History Sandbox / Estvyk

* HighFantasy: While it doesn't use the standard creatures from Western High Fantasy (opting to use creatures from Filipino mythology instead) it is the TropeCreator and TropeCodifier in Filipino media. FPJ made his own ShoutOut film in 2002 called ''Legend of The Hawk'' while the endless string of reboots is a testament to its staying power and local impact.

* SpinOffBabies: The TV series ''Panday Kids'' which spun off from the Bong Revilla reboot.

The film was a massive success, sweeping that year's UsefulNotes/MetroManilaFilmFestival. The film is considered FPJ's MagnumOpus by many of his fans today. Three more sequels followed in the following years, earning equal box-office and awards success. Several spinoffs and reboots followed in the years afterwards, including five movies, a parody film starring Filipino comedian Joey De Leon, three live-action television series, and the first primetime animated series made in the Philippines.

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%%* DarkLord / DemonKing: Lizardo, one of the first in Filipino media. There's a reason he's known in-universe as " The Prince of Darkness".

* DarkLord / DemonKing: Lizardo, one of the first in Filipino media. There's a reason he's known in-universe as " The Prince of Darkness".

* TransatlanticEquivalent: Might as well be this to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'', and ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy'', with its status as a pioneer in Filipino media comparable to the impact the former three have in Western HighFantasy.

The film was a massive success, sweeping that year's UsefulNotes/MetroManilaFilmFestival. The film is considered FPJ's MagnumOpus by many of his fans today. Three more sequels followed in the following years, earning equal box-office and awards success. Several spinoffs and reboots followed in the years afterwards, including five reboot movies, a parody film starring Filipino comedian Joey De Leon, three live-action television series, and the first primetime animated series made in the Philippines.

* BroadStrokes: The loose continuations of the Fernando Poe Jr. movies, as opposed to reboots of the movies, use the general beats of the backstory. The movies ''Dugo ng Panday'', ''Pandoy'', and ''Hiwaga ng Panday'' and the 2005 TV series qualify the most. O

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''Ang Panday'' is the title of the 1980, 2009, and 2019 movies and the 2005 and 2016 TV series.

* BroadStrokes: All the loose continuations of the Fernando Poe Jr. movies, as opposed to reboots of the movies, use the general beats of the backstory. The movies ''Dugo ng Panday'' and ''Hiwaga ng Panday'' and the 2005 TV series

In 1979, Filipino comics creator Carlo J. Carapas and artist Steve Gan collaborated to release a HighFantasy comic in the popular ''Liwayway Magazine'' known as ''Ang Panday'', (or in English, ''The Blacksmith''). The film was adapted in 1980 by Filipino action star Creator/FernandoPoeJr, who directed and produced the film.

* TagAlongKid: Lando starts out as one, but in the sequels he gets more opportunitiwa to break out of this role, and by the fourth he gets his own sword and shield while assisting Flavio in battle. A second example appears in the fourth film to fill his old role, however.

* BraggingThemeTune: The cartoon.

** Albeit a different version. Bong Revilla played Flavio’s descendant Flavio in ''Dugo ng Panday'' then the one and only Flavio in his 2009-2011 movie reboot.

** Coco Martin starred as Flavio in a 2019 movie reboot, years after playing a partial homage/Expy in the TV series ’’Juan Dela Cruz’’,

** In the 1993 movie ’’Dugo ng Panday’’ the current Panday played by Ramon ”Bong" Revilla Jr. is his descendant and namesake.
** In the 2001 movie ’’Hiwaga ng Panday’’ the current Panday played by Jinggoy Estrada is a modern day man named Guiller who reforges the sword into a shotgun, but it can magically change back at will. Flavio is shown living during World War 2 and fighting the Japanese occupation.
** In the 2005 TV series the current Panday is a modern day man named Tristan, played by Jericho Rosales.

* RoleReprise: Bong Revilla played Flavio’s descendant Flavio in ''Dugo ng Panday'' then the one and only Flavio in his 2009-2011 movie reboot.

* ItWasHisSled: Flavio's dagger magically extends into a sword. It first happened for the final battle in the sand dunes in the first movie, when the dagger itself magically plunges blade first into the sand and he dramatically pulls it out as a sword. It was a big twist since it was forged as a dagger and remained that way for most of the movie, and it's that way in the original poster. But later movies and appearances by the character don't hide it, so he's most often shown wielding his blade as a sword instead of a dagger (and thus it's more called an ''espada'' than a ''balaraw''), and whenever it's still in dagger form, it just extends into a sword when he raises it to the sky.

* ItWasHisSled: Flavio's dagger magically extends into a sword. It first happened for the final battle in the first movie.It was a big twist since it was forged as a dagger and remained that way for most of the movie, and it's that way in the poster. But later movies and appearances by the character don't hide it so he's most often shown wielding a sword instead of a dagger.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Flavio investigates a seaside cottage that's rumored to be where Lizardo lives. It's not, but it is occupied by one of his henchmen.

