Anime 37999 Kaguya-sama Wa Kokurasetai Tensai-tachi No Renai Zunousen Reviews Filter Check 3

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 barely any endearing qualities. Chika is the cute ditsy airhead, Ishigami is the depressed emo okatu that fans relate to calling him "our guy". He's easily the worst character because of how one dimensional he is and all his jokes being so predictable e.g. "oh no, Kaguya is going to kill me! I'm going home President!". The president is the hardworking and studious guy. He’s the best of the main cast in my opinion. He's the most interesting, relatable and got varied comedy.

The main problem with this show is the narration. The narrator might as well be his own character with how overused it is, to the point it becomes overbearing and annoying. The writer clearly didn't grasp the concept of "show, don't tell" because i don't want to be told about the characters and their thought process like they’re puppets. I don’t know why the narrator is keeping score of their matches because it ultimately amounts to nothing and we get the same rinse-repeat scenario next episode. He’s often mentioning stuff that’s obvious on screen with info dumps, which is jarring because it comes across as if the viewer is too stupid to think for themselves.

I’ll give it to A1, the animation is great, the osts are good and the stylistic presentation is visually impressive enough for you to overlook most scenes taking place in one location. The opening visuals are creative, however the opening song is cheesy and the ending is forgettable.

Overall, Kaguya sama is a fun rom-com, but it's cliche and filled with troupes that would otherwise be criticised in other shows. The dynamic between the two leads doesn’t change as they are no closer to confessing to each other than they were at beginning. It's baffling to see so many positive reviews and the amount of praise it’s received when it lacks substance and does nothing special compared to other rom-coms.

I must be to old to like this anime.

There is no story, it`s all about 2 young students who are afraid to show their real feelings.
And then it`s only short stories, 3 or 4 in 1 episode.

It`s really boring, Chika is somewhat amusing although not really.
Maybe if the characters would evolve, but they don`t.

The main characters are showing bold and all knowing, but they are really as insecure as a little schoolgirl
Maybe i have seen to many of this genre, but it just doesn`t interest me at all.
... Watch this if you like to see insecure students bumbling around, otherwise don`t waste your time on this

perhaps the manga is beter, but i don`t like reading from right to left so i`ll never know

This is not good.

The whole show got popular and keeps getting popular thanks to a meme of a dancing lady. A lot of people consider it the best comedy show they have seen, and a lot of people dislike the fact this is called a comedy anime.

I'm on par with the last example, this whole show is extremely repetitive and predictable, you can pretty much predict what's gonna happen in the next 10 minutes, without the help of any spoilers, most of the jokes and comedic parts are hardly funny or as you would like to call it "sarcastic". It was a premise with the ... name of something so intriguing as "Psychological Comedy" but ended up being your next Sword Art, it is almost childish to call this Psychological just because of camera angles, and because some characters "threat" each other with words when both of them don't even know the meaning of love.

The whole direction of the series keeps going down with every episode and skit looking the same as before and the same as every other A-1 Pictures anime. Keeping the formula of generic episodic series.

The characters are (as mentioned) like any other characters the studio has produced, even if they are not made by the same person, their personalities, traits and such are always the same, lacking depth and complexity in their development.

The show itself started slow, and with forced comedy that barely made me smile, it is indeed a weak anime when it comes to this season. Would i recommend this? No. Would you enjoy it? Probably. Did I enjoy it? No.

4/10

I did not like the series, most people say that this series is innovative ... but I say, in what innovates? same composition of characters in any romantic novel (the 2 tsundere protagonists who like each other, but none dares to take a step to the point that it becomes annoying, secondary characters whose only function is to look silly on screens to make people laugh no deeper development).

In my opinion until the anime of ueno-san is better than this since at least does not have the typical composition among its characters.
In short, I do not see that people see this anime when there are ... much better romantic comedies.

Both psychological game to make the other do something that the 2 want to do and has me sick.

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 anything else to do"
So I did.

You may have already known from my Score that I am not impressed and that's true but for very valid reasons. I am not the one who tries to bash popular stuff to get some elitist ecstasy. So hear me out guys okay.

