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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 17

( かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～ / Kaguya-sama: Love is War #17)

Aka Akasaka

4.50 · Rating details · 214 ratings · 8 reviews

Two high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.

Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first…?!

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Paperback, 208 pages

Published November 3rd 2020 by VIZ Media LLC (first published January 17th 2020)

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Nov 07, 2020 Dani ❤️ Perspective of a Writer rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020, manga-seinen, rp-edelweiss, manga-stars-4-5-and-less, read-manga, review-wrote-add-later, reviewed

Kaguya is the vice president of their prestigious academy’s student council and she's in love with, Miyuki, the president, and he with her! BUT both are well aware that in love there is always a winner... and neither wants to be the "loser!" As both are geniuses and quite proud they spend each day laying in wait for an opportunity to get the other to confess without losing face... only Chika, their secretary and Ishigami, their treasurer, seem ready to innocently mess up their careful machinatio ...more

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Oct 29, 2020 Jenny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: manga

Omg, the board game chapter ALONE is worth five stars! I actually had to stop reading to catch my breath from laughing so hard. This series never ceases to make me laugh until I'm crying and I cannot be more grateful for that.

While I have qualms about Nagisa giving Kaguya a porn DVD to watch and calling it "sex education," considering that's something a normal teenager would do AND it's proven that the students at this school tend to be a wee bit...sheltered, I'm willing to let that slide. Also, Omg, the board game chapter ALONE is worth five stars! I actually had to stop reading to catch my breath from laughing so hard. This series never ceases to make me laugh until I'm crying and I cannot be more grateful for that.

While I have qualms about Nagisa giving Kaguya a porn DVD to watch and calling it "sex education," considering that's something a normal teenager would do AND it's proven that the students at this school tend to be a wee bit...sheltered, I'm willing to let that slide. Also, the "advice" Ishigami and Miyuki give to Maki regarding mens' sexual impulses and virginity is clearly NOT meant to be taken seriously so I'm cool with that too. Besides, both Ishigami's and Miyuki's reactions are so consistent with their characters it would be weird for them to give some speech about purity and true love. The cherry on top, though, is Chika's reaction to their "advice". Never thought I'd see the day where Chika was scared of romance talk, but here we are.

The flashback scene between Maki and Kaguya was really sad, it breaks my heart seeing two young girls become enemies at a young age due to their families' dark past. It also further explains why Kaguya is who she is and reinforces what a terrible clan she was born into. Side note, her brother also sounds like a massive bag of dicks, I feel so bad she's related to him.

And finally, Miyuki and Kaguya's relationship continues to be put to the test this volume, but the prank chapter in the beginning was so well handled and showed more of Kaguya's mischievous side. But more importantly, their phone conversation towards the end of the volume was so damn cute and precious, I fell in love with these two all over again! I really hope they can overcome these hurdles and live happily in the end. Just let my babies be happy, dammit!

That's all I've got without writing a five page essay about what I loved about this volume. Sad I have to wait so long for the next volume, but I will stay strong! All for my dysfunctional babies! ...more

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Aug 11, 2020 Eressea rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020漫畫-comic-2020, 2020電子書-e-book-2020, kobo, 愛情漫畫-romance-comic, 正體書-tranditional-chinese

告白之後既沒頭腦也不天才了
但又還沒開始宮鬥
東立為什麼電子書都出那麼慢啊啊啊啊

四格外傳不知道會不會出電子書QQ

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Nov 06, 2020 Mark Evans rated it liked it

A whole bunch on stuff happens, but without a narrative throughline, are the day to day antics of the school enough to make a fulfilling volume? Let’s get (sex) educated with the latest Kaguya-sama!

So, spoiler, the answer is no. There is a lot of delicious gristle in this volume, but there isn’t much of anything by way of meat. Combined with stuff that doesn’t work and you have a very uneven volume.

I think the strongest chapter is the one where Yu finds fitness and leans into every awful habit o A whole bunch on stuff happens, but without a narrative throughline, are the day to day antics of the school enough to make a fulfilling volume? Let’s get (sex) educated with the latest Kaguya-sama!

So, spoiler, the answer is no. There is a lot of delicious gristle in this volume, but there isn’t much of anything by way of meat. Combined with stuff that doesn’t work and you have a very uneven volume.

I think the strongest chapter is the one where Yu finds fitness and leans into every awful habit of anybody who has gotten hardcore into a fitness regime. It’s also the story that makes the best use of Fujiwara, whose reasons for her protestations cap the chapter off perfectly.

Close second is the Mio and Miyuki bonding story, which deliberately moves at a snail’s pace, but then gets silly, then turns into crazy dark hilarity. It has a very lame punchline, but the dark parts are funny enough to carry it.

A lot of the problem is set-up or payoff in a lot of chapters that doesn’t justify the end results or the journey. Fujiwara’s miserable new game is pretty funny, especially the way it dumps on the Yu/Mio story from last time, but it isn’t half as good as the last time this idea was trotted out.

Similarly, the side story about the game club is built upon the hoariest of cliches and is so incredibly rote, but it manages to escalate into the best punchline in the book because of how crazy it gets.

And without the ridiculous DVD involved, I feel the whole story about Kaguya learning about sex is a huge wasted opportunity that could really have been something hilarious. Instead it is a somewhat dramatic okay sort of thing.

3 stars. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a lot more from a series that has so effortlessly blended comedy and a compelling narrative. This lacks that, plus it no longer has the competition angle to fall back on. I didn’t think this could hope to compare to the last volume, but I don’t think I was wrong to expect a bit more than this. ...more

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May 04, 2020 Marianne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. A little bit of comedy, then A LOT OF SERIOUS, ROMANTIC, OVERWHELMING ISSUES, then , cute, romantic-comedy again, then , OVERWHELMING ANGST, DRAMA, OVER-THE-TOP ROMANCE

no character is black and white in this manga, even the main casts have to cast away their demons aside, and have flaws they need to hide from others

After binge-reading volumes 1-17 in 5 days, I am addicted to this manga unfortunately... This is the manga for me , well, I prefer the latter half of the series than the cute, adorabl ...more

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Sep 30, 2020 Ruthsic rated it really liked it

Shelves: arcs, comedy, contemporary, manga-graphicnovel, romance, translated, young-adult

Moving on from their eventful winter breaks, now Kaguya and Miyuki are back in the Student Council but they are keeping their relationship on the down low. Kaguya manages to brag about it, though, using Chika's penchant for pranks and games. Hayasaka is a bit tired of her bragging, though, so Kaguya turns to Kashiwagi for some advice and finds out that maybe hers and Miyuki's relationship didn't follow the typical route (but who cares if they kissed first etc?). But my favorite chapters were the ...more

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Nov 26, 2020 Chris rated it it was amazing

I want to see what's under those huge glasses... ...more

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Apr 08, 2020 Vincent Courtemarche rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This Is one of the best rom coms out there, if your looking to laugh harder than what is medicly safe this is the read for you, best characters as well.

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