A comfy, light-hearted romcom set in high school with an endearing (although admittedly generic) cast of characters, "Kaguya Wants to be Confessed to" distinguishes itself from other manga by seamlessly integrating absurd amounts of suspense and tense character situational analysis into a genre that otherwise favours drama less, slow, slice of life comedy. It stays engaging by rewarding the viewer with warm scenes of romantic development and/or comedy between the protagonists at the end of almost every chapter, both of which are magnified by the manga's art, which is spectacular when it needs to be and still fairly decent when it doesn't.

In terms of characters and their development, as I mentioned earlier, the characters backgrounds' are generic, with a middle class but insanely intelligent and hardworking male lead and a rich female lead from upper-class royalty, set in one of Japan's most prestigious high schools. Immediately, that might put a few people off, as it's a narrative very typical of the genre and many other manga use it.

But what makes these characters and their development so endearing is that the manga doesn't use thickheaded blunders and "'misunderstandings'" to develop its characters, unlike a lot of other shoujo manga; the characters by themselves are intelligent and quick-witted enough to plan out each of their romantic encounters in order to make the other confess. But upon doing this, what they find is that no matter how meticulous their planning and how careful their word choice, neither of the two will develop their relationship until they take action and remove their view of love being an inevitable power struggle.

Overall, Kaguya is a manga with generic characters and setting, but manages to be immensely enjoyable through how it combines suspenseful and comedic-drama with a genre typically lacking in these elements so perfectly, and its characters, whose relationships develop in a way that is realistic and meaningful, yet all the while satisfyingly endearing.