So, the first thing is story. I wanted to leave the section blank cause there isn't any story. But then the reader would assume I am just a hater. No I am not. The problem with episodic anime is that you don't feel a sense of progression if there isn't a frame story to go with episodic core story in each episode. Frame stories are the larger background plots that keep on moving forward as each episodic story ends. For example....Evangelion was episodic but with each passing episode Shinji came closer to defeat the angel armada. I know the genres of Kaguya sama and Evangelion are poles apart but i only mentioned it to explain what frame story means. In kaguya sama... There is no frame story. Each episode has no correlation with the previous one so you won't even know if you skipped an episode or two while watching. It feels very disjointed. Kinda reminded me of Tom and Jerry days when one got hurt... They were back to normal in the very next scene. So the characters interactions that happens between the council members are nothing more than anecdotes with some jokes in it. The characters never refer to older events in the show hence the narrative kinda just resets itself every 8 minutes. No matter what happens.... The council members come back to square one every time. In fact. If you separated the individual stories and asked a viewer to sort them in the order they happened..... He would fail.... Because there is no linearity in the plot with each episode ending with zero consequences and no permanent effects. And I won't take the excuse that "comedy anime don't need a story". Prison school had a story which was continuous and well paced with a great payoff at the end.

Coming to the structure and script of the show, it's as dull as a weeb's dating history. There are several problems so I would go one by one addressing them. First of all.... The narrator. Who in the seven hells thought that a third person narrator would do any good to the story. Nothing ruins a joke more than explaining it. That dude not only explains the joke but what the speaker meant, what the listener interpret it as and what was actually supposed to be the funny part of it. It feels really insulting to me as a viewer that the writer thinks that I am too dumb to get the joke myself. The "tell" in show or tell methods of narration is for the less intelligent people. And the narrators existence clearly shows the show uses a "tell" approach. Another thing that irked me was the narrator's routine of keeping scores of the "mind battles" between Kaguya and Shirogane. Not only is this irritating because of absence of well defined parameters to award or deduct points but also feels like a waste of time because the scores are neither cumulative nor they have any consequences whatsoever. So it feels nothing more than a pretentious mess.

Another problem that the show suffers from is in its setting. Shuichin Academy is the school for the most elite students in the country. But judging from the glimpses given in the show of the school students' life.... It hardly feels that they are anything more than retards or bimbos. All of them keep loitering in the school corridors and do nothing more than discuss "who is dating whom". Every once in a while.... Some guy or girl come to the student council room to ask for dating advice from the main characters as if that's all they care about. There are no instances of any classes going on in the school and there is not a single adult present. It is the same problem which one of my least favourite anime "kakegurui" suffers from. In such cases. The high school setting feels nothing more than an unnecessary add-on detail to appeal to the given demographic of viewers.

If Shuichin Academy is the best school in the country.... It should have one of the most active, engaging and busy Student Councils ever. No but it's not the case in this anime. The student council here is one of the laziest and most irresponsible I have ever had the misfortune to know about. All four of the main characters do nothing but waste their Time discussing silly scenarios and playing useless mind games which are the farthest thing from any productivity which should be the council's utmost priority. Let me tell something.... the author made them a part of the Student Council only so that he could separate them from the rest of the students in a single room so that they can play those crappy mind games in peace. I would not make fun of someone if he/she forgot who was the vice president or the Secretary or the financial manager cause those details are rendered irrelevant due to the Student Council doing basically nothing other than the stupid thing that is their episodic misadventures. Chika has all the time in the world to give lectures on society, dance in the council room and trying out dresses of the drama club.... but she doesn't spend even a fraction of it studying even her academic prowess is far less than that of the main leads. Kaguya could have easily topped her class if she gave as much time to studies as she gives in crafting situations to make Shirogane confess.

