The stage is set in Japan in the year 2022.
In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a “white swindler,” which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a “black swindler,” a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

Love is war… especially when victory goes to the one who gets the other to confess their love first through a psychological battle of attrition. At the elite Shuchiin academy, as students vie for top positions in the school pecking order, another much more heated battle is being waged between its leading members, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya. When a (charming) new student council accountant, Miko Iino, enters the sacred space of the student council room, it becomes an arena for a “force a confession” game. But even this stalls in deadlock, leaving the fate of Miyuki and Kaguya’s confrontational romance to the two biggest events of the schoolyear - the sports and culture festivals.

Shuchiin Academy is the collecting ground for the nation’s most promising elite. There, a bright and sagacious school president and top score-getter on mock college entrance exams, Miyuki Shirogane (Sho Hirano) meets Kaguya Shinomiya, (Kanna Hashimoto) class vice-president, possessor of brains, brawn and beauty and daughter of a major conglomerate CEO. The attraction is obvious, but their excessive pride and lack of humility get in the way of their confessing their mutual feelings. Six months pass, and it becomes increasingly difficult for them to be honest with each other, imbuing a confession of love with a curse of “defeat.” Brilliant minds spawn brilliant means as the two scheme to get the other to make the confession first, exposing their clumsiness in love where pure feelings drive an ultra-crafty romance (full of life-threatening risk). Can there be a clear winner and loser? Or will the two find love and make peace?

Original Comic:
Aka Akasaka "Kaguya-sama : Love Is War"
赤坂アカ「かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～」

The massive hit comic BOYS OVER FLOWERS returns with a brand new chapter and television drama Season 2. Ten years have passed since the legendary boy foursome, F4, graduated from the elite Eitoku Academy Senior High School. A new generation has risen including sophomore, Oto has recently seen her life completely overturned by the bankruptcy of her father’s blue chip cosmetics company. She now lives in near poverty with her mother, but tries to hide it from her Eitoku Academy classmates. Meanwhile, big man on campus, Haruto scion of the much-revered Kaguragi Holdings has formed the C5 group in a bid to emulate his hero, Domyoji of F4, but he’s on a mission to purge the school of “commoners” who can’t pay their school donations to leave the school as unfit to attend. Oto is engaged to marry Tenma, a student of Eitoku’s rival school, Momonozono Academy. But Tenma’s stepmother insists that Oto attend Eitoku until she turns 18, making her even more determined to hide the fact that she has been reduced to a “mere commoner” among society’s elite families in this spirited spring-of-youth fable.