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Muse Asia Streams Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Stairway to Adulthood in India

Muse Asia announced on Monday that it will stream Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Otona e no Kaidan (The Steps to Become an Adult), the Kaguya-sama: Love is War anime's new television special, in India. It also announced that it will stream the following anime on YouTube that will also stream on Amazon Prime Video's Anime Times:

• The television anime of storywriter Nekoko and illustrator NAJI yanagida's Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling (Tensei Shitara Dragon no Tamago Datta: Saikyō Igai Mezasanee) light novel series.
• The television anime of Sou Akaike's Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City (Okiraku Ryōshu no Tanoshii Ryōchi Bōei) light novel series. 
• The second season of the television anime of writer Takahiro and artist Yōhei Takemura's Chained Soldier (Mato Seihei no Slave or literally, Slave of the Magic Capital's Elite Troops) manga.
• The television anime of writer Rocket Shokai and artist Nakashima723's Scum of the Brave (Yūsha no Kuzu) manga.

The Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- anime special aired in Japan on Wednesday, and ended with an announcement of a brand-new Kaguya-sama: Love is War film. Original manga creator Aka Akasaka drafted a new, original story concept specifically for the film, which will serve as the overall story's conclusion. Akasaka explained that the new film is not an anime adaptation of the manga, but an entirely new work, made by everyone on the anime team, that no one has seen before.

Muse Asia descriibes the special:

"Everything feels so nostalgic, and all of it consists of irreplaceable, precious memories." At Shuchiin Academy, an elite school for geniuses, Vice President Kaguya Shinomiya and President Miyuki Shirogane finally began dating after a long and arduous battle of romantic wits. As time passes, Kaguya finds herself alone in her room, flipping through a photo album. Page after page, she gazes at the photographs filled with memories of President Shirogane and their dear friends at Shuchiin Academy...

Akasaka began the series in Shueisha's Miracle Jump magazine in May 2015 but it moved to Young Jump in March 2016. The manga entered its final arc in October 2021, and it ended in November 2022. Viz Media is publishing Aka Akasaka's original manga in English.

The first television anime of the manga premiered in January 2019 and aired for 12 episodes. Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 premiered in April 2020. The series' third season premiered in April 2022. Crunchyroll added all three seasons in India in January 2023. 

Kaguya-sama: Love is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai), the anime film adapting the manga's story arc of the same name, opened in Japan on December 17, 2022. Crunchyroll added the film in India in April 2023.

Source: Email correspondence