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NOTE: At the time of this post, Kaguya was at chapter 107. This post, and only this post, will be spoiler free, but if you're worried about spoilers don't read too far down thread! WHAT IS THIS? This is a thread for Kaguya Wants to Be Confessed To: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains also known as Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen or, in the English adaptation, Kaguya-sama: Love is War. Kaguya centers on the lives of two particularly stubborn Japanese teens at an elite academy who are infatuated with each other but whose giant egos make them see love as a battlefield... and whoever is the first to offer a love confession loses. Kaguya is written and drawn by Akasaka Aka, who previously published the promising but truncated dark fantasy Instant Bullet. But unlike the bombs and monsters of that manga, here the characters fight with knowledge and Death-Note style planning and counter-planning. That said, Kaguya is a romantic comedy, and more comedy than romance. CHARACTERS  SHINOMIYA KAGUYA (aka Vice President, aka the Ice Princess) Heir to the Shinomiya zaibatsu, one of the richest in Japan, Kaguya is a model student who scores the second-best grades in her class. She is cold and untrusting, a product of her merciless upbringing, but she's trying to change that. She would never, ever date a mere commoner, but just might make an exception for Shirogane. Maybe if he got down on his hands and knees before asking.  SHIROGANE MIYUKI (aka President, aka the Monster Virgin) One of the few commoners to be admitted to Shuchiin Academy, Shirogane maintains the highest grades in class and some of the best test scores in the entire country. He is kind, extraordinarily hard working, and completely dependent on caffeine to get him through the day. He could, possibly, consider dating an aristocrat like Kaguya. Maybe if she came to him with a blush on her face and begged.  FUJIWARA CHIKA (aka Secretary, aka Subject F, aka the Love Detective (self-proclaimed)) The Secretary of the Student Council and wild card to the more straight-laced geniuses above, Fujiwara is a musical prodigy and member of the Board Game Club. She's kind-hearted and honest, except when playing a game, in which case she's a cutthroat liar. One of the few people who has gotten close to Kaguya.  PES Fujiawara's very smart, good looking, and light-haired dog. Could he be part of a love triangle? What will this crazy dog get up to next?!  OTHERS Hey wait, isn't three people a pretty small student council? And where are the other students? Maybe we'll get to meet them later. WHERE CAN I READ THIS? Kaguya spent her first ten chapters in Miracle Jump before moving to Weekly Young Jump. Chapter 11 is a soft reboot. As a reader you shouldn't care too much, but it could lead to some confusion with the chapter numbers because, for example, WYJ Chapter 30 is actually the 40th chapter. The series has been through a number of scanlation groups. Psylocke Scans did a great job with the first 70 or so chapters, and you can find them over at Mangadex. More recently Jaimini's Box has taken over. The nice people at Viz have started publishing the volumes under the somewhat unfortunate name Kaguya-sama: Love is War. I'm not fond of the name because it makes the series sound harsher than it is; "The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains" is so dumb that it reminds you that this is going to be a light-hearted comedy. I can't read Japanese, so I can't speak to the quality of the official translation, but I think the jokes land a little better in the Psylocke version and there's one localization that Viz did that's going to cause a minor plot problem down the line. Anyway, they've only released the first two volumes so far so we'll see how it goes. WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS You should read this because it's funny, the characters are well-developed, and the series has a surprising amount of heart. What's more, Akasaka is genuinely clever. He does a great job of avoiding tropes (for the most part) and seeds chapters for plots that actually come to fruition much, much later. It's a fun read. So check it out!
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 Anime thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3878242 Also, given scanlator group changes, sites going down, etc., the easiest place to read the manga is https://guya.moe/read/manga/Kaguya-Wants-To-Be-Confessed-To/ Agronox fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Agronox posted:there's one localization that Viz did that's going to cause a minor plot problem down the line. I've picked up the two English volumes so far and haven't checked out the fan-translations, what's the mistranslation? Also good job on the OP 
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May 14, 2018 05:16
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Making such a long and wordy OP for a simple dumb romcom manga? Are you really so enamored with the love exploits of a bunch of lonely teenagers?
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May 14, 2018 05:22
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This manga makes me laugh every week but also I think it would be cool if they could make some progress ever.
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May 14, 2018 14:58
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Droyer posted:This manga makes me laugh every week but also I think it would be cool if they could make some progress ever. It can also bring it home when it needs to such as the Ishigami backstory chapters.
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May 14, 2018 15:12
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this is my favorite manga.
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May 14, 2018 16:11
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It's fine if the romance doesn't go forward as long as there's emotional bangers like the fireworks arc every couple dozens of chapters.
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I think seeing the same overthinking mind games framework applied to them actually dating would be funny so regardless of whether it's any time soon I hope it doesn't just immediately end when they get together.
