Kaguya-Sama: Love is War? (Season 2) begins right where we left off. Kaguya Shinomiya, the Vice President of Shuchiin Academy’s student council is once again, vying for affection from her highschool crush, the student council president Miyuki Shirogane. Kaguya’s fears of being alone remain a prominent plot-point within the second series introduction, along with her devilishly devious plot to make Shirogane-san fall in love with her. While Kaguya-chan forcefully provokes the president into making a move on her, the naive student council secretary Chika Fujiwara, vies for both Kaguya and Shirogane’s non-platonic attention. While Chika’s intentions are innocent, Kaguya believes that the two are competing for Shirogane’s affection. Kaguya believes that Chika’s good looks and personality places her in direct competition, even though Chika admires Kaguya and thinks of the vice president as her best friend.

The series begins with Kaguya plotting to have her personal assistant, Ai Hayasaka use her ninja-like skills to break into Shuchin Academy and plant decaffeinated coffee in the council’s staff room, replacing Shirogane’s regular coffee. Unbeknownst to Kaguya, Shirogane’s dependency on caffeine solely lies on his comical case of being narcoleptic, and suddenly falls asleep on Kaguya’s shoulder. In an embarrassed state, Kaguya is frozen and can’t move. She requests that Ai guard the council door, and to let no one inside. After some time has passed, Ai re-enters the room to her disbelief that the president is still fast asleep on the vice president’s shoulder, while Kaguya had barely moved a muscle. Sometime later, Chika reveals a board game she created. Once again, this leaves Kaguya-chan believing that Chika is plotting to “steal” Shirogane away from her, and plots to exact her revenge by forcing a relationship between the pair… in-game.

The board game plays much like Monopoly with an in-game currency, mortgage, and other examples lifted directly from the role-playing party game, except Chika has implemented relationships into the rules. A couple may get married, have a family, get divorced, pay alimony, and even child support. After many failed attempts, and even accidentally forging a relationship between Chika and Shirogane, Kaguya’s luck had run out. This was until Chika had drawn the divorce card, leaving Shirogane to pay for child support. This was Kaguya’s defining moment to finally “marry” the man of her dreams. Kaguya draws the marriage card, and gleefully rejoices in the prospect of connecting with Shirogane. This was put to a screeching halt, as it was explained that she wasn’t marrying Shirogane, but instead marrying Chika.