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?
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)
Director
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Comic Book
Aka Akasaka
Screenplay, Series Composition
Yasuhiro Nakanishi
February 25, 2023
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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 characterisations vary from the young, lovestruck and naive to the young, cynical and suspicious. Poor old "Shirgane" has to deal with all three and is soon completely phased by the erratic, frequently quite funny, behaviour of the young woman who seems as likely to stab him between the eyes as to make love to him. On that last point, it is adult themed - and the writing reflects an honesty about teen adoration, but also about sex, lust and a dose of good, old fashioned, jealousy. It packs quite a lot of story into ninety minutes and raises quite a few smiles - of laughter and of appreciation (we've probably all been here, at some point, as we grew up and remember the intensity of that "first kiss") and is well worth a watch.