The comedy of the show is really the worst part of it. The jokes are really cringey and unfunny. Sometimes the quality drops so hard that even EDM beats can be put to shame. They based an entire episode on the same "Weiner" joke by making Chika repeat it throughout. Kaguya found it really funny for very strange reasons and the viewer was expected to laugh. The "mind games" of the show are just pretentious made up scenarios glorified as a battle of wits. Each of the two leads constantly keeps making overboard assumptions and responds with more outrageous strategies than the last one. It really makes me pity both of them. If only they had talked to each other instead of playing the games..... They could have understood each other much better.

The characters of the show are a bigger joke than any of those in the script. First we have Kaguya.... A rich spoiled Tsundere whose father has a net worth of 200 trillion yen. Yes you heard it right... That's like 2 trillion dollars or almost 40% of Japan's annual value of the goods and services or in simple terms GDP. This world make him more than 16 times richer than the current richest person in the world. I know the author wanted to portray her father as a rich man but he should have alteast came up with a realistic number. This is just me nitpicking as it is not that big a problem. The bigger ones are coming up.
Kaguya is shown to be successful in almost all fields possible. In academics, arts and sports. But these traits are never demonstrated. People come to her for dating advice but no one came to her for advice on these 3 fields which she apparently excels in. If the students themselves don't care about her supposed accomplishments then why should I. She or Miyuki both have the problem of putting their egos before their feelings. That's why the show even exists. They clearly love themselves and their reputation more than the other person. So they... As a couple can't even hold a candle in
front of some "actually good" anime couples. They live in a stupid dilemma that making the first move is a weakness and is totally not worth the companionship of the significant other. That's why I really despise them. Right from episode 1... Kaguya entered my hit list because of the way she body shamed Chika for having big breasts which I don't have the slightest idea why the author thought it was even remotely funny. In an episode, Kaguya hides Miyuki's phone battery so that he cannot go home without asking for help from her. And even if he did ask... She wouldn't help him cause it would make it seem like she confessed. That's some peak level stupidity. Not only did she intentionally put him in a state of misery but also chose not to put him out ot it. That's just straight up bullying. My mind exploded with frustration in episode 11 after the bedroom incident. Kaguya was angry at Shirogane because he was on his bed even though she was the one who asked him to do so. She thought that Miyuki was gonna make a move on her and hence she bashed him for something he didn't do. At the same time... She was angry at him because he DIDN'T make a move on her signifying that he doesn't find her that seductive. The hypocrisy shown by Kaguya in this incident was more than what Suzaku showed in both seasons of Code Geass combined. And that is hard to beat.

Kaguya's maid Hayasaka is just a typical kuudere whose only significance is being a secondary waifu. But i really love her. She is best girl of the show for me and therefore an object of my dominatrix fantasies

Chika is cute. I get it. She gave us lots of memes and all but that's it. As I already said... She abuses her position in the council by doing stupid stuff instead of something productive. Her affection for her firends is superficial at best. She asks them not to go to see fireworks together as she won't be present even though she herself is taking a trip to Spain and stranding her friends. This "concern" of hers is thrown out of the window in cases where she is the only one who gains anything out of it. I don't have anything else to point out cause there is nothing more to her than being the cute stupid bimbo of the show.
Ishigami was another attempt by the author to make a relatable character for the antisocial demographic of the show... Which itself isn't bad but it feels like unpolished work if the character has no personality and just one joke "I am going home". He is a complete failure in studies but somehow magically is very good at handling accounts which is kinda correlative with the commercial maths which is usually taught at school. Kakashi from Naruto gave more expressions with one eye than Ishigami gave with his entire face throughout the show.

I kept Miyuki for last cause he is the character I dislike the least . The problems which he faces are actually shown to us on screen such as his weak financial condition and the strained relationship with his father. He never initiated the stupid mind games and he might have even confessed to kaguya and put us out of the misery that is the show but he needlessly participates in them cause he too has an ego as big as Kaguya's. He is the only Council member who was actually shown studying which was kinda necessary considering that he is the best student of the best school in the country. But even his character is handled poorly by the author by needlessly attaching a pseudo incest plot line with his sister. Although there is no concrete proof but I am not the first person to suspect that. He is frequently a victim of Kaguya's mischief but he chose not to retaliate because our man has some sense of chivalry which is........ Great.

