The Kaguya-sama: Love Is War manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Aka Akasaka.
The story takes place in senior high of Shuchiin Academy, and follows the student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya as they come with many schemes to make the other confess their love due to both of them being too proud to do so.
1 Due to being born into a high-class family, the manner Kaguya was raised caused her to be prideful, cold and calculating; but underneath her personality traits, she is really an innocent, kind and fair-minded teenage girl at heart.
In spite of her intelligence and resources, she is surprisingly inept at utilizing social media and digital technology (although she excels at older, analog methods of input such as typewriter).
28 It is revealed later in the story that Kaguya was born out of an affair by her father and a prostitute named Nayotake Shimizu, who died less than a month after giving birth to her Ch.
1 He is famed for being the top student of the school who has also placed second overall in national mock exams, attributed to his studying all the time, hence his messy hair, dark circles around his eyes, and glaring look.Ch.
He also enjoys traditional folk tales, and believed that if he were in the Emperor's position in the Kaguya-hime story, he would have tried stealing the princess back, which mirrors his actions in the final act of the story.Ch.
249 Akasaka said that he initially thought about naming him Mikado, after the Emperor in the Kaguya-hime story, but found that he liked Otomo no Miyuki better.
[7] Chika is a fair-skinned young girl with shoulder-length silver hair (light pink in the anime) that has a black bow in the middle of her square bangs, blue eyes and she has a large chest size.
3 As the story goes on, Yu becomes more open with the council, particularly with Kaguya who begins to enjoy his presence as a junior, as he's shown to be very honest and sincere of others to the point where he will damage his own reputation in order to save others from being hurt.
29 profile At school, she acts like a popular fashionable girl who wears her skirt short, a loose collar, fancy nails, and accessories, all of which push the dress code.Ch.
When Miyuki visits, she dresses as a maid named Smirka A. Haski (スミシー・A・ハーサカ, Sumishī A Hāsaka, anime: Smithee A. Herthaka),Ch.
She wishes to impose more orderly and proper behavior on the students, with rules such as making guys have crew cuts, having girls wear long skirts, and forbidding relationships.
Although she loses the election, she gets a sizable number of votes; her peers, who had made fun of her previous pathetic turnouts, begin to respect and admire her.
233 Miko's sense of justice runs through her family: her father is a high court judge and her mother works for an international humanitarian aid organization.
Academically she is at the top of her class and admires Chika for her music skills as a pianist, but loathes Yu for being lazy and not taking schoolwork seriously.
190 Miko later went on to run council president, managing to overcome the nervousness that ruined her speech in the prior election, whilst also letting go of her old nature and instead prioritising the desires of those around her.Ch.
278 Akasaka designed Miko to have a contrasting personality as well where she first appears as a serious Discipline Committee member, but is inwardly lewd; or a serious honor student but who lets her guard down too easily when a boy is nice to her.
Miko was also useful as a punch line to close off a chapter where she would run into the student council room and remark on the embarrassing situation.
51 Nagisa exhibits many girlfriend behaviors such as talking a lot, being moody, or even jealousy to the point where she hires a private detective to spy on her boyfriend to see if he is having an affair, later making up with him by being very physically bold and passionate.Ch.
76, 97 Whilst she initially starts asking Kaguya for relationship advice, in later chapters the two's roles reverse as she speaks from her experience of being sexually active.Vol.
192 In later chapters, she reveals to Kaguya that she has been suppressing her own romantic feelings towards Yu in order to support Miko but lets it slip that she might only be nominal friends with her.Ch.
Karen has light brown straight hair and is the daughter of the CEO of a major publishing company; She spends a great deal of time fantasizing about Miyuki and Kaguya along with writing fan fiction manga about them, which she has only shown to a few select people.Ch.
191 It is later revealed that his factory's sudden turn in fortune was due to meddling from older members in the Shinomiya group, though he does not carry any grudges with Kaguya and encourages her and Miyuki to enjoy their relationship Ch.
As he and Kaguya aren't the children of Gan'an's first wife, they hold less power within the company, leading to him growing overprotective of his younger sister Ch.
Despite this, he always has the best intentions for his younger sister, such as hunting down Ai when he discovered she was relaying information to his eldest sibling Oko, whilst respecting Kaguya's choice to forgive her.
He holds feudalistic beliefs on society, namely that women only serve as political tools that marry rival groups to ensure alliances.Ch.
209 However, these beliefs were likely formed to cope with his father's mistreatment of him, as he himself was married off to a more powerful woman, which forced him to break up with his high school girlfriend.Ch.
However, by the time he physically appears in the series, he is already on his deathbed and can't even recognise his own children due to suffering from a stroke, which lead him to develop vascular dementia, often mistaking Un'yo for Oko and calling Kaguya by her late mother's name.
Whilst not to the extent of Oko, it's shown that he developed rather lecherous views on women, as he cheated on his wife with a prostitute who later gave birth to Kaguya.Ch.