Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
After pining for one another and plotting for so long, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane finally have their climactic first kiss. However, they struggle to define their relationship. After all, how much of their true selves have they really shown to one another?
- Mamoru Hatakeyama
- Takayuki Kikuchi
- Masakazu Obara
- Tsuyoshi Tobita
- Shotaro Kitamura
- Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Aka Akasaka
- Yasuhiro Nakanishi
Rating: 8/10 by 71 users
Alternative Title:
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai - JP
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai First Kiss wa Owaranai - JP
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: İlk Öpücük ve Owaranai - TR
Kaguya Sama Wa Kokurasetai First Kiss Wa Owaranai - JP
辉夜大小姐想让我告白 初吻不会结束 - CN
Госпожа Кагуя: В любви как на войне – Первый поцелуй никогда не заканчивается - RU
Госпожа Кагуя: В любви как на войне. Бесконечный первый поцелуй - RU
Country:
Japan
Language:
日本語
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: high school, romantic comedy, based on manga, school life, seinen, christmas, anime
First things first - what's with the ridiculously long title? Thereafter, though, this is quite a cleverly constructed teen romance that sees the student president "Shirogane" share a kiss with the adulatory "Kaguya" only for us to find that cementing that kiss into something more substantial proves quite a challenge. It seems that the young girl has multiple personalities vying for pre-eminance in her relationship with her (their?) beau. These characterisations vary from the young, lovestruck and naive to the young, cynical and suspicious. Poor old "Shirgane" has to deal with all three and is soon completely phased by the erratic, frequently quite funny, behaviour of the young woman who seems as likely to stab him between the eyes as to make love to him. On that last point, it is adult themed - and the writing reflects an honesty about teen adoration, but also about sex, lust and a dose of good, old fashioned, jealousy. It packs quite a lot of story into ninety minutes and raises quite a few smiles - of laughter and of appreciation (we've probably all been here, at some point, as we grew up and remember the intensity of that "first kiss") and is well worth a watch.
