Without that, it’s easy for the audience to find a vast, empty space where a crush masked a character’s lack of personality. Whether it’s an American sitcom, a romantic comedy movie, an anime, or a manga, the push and pull of a couple coming together is compelling enough drama to drive a story. It’s not often you see a romance series move on to what happens after two characters become a couple. Instead, the confession comes along with a request: Shirogane wants Kaguya to apply to Stanford with him. Just when the characters realized how much they really care for each other, it seems they’ll be separated - or Shirogane will forgo his dream of studying abroad to stay with Kaguya.īut that doesn’t happen. The confession comes a little less than a year before the characters graduate and Shirogane is set to leave for Stanford. A hidden hint of Shirogane’s confession in the anime’s opening credits A-1 Pictures The gesture was grand, elaborate, shockingly silly, and incredibly sweet, all without betraying the heart of its characters and their inability to express themselves completely. Shirogane’s entire grand sort-of-confession was a seamless conclusion of all the moments of character development and growth that had come before it. After all, if something is going to be a truly great parody, it also has to be able to fall into line with the genre tropes when it needs to.
Even as it changed though the series continued to stick closely to its will-they-won’t-they path - until everything changed.Īs the manga progressed through an arc centered on the culture festival - the place where more romance manga confessions happen than any other - Kaguya-sama: Love is War seemed to inch towards a moment that fans have spent nearly four years waiting for: the confession. Slowly the story shed its original competition-based premise and morphed into a charming story about two characters trying to work through their feelings for one another. The characters developed complex inner lives, and the series started to explore what, exactly, they couldn’t confess to each other. Think Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons, but about high school relationships.Īs Kaguya-sama: Love is War in popularity, writer Aka Akasaka’s series also outgrew its roots as a parody of traditional romantic comedy manga.
This results in increasingly ridiculous mind games in which they end up outsmarting themselves. Kaguya-sama: Love is War started out as a manga with a specific premise: two high school geniuses, Shirogane and Kaguya, can’t admit they’re in love, so each tries to win a confession of affection from the other.
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