Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War S2E2: "People Want to Do Things"

This episode's compound title consists of "character X wants to do thing Y" chapter titles, so there we go.

There's no teaser; we jump straight into the season 2 intro, and it's extremely different from season 1's. The song doesn't quite measure up to "Love Is War" (and I mean, come on, that's a hard act to follow), but the visuals bring something new and very different to the table. The first OP was just a gag, essentially. Miyuki and Kaguya posing with weapons, and the playing card motif, and then ending with the school blowing up. I'm glad to see that the series appears to be aware that the joke is getting old, and so the season to intro makes sure to communicate that it isn't just a joke now. We see Kaguya and Miyuki pining for each other from across their class divide, preparing symbolic meals (referecing the pilot) that represent their love for each other, only to fail to deliver them.

Not that it's without silliness entirely, of course.

That's the other thing; the side characters are a lot more prominent now. Ishigami, those two student council lovebirds, Chika, Hayasaka, the principle (looking sinister in the background), and others that I don't recognize.

In another reprise of the pilot episode, Kaguya and Miyuki end up in the student council office clumsily, anxiously trying to bounce their lavishly prepared food to each other, only for Chika to end up (innocently?) taking it due to them taking so long.

So, it's definitely putting the focus more on the characters and their social circumstances this season, even if the gags and histrionics are still prominent. That sounds promising. The season pilot didn't quiiiite deliver on that, but maybe they just needed a mostly-status-quo episode to start things off before doing character development. Well, let's check out the episode, picking up from Kaguya's not-totally-clear inference that Miyuki wants her to throw him a surprise birthday thing.


Open on Kaguya, Chika, and some other girls going on a shopping spree. I think this is the first time I've seen them wearing anything besides their school uniforms, aside from the occasional tac-gear shot in the OP's or dream sequences, and holy shit these girls are *rocking* their civvies. Chika especially, but Kaguya's not that far behind her.

Also, is this Moeha character actually more hyperactive than Chika, or only when shopping? If the former, how the hell did anyone else in the area survive the 15-17 years she's been alive?

Anyway, the reserved-looking girl on the far left is apparently Miyuki's sister, name of Kei. It doesn't say if she's older or younger than him, but the vibes seem to suggest younger. Kaguya's ulterior motive for coming on this trip is to get some kind of cooperation (or perhaps, information) from Kei which will help her do her surprise birthday thing in a couple of days.

She needs *something* from Kei to make the birthday thing for her brother to happen, but we don't yet know what. And she of course can't just be open about it, considering that we're still terrified of letting anyone else know we are capable of feeling things like affection. Unfortunately, as their mall trip proceeds, Kaguya finds herself unable to properly familiarize herself with Kei, let alone get anything out of her. Kei is shy, and Chika - who she seems to already be friends with - is clinging to her and keeping her occupied in rapid-fire conversation the entire time.

Additionally, the other manic pink-haired girl, Moeha, has decided to attach herself to Kaguya and do the same thing. Kaguya doesn't think Moeha is...

Oh.

She's Chika's sister.

Of course. Okay, now it makes sense.

Kaguya doesn't think that Chika's sister Moeha is an unpleasant person, exactly, but she's...difficult to be around. As Kaguya internally narrates this, Moeha starts chatting in her ear about Kei, who is a distance up ahead talking to Chika. Moeha goes on about what a good citizen Kei is, how wholesome and hardworking and honest under that adorable shyness of hers. About how a lot of boys like her, and so do a fair number of girls. In fact...

Kaguya looks uncomfortable, and says nothing.

Moeha continues on this train of thought, chattering excitedly about how she wishes she could lock Kei in a BDSM dungeon and torment her for years on end. Also, I'm pretty sure that Moeha and Chika have the same voice actress doing the same affectations, because the delivery is identical to Chika babbling about card games or Christmas presents.

Kaguya looks even less comfortable, and continues saying nothing.

Moeha confuses Kaguya's consternation for jealousy, and assures her that she has nothing to worry about; Kei's are far from the only genitalia she wants to stomp on. In fact, if she could just get Kaguya herself locked in a cage...

...

Okay.

Is this problematic? Yes, it is. It's at least leaning on the "psycho lesbian" canard, if not outright executing it. It's extra disappointing after the wholesomely nonchalant attitude the show took toward the concept of same-sex marriage in the previous episode.