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* Nagatoro gives Senpai a relatively light slap on the back as she's teasing him, and he falls down because he is just THAT light and weak. For the first time, Nagatoro's own awkward side comes out as she gapes at this unexpected turn and then quietly says "sorry."
** This is used at the climax of the very first anime episode, and the slap sends him rolling down the pavement and falling over a ledge in a cartoonish fashion.
* Nagatoro's half-exhilarated, half-[[CovertPervert excited]] reaction when she checks he was reading an ecchi manga as she thought. She even starts groping her own breasts to tease him about a similar scene in the manga, getting Senpai so flustered that he cannot even look at her.
* Nagatoro accidentally grabs Senpai's groin. ''Both'' of them are instantly embarrassed, so much that Nagatoro can only tease him by pointing out how some of his lewd desires have been realized (which he also reacts to anyway).
* Senpai (also accidentally) fantasizes sexually about Nagatoro at home as a result of so much teasing, and gets an erection as a result.
* Nagatoro humiliating the guys at the double date, first by shaming the pervert and then by destroying the pretentious musician's artistic claims.
** The author's stylistic decision to draw the two guys without eyes (the first instance of a pattern used with all the background characters in the series, carried over to the anime) makes it even funnier.
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[[folder:Volume 2]]
* Nagatoro breaking into the Art Club and darting around the previously relaxed Senpai while spinning a hula hoop. And then having Senpai accidentally seeing her panties, making her so angry (the first time, in fact) that she starts bumping him with the still spinning hoop.
* Nagatoro challenges Senpai to a game to find each other's nipples, assuming he will be too embarrassed to take his turn. But he then reveals it isn't the case and proceeds to actually try to take it, and her puffed, suffering expression/rapidly-deflating whistling when she realizes she has accidentally given consent to a boy to touch her breasts is just adorable. Even if she is the one who proposed the game in the first place, Nagatoro is so absolutely mortified that she ultimately capitalizes on the first chance to stop him before he can do it and just run away.
* Seemingly believing Nagatoro's claims to be going out with Senpai (or more probably just pretending to believe it for the kicks), Gamo and Yoshi laugh at him for being a [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]] given his reactions. They decide he must be rather her pet or even her slave.
** A jealous Nagatoro repeatedly stopping Yoshi's attempts to touch Senpai, with dead eyes and a sinister, unsincere smile everytime.
* Nagatoro attempting to train Senpai in ''[[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]]'' comedy so he will have it easier to stand up to people. Their very introduction in their act, by having them sliding into the shot while clapping their hands, is hilarious.
** As it couldn't be otherwise, Senpai accidentally hitting her breasts when doing the ''tsukkomi'' backhand she taught him.
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[[folder:Volume 3]]
* In Senpai's ImagineSpot about Nagatoro's parents, they are both portrayed by Hayase clones wearing cheap disguises. The whole sequence is presented as someone [[ObnoxiousInLaws meeting his in-laws]], with thrice the humiliation he normally suffers to her (four times, if counting their imaginary cat peeing on his shoe).
** Nagatoro goading him to play a fighting video game by pretending to use flirty double entendres.
** Nagatoro becoming uncharacteristically ''pissed off'' at being curbstomped by Senpai in the first battle, due to him being much more experienced with games. (Her plan to overcome this is, of course, teasing him to distract him, although by the end of the subsequent montage she's so fired up that is even stomping on his back to distract him.)
* Nagatoro's friends make Senpai touch their "breasts" when it was really them teasing him by placing bean bread in their shirts. Nagatoro comes in and intimidates them into running away.
* Nagatoro then decides to do the same trick to Senpai, but one of the bean bread packets falls out at the worst possible moment and Senpai unknowingly gropes her real breast (even worse, with both of his hands, thinking he's just touching the bread). Enraged, Nagatoro beats him by slapping him repeatedly.
** In the manga she uses her hand in an early example of "noodle arms". In the anime she beats him with the other bean bread packet, making it feel somehow more brutal.
** Her facial expressions throughout the sequence are absolutely priceless. Before she attacks Senpai, she looks like she wants to die.
** Nagatoro stone-facedly eats the bean bread afterwards, admitting that it ''was'' pretty soft, just like how Senpai had previously described what he thought was the damn bread.
** A small postscript sketch in the volume, later used as an EyeCatch in the anime. then shows Senpai getting unwanted erections when looking at bean breads.* When Nagatoro challenges Senpai to tickle her, Senpai turns out to be braver than she had expected and this time she has to directly stop him before he tickles her in the armpit.
* Nagatoro imagining Senpai as a sheep, who [[ButtMonkey fails to jump a fence like the other sheep.]]
* Nagatoro furiously scaring away Yoshi and Gamo-chan, who were trying to shave Senpai bald (ItMakesSenseInContext), and in the anime she gains CatGirl ears formed by her hair.
** Yoshi gets a stuffed ram from a prize machine, after which Nagatoro is challenged to tell apart between its wool and Senpai's hair while blindfolded. She looks unsure at the task, being implied that she might fail.
* In a display of planning skills, Nagatoro gets Senpai embarrassed by giving him an IndirectKiss through his tea bottle and stalking him until he realizes and she can tease him about it.
%%* As her prize for Senpai's excellent drawing of her, Nagatoro makes him close his eyes, and the scene looks like she gave him a kiss... which turns out to be from a big-lipped seal plushie she was holding against his lips. Poor Senpai even ends up with his tongue awkwardly sticking out, having tried to kiss deep back on the belief it was Nagatoro.
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[[folder:Volune 6]]
* Senpai has a dream where Nagatoro is his partner in an EasternRPG-like HighFantasy world, so ideal for him that the dream's Nagatoro even gives him a kiss on the cheek... but his subconscious clearly enjoys trolling him, as it brings to the dream all the teasing Senpai suffers from Nagatoro and her friends in real life.
** Senpai's mind pictures Gamo-chan as some kind of sexy rogue class, with a whip and a black SpyCatsuit, but in turn barely bothers with Yoshi, who is just given a hilariously random PlayboyBunny outfit.
** The demon lord trio in the game fantasy have absolutely busted stats (999 in all categories), except for Yoshi's intelligence, which is a measly 7 (and goes down to 1 in her SuperMode).
** Sakura also appears as the goddess that greets Senpai into the world, despite the next episode showing that he didn't really remember her from the first and only time they met in real life. It seems that while he couldn't remember, his subconscious did, likely due to all the taunting he suffered that day.
* The whole thing turns out to have been inspired by some drawings he was doing of Nagatoro as the CatGirl character from the videogame they played in her house. Senpai tries to keep them away from her sight, but he somehow [[EpicFail forgets the very sketchbook in his seat]] and Nagatoro sees it.
