Kaguya-sama: Love Is War - Recommendations

Shubhamj441 says...

Both are funny comedies.

Both have incredible plot settings.

Both are just fabulous.

Aoi35 says...

Spy x Family and Love is War both have such wholesome banter and I love how overpowered the main couples are(in a good way~). Somehow the authors manage to blend two completely different people into a harmonious relationship based on the weirdest similarities. But, while there is a nice dynamic in each, personally I see a lot more human aspects in Spy x Family. They are both overpowered, sure, but they do have their moments that work really well with how the story progresses. This is much different from some of the many overpowered-mc-reborn-gets-revenge types, where the main girl is talked up as this boss bish but acts like an antisocial tween in order to be more "relatable." I dunno, that's just my opinion. Anyways yeah both manga are lighthearted and cute. :)

everblaze09 says...

They are kind of the opposite of each other. In Spy X Family, the "Parents" slowly start to fall in love with each other. 

labman says...

Both heavily make use of mind games and similar, non-physical forms of warfare (spying, deception, intel gathering, etc), for comedy.

Both authors initially wanted to write/wrote a dark series rather than a comedy, and put their own unique twist on the genre instead.

Both feature hyper-competent characters (although Kaguya also focuses on their flaws to a large degree).

The art (particularly the shape of faces) looks similar.

Both are set in a world very similar to, but not quite the same as the real world. Spy x Family is set in what is basically Germany during the cold war, and Kaguya is set in today's time, except with some very slight modifications.

carrotchips says...

They don‘t have realy close stories, but are realy good comedy mangas (at my opinion). I read Spy x Family and started love is a war, and I’m enjoying it. I think it suits in the oposite the recomendation too.

Asyeurin says...

They should be completely different, yet they give off similar vibes, both in their artistic and narrative styles.

ughplsno says...

Similar psychological "warfare" between characters that are romantically interested in each other. Similar comedy as well

WhoDonny says...

It's pretty much Love is War but in the old west. I'm still very early in it but it feels pretty similar.

Animescient says...

Both of these mangas are highly recommended to the readers. Both of these mangas are romance comedies. In both mangas 2 characters (a male and a female? develop feelings for each other but decide to go about it logically and calculated. This ends up complicating their love. However in "Love is War" both characters attempt to make the other confess their love 1st, while in "Rikei Ga Koi" the characters have already confessed but set ot to define love and PROVE their love is real. Both are interesting reads and add much to the rom-com genre. 

wreckage2004 says...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

labman says...

Hear me out. On the surface, they may only have the comedy genre in common, but they actually share a lot of good comedy writing principles. If the things I describe below are part of your enjoyment of either series, give the other a shot, because they do, in fact, share them. Additionally, both delve into mature themes as well and often make things extreme to the point of absurdity for laughs, but this recommendation won't cover that in more detail.

TL:DR (for the blocks of text below): Misunderstandings aren't contrived and every chapter is both funny and very often contributes to the larger story (or our understanding of it) in some way in both manga. Enjoying this in either is a good reason to give the other a try.

Both are excellent at using misunderstandings:

Misunderstandings in comedy can be very frustrating if done poorly. You just want to scream at the screen that the characters should just start communicating! However, they are also a great source of comedy. Thankfully, both of these series use misunderstandings for the hilarity wihout the frustrating, contrived part. Misunderstandings in these series are either resolved in the same chapter that they come up in (or at the start of the next) or there is a legitimate reason for why it can"t be resolved. There are instances in both manga in which the characters talk out a misunderstanding like adults.

Both give you a sense of progress as you are reading:

Many gag and comedy manga never go anywhere, which can feel frustrating, and make the stakes lose all their value. In both series, actions often have permanent consequences, relationships between characters change, we learn more about characters or their relationships, and so on. And all of this happens very regularly. Some chapters do appear to not progress much of anything, but that brings me to my next point...

Both series have a huge number of small details and callbacks:

Rereading them is very much worth it, and small details which first came up in a chapter that you thought was just there for fun, was actually used to set something up 30 or 100 chapters later. Thus, not only are all chapters hilarious, most of them contribute something to the larger story, even if mostly only small things. The stories don't meander endlessly, although admittedly less happens overall in Grand Blue than in Kaguya.

If you like either series in part because they don't fall in the annoying pitfalls that other comedy series do, I recommend that you give the other a chance.

Avium says...

They both include very dramatic reactions to somewhat ordinary (moreso in Kaguya) situations as a point of humour and entertainment, often over-exaggerated. 

VusionG says...

They are both in a school setting. Boarding School Juliet and Kaguya-sama: Love is War, the main characters have feelings for each other but has many problems to overcome.

Shubhamj441 says...

Both are preety unique takes on romance.

Well they are not exactly related but who cares since they both are amazing manga.

TheYellowFlash says...

Both mangas have mind games between two characters.

Both mangas include characters that have pride in themselves.

Both mangas have characters that hate eachother (at the beginning at least for love is war)

lullabi says...

Both are comedy mangas that center on a group of characters that have different day-to-day experiences. While Mattaku Saikin has no overarching plot (at least from what I've read), they both are hilarious and feature a lot of the same ridiculous character tropes and dialogue as well as priceless facial experessions

Presliylish says...

The comedy is driven primarily by misunderstandings. Kaguya-sama has two characters trying to outfox each other in matters of the heart, together with a cast which serves to complement this. On the other hand, Hinamatsuri features a more subtle and mature brand of comedy which somehow works even with ESP, yakuza, salarymen, salmon roe and kungfu thrown in. The latter will appeal more to older readers.

djangofettywap says...

The premise of Majime Succubus is that MC goes to ridiculous ends to control his desire for FMC, just like Shirogane and Shinomiya. Majime Succubus is definitely more ecchi than Love is War, but it's also pretty wholesome!