History Manga / KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar

* MutualPining: The series fundamentally centers around this setup, with both Kaguya and Miyuki having the titular "war" because both of them are worried about what'll happen if they're the one to confess first.

These two geniuses slowly fell for each other, yet their gigantic prides would not let them be the one to confess. So, they secretly began a battle. That is, the battle to make the other side confess first!

** Why Kaguya and Shirogane don't confess. They're both so arrogant, they refuse to accept the idea that someone has any form of power over them even something as simple as a crush. Their ideal of dating is the other begging to date them. Later chapters, however, show that this is mostly just an excuse and they're just two awkward teenagers too shy to confess.

* ResolvedNoodleIncident: The ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' spinoff sometimes cover events that the main series only refers to once. For example, in the Sports festival, it's mentioned that the Red Team is losing because of the Tabletop Game Club's antics. The spinoff shows what the antics are (handing out suspicious drinks to the athletes).

** [[spoiler:When Kaguya and Shirogane finally confess their feelings to one another in Chapter 150, there is a half-moon hanging in the sky, showing that they've finally been able to meet each other half way as equals.]]
* RuleOfThree: On three separate occasions, the line "and during that time, nothing of note had happened" comes up regarding Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship (Chapter 1 for the 6 month TimeSkip after the prologue, Chapter 41 for the first half of summer break, and Chapter 152 regarding winter break). [[spoiler:The third time around is actually a {{Blatant Lie|s}}, as [[RelationshipUpgrade quite a bit]] actually did happen.]]

** Chapters focusing on end of semester exams will have each character claim something before the next page has the narration claiming "That was a lie!". There will always be one person telling the truth instead.

* ShadowArchetype: One can argue that Kaguya and Maki are one for each other each having what the other desires. Kaguya deeply desires to be loved whether by friends or family due to her upbring while Maki is pained by her romantic life as she sees her crush happily date her best friend. Kaguya has the undivided attention of her crush Shirogane while Maki has three best friends and what seems to be a healthy family.

** In the anime, there was [[AdaptationExpansion an extra scene]] during the psychological test chapter where Hayasaka wears a paper cutout of Fujiwara's face so Kaguya has someone to practice one of her schemes against. The manga would eventually use a similar visual where she's talking to Kaguya while wearing a Shirogane mask, [[spoiler:though there she's secretly acting as an intermediary between her and Shirogane by relaying questions and answers to him via text message, allowing the two of them to unknowingly be completely honest with each other for the first time.]]

** "[[DancingTheme Chikatto Chika Chika]]", the ending theme for Episode 3, was sung in-character by Konomi Kohara (Fujiwara's voice actress).

* SeriesContinuityError: In 2020, Nissin released two ads for Cup Noodles featuring the student council. The first one could theoretically be placed at any point in the timeline between Iino becoming comfortable with the council and the culture festival. The latter on the other hand is stated to take place shortly before Shirogane's birthday but shows both Iino on the council and [[spoiler:Hayasaka still working for Kaguya]], details that would preclude it from being his seventeenth or eighteenth birthdays respectively. Also, they had specifically agreed to ban Cup Noodles from the student council room after an uncomfortable ClosetShuffle moment in an early bonus chapter.

** The endings for seasons 1 and 2 (disregarding the one-off "Chika Dance") blatantly spell out what the final arcs for their respective seasons will be, though they're wrapped up in enough fantasy imagery that only those familiar with the source material will pick up on it ahead of time. Season 3 instead does this with the opening, while the ending takes this even further by covering events all the way at the end of the manga.

''Kaguya-sama: Love is War'', also known as ''Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses' War of Hearts and Minds'' (かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～ ''Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen'') in the original Japanese version, is a {{Seinen}} manga by Creator/AkaAkasaka. It started publication in 2015 as a monthly series in ''Miracle Jump'', but was later moved to ''Shuukan Young Jump'' as a weekly series in 2016. By 2018, the series also gained two spinoffs: a HotterAndSexier "Doujin Edition", and a lower deck {{Yonkoma}} called ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' focusing on two Shuuchin students looking at the plot from the outside. In March 2018, Viz Media began its release of the English translation. After 7 years of publication and 281 chapters, the manga concluded in November 2022.

