English Dub Review: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War “Kei Shirogane Wants to Show Off / About Kaguya Shinomiya, Part 2 / Kaguya Wants to Confess” “Spring of First Year / Kaguya’s Culture Festival / Yu Ishigami’s Culture Festival”

Overview:

Kaguya learns about the romantic legend that giving a heart-shaped gift at the Culture Festival brings eternal love. She wonders if there is a way she can give Shirogane a heart-shaped gift without getting caught. But her plans are full of errors, and she panics. She becomes sick of herself as a cowardly person who can only come up with negative ideas. There, Shirogane, exhausted from preparing for the Culture Festival, shows up. As Kaguya sees Shirogane doing his best for everyone as the student council president, she…

One week after enrolling in Shuchiin Academy as a special scholarship student, Shirogane had already regretted that he had come to a school he should not have. The students around him were elites born into famous families. Shirogane, who is from a modest household and enrolled in a school outside of Shuchiin’s track, couldn’t even find a friend to eat with, so he quietly kills time away from the cafeteria. Just as Shirogane’s miserable emotions explode, an upperclassman with a student cap appears in front of him. A shining golden fourragere lays across his chest as proof of the student council president. And he says that he’s come to recruit Shirogane into the student council.

Our Take:

What a welcome surprise! We got two episodes this week. One minor thing I want to mention is that the season is almost over I think and Clifford is still voicing Shirogane. I’m wondering if they will just have him finish it. I’ve never seen a situation like this and I wonder if they will re-dub it with Aaron once he’s better. Neither here nor there but I thought it was interesting.

Both players in the game have fully admitted how they feel. Now that leaves two remaining questions. Who will confess first? And if they become a couple will this show manage to avoid the pitfall that so many romance anime fall into and stay relevant afterward? I personally think it can stay relevant because there are more interesting characters than just the two leads. There are many ways this anime could go and I hope we get more and more.

There are very few negatives I can think of when it comes to Kaguya-sama everything is enjoyable. The voice acting is great and they even manage to make the comedic timing work when bringing it over to English. This is an anime that no one should be missing out on.