The music in the show is a work of art. The opening theme wakes up the dancer inside me like no other. I never knew I had a thing for classic jazz music until the show's music crawled into my ears. The ending theme is a great piece too and the visuals of it were really creative. Especially the plane scene. The chika dance song is the bearer of one of the most chad beats I ever heard. Coming to voice acting, I am in love with Aoi Koga as Kaguya. She really sounds like a lovestruck teenager with zero experience in romantic endeavours. Konomi Kohara as Chika is just a tsunami of cuteness whose reaction noises gave birth to more memes than Elon Musk. Makoto Furukawa is already the voice actor of my favourite character of all time (Saitama in One Punch Man) so I can listen to any character voiced by this gentleman.

The art of the show unlike it's story and characters is really great. The character designs are great and the girls look insanely cute. Although I do feel that setting the entire story in a single room made me suspect that the animators wanted to cut corners in the background designs. I think that's kind ot a nitpick so I can let it pass.

Overall... People love this show. I don't. I wouldn't have even bothered watching it if it wasn't that much of a hype generator. I just felt that there are several problems with it which the "fans" obviously missed or chose to ignore.. But I just can't. It came out as a really trashy show for me and that's the reason why I am not expecting any upvotes in my review.

That's it from me..... Adieu

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 childish main characters fight to get the other confess. rinse and repeat over the span of 12 episodes and we get this stagnated show.
Comedy in the show is also poorly done. What we get for the tag of psychological is forced drama which accounts to nothing. You can literally kick the word plot-development out of the window.


Characters : 4 - There isn't any endearing character in this series. We have our main cast shirogane whose only role is to overthink and complicate matters. Kaguya is our go to tsundere whose only salient feature is to say "O Kawaii Koto" after long nonsensical rhetoric. Chika is our ubiquitous big boob , cute voice galore character, whose role in the anime was to ruin the little shenanigans our main cast were playing with each other. Basically a redundant character.
Plot twist: When i thought we only had three characters this anime pulled the one and only plot twist of the show and introduced this gloomy otaku whose name i forgot as soon as i saw his character. This otaku guy was as tedious as our plot. you guys can just ignore this wanker he is only put in the show to fill some useless space.

Art : 7 : This is probably the only redeeming feature of the show, the art was pretty crisp some of the dance sequences of chika were animated amazingly well. Use of bright, contrasting colors gave this worth a try , Overall, art department turned out to be the saving grace of this show.

Sound : 6 - This department of the show was good, Opening song was mellifluous. Ending song was also Ok and didn't leave much of an impression on me. As for Voice acting, voice actors did pretty good job to give life to these lifeless, dull characters. So big prop to the voice actors.

Enjoyment : 3 - All in all the only thing this show thrived on was, Chika performing her kpop moves and showing her love and support for the girl bands. As for some comparing it to the likes of Death Note, they are doing nothing but committing sacrilegious act Neither the characters have the charisma or ingenuity of Light and L nor the story is good enough to warrant this show to be said in the same breath as death note.

Overall : 4 - If you're into romcom maybe you should give it a try. As far people looking for something seinen or psychological. I would encourage to steer as far away from this show as possible and watch some other good shows or spend your time in doing something productive.

Thanks for your kind time.

Kaguya: Love is War is the product of training a GPT-3† model on the corpus of anime and manga, then asking it to generate two of the most basic tsundere (Kaguya and Miyuki) characters available and a deredere (Chika) character. These characters can never act like real people or else the only thread holding the plot together, that both Miyuki and Kaguya are too prideful to admit they like the other, would immediately collapse. Chika, effectively an agent of chaos, is Schrödinger's idiot: she is simultaneously an expert and utterly incompetent at reading emotions and superficially dumb while being an expert in many things.

Both Kaguya ... and Miyuki construct scenarios where they can trap the other into confessing their love for them, so the two can date since they are too proud to admit it themselves. Both are clever, scheming, and intelligent, well, supposedly. They concoct situations where every they have conceived every possible outcome, ensuring the other has no room to maneuver. Well, sort of. It's an excellent premise if the characters weren't so generic and the execution hollow.

