About “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War” in a few words:

Kaguya-sama: Love is War is a romantic-comedy anime series that follows the lives of two high school students, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane, who are secretly in love with each other but too proud to confess their feelings. They engage in a series of mind games and strategic battles to try and make the other person confess first, all while their friends, Chika Fujiwara and Yuu Ishigami, get caught up in their antics. The series is filled with humor, romance, and lots of unexpected twists and turns.

Meet the characters from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Kaguya Shinomiya

Kaguya Shinomiya is the elegant, ice-queen genius who runs on pride, strategy, and a ridiculously dramatic inner monologue. She’s cold and calculating in public but secretly melts into utterly theatrical romantic daydreams (and will deny it with the most dramatic eyebrow raise you’ve ever seen). Obsessed with winning—especially at love—and yet she’ll do stupidly impulsive things when flustered, which is my favorite contradiction. Also she’s shockingly good at gardening? Or was that a rumor… either way, always a menace and a soft disaster at the same time.

Miyuki Shirogane

Miyuki Shirogane is the tireless overachiever, class rep extraordinaire who treats everything like a battle of honor, especially academics and his hair (seriously he has very dramatic hair). He’s confident in his competence but utterly defeated by his own feelings—romantic fluster mode is his kryptonite. A bit stubborn, very moral, and annoyingly competent, he leads with earnestness and then immediately panics about whether he’s doing it right. Also he collects pens and stationery which is both adorable and slightly terrifying to think about.

Chika Fujiwara

Chika Fujiwara is pure chaos wrapped in glitter and a piano scarf; she’s bubbly, impossibly talented at random things, and will derail any strategic plan with a single dance. She’s delightfully airheaded but also secretly cunning in a way that makes you go “wait what, how did she do that?” She makes everything into a game, brings cupcakes, confuses people on purpose, and is somehow both painfully independent and hilariously needy for attention. Also she probably keeps a drawer of memes and a secret talent for rhythm games—no, really.

Yu Ishigami

Yu Ishigami is the moody, low-key icon who scowls like a decoration but is actually an enormous softie if you get past the grumpy exterior. He’s sardonic, socially awkward, and brilliant in his own angsty way, fiercely loyal to the few he cares about. He complains about being dramatized but then bakes someone a cake at two a.m. and sings off-key karaoke like it’s nothing. Also his sense of fashion is suspiciously goth and he hoards surprisingly cute things—plushies, not evidence!

Ai Hayasaka

Ai Hayasaka is the ultimate chameleon: poised, efficient, and constantly three steps ahead, like a personal assistant crossed with a spy. She can be ice-cold professionalism one moment and this weirdly affectionate big-sister vibe the next (and she hides memes in her phone, trust me). So precise and polished that you forget she has weird little private hobbies—romance novels? cosplay?—and yet she’ll drop everything for Kaguya without a second thought. Also she rocks sunglasses indoors sometimes, just because, and she’s more chaotic than she lets on.

Miko Iino

Miko Iino is the walking moral code who treats rules like sacred scripture and loves correcting people (in the most earnest, terrifying way possible). She’s strict, brave, and annoyingly principled, but also secretly soft and easily flustered when someone is genuinely kind to her. She wants justice for everything, keeps a planner with tiny stickers, and paradoxically will break protocol in a heartbeat if it helps a friend. Also she drinks black coffee like an adult but hoards cute keychains—tiny contradictions are her thing.