Funny / Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

Absolutely not as planned.

Volumes 1-6 / Season 1

Episode 1

• Nagatoro gives Senpai a relatively light slap on the back as she's teasing him... and it makes him fall over 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." In the anime, the slap sends him rolling down the pavement and falling over a ledge in a cartoonish fashion.

Episode 2

• Nagatoro breaks into the Art Club and darts around the previously relaxed Senpai while spinning a hula hoop. And then Senpai accidentally sees her panties, making her so angry (the first time, in fact) that she starts bumping him with the still-spinning hoop.
  • Nagatoro's half-exhilarated, half-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 so 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 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 (pictured above) 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.
• Nagatoro humiliates 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.

Episode 3

• In Senpai's Imagine Spot about Nagatoro's parents, they are both portrayed by Hayase clones wearing cheap disguises. The whole sequence is presented as someone meeting his in-laws, with thrice the humiliation he normally suffers from her (four times, if counting their imaginary cat peeing on his shoe).
  • Nagatoro goads Senpai into playing a fighting video game by pretending to use flirty double entendres.
  • Nagatoro becoming uncharacteristically pissed off at being curb-stomped 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 she is even stomping on his back to distract him.)
• 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 Henpecked Boyfriend given his reactions. They decide he must be rather her pet or even her slave.
  • A jealous Nagatoro repeatedly stops Yoshi's attempts to touch Senpai, with dead eyes and a sinister, unsincere smile every time.
• Nagatoro attempting to train Senpai in 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 hit her breasts when doing the tsukkomi backhand she taught him.

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 repeatedly. In the manga she uses her "noodle arm", flailing like an octopus. In the anime she hits him with the other bean bread packet on top of that, somehow making it 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 afterward, admitting that it was pretty soft, just like how Senpai had previously described what he thought was the damn bread.
  • The episode's Eye Catch then shows Senpai getting unwanted erections when looking at bean bread.
• 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.

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 imagining Senpai as a sheep, who fails to jump a fence like the other sheep.
• Nagatoro turns into a furious Cat Girl after scaring away Yoshi and Gamo, who were trying to shave Senpai bald (It Makes Sense in Context).
  • In the episode's eye catches, 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 Indirect Kiss through his tea bottle and stalking him until he realizes and she can tease him about it.

Episode 6

• Senpai has a dream where Nagatoro is his partner in an Eastern RPG-like High Fantasy 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 as some kind of sexy rogue class, with a whip and a black Spy Catsuit, but in turn barely bothers with Yoshi, who is just given a hilariously random Playboy Bunny 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 Super Mode).
  • 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 Cat Girl character from the videogame they played in her house. Senpai tries to keep them away from her sight, but he somehow 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 are 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 he went 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 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).

Episode 7

• Just the fact that Gamo 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 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, and upon failing accepts a challenge to earn it (which she ultimately wins).
  • Nagatoro wins by bribing Yoshi with a huge Gesopi squid plushie she previously won, knowing that her friend collects them and will suffer a Cuteness Overload with it.
  • The Eye Catch shows a sleeping Yoshi chewing on the plushie, 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 then challenges him to dare to go Holding Hands.
  • 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 about 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 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 are 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 Imagine Spot, 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.

Episode 8

• While she is playfully helping Senpai exercise by riding on his back, two female students walk by the open classroom and clearly get the wrong impression.
• Senpai has an Imagine Spot 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 so 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 grabbed 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 video call button, allowing Senpai to see her. Nagatoro's reaction upon finding out is not so different from the "Make-Out Point" reaction in the previous episode.

Episode 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, likely due to her own combat sports background, 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 invade 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 while Nagatoro and Yoshi laugh their arses off.
  Yoshi: A nude! A nude!
  Gamo: Let me see. [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 impolitely loud otaku gang, the girls send Sakura back to use her feminine wiles on them as revenge. She proceeds to sow discord among them by pretending to flirt with all 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.
  • Later, Gamo and Yoshi are gleefully recording the fake date from afar while Nagatoro seethes. When their teasing gets too much, she pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye 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 Imagine Spot, where Senpai plays a lady lamenting to have been raped by a Dastardly Whiplash played by Nagatoro.