In an early episode, both Kaguya and Miyuki pretend not to have an umbrella so they can share the other's, a staple of anime romcoms. Since both planned ahead, both pretend not to have an umbrella and now have to trick the other into admitting they have one. Kaguya walks through how Miyuki knew it would rain so he took the train rather than rode his bike, which she knows because she did not see his bike at school. Which, if Miyuki had a modicum of intelligence, would let him know Kaguya looked through the bike rack to trap him, so she too had planned ahead. But rather than have any real battle of wits, so the characters act how we're told they should be, Chika suddenly appears to offer Kaguya her umbrella. We're given a cheap way out of a poorly contrived scenario.

These characters can't act like real people or there wouldn't be a plot. It's at best boring, and for a show revolving around the antics of the two leads, the characters are shallow and generic. It's astounding just how popular this show is for how dull it is.

† GPT-3 is a a machine-learning model that produces realistic output, and can be applied to many things, such as writing code snippets or news articles.

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 getting a lot better on season 2 but not the mind game. If you already done with ss1 by chance, try out ss2.

Okay so heres the deal with kaguya sama. I think its important to note that i generally do not enjoy comedies, or slice of lifes. And if i had to name a least fav genre id say comedy, and beyond that a least fav subgenre slice of life romcoms. So kaguya on that level already isnt that enjoyable. Now, being a part of a genre i dont like doesnt inherently mean i wont like it, like urusei yatsura original (NOT the new one) is awesome. Or even to a broader sense of comedy, napoleon dynamite is one of my fav movies. Being in this genre ... doesnt mean its inherently bad, but following that formula (which kaguya does) tends to make it not an enjoyable experience. Thats the first thing i wanna mention. Second, i fucking hate the plot. I know its a comedy so the plot isnt meant to be taken seriously, and i dont, but the plot is so insanely cringey. Like idc abt ur pride or whatever to confess yall being annoying. Which is very much intertwined with my third issue, the characters. Theyre all annoying asl. Kaguya especially. Now i only watched season 1 and ive heard they get dev and depth in season 2 which i believe, but seeing as i hate these chars, even if they get that, im not gonna care. But anyway, everyone is so obnoxious, cringy, and unfunny, which brings me to the next issue, the comedy. On top of not being a big comedy fan, i also hate the standard sense of humor most anime has that non anime watchers often clown on the medium for. And i think, more than any other show, kaguya does this the worst. The overreactions to EVERYTHING and the constant screaming and just trying to force things to be funny when there is simply nothing of comedic value there is so unbearable. Like a lot of anime but namely kaguya does that. The overreaction and screaming feels like a way of forcing a situation to be funny just because. Its like a worse laugh track, and kaguya does this to an insane extent. Ive heard people say they love kaguya and its extremely funny but it just seems to cater specifically to that sense of humor that i hate. And by catering to it to such a high degree, and that in turn making the characters and plot that much worse, i didnt enjoy a second of that show.

0/10

Kaguya: Love is War is the product of training a GPT-3† model on the corpus of anime and manga, then asking it to generate two of the most basic tsundere (Kaguya and Miyuki) characters available and a deredere (Chika) character. These characters can never act like real people or else the only thread holding the plot together, that both Miyuki and Kaguya are too prideful to admit they like the other, would immediately collapse. Chika, effectively an agent of chaos, is Schrödinger's idiot: she is simultaneously an expert and utterly incompetent at reading emotions and superficially dumb while being an expert in many things.

Both Kaguya ... and Miyuki construct scenarios where they can trap the other into confessing their love for them, so the two can date since they are too proud to admit it themselves. Both are clever, scheming, and intelligent, well, supposedly. They concoct situations where every they have conceived every possible outcome, ensuring the other has no room to maneuver. Well, sort of. It's an excellent premise if the characters weren't so generic and the execution hollow.

