Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai? Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen OVA

What do Shuchiin Academy's model students do outside of their student council duties? After a visit to the swimming pool, Kaguya Shinomiya and Chika Fujiwara take to the showers to wash themselves off. When Chika accidentally drops a bar of soap, the two find themselves in a rather slippery mishap.

Meanwhile, Miyuki Shirogane and Yuu Ishigami examine a discarded pornographic magazine—its content bearing an uncanny resemblance to the other student council members. Later on, an intense fried rice cook-off commences as Chika and Miko Iino seek to crown a master chef amongst the council.

These eccentric activities reveal a side of the student council that has never been seen before!

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Shinomiya, Kaguya Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Ishigami, Yuu Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Fujiwara, Chika Main

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Shirogane, Miyuki Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Iino, Miko Main

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Hayasaka, Ai Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Shirogane, Kei Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Shirogane, Father Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Osaragi, Kobachi Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Ishikawa, Tatsuya Producer

Hayashi, Tatsurou Producer

Kikuchi, Yuuichirou Producer

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May 21, 2021

V4Watcher

Recommended

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Wherever Kaguya-sama: Love is War goes, hilarity and havoc ensure. Life is mostly mundane and humdrum; it lies within us to make the most of what we have. Love is War is not an anime about dying (in most cases by Truck-kun) and being reincarnated in a fantasy world of your dreams, or gaining some OP power to whoop that ass of the evil dude. It takes into account the very prosaic lives we live in and turns it into something truly entertaining. Love is War ... tries to convey something along the lines “You thought normal life was boring? O KAWAII KOTO”. This OVA, just like the main series, encapsulates that thought and presents it before you in the form of three episodes.

This OVA lunges fan-service, bundled with hysterics right onto you, creating the perfect recipe for uproarious humour. Boisterous events and riotous remarks are sprinkled throughout the episodes, leading to a smooth flow of story progression and comedy. The way each scene transitions into the next is well connected.
The jocular narrator with a serious voice, like always, is perfectly embroidered into the story, similar to how silk is sewn into the spine of the book, and guides us along with the characters of the story in this OVA.

It poses a real challenge to get people interested in ordinary characters, but A-1 Pictures does a brilliant job of bringing out the extraordinary in an otherwise customary school set-up and daily lives. The characters maintain their individual charm in the OVA, Shirogane-his cocky yet amusing behaviour, Kaguya-her inner devilish scheming behind that kawaii face, Chika- her unwitting and innocent view on everything, and Ishigami-his hilarious mood swings from nonchalant to hyper in a few seconds.

I’ve seen a few people say they went overboard with the fanservice and all, and even though that's kinda true (I felt a bit that way too), that’s the whole point to an OVA. It’s a place to let free what the producers intended us to see without any restrictions or main plot. It’s there as not a part of the main series, but as a few chill (but extremely hilarious) episodes for us to enjoy. If you haven’t watched it yet, my personal recommendation is; if you took a shine to Love is War S1 and S2, you’ll get a bang out of the OVA too. Provided you liked the narrating style of the series, and don't have a major problem with fanservice, I’d say go for it and watch this OVA, you won’t be disappointed.
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Now watch as people who just post swear words and hate comments take all the top spots while those who actually try to write decent reviews for everyone in an unbiased way go to the bottom. Even if the fanservice was over the top and you hated it, reviews have to be as unbiased as possible. In the end, decent reviews that actually try to be a review with as little spoilers as possibe so that everyone can get a chance to read it just lose to a bunch of haters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 22, 2021

Caterwauling

Mixed Feelings

As you've probably noticed by now, Kaguya-sama: Love is War is not an ecchi show. It's so not an ecchi show that both seasons had a gag involving Ishigami getting beaten up for sexualizing Chika. So, what are we doing here, with voyeuristic shots of things like Chika's breasts bouncing around as she and Kaguya look for some dropped soap in the girl's locker room showers? Well, we're here because fanservice sells and fans don't care.

If you're a fan of this not-ecchi series, then presumably, you like the characters for reasons besides their masturbatory utility. You like them because they're good characters, or in other ... words, because they make convincing imitations of real people. Characterization is, after all, the process by which a person is created inside of a narrative context. They might not actually be real, but they're real inside of the fantasyland the show exists in. The 2D Realm. You might not be able to touch them, but they sure~ can~ touch~ you~, or something like that. Anyways you wouldn't want to see Chika get Robert Sylvester Kelly'd by Papa Shirogane, a gross violation of her autonomy like that would make you upset. So why wouldn't you get upset when the show's creators force you to be the one doing the violating, with intrusive camera angles that place you right up in there between Chika's thighs? There's two answers here. The first, more rebellious one, is that you would be upset, and that I'm dumb for assuming that you wouldn't. Ass out of you and me, and all that. In that case, good on you, you make a good Kaguya fan. The other answer is that you don't care about Chika, and that I'm dumb for assuming that you do. You know fully well that Chika would have no issues bringing out the fan for some higher-dimensional ghosts spying on her in the shower, but you don't care. You're fine with being that ghost. If you don't like the characters that much to begin with, then whatever, it's just some ecchi, uhh, I feel bad calling it fanservice since you're not a fan, but you get the idea. If you ARE a fan, but don't care about Chika, well then you're pretty spooky.

But here is where I have to give credit where credit is due, and let the fans that don't care off the hook just a little bit for being horny. This is a review for a 5, after all, I'm not gonna browbeat the entire time. Anime titties are pretty cool, and how often do you see them animated at such a high quality? You don't. I mean, Chika's boobs alone had more keyframes than the latest episode of The Seven Deadly Sins. This is some seriously impressive ecchi content. So impressive, that it can apparently make fans forget all the characterization that they had subscribed to going into it. As an ecchi short, this might just be a 10/10 for its ability to do that.

But ultimately, this is an addendum to a show called Kaguya-sama: Love is War, which already has established characters, themes, and metanarrative morality. This OVA ignores all of that and prostitutes its cast for a quick buck. It gets points for being visually in the upper crust of the ecchi genre, but OVAs are not standalone, and have to be coherent within the context of their series. This is not.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 21, 2021

slade1999

Not Recommended

What the fuck?

It was actually disgusting when they compared the girls in the porn comic book to their female friends. Their FRIENDS. And it's not just them being compared, the girls are intentionally drawn to resemble them. Unfortunately this was also done in the manga chapters that this scene was adapted from, but you know what wasn't done in the manga chapters? The entire 7 minute hentai scene (yes, it's practically hentai at this point) that dragged on forever.

I knew there was going to be fanservice but what the fuck? Am I the only person who's appalled at how shameless, inappropriate and just straight up ... stupid that was? It had nothing going for it other than the brain-dead appeasement of porn/hentai fantasies. The manga never went anywhere near that far.

For the record I am a huge fan and I loved both seasons very much. I just feel like the OVAs didn't do the Kaguya I knew and loved justice. The entire wholesome, fun energy it had going was thrown out the window in favor of excessive sexualization and objectification.

What a shame.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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	Poll: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen OVA Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) removed-user - May 20, 2021	200 replies	by topfloorboss45 »» Aug 27, 3:34 AM
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