Kaguya Shinomiya

Kaguya Shinomiya is the vice president of Shuchiin Academy's student council and a central protagonist of Kaguya-sama: Love is War. Born into a wealthy and controlling family, she falls in love with council president Miyuki Shirogane.

Kaguya Shinomiya in the student council

Intelligent, proud, and emotionally inexperienced, Kaguya treats romance as a strategic contest because admitting affection feels like surrender. Friendships with Chika, Ishigami, and Hayasaka gradually soften her guarded behavior.

Romantic strategy, family pressure, and Miyuki

Kaguya excels academically, in archery, and in careful planning, but her family background limits her personal freedom. Her relationship with Miyuki develops from elaborate mind games into honest commitment and resistance to the Shinomiya family's control.