{"id":644,"date":"2021-07-23T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2022-08-10T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:13:28","slug":"kaguya-sama-love-is-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/23\/kaguya-sama-love-is-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaguya-sama: Love is War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Kaguya-sama: Love Is War?&quot; Opening Theme (Limited Time Only)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lTlzDfhPtFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Click to Play<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaguya-sama:_Love_Is_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kaguya-sama on Wikipedia<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#ff0004\">SPOILER ALERT: Many spoilers follow, read at your own risk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anime(2019-2020) Series, 2 Seasons, 24 Episodes, 24 minutes each<\/p>\n\n<p>\nD: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinichi_Omata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shinichi Omata ( \u5c0f\u4fe3 \u771f\u4e00)<\/a><br>\nW: Yasuhiro Nakanishi, Yukie Sugawara from manga by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aka_Akasaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aka Akasaka<\/a><br>\nM: Kei Haneoka<br>\nStudio: A-1 Pictures\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p> \nANN  7.972   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=21401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S1<\/a> 7.934 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=22587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S2<\/a><br>\nMAL   8.41   <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/37999\/Kaguya-sama_wa_Kokurasetai__Tensai-tachi_no_Renai_Zunousen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S1<\/a> 8.68   <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/40591\/Kaguya-sama_wa_Kokurasetai__Tensai-tachi_no_Renai_Zunousen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S2<\/a><br>\nIMDB 8.4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9522300\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S1-S2<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Characters:<\/p>\n\n<p>MC<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe Narrator <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yutaka_Aoyama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Aoyam (\u9752\u5c71 \u7a63, Aoyama Yutaka)<\/a><br><br>\n\n\nOfficers of the Shuchiin Academy&#8217;s Student Council<br><br>\n\nMiyuki Shirogane (\u767d\u9280 \u5fa1\u884c, <em>Shirogane Miyuki<\/em>) President<br>\nKaguya Shinomiya (\u56db\u5bae \u304b\u3050\u3084, <em>Shinomiya Kaguya<\/em>) Vice President<br>\nChika Fujiwara (\u85e4\u539f \u5343\u82b1, <em>Fujiwara Chika<\/em>) Secretary<br>\nYu Ishigami (\u77f3\u4e0a \u512a, <em>Ishigami Y\u016b<\/em>) Treasurer<br>\nMiko Iino (\u4f0a\u4e95\u91ce \u30df\u30b3, <em>Iino Miko<\/em>) Financial Auditor<br><br>\n\nAi Hayasaka (\u65e9\u5742 \u611b, <em>Hayasaka Ai<\/em>) Kaguya&#8217;s personal assistant and childhood friend\n<\/p>\n\n<p>SC<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Kaguya-sama:_Love_Is_War_characters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of MC and SC characters<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n<p>ANTAGONISTS<\/p>\n<p>None to speak of unless the creepy head of Shuchiin Academy might be considered as such<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaguya-sama: Love is War Trailer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZ95aZmQu_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Click to play<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Battle of the Sexes :A struggle for power between women and men<\/p><p>\n<\/p><p>while not generally considered a genre, is after all, a real grouping of stories which go back thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>\nLysistrata(411 BC) by Aristophanes is generally considered the first of this kind of story where Greek women, in order to stop the Peloponnesian War(431 to 404 BC), plan to withhold sexual favors to men until they stop fighting. Also one of the first anti-war stories.\nThe Tale of Genji(before 1021) by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, while a story about Master Genji, is actually about the activities of all the women as they interact with the men of the court.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood and the Brits have had an absolute fascination with this story form.<\/p>\n<p>\n \n<\/p><ul>\n<li>Bringing Up Baby(1938)<\/li>\n<li>Gone with the Wind(1939)<\/li>\n<li>His Girl Friday(1940)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. and Mrs. Smith(1941)<\/li>\n<li>Adam\u2019s Rib(1949)<\/li>\n<li>Hobson\u2019s Choice(1954)<\/li>\n<li>When Harry Met Sally(1989)<\/li>\n<li>My Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>are just some of the excellent pieces in this genre that is not considered a genre. As one can see, while most are romantic-comedies, that is not necessary. A drama such as \u201cGone with the Wind\u201d can be in the mix, as well as the family dynamics of out-flanking a dictatorial father as in \u201cHobson\u2019s Choice\u201d and \u201cMy Big Fat Greek Wedding\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>The main core of \u201cThe Battle of the Sexes\u201d is the relationship between men and women and how one gender or the other, goes about gaining power over the other. It has often struck me that the very foundations of the story narrative are clearly illustrated in Asimov\u2019s Foundation series where the Foundation engages in a mind game with the Mule, and how in this mentat conflict, one gains power over the other. The genre is also like \u201cInception\u201d where a thought is planted in another, in order to have that other take a course of action which is desired by the protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough stated in military terms, the conflict is not physical or violent, it is emotional and mental.