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'''''Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'''''<ref>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'', literally "Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses' War of Hearts and Minds"</ref> is an anime produced by [[A-1 Pictures]], based on a manga from Aka Akasaka. Three seasons has been released: the first and second consisting of 12 episodes, and the third of 13. An OVA in the second season, "Kaguya-sama Darkness Volume 1/Kaguya-sama Darkness Volume 2/Kaguya-sama wa Tabesasetai", was released in May 2021.
Shuchiin Academy is the source of all things prestige. If you are in Japan, is of exceptional intelligence, and has a moderate amount of self respect, this is where you would go. But what happens at the top of the top? Of the most powerful of powerful, the most elite of elite, on top of the highest mountain, sits Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya. And not even they are immune from [[Teen Drama]].
To the average user of [[All The Tropes]], love is just another part of life. Just like water, air, and
Except they're wrong.
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The stakes are just a little high.
The show isn't pure "love is war", though. There are some dramatic scenes exploring the dramatic past of characters, as well as other scenes which explore the lives of students both outside and inside the council.
The main character Kaguya Shinomiya shares some characteristics with Princess Kaguya from ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'', as a result of both material being influenced (or outright adapting, in the case of the latter) the ''[[Princess from the Moon]]'' folktale. Both Shinomiya and Princess Kaguya feel restricted by the expectations placed on them by being in a wealthy family, instead choosing to value the friendships of people she meets. They both appear stoic on the outside, but in reality are hiding a great deal of emotion on the inside.▼
▲The main character Kaguya Shinomiya shares some characteristics with Princess Kaguya
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== Frequently used tropes ==
You know how [[Omnipresent Tropes]] have too many examples to list? Well, these tropes pop up in ''Kaguya-sama: Love
* [[Art Shift]]: Whenever a character has an [[Inner Monologue]] (which happens more often than you would expect), an art shift probably happens. A particularly noticeable
* [[Crush Blush]]:
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: The series uses the trope so much, we're pretty sure it would be a [[Trope Namers|trope namer]] if it was released earlier. Each episode has around three parts. Every part usually has at least two (one from Shirogane, and one from Kaguya), although this is toned down in season 2. Any scene involving [[Teen Drama]] in season 1 (you should expect a lot of Teen Drama in a show literally titled ''Love is War'') has two of these.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: The entire show can be renamed to just "Inner Monologue: Love is War",
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: The English narrator, Ian Sinclair, goes so wild in the English dub there's an entire genre of [[YouTube]] videos titled "Kaguya dub". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOb__E18j1U Take] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz6YwrFfCvY a] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfylQJz1Qg look]. {{quote|''Remember when I said we would get to the home visit later?''
''It's later!''}}
* [[Off-Model]]: Used for expression. For example, when a character is painted as being intimidating their heads will grow in size. The size of
* [[Post Modernism]]: The entire show contains enough grain filters to make ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'' jealous.
* [[The Teaser]]: Used in most episodes. Exceptions include S1E7-9 and S1E12.
* [[Teen Drama]]: The entire series basically evolves around this.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Welcome to ''Will They or Won't They?: The manga: The anime''. We hope you enjoy your stay! It's quite impressive to build an entire series around this one singular trope, but ''Love is War'' has done it!.
== Other Tropes ==
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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: Averted. You would ''think'' this trope is in use with all the shenanigans going on in the student council, but nope. It's actually a pretty normal student council doing the usual things a student council does.
* [[Animation Bump]]: In the ''ending'' of all places. The "Chika Dance" ending of S1E3 has animation better than the entire episode that came before it.
* [[Beach Episode]]: One is ''teased'' in battle two of S1E2, but it never happens.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Both averted and played straight. Phones in the show looks like the Apple logo, but there are too many bites out of the apple. On the other hand, Twitter straight up exists in universe. Although its logo is slightly different than the real world one, the name remains completely the same.
** S2E8 introduces us to ''Marinekart''.
* [[Breather Episode]]: Part 3 of S1E4 is a nice, relaxing contrast with the romantic drama that comes before (and after) it. There's still romantic drama, but there's more calmer and relaxing scenes.
* [[Cell Phone]]: Shirogane gets one in the first part of S1E2. This leads to an intense battle where the he tries subtly to convince
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: A lot of times when the camera is moving in 3D, it's quite easy to tell that some background elements are in CG, as they are way too smooth in both outline and colouring.
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: The ending of S1E3, instead of the usual sequence, features the Chika Dance. This is basically Detective Fujiwara bragging about her ability to uncover mysteries about love. The credits song, unsubtly named "Chikatto Chika Chika♡ (チカっとチカ千花っ♡)" says that even though Fujiwara has an IQ of 3, she can handle the job.