Episode 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 watches him from a window, and 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 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 any 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 suggestive panting and 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 the 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 only asks whether they are trying to fuse.
  • For added humor, the first eye-catch shows Nagatoro and Yoshi doing the actual fusion dance, followed by the next one showing the hypothetical result, complete with a Standard Power-Up Pose and a Battle Aura.
  • 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 later returns 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.

Episode 11

• Senpai, in order to explain why the Art Club President is very difficult to beat, reveals that her exhibit ranked 6th in popularity at 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 Imagine Spot 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 about her attitude, trying to argue that he didn't keep the piece for being erotic material, but she doesn't believe him.
• Gamo 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 Nagatoro's not good enough for Senpai to model, Gamo teasingly states that while there's a "market for slender girls" when it comes to winning a popularity contest, size is power. At this 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 claims he might win after all 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, much like Nagatoro, indifferent to Senpai's obvious discomfort at her being unclothed and bouncing and proceeds to give him some 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 Freudian Slip 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.

Episode 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 at their side, we suddenly hear a body dropping and Gamo 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 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 clearly struggles not to laugh, implying she's capitalizing on the number to have fun 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 eating a banana) when the rest of the gang believed she was one of the mascots. When a bewildered Gamo unmasks the character, it turns out to be the fat stalker from Episode 9, whom Sakura had convinced to take her place. Gamo proceeds to beat him up 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 sport the exact same pouting expression every time one becomes jealous of the attention the other is receiving from the opposite sex.
• When hanging out with Senpai during the School Festival, Nagatoro tries a bit too hard to hide her true emotions, resulting in a smorgasbord of funny and cute facial expressions.
• It's enough that the Public Morals Committee chairwoman makes an old-school reference to 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 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 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'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.

Volumes 7-12 / Season 2

Episode 1

• The Cold Open appears to be for 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 Show Within a Show thing is revealed.
  • In the manga the cold open makes it seem like a different manga at first, but there's a note at the bottom of the first page that "this is still Nagatoro".
• Nagatoro gets so flustered at the thought that Senpai might actually follow through on her dare for him to lick the water off her shoe that she can only quietly thank him when he uses his handkerchief instead.
• Nagatoro employs 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 her 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.

Episode 2

• The President advises Senpai to take Nagatoro to the zoo and sketch with her and adds that she herself takes time off to relax and "free herself" within nature. Senpai thus can't help but imagine her prancing around stark naked in the outdoors, still with a stoic face.
• Nagatoro has a rather lascivious mistaken interpretation of overhearing the 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?"). 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's decision to go anyway despite thinking that she's being invited to sex.
• 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 wipes the nervous sweat from his hand before touching Nagatoro's.
• The fact that most unnamed people are shown with no eyes get 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 Violently Protective Girlfriend 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.
• At this point in the manga, a volume bonus story set sometime after the zoo trip has Senpai and Nagatoro being sent by the President to sketch in the woods, on the mountain behind the school. Senpai's imagination proves prophetic when he indeed runs into the completely naked President, who was taking reference photos of herself in a sheet until the wind blew it away. Not at all embarrassed, she merely objects to him assuming she walked all the way from school to here naked, since she left her clothes at the base of the mountain. Then Nagatoro walks in on them just as he's taken off his own shirt for her to wear. Nagatoro makes to offer her own blouse, but the President bluntly says that it would be too small, stunning her and Senpai both speechless. Then even Senpai's shirt is too small for her, so Nagatoro yells at him to go get her clothes already.

Episode 3

• Sakura declares she can "handle any kind of ball." While she is talking about her being into all sorts of men, an Imagine Spot 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 Eye Catch (which also shows Nagatoro claiming the noise from the locker had been caused by a giant cockroach). She's essentially Sakura dressed as a courtesan, complete with a fancy kimono and a kiseru pipe.
• Nagatoro perhaps unintentionally clarifies she usually doesn't mean it when she calls Senpai creepy by noting finding him in the locker "was actually creepy." Also, Senpai runs 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 Playboy Bunny outfit.
• Senpai's Imagine Spot of Nagatoro incapacitated by her fever and sleepily calling out for him in a mumbling tone.