You'll have to decide for yourselves how harshly to judge me, though, because it's just too fucking funny for me to dislike.

I probably would have been much less amused and much more irritated by the manga version of this scene (assuming it's written the same way), because the crux of the humor here is in the voice acting and facial animation. It's not funny because "psycho lesbian," it's funny because "what if Chika, but replace board games with horny on main." The extra incongruity of the NATURE of her horniness on main - this pink-haired hyperglycemic anime moeblob turning out to be a sadistic turbodom - just heightens the WTF factor.

So, the impression I'm getting is that the show redeemed a tropey homophobic gag from the manga by focusing the humour on everything but the same-sex aspect. It could be that I'm giving the author too little credit and/or the studio too much, but I'd need to know more to say for sure.

...

Eventually, the group enters a clothing store. Kaguya manages to pry Moeha off of her for long enough to at least get close to Kei. When she does so, she hears Kei agonizing over whether or not she can afford to buy a dress, calculating how many newspapers she'd have to deliver in order to balance the cost. Kaguya has an introspective moment, realizing how little attention she's ever had to pay to where her clothes come from or which ones she can or can't have. She's just always had whatever she wanted, and other people worried about the mechanics of buying or ordering it. And, of course, there's nothing here at this middle-of-the-range clothing store for Kaguya to buy herself.

Kaguya isn't just not getting a chance to talk to Kei. She's realizing that even without that issue, she'd have no idea how to relate to her, how to appeal to her own interests in order to secure her friendship, etc.

Left unsaid, but I think implied, is that she might be realizing that she really doesn't know Miyuki. She has a crush on the part of him she comes in contact with at school, but she's never really appreciated what he is and where he comes from. Without the context of their professional relationship, would she have the same problem with him that she's having with another member of his family? How much life experience, how many milestones of social development, has her family's lifestyle deprived her of?

Miserably, she leaves the clothing store and sits on a bench outside to wait for the others to finish.

To her surprise, Kei emerges alone before the Fujiwara sisters do. Looks like they decided to buy some extra stuff, whereas Kei has already filled her budget for today. Kaguya tries to start talking to her, but is suddenly blown away by how closely she remembers her brother when seen at a profile, causing her to flusteredly address her as "Miyuki's little sister" rather than by name. This leads to a long and pretty funny sequence of Kaguya struggling with the appropriate honorifics and/or name segments to call her by, with Kei getting ever more concerned for Kaguya's health. Finally, they settle onto first names (or...second names, since it's Japan. You know what I mean), even though that's uncomfortably informal for Kaguya considering how little she knows this person.

That strange feeling of warmth emanating from Kaguya's blood vessels might take some getting used to, but I'm sure she'll be able to adapt to it, and even appreciate it come winter.

Anyway, now that she and Kei are exchanging words as per the plan, Kaguya can get the information she needs out of her. Specifically, what would be a good present to get Miyuki for his birthday.

Really? That's it? Just "what should I get him?" That's what all this anxiety and subterfuge is for?

Heh, well, I do remember this kind of thing seeming like a big deal when I was a teenager. On the other hand, Kaguya is in a unique position of being able to literally buy him a pony and not have it seem like it means anything to her. She could buy every classmate of theirs a pony for their birthdays without feeling the cost at all. My point is that when you have the kind of resources at your disposal that Kaguya does and you're shopping for a lower-middle class person like Miyuki, you can just brute force your way into gifts that will be appreciated without a thought.

So, she tries to raise the subject of presents by mentioning that Christmas is coming up pretty soon, and - very nonchalantly, of course - asks what kind of presents their family normally get for each other. But, it turns out that their family doesn't really celebrate Christmas; their dad gets each of the kids a book card as a family tradition, but that's it. Kaguya then, with significantly less nonchalance, asks what their birthday presents are like, in that case. Kei says that she isn't really sure about that either. She and her brother are the only two siblings, and they don't get along very well, so birthday presents are generally not a consideration.

Kei has a litany of reasons she dislikes her brother, when Kaguya asks about this.

None of them are very *damning* reasons, except for maybe the "tells lies for no good reason" part. And we and Kaguya both already knew about that. In fact, that's probably one of the few things that Kaguya has in common with Miyuki and can relate to him over.

