Aniplex of America shot out a press release this afternoon to announce streaming plans for the Kaguya-sama: Love is War anime. Based on Aka Akasaka's Young Jump manga, the romantic comedy adaptation is coming to Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow on January 12.

Mamoru Hatakeyama (Record of Grancrest War) directs the series, with Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Digimon Adventure tri.: Loss) on series composition and Yuko Yahiro (Haikyu!!) on character designs and chief animation direction alongside Hiroshi Yakou (Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 3: Rebellion) and Yuko Hariba (The Asterisk War) at anime studio A-! Pictures (Sword Art Online).





Stay tuned for more details!

CAST

Kaguya Shinomiya: Aoi Koga

Miyuki Shirogane: Makoto Furukawa

Chika Fujiwara: Konomi Kohara

Yu Ishigami: Ryota Suzuki

Ai Hayasaka: Yumiri Hanamori

Narrator: Yutaka Aoyama

Synopsis:

In romance, the first one to confess their love is the loser.



From a good family? Check! A good personality? Check!

Shuchiin Academy is where all these elite students with bright futures flock to.

As the two leaders of the student council, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane have supposedly fallen in love…

But after almost half a year, nothing has happened!?

They both have too much pride and can’t be honest.

Things have gotten troublesome, and they are now caught in a war of "How to get the other to confess their love first."

The fun part of romance is playing the game!

This is a whole new romantic comedy, following an outbreak of cunning warfare between two elite students in love.



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