\nTo illustrate this point, most boyfriends\/husbands have encountered the following situation with their girlfriends\/wives. Boyfriend\/husband to girlfriend\/wife: \u201cWould you like to go to dinner?\u201d \u201cYes! Certainly!\u201d Boyfriend\/husband to girlfriend\/wife: \u201cWhere would you like to go?\u201d \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know, why don\u2019t you decide.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAny boy or man who assumes the literal meaning of this conversation is a fool of the first order, or vastly inexperienced with the other sex. The girlfriend\/wife most certainly has a definite choice in mind. The actual power play here is the final decision. Any young man who would go ahead, and make the choice on his own desires is committing a serious error for which he will suffer the consequences.\nWhat the woman really wants is not the restaurant, but that the man show his knowledge and love for her, by picking the correct restaurant that she really desires, and to sacrifice his desires for hers. And so we have a \u201cBattle of the Sexes\u201d. The naivety here is to assume that this is purely a functional decision which it most certainly is not! The decision is a power play. Whose desires get fulfilled?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u201d something similar takes place. Harry and Sally get into a disagreement about the ability of women to fool and deceive men with Harry saying no and Sally saying for sure!\nSo Sally goes into an extended skit showing how it is easy to deceive men about what is happening with women, with considerable emphatic sounds heard across the restaurant.\nA woman sitting at another table, sees all this, and tells her waiter, in one of the greatest lines in the movies, \u201cI\u2019ll have what she\u2019s having.\u201d!!!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat does all of this have to do with \u201cKaguya-sama: Love is War\u201d you might ask, and the answer would be as follows. Kaguya is clearly in the long train of history about \u201cThe Battle of the Sexes\u201d.\nKaguya is certainly one of the funniest comedies in a long, long while that is simply gully whomper, gut punching, outlandishingly funny. And the constant score keeping by the narrator, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yutaka_Aoyama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Aoyam (\u9752\u5c71 \u7a63, Aoyama Yutaka)<\/a> is brilliant, and he becomes like a special MC in this series.\nBecause Kaguya does something few others can even accomplish. It\u2019s humor arises as does all good humor, from a real sense of the absurdities of the male-female relationship. Mother Nature is still laughing about this joke.\n<\/p>\n<p>And the War, the Battle is not really hostile, but arises from a sense of fun, and of love for the other, although sometimes when your faults are exposed even in an intimate relationship, bad feelings can be aroused. But seen as part and parcel of love making, where to be intimate, one must expose all strengths and weaknesses, it can increase intimacy and the love which follows.<\/p>\n<p>For a highly successful rom-com, to do what the artists accomplished in S2, EP11 is stunning.\nOf course, this is the Ishigami story arc, and there is nothing funny at all there or here. The arc is high drama of a very serious nature, and will invoke some pretty intense feelings when it arises to its denouement, and faces change. (You will understand what when you see it!)<\/p>\n<p>\nIshigami learns something very serious about a girl who is friendly to him, and he responds violently.\nAll those around him, students and teachers try to force him to apologize.\nTo switch from high comedy to sudden, deep and dark tragedy, and to resolve it all out in the suddenness of The \u201cgo to hell, dumbass\u201d thing is intense! \nDumbass videos follow:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GO TO HELL, DUMBASS!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdCkdd8w9u4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the only word for this is story genius. The artists behind Kaguya can do real, painful, dark, emotional drama just as well as belly-ripping, gut-busting comedy. Their story chops are beyond reproach, and are on full display in this wonderful, brilliant, two season work.\n\nAnd even more special, a third season has been announced to be in production, but no release date has been confirmed. Most critics and fans are predicting a release sometime in 2022. A confession is rumored to be part of S3. \n<\/p>\n\n<p>When S3 completes, Pywackett Productions will update this blog.<\/p>\n\n<p>Live well and thrive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>HIGHLY RECOMMENDED<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2021 Folwine P. 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