English Dub Review: Kaguya-sama: Love is War “Miyuki Shirogane Wants to Make Her Confess, Part 4 / Tsubame Koyasu Wants to Say No / Miyuki Shirogane Wants to Make Her Confess, Part 5”

Overview:

Invited to walk around the culture festival together by Shirogane, Kaguya is unable to hide her surprise at this sudden plot twist. She lightly joked that maybe he was affected by the festival’s atmosphere, but Shirogane never dropped his serious expression. Compelled by such intensity, Kaguya decided to walk around the school together. Everyone around them gossips that they are on a date as Kaguya blushes. But while they enjoy visiting a love-fortune-teller, food shops, and live music, Kaguya feels true happiness. From the depths of her heart, she wishes that each day could continue just like this.

Our Take:

What a solid episode! Mainly because up to this point, just like Kaguya, we’ve been led to believe that Shirogane is also playing a game as well as all the different distractions that will crop up. But surprisingly none of that happened. Everything went firmly in Kaguya’s favor, which was honestly more funny than if it happened. When you’ve come to expect certain outcomes and they don’t happen that can lead to some funny times.

Shirogane is slowly putting all his cards on the table. To the best of my knowledge, Kaguya is the first person he has told about him going to Stanford. I think he did this so she knows exactly where he stands in his life. The only thing left is for him to confess his feelings. Might his confession be linked to this mysterious phantom thief Lupin?