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Sceptilesolar posted...

I don't know if I agree with that claim over the course of the manga, it's just that the comedy is very front loaded.

I read the second half of the manga a couple months ago and there's definitely way more comedy than romance in the second half.

Mobilezoid posted...

It's definitely comedy-focused, but the romance was always such a central driving force that I wouldn't call it secondary.

For me, the ultimate comedy about romance would be Gamers. It took all the classic romantic comedy tropes and cranked them up to an absurd level. The humor came from them getting caught in a complicated web of misunderstandings. It never felt like we were supposed to actually care about any one couple succeeding or not. By comparison, the narrative in Kaguya cared very much about whether or not the main two would get together, it just told a lot of jokes and had absurd situations along the way.

That's how I see it anyway, hopefully that makes sense. I can definitely see someome enjoying Kaguya primarily for the comedy, and I did find a lot of scenarios funny (like all the times they played a game and were scheming about how or why to win or lose). It just didn't resonate with me on that level in the same way something like Gamers did.

The Kaguya anime's comic timing and direction are a lot better than Gamers's imo.