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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Film Screening in U.K. and Ireland Cinemas on February 15 and 16
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Tickets are now available for UK cinema screenings of Kaguya-sama: Love is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai), the anime film adapting the manga's story arc of the same name. The screenings are listed for Wednesday February 15 and Thursday February 16, in Japanese with subtitles (there is no English-dubbed version as of writing).
Tickets are available from the sites of cinema chains including Vue and Cineworld. The film's screenings can also be found through the flicks.co.uk website.
Crunchyroll has streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
Shuchiin Academy's student council room, the place where Student Council Vice President Kaguya Shinomiya and President Miyuki Shirogane met. After a long battle in love, these two geniuses communicated their feelings and, at the Hoshin Festival, had their very first kiss. However, there was no clear confession of love. The relationship between these two, who assumed they would be a couple, remains ambiguous. Now, overly conscious of their feelings, they must face the biggest challenge yet: Christmas. It's Shirogane who wants it to be perfect versus Kaguya who pursues the imperfect situation. This is the very “normal” love story of two geniuses and the first kiss that never ends.
The film opened in Japan on December 17 2022, and will air on television in Japan after it screens in theaters. The film has a 90-minute runtime.
The arc takes place after the end of the anime's third season.
Masayuki Suzuki featuring Reni Takagi performs the film's opening theme song "Love is Show." Masayuki Suzuki has performed all the opening theme songs for the franchise's previous television series. Airi Suzuki performs the ending theme song for the film titled "Heart Notes." halca performs the insert song "Romantic Manifesto" for the film.
The final hour-long episode of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -Ultra Romantic-, the series' third season, aired in June 2022, and it first announced the new anime.
The first television anime of Aka Akasaka's Kaguya-sama: Love is War manga premiered in January 2019 and aired for 12 episodes. Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 premiered in April 2020.
Viz Media is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
All's fair when love is war!
Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first…?!
Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane are two geniuses who stand atop their prestigious academy's student council, making them the elite among elite. But it's lonely at the top and each has fallen for the other. There's just one huge problem standing in the way of lovey-dovey bliss—they're both too prideful to be the first to confess their romantic feelings and thus become the “loser” in the competition of love! And so begins their daily schemes to force the other to confess first!
Akasaka began the series in Shueisha's Miracle Jump magazine in May 2015 but it moved to Young Jump in March 2016.
Grateful thanks to Don Murray for the heads-up.