In an early episode, both Kaguya and Miyuki pretend not to have an umbrella so they can share the other's, a staple of anime romcoms. Since both planned ahead, both pretend not to have an umbrella and now have to trick the other into admitting they have one. Kaguya walks through how Miyuki knew it would rain so he took the train rather than rode his bike, which she knows because she did not see his bike at school. Which, if Miyuki had a modicum of intelligence, would let him know Kaguya looked through the bike rack to trap him, so she too had planned ahead. But rather than have any real battle of wits, so the characters act how we're told they should be, Chika suddenly appears to offer Kaguya her umbrella. We're given a cheap way out of a poorly contrived scenario.

These characters can't act like real people or there wouldn't be a plot. It's at best boring, and for a show revolving around the antics of the two leads, the characters are shallow and generic. It's astounding just how popular this show is for how dull it is.

† GPT-3 is a a machine-learning model that produces realistic output, and can be applied to many things, such as writing code snippets or news articles.

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 for their originality or quality.

Upon hearing this anime i heard good things about it and can say i was excited to watch as a new anime. Although here is the problem

I couldn't even finish the first episode. the first 20 seconds i was somewhat intrigued but this anime was all over the place. the characters seemed nothing more the pretentious high school A-holes the comedy felt way too forced and the story didn't go anywhere at all in the first episode. it didn't leave me wanting more i stopped watching 20 mins in and couldn't finish the episode due to how bad this anime was.

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.

Though the cocept could've been interesting, it fails at giving substance and connection
The reason i (as predicted) dropped this after a very short while, the characters

The two main characters come off as extreamly unlikeble and one more narcissistic than the other
What could've been a relatively nice "love-war" between two people who are just too proud and maybe a little embarresed ends up looking like a messed up calculated and manipulative midgame
And overall, this was just so boring, there is nothing in here, not one spark of curiosity, that pushes me to watch the next episode, to want to find out what happens next

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 character's head they think ''and now you're going to fall in love with me hehe!''

Comedy: 0/10
jokes didn't have any effect on my emotions... and of course spammed memes that are already cringe for this time.

Overall rating: 0/10

If you want a deep, intellectual analysis of why I think this particular Japanese cartoon is not funny you are asking far too much of me.

Kaguya-sama’s an unfunny comedy that uses self-depreciation and so-called self-awareness (really, just another form of narrow-mindedness) as a crutch to hide the fact that it really has no jokes worth telling and is extremely juvenile and childish and of no value to no one. At least with stuff like The Amazing World of Gumball I can say that it isn’t funny but its style of humour appeals to kids and aired on a kids cartoon channel, so I can give ... it a pass and give it marks for going above what a kid’s show would usually be about, but Kaguya-sama doesn’t have the same crutch to lean on though it obviously tries to lean on several crutches. Admittedly the concept is attractive if you know nothing about anime and take every opinion of this show being a masterpiece at face value – two people are in love with each other but can’t let the other person find out so they try to provoke each other into confessing first, whoever confesses first wins – obviously this is going to be popular with a premise so enticing, who wouldn’t want to watch something like that – that’s not what I’m questioning, I’m not questioning its popularity, I’m questioning how people can look at this and not realize the crippling flaws that hold this show back from even being considered good, never mind masterpiece, that word shouldn’t even enter the conversation.

It's not shocking enough for starters. All good jokes are shocking, they shock you into laughing. Difference between shock-value and surprise-factor, I’m not talking about crude ‘look at this woman she looks like a fucking hippo!’ type humour at least not strictly, but jokes have to have a certain punch to them in order to land, and there’s no punch in any of Kaguya-sama’s jokes, they’re all these very safe, ‘woooOAoAOAOo’ wacky, childish – you know, basic ‘oh wow you said that when the correct thing to say in society is this, how peculiar of you’ type jokes – so right out the gate, the defining factor of your comedy – the comedy – is a no-go in terms of entertainment. What about the characters? – what do you mean ‘what about the characters?’ There are characters in this show?