* [[Credits Running Sequence]]: The very last episode of season 1 features Shirogane being embarrassed by what he did in the firework arc, and rapidly running away from
* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: The ending theme to episode three, in album releases, straight up had "Chika Fujiwara" as the artist. Of course, the album did note who is actually behind the song, which happens to be Fujiwara's voice actor Konomi Kohara.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: In battle three of S1E2, Shirogane is giving out relationship advice to get Tsubasa Tanuma paired up with Nagisa Kashiwagi. Little did he (but a lot did the audience) know,
''She's standing right outside the freaking door! Good thing I noticed!''}}
* [[Dramatic Slip]]: In part two of S2E8,
* [[Faceless Masses]]: In part two of S2E4, faceless masses watch as Shirogane asks Kaguya to be in charge of his campaigning speeches. Of course, that simple request isn't the reason the Faceless Masses are watching. In reality, they're watching because they think the two are confessing their love for each other.
* [[Flashback]]: In S1E2, another student of Shuchiin Academy enters the student council to ask for relationship advice. He gets a flashback to when girls state that he's "still on the market" (translation: still looking for a girlfriend).
* [[Genre Shift]]: The third part of S1E3 takes the usual high-stakes [[Rom Com]] [[Teen Drama]] into a [[Slice of Life]] segment closer to a typical [[Studio Ghibli]] production. There's no intense romance scheming, rather, we get a nice story about helping a girl cross the road and walk to school.
* [[Ghibli Hills]]: In the second battle of s1e2, Shirogane wants to go on a trip to a mountain. Ghibli Hills appear in mental sequences of him visualising the location.
* [[In Medias Res]]: Part two of S2E8 begins with
* [[Long Title]]: ''Kaguya-sama: Love is War'' doesn't seem that bad, until you venture into other languages.
** Season 1 and 2
*** The original title is ''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 zunô sen ~)
*** The Chinese title is ''辉夜大小姐想让我告白：天才们的恋爱头脑战''.
*** The Chinese title is basically the Japanese title translated into Chinese. Both titles roughly translates to "Lady Kaguya
*** The season 2 title adds a question mark to the title, to get something like "Kaguya wants to confess?"
** Season 3
*** The original Japanese title is ''かぐや様は告らせたい-ウルトラロマンティック-'', with the Chinese title being ''辉夜大小姐想让我告白：究极浪漫''. The subtitle roughly translates to "Ultra Romantic".
** The titles of each chapters aren't particularly long. However, each episode consists of three chapters, with the occasional four chapter episode. The name of the chapters are combined into one title. Therefore, we get behemoths like "Miyuki Shirogane Wants Girls to Fall for Him/Nagisa Kashiwagi Wants to Console/Miyuki Shirogane Wants to Sing/Kaguya Wants to Kick Them Down" and "Ai Hayasaka Wants to Stave Them Off/The Student Council Has Not Achieved Nirvana/Kaguya Wants to Get Married/Kaguya Wants to Celebrate".
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The fourth wall is shattered as, halfway throughout the first episode, the narrator straight up reveals that despite only being twelve minutes into the episode, the audience probably knows
** In the epilogue of S1E1,
* [[Opening Monologue]]: Delivered in the first episode to explain the background of the two leads. Also followed through in the second episode. It starts in the third episode, but gets fast forwarded as we all got the point by that time.
▲* [[Post Modernism]]: The entire show contains enough grain filters to make ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'' jealous. There also happens to be no fourth wall. Also, all concept of linear storytelling is abolished as every other shot takes you into the mind of a character.
* [[Retraux]]: The very first episode of season 2 features title cards, deliberately made in the style of old film reels (with complementary grain and sound effects), that introduces the viewer to the series if they haven't seen season 1.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: The female uniform at the academy.
* [[Super-Deformed]]: Around seven minutes into S1E2, several super-deformed versions of Kaguya Shinomiya scroll down on screen.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the last part of S1E9, Hayasaka makes it abundantly clear that:
**
** Kaguya, due to a bunch of Freudian stuff, will not remember what happened for three hours.
** Hayasaka will ensure Shirogane and
** The walls are soundproof.
** What happened in the room stays in the room.
*: The bonus is that Hayasaka repeatedly emphasizes that absolutely ''nothing'' inappropriate should happen in the room. Granted, no one will know if anything inappropriate happened, but Hayasaka keeps insisting, creating the perfect condition for something inappropriate to occur. {{spoiler|Nothing inappropriate occurred. They didn't have sex as Shirogane resisted.
** While inside a sports shed in S2E8,
* [[Their First Time]]: A phase used to demonstrate the innocence and sheltered nature of Kaguya, with how she believes it refers to a first kiss instead of its actual meaning.
* [[Time Skip]]: Right in the first episode of the entire series, we get one that goes for ''half a year'' as
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Chika Fujiwara just has pink hair.
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