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Kaguya Sama Anime Takes A Walk Down Memory Lane With 11-Minute Long Video

Video serves as a lookback on events that transpired before the release of Kaguya Sama movie.

The official YouTube channel of Aniplex revealed a 11-minute long video for Kaguya Sama: Love Is War anime on Dec 9, 2022. The video essentially looks back on all three seasons of Kaguya Sama anime, giving fans a timely reminder of what transpired, before the frachise’s upcoming movie release.

Take a trip down the Kaguya Sama memory lane by watching the video below. It also features all opening and ending themes of the anime.

The upcoming movie, which is also the first ever movie in the Kaguya Sama franchise, is titled, Kaguya sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai (Kaguya-sama: Love is War: The First Kiss Never Ends).

It will release in Japan on Dec 17, 2022. You can check out the trailer for the movie below:

The official site describes the film as:

Vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya and student council president Miyuki Shirogane met at Shuchiin Academy’s student council . After a long love battle, the two geniuses communicated their feelings to each other and kissed for the first time at the Annual Cultural Festival. However, they have not reached a clear confession yet, and the relationship between the two, who were thought to be lovers, remains ambiguous, and they come to Christmas with a stronger awareness of each other. Shirogane “wants to be perfect” and Kaguya seeks to be “not perfect”. This is a very “ordinary” love story by geniuses. First kiss never ends.

Kaguya-sama: Love is War: The First Kiss Never Ends anime film will follow the events of season 3.

Like the previous seasons, A-1 Pictures will be in charge of animating the movie. A-1 Pictures’ producer Kenshiro Yamada said that the events of arc in question will only take up about two hours of screen time and it made sense for it to be made into a movie.

Kaguya Sama: Love Is War The First Kiss Never End

The staff working on the movie includes:

  • Director: Mamoru Hatekayama
  • Character Designer: Yuko Yahiro
  • Chief Animation Director: Hiroshi Yakou
  • Art Director: Risa Wakabayashi
  • Music: Kei Haneoka
  • Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
  • CGI Director: Yuki Kuribayashi
  • Director of Photography: Masaharu Okazaki

The key cast from previous seasons will be returning to reprise their role in the movie.

Kaguya Sama: Love Is War is a manga series written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka. It began serialization in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump in May 2015 and was transferred to Weekly Young Jump in March 2016.

The manga’s final chapter was published on Nov 2, 2022.

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired in Japan from January to March 2019. A second season aired from April to June 2020. An OVA episode was released in 2021. Kaguya Sama Season 3 .aired on April 8, 2022.

Source: YouTube