** Nagatoro becomes momentarily shocked and then embarrassed upon seeing the drawings, but she ends up smirking, and her pure joy at subsequently teasing Senpai by showing she's seen the drawings is clear. She runs over to him holding the book open above her head, and of course easily keeps up when Senpai tries to run away. When he maintains the blatant lie that it's not his book, Nagatoro simply says she'll keep it then.
*** The anime rearranged and combined certain events like this one, as in the manga his dream of Nekotoro happened before him going to Nagatoro's house. As for the Nekotoro drawings, Senpai starts by drawing a full comic of his self-insert knight character and his swordswoman friend. Intriguingly, Senpai blushes quite giddily while drawing the swordswoman, but depicts them as parting ways and then Nekotoro replaces her in the comic. Then the characters based on Gamo and Yoshi show up (dressed like in the anime) and Nekotoro gives them a massive hiss, posing just like an agitated cat on all fours with her tail flying up.
* Offended by Senpai not wanting for them to look like a couple, in this case by having Nagatoro apply sunscreen on him while at the beach, Nagatoro punishes him by kicking him down and applying the sunscreen roughly and fetishistically with her foot. To Nagatoro's chagrin, even Gamo-chan and Yoshi forcefully join her with their own feet because it looks so fun to them.
** While the reaction of the other beachgoers is not seen, the moment completely turns Senpai's intentions on their head, as instead of looking like a couple, he ends up looking like the girls' sex slave or someone with a multiple public trample fetish.
** With all the fun, they empty the flask and Senpai ends up entirely covered in sunscreen. No wonder he didn't get sunburned (nor scratched by any possible sand in their soles).
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[[folder:Volume 7]]
* Just the fact that Gamo-chan and Yoshi catch Senpai in the festival shows how amusingly unathletic he is. They go after him in their yukata and geta, both of which should make it really hard for them to run compared to his simple pants and fitter sandals, and yet they somehow outrun him.
* Nagatoro's absolutely shocked, dismayed expression when she sees Gamo-chan and Yoshi have forced Senpai to wear a dog collar. She's so jealous that she sprints all the way from school to where Senpai's at, immediately tries to snatch the leash from Gamo-chan, and upon failing accepts a challenge to earn it (which she ultimately wins).
** Nagatoro winning by bribing Yoshi with a huge Gesopi squid plushie she previously won, knowing that her friend collects them and will suffer a CutenessOverload with it.
** The EyeCatch shows a sleeping Yoshi chewing on the plushie, [[MarshmallowDream dreaming it to be a real, edible ikayaki squid.]]
* When they note that their walk around the summer festival resembles a date, Nagatoro states teasingly that she would never go on a date with Senpai. However, as if it wasn't enough that her expression doesn't quite match her claim, she [[ImmediateSelfContradiction then challenges him to dare to go]] HoldingHands.
** It seems she downright forgets her own words about not going on a date, because when Senpai takes them to a shortcut through the forest, she teases him by stating that it's not okay to take your date to a dark place like that.
* Senpai confirms that Nagatoro is a virgin like him by pressing her into detailing her accusations of perversion, in which she can only give tame ideas like forcefully hugging and kissing her. However, his own tease still backfires because just thinking on it makes him more flustered than her.
** When Nagatoro accuses Senpai of not being valiant enough to initiate a kiss with someone, he asks her whether she would be, which she claims so [[BlatantLies with the fakest expression imaginable.]]
** Nagatoro then chooses a really bad moment to teasingly pretend to kiss him, as a heart-shaped pink firework appears in front of them and several couples can be seen making out in the nearby dark. The two become so embarrassed by the implications that they can only run away in unison. The pair is later seen sitting in the shade, with the space between them wide enough for at least two more people, watching the fireworks with awkward expressions on their faces.
* Senpai's ImagineSpot, where he sees himself as a timid mole having the misfortune of encountering Nagatoro's gang in the form of jaguars.
* Senpai's intervention to help the girls against the two harassers mainly underlines his newfound bravery, but the whole scene becomes just as hilarious when seen from the other side. From the two guys' perspective, this timid nerd they're taunting for daring to "play hero" suddenly makes all the pretty girls leave with him (with a single word, even), ''and'' to add insult to injury, not without receiving an adoring look from one of the two girls they were specifically targeting.
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[[folder:Volume 8]]
* While she is playfully helping Senpai exercise by riding on his back, two female students walk by the open classroom and [[NotWhatItLooksLike clearly get the wrong impression]].
* Senpai has an ImagineSpot where he was the underclassman while Nagatoro and her friends were his upperclassmen. They force him to wait on them hand and knee, make him give them massages, and then pelt him with snacks when Senpai got them different from what the girls had asked for. Funnily enough, Yoshi then eats some of the snacks she was throwing at Senpai, discovering that she likes them anyway.
* Nagatoro is happily marching through a corridor (while singing one of her usual epithets for Senpai, which is funny enough on its own) when she overhears Senpai and her friends inside a classroom. Their talk sounds erotically charged, so much that Nagatoro, becoming increasingly red with every line as she eavesdrops, ultimately bursts into the classroom with her death stare on, fully expecting to find her friends sexually pleasing him. It turns out the girls were just teasing Senpai with double entendres while Sakura tried to remove a wood splinter on his thumb, but Nagatoro is still furious and grabs the tweezers to remove it in a single try.
* While teasing Senpai by calling him from her bathtub, Nagatoro makes a grave mistake by accidentally touching the videocall button, allowing Senpai to see her. Nagatoro's reaction upon finding out is not so different from the "makeout spot" reaction in the previous episode.
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[[folder:Volume 9]]
* When Nagatoro tells her friends about how Senpai accidentally clinched her during a mock boxing spar, Sakura agrees with her that it was a perverted move, but Gamo-chan, likely due to her own combat sports background, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint only retorts that it is a perfectly legal fighting technique.]]
** Sakura then playfully puts Yoshi in an arm triangle choke, so tight (or at least tight enough for the squishy Yoshi) that the latter desperately taps out.
* Nagatoro and friends invading the art club room to goof around. When Senpai walks in, he finds Nagatoro doing a really bad nude sketch of a (fully dressed) Gamo-chan while Nagatoro and Yoshi laugh their arses off.
-->'''Yoshi:''' A nude! A nude!
-->'''Gamo:''' Let me see. ''[[[ActuallyPrettyFunny laughs too]]]'' I'm buck naked! Put some clothes on me!
-->'''Nagatoro:''' But it's art!
* After being bothered in the dining hall by an unpolitely loud otaku gang, the girls send Sakura back to use her feminine wiles on them as a revenge. She proceeds to sow discord among them by pretending to flirt with all the four guys in the least subtle way imaginable, all with a cutesy, cheerful demeanor, which effectively makes them all angry and jealous.
