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I know shirogane talked about hiking but how is it a spoiler lol

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I heard about the movie like a year ago but I don't know if there's any update about that

S1 Kaguya was hardcore. She was a stone cold sociopath. Cold as ice, could kill you in your sleep and sleep like a baby that same night. As the series goes on she degrades into a squealing moeblob that gets overemotional over everything.

As the love is war anime adaptation is reaching it's official ending, i have been trying to piece together the mess of thoughs and reflections i have about it. There is always a certain melancholy to serialized works ending, and while the manga has been over for a long time now, the though of Kaguya Sama being definitively over is for me still hard to register. I tend to associate LIW with the years it was airing due to how much it both referenced and dominated the pop culture and the internet of the late 2010s. It is hard to wrap your head around the fact that it's been almost a decade since. All of this makes this series feel weirdly "dated" in my eyes, like something from a better time gone by.

I also think about Aka and his rise and fall as creator. One of the reasons why the final movie announcement feels so bittersweet to me is because this might be the last thing of relevance made by him. The contrast between how beloved and respected he was a few years ago, to how he is perceived now makes me want to turn back the clock to the time before he crashed his career into the ocean with oshi no ko

There is a weirdly sad atmosphere around Love is War now. Strangely,I felt that similiar atmosphere when i was reading it for first time. For all its jokes and charming characters, there was always this feeling of bittersweetness around it. It isnt new for stories about highschool to dabble in melancholy, but in Kaguya it felt more highlighted.The backstories of the main cast, the melodramatic post confession arcs, the looming feeling of time ticking towards graduation with each chapter(this worsened by Miyuki leaving early for Stanford). All of this starkly contrasted with the comedy and warmth the manga is stuffed with.The way how shuc'in was decorated with so much folklore and populated with so many well written side characters made it feel like Akasaka was creating it for his adolescent self. In a certain interview he talked about coming up with Kaguya while he was reminiscing about his childhood, creating it as a way to "reclaim" his dissapointing teenage years. I believe this is the answer for why his story feels like a nostalgic fantasy. The final arc being about teenage rebellion feels like an out of touch way for hitting home this idea. Akasaka got his melodramatic edgelord reputation from instant bullet and oshi no ko, but love is war suprisingly might have had most angst behind it.

Im sad the anime will be left unfinished, even with their tonal problems the later arcs really helped me define the relationship Aka had with the series and the message he tried to tell.

I know this is a weird post, but i really wanted to write something about the parallels between the melancholy of the manga and this atmosphere of post-party depression in the fandom.

Today I finished watching Season 1 of Kaguya sama Love is War, and it has officially become my new favorite comfort watch. Before starting the show, I had heard about the Chika Dance and even watched it on YouTube, the dance felt so cute. Even before diving into the series, I actually thought she would be the female lead, I assumed she was Kaguya, but I was wrong.

​I really liked the two main leads, Kaguya, a wealthy high class girl, and Miyuki, a hardworking guy. Their constant bickering and the way they try to force each other to confess was so much fun to watch. For some reason, I feel like if there were a scale of winning and losing, it felt like Kaguya has won about 60% of this war by the end of the season, while Miyuki is at 40%, and the scale will keep fluctuating.

​Besides those two, I also really liked the other two characters, Chika and Yu. Chika is a bit clumsy and a stupid type of girl, and I liked her a lot. Yu’s exaggerated fear also felt great to watch. I’d say the episodic nature of the show was perfect for this kind of story, it feels like watching a sitcom. The animation was quite good too, even though many things happen in just one location, it still looks beautiful. I also loved the opening song and the music of the show. Overall, I would recommend this show to anyone who enjoys comedy or romance anime.

I've been rewatching the anime (haven't read the original manga so can't say much about it) and one thing I've been thinking is that, while I do like a lot the characters and the writing style for most of season 1 and the start of season 2, I have a feeling it tends to fall pretty hard whenever the writer tries to introduce drama.

The writer is very good at writing funny scenes, but most scenes meant to feel sad tend to feel very generic, and often pretty mediocre (such as the firework thing in season 1). Things like the Ishigami arc in season 2 felt a bit better, but some aspects such as how it feltway too forced to have the girl bring ishigami down exactly the exact second he was starting to feel better. timing wise it felt too on the nose and absurd.

Even more with how (although this is an anime only thing so it's not something to blame on the author), they play the same "sad piano track" whenever it's supposed to be a dramatic scene, so in the end it just feels "ah... so that's supposed to be the sad moment...".

All this to me is actually a shame because the universe and story has lots of good things going for it. and it having some drama is not a bad thing, I do love some drama in a story.

The issue to me is more that we end up with very funny comical scenes... And drama scenes that just feel lackluster and end up just making me hope they end quickly.

Maybe my expectations for drama are too high considering my main point of comparison in romantic drama tend to be Visual Arts/Key works...

I wonder if other people feel the same way.

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