Unprompted, Kei goes on about how Miyuki is extra annoying about her own birthday, as a matter of fact. The family decided that presents are a waste of money (I'm starting to feel like they're memetically poor, in the same way that Kaguya's family is memetically rich), but Miyuki keeps slipping thousand yen notes into her wallet on her birthday and then denying it when asked.

This is what Kei means when she says he lies about pointless things. Why, very the thought of it makes her ball up her fists in rage!

Kaguya might not yet have a real sense of what being poor means, but she's able to understand the gist of what Kei is describing here and has the opposite emotional reaction from her. Which kind of surprises me, honestly; I'm sure Kaguya could understand being given unwanted monetary gifts feeling like an insult, or at least patronizing. I guess maybe she was just expecting to hear something much worse than this because of Kei's initial reaction, and that's making her more charitable.

Just then, a little girl comes skipping down the mall in front of them and trips just as she's passing their bench. Kei launches herself out of the bench and throws herself under the falling kid like a football player attempting a desperate tackle. Kaguya watches from her place, shocked and startled, as Kei gets dust and dirt all over herself and takes a hard knock to the midsection from the kid's descending weight. When she sees that the kid scraped her knee when it hit the pavement a little short of Kei's body, she rinses the wound with water and ties it up with a handkerchief before sending the girl away.

After the girl thanks Kei and goes skipping away, Kaguya realizes that the handkerchief Kei used was one she had just bought at the last store they visited. She asks Kei why she was so quick to part with one of her scant new purchases, and Kei turns around, gives Kaguya a weirdly intense eye-to-eye stare, and says that this was the best use for the item that she had bought, and she's very satisfied with what she got out of it. She then turns around and walks away from Kaguya with an openly contemptuous look.

Hmm. On one hand, model citizen behavior. On the other...blowing a cloth handkerchief on a skinned knee is kind of an odd thing to do. Couldn't she at least have accompanied the kid back to her parents to see if they had a cloth or band-aid of their own to switch it with? It's not like Kei had anything else to do at the moment. And if she kept the handkerchief after the kid got a replacement for it, she could then use it to help other kids who get hurt in the future. So, while cushioning the kid with her own body and then tending her injury is absolute S-tier social responsibility, giving away the handkerchief feels kind of virtue-signal-y.

Kaguya is struck by how similar Kei and Miyuki really are, both for better and for worse. In fact, it's making her kind of unsure of what she's feeling.

As the mall trip continues, Chika and Thirst!Chika start keeping their own company and allowing Kaguya and Kei to walk together. The latter two don't have much to say to each other, but just the proximity is making Kaguya feel weird. Like she's already on a date with a version of Miyuki.

Hot damn has season two of Kaguya-Sama taken a turn for the gay. Unexpected, but not unwelcome. T
he abundance of stuff like this also makes Moeha's thing much less objectionable, though I'd still have to see other "out" queer people being portrayed as normal before I can recant all criticism of it. Come on show, I know you can do it.

By the end of their shopping session, Kei has seemingly gotten over her irritation with Kaguya's response to the handkerchief incident, and come to enjoy the time they spent together. Hmm, it would have been nice to see some of the later interactions that changed her feelings about Kaguya for the better, but oh well. In fact, she tells Kaguya that she really had fun today, and that she'd like to hang out with her again sometime. She then gets nervous, and adds that maybe it can just be the two of them, this time.

Well damn, looks like the feeling might have been mutual. It's too bad there are still two seasons left to go; if not for that, I'd think "Kaguya dates Miyuki's sister" would be a clever subversive ending to the story, assuming that Miyuki gets a satisfying ending of his own to complement it.

Before Kaguya can reply though, Chika runs up and tackle-glomps Kei, insisting that they should always hang out together as a group forever. Moeha then hugs Kei from the other side, and fondles her chest while Kei is distracted by Chika. As she does this, she cranes her head toward Kaguya and winks.

The narrator pipes in here to clarify that Kei is not, in fact, a man. Thank you, narrator, I would have missed that detail.

Kaguya thinking about it this way, though, is interesting. "Person I'm attracted to" equals "man," even though the traits she's attracted to in Miyuki apparently aren't sex or gender limited at all. Definitely reads as a closeted bisexual just starting to come to terms with her feelings. With Moeha there to act as sort of an embodiment of her learned aversion. Okay, yeah, in context this does make the Moeha thing better.

