Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)

December 17, 2022 (JP) • Animation, Comedy, Romance • 96m

Overview

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?

Director

Mamoru Hatakeyama

Writer

Yasuhiro Nakanishi

Top Billed

Makoto Furukawa

Keywords

high school romcom sequel based on manga school life seinen christmas anime japanese high school

Where to watch

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Top Billed Cast

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)

Crew

Takayuki Kidou

Prop Designer

Hiroshi Yakou

Supervising Animation Director

Risa Wakabayashi

Art Direction

Yasuhiro Nakanishi

Series Composition

Hiroki Matsumoto

Art Designer

Ayaka Murakami

Color Assistant

Kei Haneoka

Original Music Composer

Mamoru Hatakeyama

Director

Kanako Hokari

Color Designer

Yuki Kuribayashi

CGI Director

Yuko Yahiro

Character Designer

Masaharu Okazaki

Director of Photography

Rie Matsubara

Editor

Tatsuya Hiragi

Art Designer

Jin Aketagawa

Sound Director

Takashi Kawabata

Storyboard Artist

Takayuki Kikuchi

Second Unit Director

Keiki Nishida

Music Director

Akira Shimizu

Production Supervisor

Kohei Matsuoka

Associate Producer

Masakazu Obara

Storyboard Artist

Genki Negishi

Producer

Toshihiro Maeda

Producer

Ryota Kanda

Associate Producer

Masakazu Obara

Second Unit Director

Kenshiro Yamada

Production Supervisor

Mikihiro Takayama

Associate Producer

Aka Akasaka

Comic Book

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Producer

Toshiya Wada

Sound Effects

Hiroshi Yakou

Animation Director

Taku Funakoshi

Producer

Akane Shiraishi

Assistant Editor

Yuko Yano

Background Designer

Yohei Miyawaki

Compositing Artist

Masaharu Yamanouchi

Music Producer

Reimi Kaneko

Publicist

Wakako Yoshida

Key Animation

Rika Otsu

Key Animation

Takayuki Sugiura

Key Animation

Junichi Saito

Key Animation

Yuki Yasuda

Background Designer

Keisuke Furuichi

Key Animation

Shinya Fujita

Key Animation

Yui Tomita

Compositing Artist

Honoka Yokoyama

Supervising Animation Director

Yuna Tahara

Key Animation

Yoshika Ikeda

Key Animation

Tang Zhijun

Background Designer

Honoka Yokoyama

Key Animation

Kouhei Yamazaki

Animation Director

Takayuki Kidou

Animation Director

Shinobu Nishioka

Animation Director

Masaharu Okazaki

Compositing Supervisor

Kimitaka Shindo

Sound Mixer

Yasuhiro Nakanishi

Screenplay

Reina Kawasaki

Animation Director

Mariko Shimamura

Key Animation

Huang Zeqi

Compositing Artist

Hisaya Takahara

Special Effects

Miho Tsurumachi

Background Designer

Wang Jie

Background Designer

Miharu Nagano

Animation Director

Takafumi Torii

Animation Director

Yoshihiro Arima

Key Animation

Ruiki Torigoe

Key Animation

Risa Wakabayashi

Background Designer

Toshiharu Namekata

Background Designer

Ma Yunying

Background Designer

Fujiko Aoyagi

Key Animation

Wakako Yoshida

Animation Director

Seren Ogura

Key Animation

Tadahito Kiyosawa

Key Animation

Ayako Nozawa

Key Animation

Nanami Shiratori

Key Animation

Qiu Xiaohong

Background Designer

Song Lianjun

Background Designer

Vu Ngoc Tram

Compositing Artist

Yin Shanhong

Background Designer

Ayumi Tamura

Compositing Artist

Takahiro Arai

Key Animation

Yu Takahashi

Key Animation

Keita Togashi

Key Animation

Hikaru Uchiyama

Key Animation

Hinata Narumi

Key Animation

Rieko Noguchi

Key Animation

Miyuki Sasagawa

Key Animation

Sachiho Shintani

Compositing Artist

Yoshio Ookouchi

Compositing Artist

Kotaro Okubo

Animation Director

Hajime Umeki

Key Animation

Wang Ye

Background Designer

Junichi Saito

Animation Director

Kai Tsukui

Key Animation

Ani Kato

Key Animation

Akihito Suzuki

Compositing Artist

Moe Kasahara

Compositing Artist

Hiroyuki Kodama

Special Effects

Shuntaro Shiba

Special Effects

Marin Sakaide

Compositing Artist

Reina Iwasaki

Supervising Animation Director

Ayaka Sato

Key Animation

Meiko Uenoyama

Key Animation

Manabu Shioda

Key Animation

Satoru Kuroiwa

Compositing Artist

Ryusuke Kodera

Compositing Artist

Ritsu Takesaki

Special Effects

Hiromi Morisawa

Compositing Artist

Maki Satake

Compositing Artist

Kouji Hayashi

Compositing Artist

Aswin Nur Cahya

Compositing Artist

Yui Tomita

2D Artist

Tsuyoshi Tobita

Second Unit Director

Yuko Hariba

Supervising Animation Director

Shinnosuke Ota

Supervising Animation Director

Miharu Nagano

Key Animation

Saori Suruki

Key Animation

Ririko Minami

Key Animation

Akane Hirose

Key Animation

Jin Nakazono

Key Animation

Tsuyoshi Tanabe

Key Animation

Yuu Yoshiyama

Animation Director

Akane Takeda

Key Animation

Shotaro Kitamura

Storyboard Artist

Miyuki Ishizuka

Animation Director

Jun Yukawa

Animation Director

Miki Kaneko

Key Animation

Norifumi Okuno

Key Animation

Takafumi Torii

Key Animation

Shinobu Nishioka

Key Animation

Yuki Iwai

Key Animation

Yukihiro Kobayashi

Key Animation

Shotaro Kitamura

Second Unit Director

Kotaro Okubo

Key Animation

Marina Kobayashi

Animation Director

Miyuki Ishizuka

Key Animation

Yoshito Narimatsu

Key Animation

Youichi Ishikawa

Animation Director

Natsumi Tomobe

Key Animation

Mamoru Hatakeyama

Storyboard Artist

Saori Suruki

Supervising Animation Director

Maya Kisanuki

Key Animation

Keita Watabe

Key Animation

Kenta Ushio

Production Assistant

Takuro Naka

Key Animation

Katsushi Morita

Key Animation

Yutori Sugiura

Key Animation

Zhou Shan

Background Designer

Eri Kojima

Key Animation

Takuro Mori

Production Assistant

Miyuki Inoue

Key Animation

Haruko Mishima

Other

Kazuki Kawagishi

Production Assistant

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

February 25, 2023

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 c… read the rest.