4 episodes

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War The First Kiss That Never Ends - Season 1

First aired Apr 1, 2023Season 1

The four-episode streaming and home media release of the theatrical film, continuing directly from Season 3. After their first kiss at the culture festival, Kaguya and Shirogane must finally face what their relationship actually is — just in time for Christmas.

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Community reviews for Kaguya-sama: Love Is War The First Kiss That Never Ends, shown here with its season details.

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Aug 28, 2026

8.0

The most tactically overplanned Christmas date in anime history. Everything that made three seasons of Kaguya-sama great is here, sharpened to a fine point: two geniuses who can out-scheme an entire academy but cannot survive one honest sentence to each other. The four-episode format actually helps — each part lands its own arc, and the finale pays off years of romantic cold war with real warmth. If you have followed these two idiots this far, this is the victory lap they owed you.

Episodes

Episode 1

Apr 1, 202326 min

In the aftermath of the culture festival, Kaguya spirals into panic over the kiss she gave Shirogane, convinced it went much further than a first kiss should. Sleep-deprived and overwhelmed, she regresses into a childlike state of pure feelings, while Shirogane anxiously tries to figure out where the two of them now stand.

Episode 2

Apr 2, 202326 min

To protect herself, Kaguya locks her emotions away entirely, and a cold, calculating version of her takes control. Shaken by how completely she has changed overnight, Shirogane refuses to let it go — confronting her, chasing her through the school, and finally telling her exactly what he thinks.

Episode 3

Apr 2, 202326 min

A lunchtime standoff over Shirogane's homemade bento pulls the two closer together than either of them planned, until Kaguya's boldness proves too much and Shirogane passes out cold. Sitting at his bedside, the competing sides of Kaguya's heart wage war over what she truly wants from him.

Episode 4

Apr 3, 202326 min

Christmas Eve arrives. After enjoying the Fujiwara family's chaotic brand of holiday hospitality, Kaguya and Shirogane head home together and end up side by side on a park bench — where two people who could never say what they mean finally have the honest conversation that defines their relationship.