Shuchiin Academy! One of Japan’s most prestigious cradles for young minds! Home of the studious, the naturally brilliant, the artistic, and the clinically depressed! Its students are all but destined to be the next leaders of the world!
And standing above all other students are the members of the Student Council. These brilliant young men and women ensure that the entire student body runs efficiently at all times. As students in such high positions of power, they are often the subject of admiration and respect… and rumors.
These rumors ask questions that range from the sensible to the utterly insane. How did a loser NEET get into the Council? Who is that sentient pink blob? Is it actually legal to have an angry Chihuahua as an officer?
While it’s true that the Council members are gifted and competent beyond all doubt, that doesn’t ignore the fact that they each have a couple screws loose inside their head. From crippling anxiety to the inability to communicate feelings like normal people, the five Council members that make up the main cast of Kaguya-sama certainly have much work to do.
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Kaguya-sama is a tale of mind games masquerading as a romantic comedy. At its heart, it focuses on the mutual frustration that Kaguya and Miyuki have in trying to get each other to confess their feelings first.
Mind you, these are two of Japan’s top-level geniuses, and so they frequently resort to all sorts of schemes to coax that sweet confession out.
As readers delve deeper into their story, it becomes clear that their reluctance to admit they like each other stems from their equally troubled backgrounds.
Their insecurities are a reflection of what they lacked in their lives. Kaguya craves genuine human affection, while Miyuki has to struggle with impostor syndrome and the difficulty of providing for his father and sister while attending a prestigious school. All the while, they also continue to put up an admirable front as the most brilliant students at Shuchiin.
A similarly dark past plagues both Miko and Ishigami. The two go way back, although they’ve never been close. The later chapters of the manga bring their stories to the forefront.
What about Chika, you ask? Chika is constant and unchanging, like the force of nature or entropy. We’ll leave it at that.
The Shirogane family consists of Miyuki, Kei, and Papa Shirogane, as well as Miyuki’s estranged mother. They’ve fallen on hard times with the closure of their factory, which ended with them accruing a debt of over 500 million yen.
Kaguya visibly bubbled over the first time Kei, Miyuki’s little sister, walked into the Council room. As Shuchiin’s middle school treasurer, Kei shares Miyuki’s aptitude for hard work and financial responsibility.
Papa Shirogane is more of an enigma. His history suggests he was just as industrious and consummate as Miyuki, especially to win the affections of his wife. Not much has been said about Miyuki and Kei’s mother, but their dad has mentioned that he hasn’t abandoned his feelings for her yet.
