History Manga / KarakaiJouzuNoTakagiSan

** Nishikata fails to comprehend Takagi has an excellent poker face. There have been moments he's embarrassed her, but thinking it didn't work (or feeling embarrassed himself), gives up and doesn't press the advantage.

** Takagi mentions to Nishikata that for the 21 counting game there's a way to always win if you go second. Much later in Chapter 73, her daughter Chi tries to use the strategy, only for it to be used against her.

* BeachEpisode: Chapters 57-59, of the „Pool” variety.

An anime adaption began airing January 7th, 2018.

* NoAntagonist: Save Nishikata's own foolhardiness, the series simply follows the misadventures of the two main leads and has no villain.

** In Chapter 76 [[spoiler:we finally have a good look at Takagi blushing after she has a text conversation with Nishikata.]]

* MAybeMagicMaybeMundane: Takagi knows Nishikata so well she often knows exactly what he's thinking before he even says anything. Nishikata almost suspects she's a telepath.

** In Chapter 31 SeriesFauxnale, Takagi is shown to be an adult with a daughter over 10 years in the future, reminiscing in a melancholy fashion about her youth with Nishikata, with many hints leading the audience to believe the two did not get together. By the end of the chapter her husband returns home and their front door has the name plate "Nishikata" on it, confirming the two indeed got together.

For other related works, see ''Karakai Jouzu No Moto Takagi San'', which is set ~10 years in the future and depicts Takagi's life with her daughter Chi; and ''Manga/AshitaWaDoyoubi'', which focuses on the misadventures of [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Girls]] Mina, Sanae, and Yukari.

For other related works, see ''Manga/KarakaiJouzuNoMotoTakagiSan'', which is set ~10 years in the future and depicts Takagi's life with her daughter Chi; and ''Manga/AshitaWaDoyoubi'', which focuses on the misadventures of [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Girls]] Mina, Sanae, and Yukari.

** The anime adapted chapters of ''Manga/AshitaWaDoyoubi'' to help fill out episodes.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Yukari, Sanae, and Mina are the main characters of ''Manga/AshitaWaDoyoubi'', another work by the same author.

** ''Manga/KarakaiJouzuNoMotoTakagiSan'' (''Teasing Master (Formerly) Takagi-san''), a spinoff manga about Takagi's married life and teasing her kid started running a ways into the series. In case you were wondering, [[spoiler: yes, it makes her marriage to Nishikata explicit, in the first two or so pages even]].

* BaitAndSwitch: In Chapter 49, Takagi proposes that she and Nishikata have a contest to carry ice to the school gate. If it drops, or if the ice piece is smaller than the other, then the loser has to keep the winner's hands warm. When Nishikata (inevitably) loses, the reader is led to believe that he's going to have to hold Takagi's hand, and there's a lot of emphasis on her extending her hand to him... but he actually has a hand warmer and gives it to her when he loses.

* CannotSpitItOut: He can't from embarrassment. She stops just short as yet another weapon in her arsenal.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: How the rest of their class sees them.

* RunningGag: A few recurring gags throughout the series:

* BilingualBonus: Episode 12 has a letter written in English ocused on in a textbook, and it's quite the doozy:

I called fake mother in Japan. Shee' s\\

Dear Kaho,\\

-->-----------------------------------------December 28\\

** Chapter 73 [[spoiler:"Nishikata"]], gives us a peek into Takagi's daughter's middle school days...and while her more emotionally reserved LoveInterest acts as a {{Kuudere}}, she's the one getting teased despite her efforts. [[spoiler:Like father, like daughter.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The anime adapted chapters of ''Manga/AshitaWaDoyoubi'' to help fill out episodes.

** Chapter 73, "Nishikata", gives us a peek into Takagi's daughter's middle school days...and while her more emotionally reserved LoveInterest acts as a {{Kuudere}}, she's the one getting teased despite her efforts. [[spoiler:Like father, like daughter.]]

** Chapter 75 gives us a peek into Takagi's daughter's middle school days...and while her more emotionally reserved LoveInterest acts as a {{Kuudere}}, she's the one getting teased despite her efforts. [[spoiler:Like father, like daughter.]]

* BrickJoke: In the first episode of the anime, Nishikata got excited that he found a coin on the road on the way to school for day duty. He got disappointed when it turned out to just be a token. During TheStinger, Mina finds that same coin on the road going home, initially thinking it a 100 yen piece.
* BrutalHonesty: On multiple occasions, Takagi will bluntly state that whatever Nishikata is doing isn't working. For example, in Chapter 39 (Coffee), she tells him that simply drinking coffee won't make her think Nishikata is mature.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Takagi can read him like a book. Although half the time his failures are simply from him over-thinking everything.

* SwappedRoles: In Chapter 19, Nishikata attempts to make himself unteasable by acting like the Clint Eastwood-like character Dandy of the movie ''Dandy of the West''. He and Takagi wind up playing a game based on a scene from the movie where Dandy and a traitor question each other. While Nishikata starts as Dandy, his inability to answer Takagi's questions has him take the traitor's role while Takagi takes over as Dandy (who then "shoots" the traitor by poking the ticklish Nishikata in the side). The entire sequence is made funnier by the [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] they have, which starts with Nishikata as Dandy but as Takagi asks her first question, Dandy 'morphs' into the traitor!

* WillTheyOrWontThey: While Takagi is pretty obvious in her interest in Nishikata, Nishikata is either unable to accept she's genuinely interested in him or brushes it off as her teasing him. [[spoiler: The SeriesFauxnale suggests they will. Now the only question is ''when''?]]