While the anime is absolutely enthralling and adorable, as an anime adaptation of the source material, the Kaguya-Sama: Love is War anime sure skips a lot of chapters. This makes just picking up the manga a bit of a task.
Alternative Titles:
- Kaguya Wants to be Confessed To: The Geniuses’ War of Love and Brains
- Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen
- かぐや様は告らせたい~天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦~
Year Anime Premiered: 2019
Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures
Number of Seasons: 3 + 1 Movie + 2 OVA
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Is It Officially Licensed Past Where The Anime Ends?: Yes
Is It Fan Translated Past Where The Anime Ends?: Yes
Entry Last Updated: January 2nd, 2026 – Updated for Stairway to Adulthood
Where To Start The Kaguya-Sama Manga After The Anime?
If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love is War anime and want to continue the story in the manga, you can start at:
- If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Season 1 anime – You can start the manga at Volume 5, Chapter 48.
- If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Season 2 anime – You can start the manga at Volume 11, Chapter 102.
- If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Season 3 anime – You can start the manga at Volume 14, Chapter 138.
- If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Movie – The First Kiss That Never Ends – You can start the manga at Volume 16, Chapter 161
- If you finished the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War OVA – Stairway to Adulthood – You can start the manga at Volume 27, Chapter 268
Please note that the Stairway to Adulthood OVA skips huge chunks of chapters and it is better to start the manga after the First Kiss That Never Ends movie.
What to Expect From The Kaguya-Sama Manga?
The anime overall skips so many chapters over the course of its many seasons. As it is a bit of a skit manga, those skipped chapters are not so important plot-wise, but you may miss some references to events later. Furthermore, the manga itself moves at a pace that really merits starting from the beginning to grow accustomed to because it is not quite structured as smoothly as the anime.
Given the high quality production of the anime, getting into the manga after it can be more difficult. However, if you just want to see how this story ends, you can technically just continue on, but may be jarring.
As an additional note, the back half of the manga, pretty much when the stopped making TV anime and started making movies and OVAs, is adapted pretty poorly, cutting a lot of content.
Is The Kaguya-Sama Manga Over?
The Kaguya-Sama manga is complete. It ended in 2022 with Volume 28, Chapter 281.
Will There Be A Kaguya-Sama Season 4?
There has been no official announcement of a Kaguya-Sama Season 4 anime. However, it was announced following the Stairway to Adulthood special that the series will end with one final movie, but no release date for it has been announced.








https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/6/22/kaguya-sama-love-is-war-anime-new-tv-special
no season 4 here its a tv special this time around and seems the rumor is that it’s gonna rush straight to the ending based on the visual
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2247186
https://x.com/anime_kaguya/status/2006363936451616923
TV Special “Stairway to Adulthood” premiered and according to MAL they jumped around and adapted a couple highlight chapters which will lead into an upcoming final movie which if i’m reading the tweet right will deviate from the manga for an anime-original ending
Updated! Thank you for letting me know.