An animated film titled ''Kaguya-sama: Love is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-'' (''Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -Fāsutokisu wa Owaranai-'') was announced shortly after the end of the third season, which was released December 17, 2022 and given a limited theatrical release internationally on February 14, 2023. It became available on Crunchyroll and certain other streaming platforms as four 22-minute episodes on March 31, 2023.

''Kaguya-sama: Love is War'' (''Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai ~Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunousen~'', or ''Kaguya Wants to be Confessed to ~The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains~'') is a {{Seinen}} manga by Creator/AkaAkasaka. It started publication in 2015 as a monthly series in ''Miracle Jump'', but was later moved to ''Shuukan Young Jump'' as a weekly series in 2016. By 2018, the series also gained two spinoffs: a HotterAndSexier "Doujin Edition", and a lower deck {{Yonkoma}} called ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' focusing on two Shuuchin students looking at the plot from the outside. In March 2018, Viz Media began its release of the English translation. After 7 years of publication and 281 chapters, the manga concluded in November 2022.

** The overall point of the series is that relationships are built upon communication and that there's no way to go about them without risking emotional pain. Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship hit a wall for a year because they couldn't muster up the courage to change the status quo. [[spoiler:They confess eventually and openly communicate their feelings after a really long time and much better off than before, showing it was mostly a waste of time]]. Maki lost her chance for the boy she liked because she couldn't talk to him. Ishigami and especially Tsubasa, on the other hand, seem to be doing well after their confessions even though their target didn't feel the same way at first, especially Tsubasa... not that Ishigami meant to confess. [[spoiler:Ishigami eventually gets rejected, but he is still in a better state now.]]

* YouMustBeCold: Kaguya tries to invoke this during the stargazing chapter of so she can make Shirogane squirm, only for him to offer it before she can even ask due to his innocent love of the stars allowing him to effortlessly perform romantic actions that he'd normally be far to embarrassed to do.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Chapter 36 is all about Fujiwara tutoring Shirogane how to sing so he can take part in the weekly singing of the school anthem (which has lyrics about overcoming one's flaws). Hearing him sing it at the end of the chapter causes her to [[InelegantBlubbering collapse into a pile of tears]], much to the confusion of the rest of the student body.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: [[spoiler:Shirogane's study room, while not having stuff written directly on the walls, is covered with pieces of paper with things like "everything else is meaningless", "fuck sleep", and "carelessness is the enemy" written on them taped to the walls.]]

** [[spoiler:Chapter 131 was mostly about Kaguya and Shirogane's time around the Culture Festival. It ends with Shirogane telling her that he's going to skip a year and go to Stanford for college and that the current Culture Festival is his last one.]]

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: It's revealed late in the series that [[spoiler:Mikado had promised to take Kaguya away from the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Shinomiya Family]] and make all her dreams come true when the were kids. Unfortunately, the fact that they came from FeudingFamilies means that they wouldn't have a chance to interact again for the next decade, by which point Kaguya (convinced that Mikado had forgotten his promise) had fallen in love with and entered a relationship with Shirogane. She ends up having to gently turn down his renewed confession, and while he does accept her decision, [[LoveHurts it's obviously painful for him]].]]

*** Screenshots from hypothetical adaptations of chapters 3, 22, 47, and 112. Chapter 3 in particular references a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness where Kaguya's hair ribbon would constantly designs change during the first volume.

** Karen is able to identify a piece of paper as being inorganic just by feeling it during the climax of the culture festival. However, the anime never makes any mention that her family runs a publishing company (and thus has plenty of different paper samples laying around her house for her to familiarize herself with), so her ability to do this seems to come out of nowhere.

* EurekaMoment: DoubleSubverted during the Culture festival arc when a PhantomThief steals all the extra heart shaped balloons class 2-B had and then leaves behind a clue to their next target that has a bunch of clock faces on it. Fujiwara seemingly sovles it when Erika makes a comment about the sun setting earlier in the winter (making her come to the conclusion that the different times on the clocks corrospond to timezones). When she runs off to the computer lab for further information, Kaguya mentions to Hayasaka that Fujiwara was probably just making stuff up, but a comment that she made about how "all mysteries exist to be solved" cause her to figure out the ''actual'' answer. [[spoiler:[[UnwinnableByDesign Namely that there isn't one]]. Shirogane just threw a bunch of meaningless symbols together to keep the riddle loving [[SpannerInTheWorks Fujiwara]] distracted so she wouldn't interfere with his GrandRomanticGesture to Kaguya.]]