** The girls sound so Machiavellian while explaining the stunt to Senpai that he can only tremble at the thought of ever making an enemy out of them.
** The whole thing backfires later when one of the otaku (the ugliest one, to top it all off) starts stalking Sakura. The girl is weeping for real while telling them the news, but then she clearly plays it up to guilt-trip Senpai into pretending to be her boyfriend to scare away the stalker. Naturally, nobody in the room is more upset than Nagatoro when he accepts, which earns her some knowing teasing by Gamo-chan.
** Later, Gamo-chan and Yoshi are gleefully recording the fake date from afar while Nagatoro seethes. When their teasing gets too much, she pulls a StealthHiBye and catches the stalker out of nowhere, dragging him in front of everyone so the charade can end.
*** The anime gives the stalker the voice of a fat oaf instead of a typical nasally nerdy voice, which makes his groveling more hilarious than expected.
* Although the idea of wearing matching earrings with Nagatoro doesn't actually displease Senpai, having his ear pierced is another thing. He completely shakes in fear when Nagatoro threatens to do it.
** The episode then has a Japanese theater-themed ImagineSpot, where Senpai plays a lady lamenting to have been raped by a DastardlyWhiplash played by Nagatoro.
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[[folder:Volume 10]]
* Nagatoro opens the episode with one of her usual pranks, this time pretending to show Senpai some "steamy snaps" of her, which turn out to be not nude selfies as she had made it sound like, but rather ''Snap''-Sizzle-Pop chicken bites.
* Senpai is in gym class running a marathon while Nagatoro's gang watch him from a window, an all they can see is him hilariously staggering in every step out of sheer exhaustion. Sakura believes he's so tired and alone because he stole the lead, which Gamo-chan correctly points out that it is rather because he got lapped by the rest of the class, possibly even more than once. The boy is definitely ''not'' cut out for sport.
** Infuriated at seeing Senpai being so unathletic, Nagatoro decides to (forcefully) help him with some secret running practice. When they meet for it, however, she comes wearing a ''very'' skimpy, skin-tight running gear, which makes Senpai completely embarrassed (and turned on, to be honest). She quickly notices and teases him left and right about it.
** As expected, Senpai tires quickly while jogging with Nagatoro and falls behind. He can only think about this, until he notices how incidentally sexy Nagatoro looks from his position, and we get a hilariously lewd montage of Nagatoro's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything suggestive panting]] and [[MaleGaze tight backside]]. Poor Senpai immediately sprints and overtakes Nagatoro in order to remove such a heavenly sight, but the girl mistakes this for him merely getting motivated and trying to race her, and she only makes it harder for him by speeding up herself.
** Having finished the run, Nagatoro suggests they stretch, which she capitalizes on to tease and tug on Senpai from a variety of provocative positions. In midst of the act, however, Yoshi suddenly shows up with her pet dog and catches them doing a (coincidentally heart-shaped) two-person stretch awkward enough for them to be instantly embarrassed. The moment of funny doesn't end here, because Yoshi then [[ComicallyMissingThePoint only asks]] whether they are [[Franchise/DragonBall trying to fuse]].
** For added humor, the first eyecatch shows Nagatoro and Yoshi doing the actual fusion dance, followed by the next one showing the hypothetical result, complete with a StandardPowerupPose and a BattleAura.
** In general, Nagatoro's teasing reaches new heights in this segment. She makes sure that the nervous Senpai can appreciate every curve in her body, usually in the least subtle ways possible, and even rubs her chest against his back while stretching him on the ground.
* The school's culture festival is soon to be coming, and when Senpai wonders who will he use as a model, Nagatoro predictably offers herself for the task. He declines, which makes her annoyed, but then he clarifies it is because he wants to draw a male model. Nagatoro then ''puts up her jealous face'', meaning she is either considering Senpai might be bisexual or simply that jealous herself.
** Nagatoro then produces the Nekotoro drawings she stole from Senpai in Episode 6 to tease him about his drawing penchants. The idea backfires on her, because it helps Senpai devise a plan to drive Nagatoro away, namely claiming he will only draw her in an actual Nekotoro attire, which leaves her petrified in embarrassment. But then the idea backfires on ''him'', because Nagatoro triumphantly returns later wearing the damn costume, which she ordered at the needlecraft club - meaning that he will have to draw her that way for everybody to see, true to his word.
** Nagatoro is still not very confident with the whole stunt, and they're both clearly shaking with embarrassment the whole time. To make things worse, Gamo, Yoshi, and Sakura come across the scene, and even they become a bit mortified, not sure what to make of it at all.
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[[folder:Volume 11]]
* Senpai, in order to explain why the Art Club President is very difficult to beat, reveals that her exhibit ranked 6th in popularity in the last year's festival. The reason? Her piece is a nude self-portrait. Nagatoro's gang's reaction to the painting is a mixture of awe and bewilderment. Then we have an ImagineSpot of the Prez standing next to her exhibit, with a number of blushing boys looking at them.
** Nagatoro becoming ''deadly'' jealous that Senpai keeps the Prez's nude portrait since the last year. Senpai becomes increasingly nervous by her attitude, trying to argue that he didn't keep the piece for being erotic material, but she doesn't believe him.
* Gamo-chan comments that Senpai has no chance to top the President's nude piece, pointing out that the Prez "has more to work with". Cue shots comparing the Prez's and Nagatoro's bust sizes, the awkward expressions of Senpai, Yoshi and Sakura, and Nagatoro's pissed-off face.
** Soon after, as part of a spiel to say [[ReversePsychology Nagatoro's not good enough for Senpai to model]], Gamo-chan teasingly states that while there's a "market for slender girls", when it comes to winning a popularity contest, [[BuxomIsBetter size is power]]. At which point, she, Yoshi, and Sakura are intentionally bouncing their large chests to help illustrate the point.
--->''"Bouncy, bouncy! Bouncy, bouncy! Bouncy, bouncy! Bouncy, bouncy!"''
** The girls later walk into Nagatoro posing for Senpai in nothing but a sheet and slippers. Gamo-chan claims he might win after all with that, and starts groping a scandalized Nagatoro's breasts while claiming them to be "the angel's cleavage".
* The President appears in the clubroom wearing only a sheet like Nagatoro, indifferent to Senpai's obvious discomfort at her being unclothed and bouncing, and proceeds to give him some [[TheComicallySerious discordantly heartfelt]] advice about art requiring "love" in its creation and message. Senpai feels like they're on totally different wavelengths, but is impressed.
* Senpai closes the episode having a FreudianSlip and accidentally telling Nagatoro in her face how cute she is. After the obligatory embarrassment, Nagatoro quickly starts asking him loudly to repeat, still red herself but clearly wanting him to call her cute again.
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[[folder:Volume 12]]
* In order to find out what the President has drawn, the girls infiltrate her side of the art's club partition wall. While Senpai waits for them in their side, we suddenly hear a body dropping and Gamo-chan screaming for Nagatoro, who has effectively fainted upon discovering the Prez's devilishly erotic nude painting. Senpai panics when the girls return dragging her in. Nagatoro's first remark as she recovers?
-->'''Nagatoro:''' ''[stunned]'' Breast violence.
** Sakura does a little preaching on eroticism while suddenly donning [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] attire, complete with a halo, a ''ushnisha'' wig and a ''bindi'' mark. All doubly ironic considering Sakura is definitely the least wholesome of the clique, which she quickly proves with one of her malicious plans.
* The entire Torocat performance. The thought of Nagatoro wearing the Nekotoro attire in public and being accompanied by two giant cat mascots, who exploit Nagatoto's usual shenanigans with Senpai on unrelated visitors in order to promote the art exhibit, is only topped by the randomness that ensues.
