruel and ignorance is bliss, and when love is war, feelings are the casualties. Kaguya-sama is this concept taken to a hilarious extreme, with two teenage egotists trying to manipulate each other into confessing their feelings as every idea they ever had gets trampled on. This show thrives off its comedic timing, with tons of audiovisual flair, character chemistry, and wild ideas for our main leads to plan around and exploit. With A-1 being listed as the studio behind this, I’m sure some alarms were triggered, but thanks to Rakugo director Shinichi Omata, everything listed prior is utilized specta…
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*No Spoiler Concise Review*
TL;DR: If a Tsundere and a Tsundere liked each other, would they ever find out?
[Story: 6/10 , Characters: 9/10, Art: 8/10, Sound: 7/10, Enjoyment: 8/10]
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen aka Love is War, is your simple romcom school anime about a boy and a girl, in love with one another, facing the crippling pressure of confession. Sounds very boring and repetitive, right? WRONG. This show took this super repetitive simple concept and just elevated it to the next level where they accentuate the idea of confession to the level of cold war. Sounds dark? More like sounds dank. Seriously, if viewers became tired of watching the boring romcom genres of yesteryears, then this show will fill new gaps you never realized you even had. Love is…
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"If I cover my ears, then my hands aren't free to protect my belly button!"
- Shoki no Chika
Reminder: this review does not include any element of comparison with the manga and contains just a little bit spoiler (not too much). Of course, I have read the manga and it is very good, but I'm not the kind of person who would want to compare an anime to its original source (it's kinda pointless to compare 3 hours of Grisaia to the 50 hours of its visual novel, for the sake of example); (and English is not my native tongue).
Because tradition dictates it, here is a short introduction to the anime: read the synopsis! Okay… You have a cool and smart but poor blond president, a very candid oujo-sama (how cute!), a perverse… I mean cute secretary and an otaku gamer treasurer.
And if you want to di…
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A random day back in December 2015 had me giving a chance to at that point very recent manga called Kaguya-sama after the cover grabbed my attention, not too many chapters after I already fell in love with it and it eventually became my favorite work ever and the one that I was waiting like crazy for an adaptation to happen, and when that time came… oh god, they couldn't have delivered harder!
The main duo of this story are Kaguya and Miyuki, the two students at the top of a highly renowned academy and the two most lovable tsunderes out there, consistently trying to outplay the other into confessing their love to hilarious results. These two characters come from very different perspectives (she is from a very rich and influential family with questionable raising standards and has been she…
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"O kawaii koto~"
Imagine if Death Note was a romcom. Imagine that Light and L were not trying to outwit each other with the world itself at stake, but rather just that they actually liked each other romantically but were too shy and awkward to just it outright. Do you think that sounds ridiculous? Maybe, but that's more or less the idea behind Kaguya-sama. Well, except it's not yaoi of course.
If you ever need a benchmark for how to do a romcom really damn good, then look no further than this. There really aren't many series within the genre out there that can manage to not just be cute and hilarious, but actually quite intelligent as well, but Kaguya-sama does it all. The anime follows the daily lives of Shirogane Miyuki and Shinomiya Kaguya, the top two students at Shuchiin Academy, an…
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Although it took me more than one episode to get into it, Kaguya-sama: Love is War provided me with entertainment that only got stronger as the show went on.
Kaguya and Shirogane have a crush on each other, but both are too proud to admit it. Thus many of their encounters turn into psychological games of getting the other to give in. Initially this made their relationship come off as a little creepy, given how they basically want to manipulate the other. This made me a bit wary at first, and the mind battles at first weren’t that interesting, nor did the presentation resonate with me that much. Luckily enough, they began to shift away from these kinds of creepy thoughts and the show eventually focussed more on the comedic aspects of its premise. The reason I personally feel like this is…
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To describe Kaguya-sama: Love is War as a battlefield of love, between two prideful geniuses, who see confessing as a sign of “weakness” is well—sort of misleading.
Not because these type of scenarios don’t happen throughout the show, but more so because I’m not entirely sure that it is accurate to describe the characters as “prideful” or even “geniuses”; and that might be the biggest issue the show has.
Kaguya-sama begins in a very direct way; the whole idea of the show, everything about Miyuki and Kaguya, and their relationship is thrown at us through a narrator. There is no build up of their relationship, we are told they are in love and we are immediately expected to care. As a result, I found it difficult to ever form a sort of solid connection with the characters, to ‘root’ for the…
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This is one of those special anime that perfectly represents why I’ve been sticking with anime for so long. Love is War exudes brilliance with every fiber of its being. It has so much going for it, and offers something that practically everyone can enjoy. In simpler terms, it’s just so damn good bruh! What, don’t believe me? pfft, how cute. Let me lecture you on why this anime is pure excellence.
Psychological battles of wits have always excited me. It’s quite exhilarating to witness two characters going head to head against each other not physically, but mentally. Anime RomComs with interesting and dynamic characters can always be a joy to watch as well, especially when they take an unconventional approach to the genre. Love is War is a crazy mix of both of these genres, almost like it’…
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Almost every time someone talks to me about a romantic comedy, they'd would mention how well the romance is delivered. Then along came this show called Kaguya-sama: Love is War that goes beyond than just being a romantic comedy. In a landscape dominated by recent isekai shows, there’s a need for fresh air. Kaguya-sama managed be just that.
Aka Akasaka is somewhat of a new author in the manga world. Prior to this series, their only work I was familiar with is Sayonara Piano Sonata. When Kaguya-sama began serializing, I knew there was something special about this series with the way it introduced its story and characters. Do note that the anime adapts chapters not in a chronological order but takes them to make the overall tone of the show flow better. Every episode contains at least 3 seg…
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