Kaguprez

Kaguprez is the het ship between Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane from the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War fandom.

Canon
Kaguya's and Miyuki's romance is the main premise of the series. The work together as Student Council Vice President and President respectively, and are the top two scoring students at their prestigious school. They are both in love with each other, a fact broadly suspected by their fellow classmates. However, they are afraid to admit their feelings openly, seeing a 'confession' as an absolute loss that must be avoided. The first half of the story's comedy and drama largely focuses on the mind-games the two play with one another to try to push the other to confess first.

Despite this, a flashback reveals that Miyuki actually fell in love with Kaguya first. When Miyuki first joined the school, he was an outcast due to coming from a lower-class background. He saw the other students as snobby and selfish. The Student Council President of the time took a liking to him, asking him if he wanted to join Student Council, but he initially refused because of his negative view on the people who attended the school. His perspective changed when he witnessed Kaguya jump into a dirty lake to save a student from drowning, when nobody else was willing. From that point on, Miyuki became infatuated with Kaguya, and dedicated himself to becoming someone who could be worthy of being with her. He used this motivation to rise from his peers in both the Student Council and academics. Over time, his success and kind nature drew Kaguya to falling in love with him as well.

Their stalemate finally starts to reach a conclusion when Miyuki is accepted to Stanford University. Planning to leave the school and Japan a year early, he wants to confess to Kaguya and hopefully convince her to come with him. During this arc, Kaguya finally admits to herself and to others that she likes Miyuki as well. It is further revealed that what held them back from confessing was not ego at all, but a fear of being unworthy of the other. Miyuki felt insecure about Kaguya's status and wealth, while Kaguya believes that Miyuki is too good a person to ever love someone who could be as cold as her. Following an urban legend that giving another a heart at the culture festival will bind them in eternal love, Miyuki creates an elaborate plan to bring Kaguya to a clock tower, surround her with heart balloons, and confess. In the spur of the moment, the two kiss, and Kaguya agrees to go to Stanford with Miyuki. However, both are still afraid that they are unworthy and misreading the other. It takes a few days for the two to come to a true understanding, and they begin dating on Christmas Eve.

Both are shown to become happier as a result of dating; Kaguya is more comfortable in displaying her emotions and fawning over Miyuki, while Miyuki becomes less afraid of being rejected for his imperfections. Shirogane also allows Kaguya to call him "Miyuki-chan", something that he reacts angrily to otherwise. The couple's intimacy grows, building up to their first act of intercourse. Though they try to keep their relationship secretive for a time, the only friend of theirs who is unable to figure it out is, ironically, self-proclaimed "Love Detective" Chika. When Miyuki and Kaguya finally do admit their relationship, Chika is initially disapproving due to her frustrations with Miyuki and affections for Kaguya. Nonetheless, Chika does come to realize that Miyuki is a positive influence on Kaguya, and agrees to give her blessing.

Though Miyuki and Kaguya are shown to be a happy and loving pair, Kaguya's controlling and wealthy family still plans to marry her off to another wealthy scion. As such, they push Kaguya to break up with Miyuki. This development was foreshadowed in Kaguya's name, which comes from the traditional Japanese story, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. The Kaguya in this traditional story is a goddess who falls in love with a human, but is forced to return to the Heavens. Her lover rejects the gift of immorality he was given by Kaguya, and commits suicide rather than live without her. Kaguya and Miyuki discuss the tale earlier in the series, with Kaguya saying she hates being reminded. Miyuki, meanwhile, says that had he been that Kaguya's lover, he would have taken the gift of immortality and used it to find some way to get her back.

Likewise, in an effort to buy Miyuki off, Kaguya's family gives him one billion yen. Miyuki accepts this gift - but makes clear he has no intent of allowing Kaguya's family to tear them apart. After declaring to Kaguya's family his intent to eventually wed her, Miyuki buys a helicopter with the funds given to him, which he uses to whisk Kaguya away from her family. Kaguya is shocked and touched by Miyuki's devotion, asking him why he thinks she is worth so much after her earlier inability to stand up to her family. Miyuki tells her he has no intention of ever giving her up, and asks Kaguya to date him again, which Kaguya joyfully accepts.

Though their temporary breakup keeps Kaguya from joining Miyuki in America for another year, she uses her wealth to visit him regularly. At the end of the story, Kaguya graduates, and makes plans to attend Standford as well. The two are back on their game, this time over when and who will propose. In a flash-forward taking place a few years after the ending, both are wearing wedding rings, implying the two have wed. This is confirmed by Kaguya's cameo appearance in Oshi no Ko, a manga by the same artist, where Kaguya has adopted Miyuki's surname.

Fanon
As the central romantic plot of the story, KaguPrez is naturally one of the most popular ships of the fandom. However, the anime has yet to cover past their get-together, and as such many are unaware of their status by the end of the manga. Still, the couple's dynamic in both the anime and the manga has been widely praised, with their first kiss being particularly well received as the ending of Season 3 of the anime.

What criticisms of the pairing do exist typically focus on their relationship post get-together, with some believing their dynamic was not written as well after this point.

Certain combinations of the ship's name include "Prez" - a reference to Miyuki Shirogane's role of the Student Council's President. The reason for this being Kaguya usually referring to Miyuki with his title instead of his name.

Currently, there are 100 works to the pairing on AO3.

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Trivia

 * They're together on the covers of Volume 5, 14, and 26, as well as with the other Student Council members, on the cover of Volume 10.
 * The Japanese voice actors of Miyuki and Kaguya resang the first opening of the anime.