3. Kaguya-sama: Love is War – The First Kiss Never Ends
I’m a sucker for anime rom-coms. Unfortunately, not a lot of shows can ensure I laugh with them rather than at them, as they tend to be as trashy as the worst American reality dating show. But Kaguya-sama: Love is War is the best rom-com I’ve ever watched. I’d go so far as to say that it’s the Fullmetal Alchemist of its genre.
The show follows two tsundere class representatives who are totally in love with each other but are too prideful to admit it. Insisted, the pair goad each other into confessing their feelings by putting them in compromising social situations. Whether in subs or dubs, Kaguya-sama has left me in stitches for the better part of a decade, and its film, The First Kiss Never Ends—which sees the pair finally admit their feelings—had me clutching my chest and pumping my fist in the air the whole way through. Now comes the challenge of finding a new rom-com anime to hyper-fixate over.
