Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
Alternate Titles
かぐや様は告らせたい-ウルトラロマンティック
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -Ultra Romantic-
Synopsis
Miyuki Shirogane is the top student at his school and is even well-known nationally, and Kaguya Shinomiya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate and equally as intelligent. Together, they run the student council at Shuchiin Academy, an elite school for the gifted. These two geniuses seem like the perfect couple. The only problem is that each is too proud to confess their feelings to the other! They’ve been playing a game of scheming and trickery where the first person to confess loses, but by the last day of the school’s culture festival, their love story is about to take a big turn!
Background
Kaguya-sama: Love is War began as a manga by Aka Akasaka that launched in Shueisha’s Miracle Jump magazine in May 2015. The following year the series switched to the seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump. As of December 2021, 24 collected tankobon volumes have been published. The manga is published in English by Viz Media. Two spin-off manga also launched in 2018: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Dojin-ban by Shinta Sakayama which launched on the Tonari no Young Jump website in June, and the four-panel Kaguya-sama o Kataritai by G3 Ida that launched in Young Jump in July.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic- is the third season of the TV anime adaptation and was first announced in October 2020 during the stage event “Kaguya-sama Wants to Tell You Onstage.” It is once again being produced by A-1 Pictures and sees returning staff members including Mamoru Hatakeyama as director, Yasuhiro Nakanishi who is handling series composition, Yuuko Yahiro who is handling character designs, and Kei Haneoka who is composing the music. The anime will begin airing in Japan in April 2022.
Characters
Kaguya Shinomiya (Voiced by: Aoi Koga)
The wealthy daughter of the owners of one of Japan’s largest business conglomerates, Kaguya is the beautiful and intelligent vice president of Shuchiin Academy’s student council. She can be seen as cold-hearted and cunningly deceptive, but deep down she cares for her friends and does what she thinks is right. She has black hair, ruby eyes, and a small chest that she is self-conscious about and often compares to Fujiwara’s. She is in a game of sorts with Shirogane in which she strives to make him confess to her, but eventually she starts to feel romantic interest of her own toward him.
Miyuki Shirogane (Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa)
The top student at Shuchiin Academy and also the student council president, Miyuki is hard-working and focused. He comes from a poor family, with his dad being unemployed, so he and his sister often take on part-time jobs in order to help pay the bills. He has fair, messy hair, sharp facial features, and perpetual bags under his eyes from sleep deprivation.
Chika Fujiwara (Voiced by: Konomi Kohara)
The daughter of a noble political family, Chika is Shuchiin Academy’s student council secretary. She is easy-going and friendly by nature, and her and Kaguya have been friends since middle school. She is a member of the traditional games club at Shuchiin Academy and often spends her free time designing board games. She is fair skinned with light shoulder-length hair and always wears a bow on her bangs. She is clueless as to Kaguya and Mikyuki’s game.
Yuu Ishigami (Voiced by: Ryota Suzuki)
Shuchiin Academy’s student council treasurer, Yuu is an underclassman of Miyuki, Kaguya, and Chika. He is very introverted and would rather focus more on playing video games than keeping good grades at school.
Miko Iino
The auditing officer for Shuchiin Academy’s student council, Miko is an underclassman of Miyuki, Kaguya, and Chika and a classmate of Yuu. Despite being very opinionated, she is shy around large groups and has a fear of public speaking. She is very caring and thoughtful around her friends.
Ai Hayasaka (Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori)
Ai is Kaguya’s personal secretary on the student council and also her childhood friend whom she has a sisterly relationship with. She and her family are employed through the Shinomiya conglomerate and have been for generations. In order to hide her true identity, she creates other identities that she lives through including a gyaru student who attends Shuchiin, a young maid who works at Kaguya’s house, and a male butler named Haysaca.
Narrator (Voiced by: Yutaka Aoyama)
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Staff
- Original Creator: Aka Akasaka
- Director: Mamoru Hatakeyama
- Series Composition: Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Character Designer: Yuuko Yahiro
- Chief Animation Director: Hiroshi Yakou, Yuko Hariba, Yuuko Yahiro
- Prop Design: Takayuki Kido
- Art Director: Risa Wakabayashi
- Art Setting: Hiroki Matsumoto, Yuki Kuribayashi
- Color Design: Kanako Hokari
- CG Director: Yuki Kuribayashi
- Director of Photography: Masaharu Okazaki
- Editing: Rie Matsubara
- Music: Kei Haneoka
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Production: Magic Capsule
- Animation Production: A-1 Pictures