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 sees her looking decidedly uncool. She starts frantically running around the house, trying to make herself more presentable, while complaining about Senpai showing up unannounced and asking her sister where the hair dryer is. Cue the whirring sound of that hair dryer in the background (accompanied by very large sound effect text), and she finally emerges with a new outfit and her usual 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 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 at all, leaving the match's timer run out.

Episode 5

• Nagatoro opens the episode by startling Senpai with 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 Holding Hands... which is, of course, the moment in which the rest of the gang approaches them.
  • Nagatoro tries to explain the scene being Not What It Looks Like, but as the real explanation would make it even worse for her, she pretends to be doing a Judo sode tsuri komi goshi throw on him. Her friends don't believe her in the slightest.
    Gamo: Girl, no one is buying that.
    Sakura: Uh uh, not even a little bit.
    Yoshi: Not even me.
• 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 Insult of Endearment 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 Book Ends: 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 find 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.
• The manga at this point has a volume bonus story about Nagatoro trapping Senpai in the art room, blocking the door with the couch, and putting up a sign saying "No lewd, no escape". The embarrassed Senpai refuses to humor her since he won't do naughty things with her so lightly, and Nagatoro actually looks impressed with him. Then the President comes out of the inner room, wearing only a towel again, and plays along by hitting on Senpai, offering to "give him a hand" literally, with one hand ready to remove her towel (in Japanese, "take off a layer" literally). Then Nagatoro frantically interrupts them, and the President hits on her too, saying it's down to the two of them, that this will be educational, and holding up her chin like for a kiss. Totally taken off guard and panicking even more, Nagatoro moves the couch and runs out in no time, and the President tells Senpai to run after her, smiling to herself in their wake.
  • "Taking off a layer literally" later became a running gag.
• The stories in the Official Fanbook are also set around Volume 8, and they offer some unique looks at the characters outside the norm:
  • On separate occasions, Senpai meets Nagatoro's friends on his own. He tries to avoid Yoshi while she's walking her dog since she'll just tease him, but it turns out she's rather shy and flustered when she's alone. He tries to avoid Gamo after he sees her squatting in the street drinking (canned coffee maybe), all dressed up like a delinquent, but she happily greets him after glaring and frowning at him from a distance which may be due to near-sightedness. He encounters Sakura being affectionate with an older man and can't avoid thinking of compensated dating with a sugar daddy, but the man really is her father and she cheerfully introduces him.
  • The President is shown at home, training with a wooden sword and using it to split logs... in the nude. Later, after she's dressed. her grandfather compliments her skills but notes that he didn't ever tell her to train that way.

