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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-

かぐや様は告らせたい-ファーストキッスは終わらない-

  • Status: Released
  • 17-12-2022
  • Runtime: 96 min
  • Score: 8
  • Vote count: 77

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?

Makoto Furukawa

Miyuki Shirogane (voice)

Aoi Koga

Kaguya Shinomiya (voice)

Konomi Kohara

Chika Fujiwara (voice)

Ryota Suzuki

Yuu Ishigami (voice)

Miyu Tomita

Miko Iino (voice)

Yumiri Hanamori

Ai Hayasaka (voice)

Momo Asakura

Nagisa Kashiwagi (voice)

Rina Hidaka

Kobachi Osaragi (voice)

Taku Yashiro

Tsubasa Tanuma (voice)

Kana Ichinose

Maki Shijou (voice)

Haruka Fukuhara

Tsubame Koyasu (voice)

Yutaka Aoyama

Narration (voice)

Takehito Koyasu

Shirogane's Father (voice)

Ari Ozawa

Moeha Fujiwara (voice)

Yuka Nukui

Mirin Hinokuchi (voice)

Madoka Asahina

Karen Kino (voice)

Ayaka Asai

Erika Kose (voice)

Nobunaga Shimazaki

Mae (voice)

Yuuki Takada

Rei Onodera (voice)

Saori Hayami

Momo Ryuuju (voice)

Sayumi Suzushiro

Kei Shirogane (voice)

Yuuka Morishima

Subaru Suruga (voice)

Junpei Morita

Shouzou Tanuma (voice)

Yuuki Itou

Student (voice)

Koichi Kamiki

Student (voice)

Emiko Takeuchi

Student (voice)

Hina Youmiya

Student (voice)

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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.