** Nagatoro's miserable, deadpan visage while performing their cutesy dance number makes it even more hilarious. In contrast, Gamo-chan clearly struggles not to laugh, implying she's capitalizing on the number to have fun herself putting Nagatoro in a ridiculous situation. Then, when Nagatoro is told to do her usual "toy with" routine on boys other than Senpai, she is likewise deadpan and completely unenthusiastic.
** Sakura suddenly appears without any costume (and randomly [[EroticEating eating a banana]]) when the rest of the gang believed she was one of the mascots. When a bewildered Gamo-chan unmasks the character, it turns out to be the fat stalker from Episode 9, whom Sakura had convinced to take her place. Gamo-chan proceeds to beat him down out of disgust at having touched his shoulder thinking he was Sakura, and Yoshi joins in likely because she's Yoshi (though, funnily enough, a later scene shows they let him continue to use the costume).
** Nagatoro and Senpai sporting the exact same pouting expression every time one becomes jealous of the attention the other is receiving from the opposite sex.
* It's enough that the Public Morals Committee chairwoman makes an old-school reference to [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya]] here, complete with a red armband and a sharp pointing finger, but the anime decided to amp the totalitarian imagery up to eleven by having the rest of the committee doing the ''[[PuttingOnTheReich Roman salute]]''.
** As the discussion with the Committee drags on, Yoshi is pushed in to show footage of people genuinely appreciating the Prez's painting, all while clearly intimidated and still wearing her mascot suit. Her intervention is so out of touch with the seriousness of the scene (and the chairwoman shows such a [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight lack of reaction to it]]) that it ends up being both hilarious and awesome.
* As a result of her losing the competition, Prez is forced to wear a bunny suit. She finds it humiliating, but the new form of "oppression" also stimulates her creative thoughts. It seems exposure and art cannot be separated in the President's mind.
* Sensing something, Nagatoro decides to go back to the art club room for Senpai. She only tells her friends that she's going for a walk, yet Gamo-chan's quick answer, while barely paying attention even, is to say hi to Senpai (or "your boyfriend" in the dub) on her part. She can read Nagatoro so easily.
* When Senpai asks Nagatoro if she'd like to go to lunch, her costume tail somehow begins wagging back-and-forth like a real tail. And later, when he asks if they can go to the concert together, she spontaneously sprouts cat ears when teasing Senpai.
* When accompanying Senpai, Nagatoro tries a bit too hard to hide her true emotions, resulting in a smorgasbord of both funny and cute facial expressions.
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!!Second season
[[folder:Episode 1]]
* The ColdOpen appears to be a different show, but then it's shown to be a manga the characters read called ''Love Slave''. As a bonus the anime directly uses the manga art once the ShowWithinAShow thing is revealed.
* Nagatoro gets so flustered at the thought that Senpai might actually follow through on her dare for him to lick water off her shoe that she can only quietly thank him when he uses his handkerchief instead.
* Nagatoro employing a series of aggressive and physical (and flirty) greetings on Senpai, claiming she is teaching him how to greet people and that they are common greetings for girls. When her friends show up, they just greet like other teenage girls do.
* In another ill-conceived effort to tease/flirt with Senpai, Nagatoro has him put a stocking on her only to find she can't handle the embarrassment, and ends up reflexively trapping his hand between her thighs.
* The girls take Senpai out to a conveyor belt sushi bar, "treating" him with their earnings from the festival. But they sit in such a way that he's always the one handing them their orders. Nagatoro gets jealous when they make sushi combinations that Senpai finds agreeable, and she tries making a combination of roe and milt - ''fish eggs and fish sperm'' - and playfully cautions Senpai that he might get ''pregnant'' from it. This results in a stunned silence until ''Yoshi'' of all people exclaims "Disgusting!" The girls chide Nagatoro for playing with food lewdly, but Senpai tries it anyway and likes it too.
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[[folder:Episode 2]]
* Nagatoro has a rather lascivious mistaken interpretation to overhearing President telling Senpai to take her to the zoo so they can sketch [[note]]In Japanese, it is a pun involving a word pronounced as "shasei" that leads to her mistaking "sketch/drawing nature" for "ejaculate/cum"; in English, it's simplified to Nagatoro overhearing "make her come [with you], understand?")[[/note]]. Her thought process is even illustrated by the fish sperm sushi from the last episode. She also gets rather desperate in her efforts to help him with the invitation she knows is coming but wants him to say on his own.
* Nagatoro gets so excited when Senpai finally asks her that her playful noodle-armed slaps basically become noodle whips.
* The sight of the red panda standing up is so cute that Nagatoro gets stars in her eyes.
* Senpai idly wiping the nervous sweat from his hand before touching Nagatoro's.
* Most unnamed people being shown with no eyes gets lampshaded by Senpai noting he is not good at remembering people's faces.
* The understated but still obvious panic on the two rude students when Nagatoro confronts them and starts giving ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend vibes. They are both obviously afraid of the small girl and it makes one wonder just what Nagatoro has done to give herself such a tough reputation.
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[[folder:Episode 3]]
* Sakura declares she can "handle any kind of ball." While she is talking about her being into all sorts of men, an ImagineSpot shows her as a chibi goalie with a glowing golden aura.
* Sakura claims her guardian spirit is a courtesan (oiran), and we get to see her during the ensuing EyeCatch (which also shows Nagatoro claiming the noise from the locker had been a giant cockroach). She's essentially Sakura dressed as a courtesan, complete with a fancy kimono and a kiseru pipe.
* Nagatoro perhaps unintentionally clarifying she usually doesn't mean it when she calls Senpai creepy by noting finding him in the locker "was actually creepy." Also Senpai running off to avoid addressing if he heard what Nagatoro said about him when talking with her friends.
* The Art Club President returns, stoically running the school marathon in the sexy bunny outfit from the school festival. After the girls recover from their shock they declare she is the "hare" that the "tortoise" (Senpai) must beat.
* Contrary to her boasting, lanky and tall Senpai is clearly too heavy for even the stronger-than-average Nagatoro to carry on her back for long.
-->'''Nagatoro:''' This is nothing. Nothing!
* The crazy antics the girls go through to help Senpai in the marathon culminate in them carrying him as if he were a palanquin and Yoshi creating a slipstream by running in front of them. The act gets them disqualified, which Senpai admits is "fair." Then there is President's stoic "victory pose" while still wearing the PlayboyBunny outfit.
* Senpai's ImagineSpot of Nagatoro incapacitated by her fever and sleepily calling out for him in a mumbling tone.
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[[folder:Episode 4]]
* We see the end of the previous episode from the perspective of Nagatoro's sister. It starts seriously enough, with her being genuinely concerned as to what is going on. She then proceeds to take a ''lot'' more pictures with her phone than the previous episode indicated.