Moeha invites Kaguya to join the group hug, still with a suggestive look on her face. And, surprisingly, Kaguya not only obliges, but actually has an animation embellishment where she floats into the air and drifts over amid a literal cloud of sparkles, grinning wide.

So...is Kaguya just full-on coming out, now? Am I reading this correctly?

The narrator records this as a win for Kaguya. Either because of what she learned about Miyuki, or what she learned about herself. Probably both, tbh.

Well, be that as it may, Kaguya is still going to do her best to court Miyuki. She returns home that afternoon and confides what she learned in Hayasaka. Miyuki isn't likely to appreciate any sort of item, and he won't accept anything expensive in the first place. Thus, it will have to be something more personal, more emotional rather than quantifiably valuable. Hayasaka grave-facedly tells Kaguya that she knows what she must do. She ties a ribbon around her in a vaguely bondage-y way, and tells her to stick this note to herself when presenting her body to Miyuki.

...okay, you know what? Hayasaka should be dating Moeha. It's the most obvious ship in the world. They're perfect for each other.

Meanwhile, at their own house, Kei is telling Miyuki that she and Kaguya are on first name terms now, and she seems excited about it, to his slight confusion. Hmm. Wonder where this is going to end up going?

By the time Miyuki's birthday arrives, Kaguya has decided on what to get him instead of her body in kinky giftwrap. Much to Hayasaka's disappointment.

Hayasaka thinks this is going way overboard, especially for someone who isn't inclined to accept expensive or extravagant gifts. Kaguya protests that this wasn't expensive at all; she had their family's chef make it, so it's all covered in their existing salary. Sigh...oh, Kaguya.

Hayasaka probably thinks it would work better if Kaguya crawled on top of it and covered herself in whipped cream and frosting, but she's given up on trying to make Kaguya see things her way, so instead she just frowns and shrugs.

…

Next scene. Miyuki's birthday has arrived, and Kaguya is on eggshells about giving him her present. She knows it's a great cake that he'll have to appreciate, but Hayasaka's misgivings are still giving her some anxiety.

She dismisses these concerns by reminding herself that this isn't so out there for a good birthday cake. It's the same kind of cake that Chika had on her own most recent birthday, after all. Hmm...you know, I can totally believe that Chika's birthday parties would involve car-sized layer cakes. This might actually just be Kaguya's life experience being friends with Chika (rather than *just* her life experience of being rich, though that obviously plays into it) colouring her idea of what's normal.

Miyuki comes into the office where she's waiting. She greets him, and excitedly turns to the closet that she hid the cake in. Only, now that she's giving it another lookover while about to reveal it to him, she realizes that no, this is NOT a normal birthday cake. It's not even a normal Chika birthday cake. It's got the same kind of frosting and decorations, but it's about thirty times larger and more geometrically complex. Why it took her this long to realize this distinction, I can't really say, but now she's panicking about how he's even going to react to this.

I would say that the bigger question is how Kaguya even got that damned thing into the student council office in the first place, but at this point I've seen enough to know that the answer is "Hayasaka and a bunch of car jacks."

Kaguya turns around, now trying to hide the closet door with her body and work out a way to keep Miyuki's attention away from it. But...she also worked so hard and invested so much emotional energy into this. She freezes up. Stuck. A debate begins between her shoulder-genki and her shoulder-reptilian.

Genki Kaguya, obviously, tells her to say "screw it" and throw open the closet door. Just present Miyuki with this insanely over the top surprise birthday cake. Completely abandon this whole stupid cloak and dagger game about trying to get him to admit he loves her, and just sweep him off his feet the way that only the daughter of a multibillionaire clan can pull off. And come on, she already knows he has a particular weakness for cake!

However, Reptile Kaguya has a lot more ammunition in her corner of Kaguya's mind. All that repression, paranoia, and shame to weaponize against her and try to browbeat her into giving up with. Just forget the whole thing, it tells her. In fact, she should forget the WHOLE whole thing. Miyuki was never going to be important to her. Even dominating the upstart farmboy and crushing him underfoot as is right and proper would have ever really been important to her. It's time to stop wasting her mental energy on this nonsense and forget about him as anything besides a classmate and SBA colleague.

Genki has a lot of pent up frustration in her own corner, though. Kaguya remains stuck. Then, we get this insane courtroom-flavored mindscape sequence where different aspects of Kaguya pass judgement on or defend herself for caring so much about this.

