The Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Twitter account has released five Christmas-themed character visuals for the upcoming Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- anime. Yu and Chika are dressed as Santa Claus, while Kaguya, Miyuki, and Miko are dressed as reindeer.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- will have a special theatrical screening in Japan on December 17, followed by a TV broadcast. Anime NYC 2022 will hold a preview screening on November 19.
Kaguya-sama: Love is War is an anime series that debuted in 2019 and has three seasons so far. The third season premiered in April, followed by The First Kiss That Never Ends in June.
The anime is based on Shueisha-published manga series Aka Akasaka, which began in 2015 and has 27 tankoubon volumes as of October 2022. Young Jump Comics publishes and distributes the manga, which is currently serialised in Weekly Young Jump.
The manga is described by Viz Media as follows:
Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite as leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council! But it’s lonely up there… Fortunately for them, they’ve found love! There’s only one problem: they’re both too proud to admit it. And so the daily scheming begins in order to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first…
Love is a war in which you win by losing.
The director is Mamoru Hatakeyama, the series composer is Yasuhiro Nakanishi, the character designer is Yuuko Yahiro, the art director is Risa Wakabayashi, the colour designer is Kanako Hokari, the photography director is Masaharu Okazaki, and the music composer is Kei Haneoka. A-1 Pictures is the animation production company.
Meanwhile, Makoto Furukawa plays Miyuki Shirogane, Konomi Kohara plays Chika Fujiwara, Ryouta Suzuki plays Yuu Ishigami, Yumiri Hanamori plays Ai Hayasaka, and Miyu Tomita plays Miko Iino.