* Pajamas-and-bedhead Nagatoro walks into the room sleepily asking if her sister got her pudding, only to completely freak out when she realizes Senpai is there and seeing her looking decidedly uncool. She starts running around the house, screaming about him showing up unannounced and asking her sister where the hair drier is. Cue her using said hairdrier somewhere in a back room (accompanied by very large sound effect text) so that when she emerges again she can try to present herself as her usual confident demeanor.
* "Anetoro" spends most of her screen time teasing and egging on Hayase in every way she can, both subtle and not so subtle. She's even shown watching through the door waiting for the most opportune moments to barge in and "accidentally" interrupt (which isn't explicit in the manga, but [[IKnewIt many readers suspected it]]).
* Senpai "wins" the video game duel simply because he did a bit of damage to Nagatoro's character before both of them became too distracted with their conversation to play the game as all and the match's timer ran out.
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[[folder:Episode 5]]
* Nagatoro opens the episode startling Senpai by [[CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve pinching his sleeve]] in a very intimately-charged Japanese gesture, which turns out to be one of an arsenal of gestures that boys like, which she looked up on the Internet. However, shocked at watching Senpai acting tough against it, she attempts to repeat it over and over while Senpai tries to avoid her. The over-the-top grip-fight (featuring Nagatoro flying around Senpai trying to grab his sleeve) eventually turns into an accidental HoldingHands... which is, of course, the moment in which the rest of the gang approach them.
** Nagatoro tries to explain the scene being NotWhatItLooksLike, but as the real explanation would make it even worse for her, she pretends to be doing a UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} ''sode tsuri komi goshi'' throw on him. Her friends don't believe her of course.
* Nagatoro's reaction to Senpai not being in the club room like usual is to text him asking if he has "escaped," "fled overseas," and "been hiding in a suitcase."
* Senpai's fever dreams and Nagatoro's teasing conspire to make Senpai live a brief sequence where Nagatoro is his loving wife, a dream he later finds embarrassing enough to consider it "creepy", Nagatoro's own InsultOfEndearment for him. Of course, much like Nagatoro would in his position, he cannot help but blush.
* After the hallucinating Senpai calls Nagatoro by her first name, she takes a moment to carefully set the full spoon she was holding down before freaking out.
* The morning after the visit, Nagatoro decides to take revenge on Senpai for some previous embarrassment with a series of rapid light kicks in the back of his legs. While the scene ends right there in the manga, the anime expands the scene to establish BookEnds: Senpai manages to deftly catch her leg high in the air, leaving them in a way more embarrassing position than the accidental hand-holding incident, and as if this wasn't enough, ''again'', this is how the other girls finds them. Her way out, of course, is to sweep Senpai down with an ''sasae tsuri komi ashi'' and claim they were practicing. Her friends, again, don't buy it.
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[[folder:Episode 6]]
* Nagatoro asking her sister about Christmas presents has the former turning redder than she had been in ages.
** Anetoro's weird occurrence of promoting lifesize dolls of herself as gifts.
* Senpai and Nagatoro start blushing at realizing each has brought a gift for the other, after which the sequence turns into a frantic search for a private space at school to give each other Christmas gifts:
** They first try the art club room. Just as they are taking out their gifts, the former President suddenly steps out of a locker, stark naked, proclaiming with DissonantSerenity that she wanted to experience the club room one last time in her typical way before graduating. Later in the EyeCatch, she's mistaken as a pale nude ghost by Rabi-chan (one of Nagatoro's friends) and her boyfriend, wearing her usual deadpan expression.
** The pair hurry off to find somewhere else, trying to avoid the SternTeacher on patrol in the process. They make a dash for the infirmary, where Nagatoro jokes that Senpai might want to do something dirty with her... only for both of them to encounter Sakura straddling her latest boyfriend on a bed and intensely making out with him, both of whom (somehow) never seem to notice Nagatoro and Senpai's entrance.
** The pair finally decide to try the rooftop. However, there are already ''many'' couples there flirting or making out, complete with an appropriate smooching chorus. Senpai decides to just give Nagatoro her Christmas gift right then and there, which the latter reciprocates, and then they find out they had the exact same idea of a gift.
* In the scene where the "boyless" girls, consisting of Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nekoba, go karaoke on Christmas Eve, Gamo-chan and Yoshi perform a song together (implied to be "Lemon" by Kenshi Yonezu in the manga, modified for copyright reasons in the anime), with Gamo-chan doing the main vocals while Yoshi provides backup. Gamo-chan of all people turns out to have a very nice singing voice (courtesy of Creator/MikakoKomatsu), which apparently makes Yoshi so surprised and infuriated that her hair stands on end and CrossPoppingVeins break out all over her face, while Nekoba nervously looks on.
** This is equally funny in a meta way, considering that the season's ending theme, performed by the voice actresses of Nagatoro and her three friends singing both at once and by turns, has Yoshi's voice actress Creator/AinaSuzuki using a singing voice that doesn't sound at all like the tone she uses for Yoshi.
* After seeing his fortune slip suggesting that he needs to take the initiative when it comes to love affairs, Senpai decides to muster up his courage to ask Nagatoro to take a walk with him later. However, his shyness gets in the way, making him awkwardly tell her that he will be waiting for her. Shortly after, he realizes that he might have sounded like a stalker back then, resulting in an ImagineSpot where he speaks the same line to Nagatoro in a very creepy way and ambushes her afterwards as if he was about to assault her.
* When Senpai brings Nagatoro along to make a wish in the shrine, he notices for the first time that the place is particularly associated to wishes related to love (complete with a sign with two Nagatoro-esque cartoon cats doing the Fusion), much to his embarrassment. Nagatoro, however, is only looking at him with absolute eagerness.
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!!Later manga chapters
[[folder:Later manga chapters]]
* During Yoshi's judo match, she literally does nothing but run in circles around her opponent. Later (in an {{omake}} comic) Gamo asks Yoshi how was she expecting to win. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yoshi]] reveals she was trying to ''create a tornado'' to blow her opponent away.
* When Senpai finally manages to try and ask Nagatoro out on a proper date, he asks her where she wants to go. She's so giddy that she suggests ''Mt. Everest, the African savannah, Antarctica, the jungle, and outer space''. The impracticability of these nearly makes Senpai back out. Then she prods him to think of stuff himself, and her interest in "animals and action" leads the increasingly frazzled boy to suggest the ''horse races'' and then ''underground dogfights'', which earns him some dope-slaps.
** In the end he asks her out to the aquarium properly and directly, and this is all played seriously and sweetly... until Gamo and Yoshi are revealed to be excitedly snooping on them.
--->'''Yoshi:''' [[WhamEpisode Holy shit!!]]
[[/folder]]

