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In season 2 episode 6 of _Kaguya-sama: Love Is War_ , Miko Iino (a candidate
for student council president election) says that her mother is busy
distributing vaccines to a hotspot.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IRIS2l.png)

Does "hotspot" refers to the "heavily COVID-19 affected area"? Also "vaccines"
may refer to an anti-COVID vaccine and so this statement can be relevant to
the ongoing COVID pandemic. So, is the story of this anime progressing in the
pandemic?


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Is this a COVID-19 reference in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War season 2?


Nope. It is just a random coincidence.  
This scene comes from [chapter 68](https://kaguyasama-wa-
kokurasetai.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_68) of the manga which was already
published on 22 June 2017. [![First page of chapter
68](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BGjiz.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BGjiz.jpg)


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**Unlikely.**

The anime is an adaptation of the manga, which is the canonical source.
According to [Fandom Wiki](https://kaguyasama-wa-
kokurasetai.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_18), episode 18 (season 2 episode 6)
adapts chapter 67-69 of the manga. This particular scene is from [chapter
68](https://kaguyasama-wa-kokurasetai.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_68) titled _I
Want to Make Miko Iino Smile_ which was **published on 22 June 2017** , long
before the COVID-19 outbreak happened.

Regarding the term "hot spot", it actually means "conflict hot spot". The
original text in Japanese is
[紛争地域](https://jisho.org/search/%E7%B4%9B%E4%BA%89%E5%9C%B0%E5%9F%9F) which
means "disputed territory; conflict area".

The fan translation of this scene is

![chapter 68, page 1, panel 3](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9J3mm.png)

> My mom's giving vaccines in a war zone,

which gives more context than a general term "hot spot".


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