Okay, a disingenuous rhetorical question, sorry, I apologize for using such a cheap college-debate level tactic in my very serious review – [he goes on a little longer about the nature of his review, but we can cut that part out and skip to where he discusses the characters]. People (I have no idea who these ‘people’ are but let’s just say for the sake of argument) say that the cast of Kaguya-sama show tremendous growth (again, this is a fictional argument made up to make my argument look better) in their personalities over the course of the three illustrious seasons this anime has run through. These (made-up) people are liars, who probably would’ve voted for George W. Bush if they had the chance. There is no development – of any value – in Kaguya-sama’s characters. They develop as characters, sure, their personalities go from point A to point B, but there’s never any time where they revoke their misguided assumptions of the world and how it operates– like they should – and live their lives in a completely different direction. Instead they just decide ‘okay, I guess we love each other now and can say so out loud’ – like a light switch has been flicked. Go ahead and go through the mental gymnastics course if you’d like and come up with an ingenious reason for why this is all masterpiece-tier level god-mode writing from Mr. Whoever, I’ll go ahead and praise your reasoning and creative writing capabilities but that will not magically turn what is inarguably basic writing into fine, high art. Maybe I’m not getting into the nitty-gritty details as much as I maybe should, but neither are the people who praise the show, they just state its good because its good because its good.

Ishigami – alright let’s examine why people think this show is good. They think it’s good because the author shares the same worldview as they do, so anything said in the show will instantly be agreed with even if it isn’t strictly good. This worldview is a very vague worldview, so vague that even they don’t know what their convictions are, so I can’t sum it up. But to answer the question of ‘the show’s appeal’, basically Kaguya-sama appeals to very self-conscious, self-centred, self-absorbed, selfish people who care too much about their own petty problems to see their own reflection in the faces of other people. The resulting conclusions the show draws about life from this basement-level mindset are useless to anyone who has the ability to use the slightest amount of imagination to see how things are from another person’s point of view. You can go on and on about Ishigami’s character arc in the second season but none of it matters – none of it says anything original about anything and it isn’t uplifting either – in fact I found it sort of embarrassing to see such a one-sided portrayal of life be celebrated like its saying something smart.

So it’s a comedy that’s not funny and a story that doesn’t tell the truth. That leaves Kaguya-sama with next to nothing worth examining, but I suppose there’s also the animation to consider, but it’s by A-1 Pictures i.e. it’s bad, and bad in a boring way too. A-1 Pictures are the definition of doing the bare minimum and getting away with it. Even when they try to try it still feels like they phone in trying. I’ve never seen such stale attempts at experimentation. No visual gags of any note. Not that I care but it’s in case you care.

Arbitrary judgement time. I feel like Kaguya-sama was at its freshest at the first season. It wasn’t concerned with its bad plot, or bad social commentary about – I can’t even remember, was it psychology? It uses love as a topic for its comedy but it’s never the main point. Kaguya-sama was at its best when it just concerned itself with creating scenarios based on its initial premise of getting one to extort a confession out of the other. It couldn’t sustain this obviously, so after a while it ran out of ideas and ran on for far too long, past the point that made it original, and then it just became like every other series that drags on for too long – overly serious, completely melodramatic, rife with cliché – simply put, something not worth the effort to sit through.

Season 1: okay/10
Season 2: oregairu/10
Season 3: not worth the effort of even talking about/10
This all adds up to an arbitrary score

Now that I have fully seen the Anime, it just validates my points.
The viewer never finds out why the main characters, especially Kaguya, act this awfully. There is literally no plot and so no reason for them not to confess their love. This is easily the most boring and sensless romcom I have ever watched. (Not the worst though)

This Anime had a great premise. At the first episode I got hyped over two dominant characters and creative brainbattles! No one can deny, that the animation is really the peak of this anime. But animations isn't everything...
In the same exact episode, the premise drops 10 ... stories down, when I realized, Kaguya isn't really dominant. In fact, many scenes show, that she wants to be dominated by Miyuki.
The two main characters are just bland and at most times hopeless. Their actions are laughable, cause they act soooooo cool, while being dumb as hell. The brainbattles were keeping this Anime on a 5 for me. But it is hard to say they are genius, when the characters are just laughably stupid. I changed my score to a 3, after watching these two screaming and whining like little toddlers because of a shortcake for 7 minutes. And Kaguya laughing about the word "wiener" for 5 minutes...