The camera work, with the quick pans to "OBJECTION!" declarations, are a pretty clear Phoenix Wright shoutout. There are probably a ton of other things being parodied too.

It drags on a bit too much before getting anywhere, as many Kaguya-Sama sketches do, but it's still amusing enough. Eventually, things do move ahead though. The discourse escalates to talking about the course of Kaguya's life going forward as a whole, whether she can ever let herself fall in love with anyone at all, how much it should ever mean to her even if she does, etc.

Also, Kagyuan-Ti displays some clannishness that borders on incestuous.

Fucking royals fucking royals fucking royals amirite?​

A highlight is when Genki goes on at length about how happy admitting her love for Miyuki to both herself and him would make her, while pummelling her primary (defendant?) self with a firehose of badly animated pink flowers. Less silly and more informative is when Kagyuan-Ti admits that she's less concerned about their family's status than she is afraid of what their father will do to them if he finds they've done anything to tarnish it. Hmm. Starting to look like Kaguya's family may be actively abusive rather than "just" unfeeling snake people.

Finally, the judge herself appears, and it's child!Kaguya. Presumably the same part of her self that emerges under the cover of fever and cough syrup. She seems a bit more sedate now, though, keeping a serious expression and refraining from lighting firecrackers or running with scissors in the court.

She proposes a compromise.

Hayasaka's compromise.

Maybe she doesn't mean it in quite the same, carnal way that Hayasaka did, but I mean...that seed has already been planted within this very episode, so it's hard for my mind to not go there.

The other Kaguya's in the room all object immediately to the judge's verdict, to which the judge just shrugs and asks them what they were expecting, she's just a kid, she doesn't understand any of this.

O...kay. So that's how Kaguya ultimately sees herself, deep down? Interesting. Revealing.

She ultimately reminds herself that all of these characters are just herself, and that she - as the collective of all of them - needs to make the decision. So, having heard herself out and dealt with some extremely weird inner compulsions, she snaps back into the waking world and tells Miyuki to close his eyes for a moment.

He's reluctant. Not as reluctant as he would be if he knew about the phone battery and decaf coffee incidents, but if he knew about those he'd probably be pressing charges so that's a moot point.

Let me guess, she's going to cut out a little piece of the cake to give him on a plate and try to hide the rest? Nah, it's probably going to be something much goofier than that.

He hears some rustling noises that make him even more anxious than he was to begin with. Finally, Kaguya tells him he can open his eyes and-hah, I was actually right the first time!

That's also a confirmation on Miyuki's age. 16-17 over the course of the series so far, with Kaguya probably being the same. Noted.

Her voice very small and terrified, as if facing an interrogator rather than a baffled classmate, Kaguya wishes him a happy birthday, and gives him a little present along with the case. A fan in an ornate wooden case, with a traditional Sino-Japanese academic mantra hand-painted (or at least machine-printed in a way that makes it look convincingly hand-painted) across it.

It would be pretty lavish coming from most people, and even from someone made of money it's thoughtful at the very least.

He's stunned. She's bashful and timid. Then, suddenly, she tells him that she needs to go home now, and that he is UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES to open the closet at the back end of the office.

...Kaguya, you'd have had better chances just not mentioning it to him. Talk about reverse psychology.

Surprisingly, he doesn't immediately look in the closet. Okay, colour me surprised. Let me guess, now Chika is going to find it and assume it's for her or something?

...huh, nope. Surprisingly, that's the end of the birthday surprise arc. Kaguya and Hayasaka manage to come back and smuggle the cake out of the office, and eat as much of it as they can back at home. Hayasaka congratulates Kaguya on her progress, even though she still thinks she should have just spread frosting and strawberries on herself for him.

Sort of an abrupt ending, but...okay then!

Flash back to Miyuki, musing over his new fan. It's so strange. Kaguya has never gotten him anything before. As per Kaguya's fears, he's interpreting this as what it is; a token of her infatuation. But he also knows that she still won't admit it unless he admits it first, which means that this entire thing could be a trap to get him to submit! Fortunately, he has a counterstrategy in mind.

It seems like the show sort of has a cycle it goes through to maintain balance with the two leads' portrayals. Kaguya's life circumstances are so out-there that, left to run their course, the show stops being about hierarchy vs. free association in general and becomes just an exploration of how fucked up the life of a showhorse cyberpunk princess would be. So, whenever the weirdness of Kaguya's whole existence starts to eat the show and Miyuki looks like a normal, relatable everyman in comparison, he needs to suddenly start going really hard to catch up.

