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What happens when you put together one of the top directors of the current generation, and very competent and passionate staff, to make an adaptation of a top tier manga, and also give them time and freedom to work? Something like Kaguya-Sama: Love is War will happen.

The story is very well crafted, and even an improvement compared to the first season, if you want a more overarching plot that goes from one episode to the next you are going to find it here. Akasaka Aka, the author of the manga is very good in crafting his own universe, details that you think that could be ... overlooked are clues for future developments. After watching it for the first time you should rewatch it just to look at those clues.

The story is very good, but the characters are the best thing here. It is very enjoyable to see them changing and evolving, this kind of character progression already happened in season one, but in this season it is up to eleven.

About the Director, Omata is a genius, he made one of those animes that we could proudly say "is better than the manga" he knows how to use the media, how to use camera angles, cgi, animation, and sound in the perfect time at the perfect place. Art Style will change to suit the chapter being adapted, and that is awesome. The soundtrack is good, not something to write home about, but is well used in, animation and art also isn't outstanding all the time, but when it needs to be the quality skyrocket. Anyway, both sound and art are never less than competent.

All in all, I think that this anime deserves its place among the best anime of all time.

It is a really refreshing work in a desert of overused tropes. I recommend you to read it, the world building is marvelous, the story is very good, the characters are well developed and have proper motivations, no one is pure evil, no one is pure good. The downside is that the MC is not a protagonist, he is boring because he only reacts to his environment and has no goals.

Let me expand a little more on the things I said before. The world here is very interesting to learn about, you will find internal and international politics, from time to time you are going ... to learn about the geography, the economy, and the politics of the Carpa Kingdom and about the other nations as well. Even better, the information doesn't feel shoved into your throat, it is given from time to time, in small doses. The magic system is a hard magic system and I think that it is very interesting as it is not another copy of the MMORPG/D&D systems.

The story is very entertaining, and if you read works like A Song of Ice and Fire or A Magic of Twilight you are going to like a lot this type of story. The action is not very prevalent, it has some side stories with action, but the main story is much more about political and family drama.

The characters, well, you are not going to find here the common otaku tropes about characters, no "deres" here. The characters have proper motivations and backstories, you will understand why they are doing what they are doing.

Continuing in the characters department, I am now going to tackle the main problem here, and that is the Main Character. Because of his personality, he lacks ambition and that is his main flaw, he had potential to be a great protagonist. And what does a good protagonist do? He/She move the plot forward, but this particular one chooses to only react. In volume V we have a good sample of his potential, it is the best book so far and, thank God, shows the MC acting on his own, just for a change. I really don't like much his relationship with his wife, I am not going to give a spoiler, but it is unbalanced, one of them really loves the partner above its own life meanwhile the other seems to, at best, like a lot the other partner, more like a very liked pet than like a real spouse. But I have hopes that in the future I can change my perception about this couple and the MC will be more proactive.