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May 14, 2018 16:30
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quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club
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May 14, 2018 16:48
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:this is my favorite manga. It’s also my favorite ongoing one
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May 14, 2018 16:57
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Snooze Cruise posted:quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club
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May 14, 2018 17:00
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Snooze Cruise posted:quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club
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Droyer posted:This manga makes me laugh every week but also I think it would be cool if they could make some progress ever. Shirogane, at least, is now fully aware that he likes Kaguya and has almost broken the deadlock once. Meanwhile, Hayasaka is the only person who 100% knows who Kaguya likes, including Kaguya. Ishigami and Iino will probably figure out their relationship before K&S do. My endgame bet: Fujiwara finds out (or ALWAYS KNEW ALL ALONG) and ends the war with a huge sign reading "YOU BOTH LOVE EACH OTHER, YOU IDIOTS".
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May 14, 2018 19:18
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At this point the only way the stalemate will end is if Hayasaka concocts some plan so they both confess at the same time.
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May 14, 2018 19:36
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Snooze Cruise posted:quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club
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May 14, 2018 19:40
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i like that kashiwagi and her boyfriend easily surpassed the geniuses by acting like regular people instead of weird prideful idiots
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May 14, 2018 21:30
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those two idiots are so incredibly difficult that no one but each other could tolerate being in a relationship with them.
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Droyer posted:This manga makes me laugh every week but also I think it would be cool if they could make some progress ever. they're pretty much already dating and are entirely unaware of it, so there's not really much progress to make Mirage posted:My endgame bet: Fujiwara finds out (or ALWAYS KNEW ALL ALONG) and ends the war with a huge sign reading "YOU BOTH LOVE EACH OTHER, YOU IDIOTS". they're also already aware of this but whoever says it first will forever be the loser
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i like that kashiwagi and her boyfriend easily surpassed the geniuses by acting like regular people instead of weird prideful idiots I'm rooting for Maki to ruin their relationship and take the boy for herself because I am a bad person apparently 
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May 14, 2018 21:37
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The only thing everyone can agree on is that being Hayasaka is suffering.
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May 14, 2018 21:38
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Super Jay Mann posted:The only thing everyone can agree on is that being Hayasaka is suffering. fujiwara is shirogane's hayasaka
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May 14, 2018 22:11
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I love this manga
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May 14, 2018 22:23
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btw Aka is a geniusquote:The Council Members' and some other characters' names are based on the Princes and the Impossible Requests in the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.
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May 14, 2018 22:33
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Snooze Cruise posted:quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club
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Super Jay Mann posted:Making such a long and wordy OP for a simple dumb romcom manga? Are you really so enamored with the love exploits of a bunch of lonely teenagers? Well played! Julias posted:I've picked up the two English volumes so far and haven't checked out the fan-translations, what's the mistranslation? Thanks! And actually I think I'm wrong about the localization problem. In the fan translations, Kaguya always refers to Shirogane as "President," up until the Fireworks arc, when she finally calls him by name, which is kind of a big step. In Viz she refers to him as Shirogane from the beginning. But I checked the chapters and I was wrong about that; she never calls him Shirogane in the fireworks chapters. So I'm misremembering something along the line. Snooze Cruise posted:quote if you would join Fujiwara's board game club So far they've been shown playing Catan, Dominion, their "Life" variant, and some home-brew LARP thing. I'd join!
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I was catching up in the manga recently, and the part where Fujiwara is rapping to Shirogane was really funny (the translators did a really great job of making it work in English). So was the part where Kaguya gets a smart phone. I feel like this manga is possibly the only romcom I've read that has a formula that I think could continue more or less indefinitely. It actually vaguely reminds me of Sayounara Zetsubou-sensei in the sense of each chapter having some specific topic that the jokes are based around. I was a bit confused by the part where Ishigami and Iino reveal they like each other (in the context of someone mentioning "this seems like the way people who like each other act") and then soon after it's revealed Ishigami has a crush on that third year girl from his cheer squad. Presumably the former was meant to be platonic, but I was always under the impression they were setting the two of them up.
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that confused me as well. just poorly phrased i suppose.
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May 15, 2018 00:03
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Ishigami is gonna end up rejected by the senpai. It's an impossible request after all
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Shirogane teaching Fujiwara how to rap so that she could teach him was extremely good and convoluted.
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Shirogane being super into rap and freestyle rapping a bunch at home is pretty hilarious. After looking at the Shokugeki no Souma thread I was reminded of another really funny part, when Fujiwara is making up a bunch of bullshit about the food she was served like a SnS judge and is just totally wrong. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 00:54 on May 15, 2018 |
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My favorite Fujiwara moment is when she blatantly cheats at the card game, gets called out on it and apologizes, and then immediately cheats again in a completely different but equally blatant way with no remorse. Truly a politician's daughter.
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this is probably my favorite ongoing at the moment, it's great miko iino is insufferable though, and not in a good way
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i liked the recurring gag where she would always walk into the student council office at the worst possible times but yeah, she's terrible. ishigami should definitely not have sent her that encouraging letter, but then he does a lot of very dumb things.
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May 15, 2018 07:21
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Iino is a good girl who is doing her best, don't bully her.
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Womanlet will have to keep suffering for disparaging Ishigami.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Iino is a good girl who is doing her best, don't bully her.
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