!!First season
[[folder:Episode 1]]
* At the climax of the very first episode, Nagatoro gives Senpai a relatively light slap on the back as she's teasing him... and it sends him rolling down the pavement and falling over a ledge in a cartoonish fashion because he is just THAT light and weak. For the first time, Nagatoro's own awkward side comes out as she gapes at this unexpected turn and then quietly says "sorry."

[[folder:Episode 2]]

** Nagatoro's half-exhilarated, half-[[CovertPervert excited]] reaction when she checks he was reading an ecchi manga as she thought. She even starts groping her own breasts to tease him about a similar scene in the manga, getting Senpai so flustered that he cannot even look at her.
* Nagatoro accidentally grabs Senpai's groin. As in her introduction to the episode, ''both'' of them are instantly embarrassed, so much that Nagatoro can only tease him by pointing out how some of his lewd desires have been realized (which he also reacts to anyway).
* Senpai (also accidentally) fantasizes sexually about Nagatoro at home as a result of so much teasing, and gets an erection as a result.

* Nagatoro humiliating the guys at the double date, first by shaming the pervert and then by destroying the pretentious musician's artistic claims.
** The author's stylistic decision to draw the two guys without eyes (the first instance of a pattern used with all the background characters in the series, carried over to the anime) makes it even funnier.