So, his plan is to leak the fact that she gave him the fan for his birthday, and let the school gossip chain take it from there. He doesn't have a very good grasp of psychology, though, if he thinks that the badgering to come clean will make Kaguya more likely to do so rather than just clam up or possibly even lash out.

He's confident though. I wouldn't be, but he is.

Also, he decides to start the process off by letting Chika of all people find out about the fan. Because involving her in these schemes always goes so swimmingly. Well, let's see how this one ends up crashing and burning.

At the last moment, Miyuki decides that maybe this isn't an elaborate trap that Kaguya is baiting for him. Maybe, after that time she had him kiss her hand near the end of season one, she's loosened up further and is actually trying to be affectionate. So, maybe he shouldn't drag this back in a dominance-battle direction? If there's a chance of things maybe starting to be normal now, perhaps he should do his best to hold onto this?

So, when Chika sees him using the fan, he just tells her that "a friend" gave it to him without any specifics. Not implicating Kaguya, or suggesting anything about her potential feelings for him.

Chika nods, and looks like she's going to forget it and walk away, but then suddenly she stops, leans over the desk, and asks Miyuki in a conspiratorially whisper if he's in love with Kaguya. When he panics and asks her what the hell she's on about, Chika says that he told Kaguya about his birthday, but not anyone else in the student council. And now she's getting him these thoughtful little gifts for him that he's being coy about. So, yeah?

Miyuki realizes what happened, albeit not neccessarily why.

Kaguya was probably sure that he was going to do exactly what he almost did as a first impulse. So, she preempted this by telling Chika that he told her, in private, about his birthday, and that she thought he was perhaps fishing for presents, or maybe had a thing for her or something.

Well, unfortunately for Kaguya, Miyuki has the exact same thought that I did in the previous episode. He recounts the incident when she first learned about his birthday, and just changes the details very slightly. Their class' birth dates came up in some paperwork, he claims, and he and Kaguya briefly made note of each other's as part of their worktime smalltalk. He's surprised she still remembers it after all this time, though. Let alone unilaterally decided to get him something so nice for it.

The music for this whole back-and-forth sequence is great, by the way. Very spy movie.

Kaguya tries to formulate a defence, but the sight of Miyuki actually using the fan she got him to cool himself against the afternoon heat has her all distracted. She tries to give a few justifications at once, coming out all tongue tied.

Just as it seems like Miyuki might have finally ended this war in a decisive victory, though, Ishigami comes in and casually notes that Miyuki is using the fountain pen that he got him for his birthday yesterday, cool. Chika and Kaguya are both surprised, though Kaguya manages to hide it. Ishigami is surprised that Chika looks so surprised.

Chika realizes that she's the only person in the room who didn't know about Miyuki's birthday. Ishigami posits that this is a symptom of her typical narcissism and self-centeredness.

I mean...he's not wrong? Miyuki might not make a big deal out of his birthday, but still, it's the kind of thing people who have been working closely with him for a long time might have reasonably picked up on if they expressed any interest.

Ishigami disses Chika for a while, and finally she runs out of the room crying and apologizing for being so inconsiderate and then jumping to insane conclusions because of it.

Kaguya thanks Ishigami for the save. Ishigami has no idea what the hell she's talking about, he just got Miyuki a pen for his birthday. The two of them do hang out outside of school sometimes, you know, getting a birthday present for your friend is just normal, why is everyone being so weird about this? The narrator declares a draw for Miyuki and Kaguya, and a defeat's worth of collateral damage for Chika. End episode.


This was probably the funniest Kaguya-Sama episode so far, save perhaps the pilot. It also managed to combine the absurd comedy with some fairly serious character study about Kaguya, and started to imply even more sinister things about her family than we already knew. Some of the visual and musical gags were also absolutely top notch.

It's frustrating that it ended with basically a total reset to the status quo, though. I know, progress has to be extremely slow and limited in a series trying to squeeze this much material out of this kind of premise, but that just makes me wonder if Kaguya-Sama's length is doing it a disservice. Moreso than before, I get the feeling I'd have lost patience with the show by now if I was watching the entire series, even though I like almost everything in it.

Also, this show really did get way hornier in season 2 holy shit.