Fans Worry Over the New Kaguya-Sama: Love is War Special
After 3 years, we get a continuation of this hit romance anime but fans are worried that A-1 Pictures might be skipping crucial content.
On June 22, 2025, it was announced that production for a special of Kaguya-sama: Love is War has begun, titled, “Kaguya-Sama: Love is War – The Stairway to Adulthood”
With this announcement came a key visual showing the main characters (Kaguya Shinomiya, Miyuki Shirogane, Yu Ishigami, Chika Fujiwara, Miko Ino, and Ai Hayasaka) and a passenger airplane taking off.
There is no date of release or other information but it is likely that A-1 Pictures is still producing the series.
This special will continue from the “First Kiss that Never Ends” film but fans worry about the anime skipping crucial chapters, especially as the poster shows Ai Hayasaka with a different hairdo.
Hayasaka’s hair changed starting from the Class Trip arc (Chapters 179 to 187) as she had to cut her ponytail while trying to rescue Kaguya.
The most likely spot this special will adapt is either the Home Visit Arc (Chapters 207-209) or The ABCs of Women and Men Arc (Chapters 210-215), which are rather both rather, so there is a possibility both will be included in the special in some way.
There are over 120 chapters left for the anime to adapt and considering the length of time between the movie and now, fans seem rightfully worried if there will be another season at all.
However, there have already been two special anime projects, one being a PV adapting Chapter 110 titled, “Yu Ishigami Wants to Talk” that was released on October 21, 2021, and the other, the first Kaguya-sama OVA released on May 19, 2021 that adapted the first two Darkness volumes and Chapter 96: “Kaguya Wants to Feed Him”.
This could serve as a similar preview and should this special anime be released in 2026, it is likely that another Kaguya-Sama season will come by 2027, adapting some of the missing content in an altered chronological order.
About Kaguya-Sama: Love is War
Kaguya-Sama: Love is War is a manga written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka, who would go on to write Oshi no Ko, for Shueisha, first at Miracle Jump from May 19, 2015 to January 19, 2016, then to Weekly Young Jump from March 24, 2016 – November 2, 2022.
Having reached 22 volumes and 281 chapters, this series sold 22 million copies as of December 2022.
The manga would get an anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures from January 12 to March 30, 2019 with 12 episodes.
The second season would follow, titled, “Kaguya-Sama: Love is War?” with its 12 episodes airing from April 11 to June 27, 2020.
The third season, titled, “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic”, would have 13 episodes airing from April 9 to June 25, 2022.
This would be followed up by the film, “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends”, released on December 17, 2022.
Kaguya-Sama is the story of a student council president and vice-president who secretly compete to see who gets to confess to the other person first.
Source: Twitter
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