[[folder:Episode 3]]

* Seemingly believing Nagatoro's claims to be going out with Senpai (or more probably just pretending to believe it for the kicks), Gamo and Yoshi laugh at him for being a [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]] given his reactions. They decide he must be rather her pet or even her slave.
** A jealous Nagatoro repeatedly stopping Yoshi's attempts to touch Senpai, with dead eyes and a sinister, unsincere smile everytime.
* Nagatoro attempting to train Senpai in ''[[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]]'' comedy so he will have it easier to stand up to people. Their very introduction in their act, by having them sliding into the shot while clapping their hands, is hilarious.
** As it couldn't be otherwise, Senpai accidentally hitting her breasts when doing the ''tsukkomi'' backhand she taught him.
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[[folder:Episode 4]]
* Nagatoro's friends make Senpai touch their "breasts" when it was really them teasing him by placing bean bread in their shirts. Nagatoro comes in and intimidates them into running away. Nagatoro then decides to do the same trick to Senpai, but one of the bean bread packets falls out at the worst possible moment and Senpai unknowingly gropes her real breast (even worse, with both of his hands, thinking he's just touching the bread). Enraged, Nagatoro beats him by slapping him with the other bean bread packet.

** The episode's EyeCatch then shows Senpai getting unwanted erections when looking at bean breads.
* As her prize for Senpai's excellent drawing of her, Nagatoro makes him close his eyes, and the scene looks like she gave him a kiss... which turns out to be from a big-lipped seal plushie she was holding against his lips. Poor Senpai even ends up with his tongue awkwardly sticking out, having tried to kiss deep back on the belief it was Nagatoro.
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[[folder:Episode 5]]
* The pictured moment from the second episode repeats when Nagatoro challenges Senpai to tickle her. Again, Senpai turns out to be braver than she had expected and this time she has to directly stop him before he tickles her in the armpit.

* Nagatoro turning into a furious CatGirl after scaring away Yoshi and Gamo-chan, who were trying to shave Senpai bald (ItMakesSenseInContext).
** In the episode's eyecatches, Yoshi gets a stuffed ram from a prize machine, after which Nagatoro is challenged to tell apart between its wool and Senpai's hair while blindfolded. She looks unsure at the task, being implied that she might fail.

[[folder:Episode 6]]

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