Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
Alternative 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 in her school and even known nationwide, and Kaguya Shinomiya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate and just as intelligent. Together, they lead the student council at Shuchiin Academy, an elite school for the gifted. These two geniuses seem like the perfect match. The only problem is, each is too proud to confess their feelings to the other! They've been playing a game of intrigue and deception where the first person to confess loses, but on the last day of the school's cultural festival, their romance is about to take a major turn!
Background
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War began as a manga by Aka Akasaka that launched in Shueisha 's Miraculous Jump magazine in May 2015. The following year, the series moved to the seinen manga magazine Weekly Youth Jump . As of December 2021, 24 collected tankobon volumes have been released. The manga is published in English by Viz Media. Two spin-off manga were 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 or Kataritai by G3 Ida, which launched in Young Jump in July.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War - Ultra Romantic - is the third season of the anime television adaptation and was first announced in October 2020 at the stage event "Kaguya-sama Wants to Tell You Onstage." It is once again produced by A-1 Pictures and sees the return of staff members, including Mamoru Hatakeyama as director, Yasuhiro Nakanishi as series composer, Yuuko Yahiro as character designer, and Kei Haneoka as music composer. The anime will begin airing in Japan in April 2022.
Characters
Kaguya Shinomiya (Voice of: 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 the Shuchiin Academy student council. She may be considered heartless and deviously deceitful, but deep down, she cares about her friends and does what she believes is right. She has dark hair, ruby eyes, and small breasts that embarrass her and often make her compare them to Fujiwara's. She plays a sort of game with Shirogane in which she tries to get him to confess to her, but she eventually develops a romantic interest in him as well.
Miyuki Shirogane (Voice of: Makoto Furukawa)
The top student at Shuchiin Academy and also the student council president, Miyuki is hardworking and focused. He comes from a poor family, his father being unemployed, so he and his sister often take on part-time jobs to help pay the bills. He has messy blond hair, pronounced facial features, and perpetual dark circles under his eyes due to lack of sleep.
Chika Fujiwara (Voice of: Konomi Kohara)
The daughter of a noble political family, Chika is the secretary of the Shuchiin Academy student council. She is easygoing and friendly by nature, and she and Kaguya have been friends since middle school. She is a member of Shuchiin Academy's traditional game club and often spends her free time designing board games. She has fair skin, shoulder-length light hair, and always wears her bangs in a bow. She has no idea about Kaguya and Mikyuki's game.
Yû Ishigami (Voice of: Ryota Suzuki)
Yuu is the treasurer of the Shuchiin Academy student council. He is a first-year student in Miyuki, Kaguya, and Chika's class. He is very introverted and prefers to focus on video games rather than getting good grades in school.
Miko Iino
Miko, the auditing officer for the Shuchiin Academy student council, is a first-year student of Miyuki, Kaguya, and Chika, and a classmate of Yuu. Although she has strong opinions, she is shy in groups and afraid of public speaking. She is very caring and considerate of her friends.
Aï Hayasaka (Voice of: Yumiri Hanamori)
Ai is Kaguya's personal secretary on the student council and also her childhood friend with whom she shares a sisterly relationship. She and her family have worked for the Shinomiya conglomerate for generations. To hide her true identity, she creates alternate identities through which she lives, including that of a gyaru student who dates Shuchiin, a young maid who works for Kaguya, and a butler named Haysaca.
Narrator (Voice of: Yutaka Aoyama)