It is like seeing two people act like they have an IQ of 130, while they are as dumb as those antivax karens on facebook. It isn't funny. Yeah I said it. It isn't funny. Ai, Kaguya's maid, was literally how I felt watching the anime.

When people say, this is as genius as death note, they couldn't have possibly watched death note. Or they say, it is the best romcom. Did they watch Toradora? Golden Time or Bunny girl senpai? Or actual genius comedies that use stereotypes and break them: Sora no Otoshimono.

And everything I write here isn't really a spoiler, cause you can see this from miles away by just watching episode 1 or 2.

The main characters became kinda annoying. Cause there is literally NO reason why Kaguya acts this way other than plot convenience. Miyuki has actual dominant thoughts and makes his actions kinda believable. But it is just convenient for him, that Kaguya shapes herself to become "non dominant" to be his type of girl. Heck! EVERY STEREOTYPICAL JAPANESE MAN STEREOTYPICAL GIRLFRIEND. He doesn't even have to move his little pinky for her to become his girl. And by the end, again, this anime became like every stereotypical, bland romance, in which the girl blushes hard and is too stupid to confess to senpai. And again, you can see, that this is the ending by just watching episode 1 or 2.

It is a tale as old as time: The main characters are both so socially awkward, it hurts. And all their problems vanish, when they just become a couple. They are each others saviors. And by the end of the anime the girl becomes everyones desired stereotypical girlfriend, who blushes, wants to be dominated, stays at home, takes care of the children, cooks and by the end of any anime, loses her whole character. It is concerning that still so many people love that type of storytelling and still don't get how one sided the main girls are written in Anime. And how blind, boring and socially stupid Anime protagonists are written.
Why is it so hard to create anime guys and girls, that aren't so friggin stereotypical and hopeless?

I just hope, that people, who like this anime, don't think, that being like those characters is desirable or entertaining.

Season 1 and just a comedy show.

Turning my brain off is the only way I am able to watch it.

It's not even funny.
Story is written very badly. or in this case; very average. mostly boring. = 3/10

Art very average 4/10

Sound kind of ok = 5/10
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Character = Ok 4/10

I won't spend a cent for this anime.

That.s how bad it is. Not worth the money.
Is a great starter anime for noops though.

newby will easily find this anime fun to watch as it is easy to understand. Very easy to understand, if they can't understand; probably had some serious problem on the education ends.
This anime does teach some values, but are mostly crooked. Don't try similar things if you go to japan unless you want to be an actors.

Then again, this is something like for fantasy. This anime do not need you to be a litter good in intelligence at all. You can be a kid of 3 years old and will still enjoy it.
basically, the anime is easy to understand. good for beginners.

Probably anyone ho knows this anime knows how hyped it it is. And as I always heard good reviews about it I decided to watch it.

This was honestly very boring for me. There's nothing really special about the plot except their psychological battle which was the only save. Besides that the story is mid. I really don't understand why ppl like this so much.

As for the characters, they're also nothing special. They're both kinda annoying to me and lack depth as well as they're barely interesting.

The whole story is uninteresting as well as repetitive. The art is good and I also like the ... op but that's it.

Overall the story is quite boring and doesn't really make any sense. I only saw the gif of that girl dancing(forgot name) and then saw multiple reviews so I tried it out and I tried not to sleep. But maybe it's just me.

4/10

I am too old to be enjoying this anime because I feel like I watched a completely different show compared to others who praise it to high heavens.

Look, I don't find the romance in this anime to be cute at all.
Literally trying to be cunning and manipulating the person you love into acting a certain way is inappropriate. That's a sign of a toxic relationship. I just can't let these two idiots behave this way and think its okay because they are children. It's troubling. Try having mindgames in like chess or shougi or go instead of, like, human relationships.

Now am I ... a little bit more sensitive to these tropes because I know how toxic these types of mindsets can be when in an adult relationship? -- yes. yes, I am.

Being secure and honest with each other is good. You know that's good because what I am talking about is what the couple will end up as. They will confess their love to each other and have open communication, etc. So I'm having a hard time understanding why people like this.

Whatever. It fine I guess.