Kaguya Shinomiya

Shuchiin's proud student council vice president, locked in a battle of wills over love.

Kaguya Shinomiya is the title character and protagonist of Aka Akasaka's manga Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. She is vice president of the student council at Shuchiin Academy and a daughter of the wealthy Shinomiya family, whose conglomerate ranks among the largest in Japan. She is in love with council president Miyuki Shirogane but far too proud to say so first, which sets up the scheming at the heart of the series. The two do eventually confess and become a couple, though her family situation and Miyuki's plan to study at Stanford University complicate things.

Quick Facts

Series

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

First

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War chapter 1: "I Will Make You Invite Me to a Movie", May 19, 2015

Creator

Aka Akasaka

Portrayed by

Kanna Hashimoto

Voice

Japanese:
Aoi Koga
English:
Alexis Tipton

Position

Student council vice president

Affiliation

Shuchiin Academy

Partner

Miyuki Shirogane (boyfriend, later husband)

Facts from the source article.

Background

Akasaka based Kaguya on Kaguya-hime from Japanese folklore: both start out as princesses but reveal more depth over time. He first gave Kaguya and Miyuki matching personalities, proud and brilliant outside but goofy underneath, then let them drift apart, with Kaguya leaning toward the bad girl. He also balanced her darker side so readers would not dislike her. Her strict upbringing made her cold and calculating on the surface and left her lonely, yet she is kind and fair-minded at heart. Later chapters reveal she was born from her father's affair with Nayotake Shimizu, who died less than a month after her birth, and her two eldest brothers treat her as a political tool.