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 President suddenly steps out of the inner room stark naked, proclaiming with Dissonant Serenity that she wanted to experience the club room one last time in her typical way before the break, as she's graduating in a few months. Nagatoro yells at her to just graduate already.
  • The pair hurry off to find somewhere else, trying to avoid the Stern Teacher 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, Yoshi, and Nekoba, go karaoke on Christmas Eve, Gamo 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 doing the main vocals while Yoshi provides backup. Gamo of all people turns out to have a very nice singing voice (courtesy of Mikako Komatsu), while Yoshi... doesn't, but she energetically tries to vocal-support anyway, to the point that her hair stands on end and Cross-Popping Veins break out all over her face, while Nekoba nervously/annoyedly 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 Aina Suzuki using a singing voice that doesn't sound at all like the tone she uses for Yoshi.
• The episode's second Eye Catch features the Art Club President being mistaken for a pale nude ghost by Rabi-chan (one of Nagatoro's friends) and her boyfriend, wearing her usual deadpan expression. This is taken from a volume bonus in the manga, where it's further revealed that she's been regularly walking on school grounds nude after hours, leading to the rumor of an actual female ghost spreading among the students. Rabi-chan and her boyfriend happen to discuss that rumor while hanging around the school at night and end up running into the President. After the pair run off in fright, the President shrugs and remarks to herself that she should probably stop doing this.
  • It's also more apparent in the manga that the President's antics that night are the culmination of a running gag of escalating outrageousness about her nudity, going from displaying nude art of herself at school and being nude in a private room for artistic reasons, to being near-nude and attempting to strip in front of others, to being imagined as nude in public outside school, to actually being nude in public outside school, to being nude in public inside school.
• 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 hang out with him later. However, due to his shyness, Senpai just awkwardly tells her that he will be waiting for her, then promptly leaves. Shortly after, he realizes that he might have sounded like a stalker back then, resulting in an Imagine Spot where he speaks the same line to Nagatoro in a very creepy way and ambushes her afterward 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 dedicated to matchmaking (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.
• With great awkwardness and hesitation, Senpai poses the scenario of him "theoretically" asking Nagatoro out, emphasizing "theoretically" over and over... and this is enough to get Nagatoro trembling and making seriously ecstatic faces with starry eyes - even if he just discusses it and resolves to not let a shrine fortune dictate his actions instead of doing so on his own terms, which impresses her anyway.

Episode 7

• Nagatoro gets into her usual teasing mood when she finds out that Senpai is considering switching to contact lenses. After Senpai agrees to let her help him put the contacts on, she makes a number of playful expressions while repeatedly, loudly smacking the space beside her on the couch to make him come over, with him looking slightly uncomfortable. Nagatoro proceeds to slowly put one of the lenses on Senpai's eyeball while trying to tease him along the way, causing the scene to become weirdly sexually charged, punctuated by Senpai's rather suspicious-sounding moan when she succeeds.
• Nagatoro borrows Senpai's glasses to demonstrate the way Senpai push them up whenever he's embarrassed. The sight of Nagatoro wearing his spectacles and mimicking his mannerisms makes him both captivated and embarrassed at the same time, causing him to push his finger against his nose by reflex.
• The first time Nagatoro tries to coach Senpai at skiing, he ends up slamming himself against a snow wall multiple times, creating a variety of impact silhouettes in the process.
• After spending a night skiing together with Nagatoro, gaining a bit of confidence in the process, Senpai's two male friends ask him to demonstrate his newfound skills, while Nagatoro and her friends look on, with Nagatoro boasting about how Senpai is going to show the fruits of her coaching. Senpai obliges but ends up running into a snow wall again, much to Nagatoro's bewilderment and her friends' amusement.

Episode 8

• Nagatoro's martial arts stances puzzle Senpai, but among them, he's particularly confused by the most exotic-looking. Here Nagatoro is doing Bruce Lee's signature Jeet Kune Do stance, even adding Lee's "Don't Think, Feel" quote from Enter the Dragon, but he doesn't get the reference.
• As if could not be otherwise, our introduction to the unsporty Senpai's unexpected school Judo career is him being flattened under a basic kesa gatame by another white belt student.
  • The revelation that Senpai has some previous judo experience makes it significant that he failed to recognize Nagatoro's yotsu judo stance while she was posing for him. Assuming the scriptwriter didn't miss the hole, Senpai really lacks talent for those things.
• Senpai walks into the Gamou Fighting Gym to find Nagatoro and Gamo deftly sparring in amateur Shooto gear, but his arrival gets Nagatoro distracted and subsequently knocked down (maybe even knocked out) by a punch to the jaw.
  • Nagatoro starts her judo sparring with Senpai with her usual enthusiasm, throwing him in a massive tsuri komi goshi whose imminent impact utterly terrifies Senpai mid-air... only for her to let him flop gently on the mat instead, revealing it was also one of her usual jokes.
  • Nagatoro's taunts while pinning Senpai lead to him complaining about her being too heavy, which Hayase proceeds to take the worst way possible. She crushes him in retaliation while screaming her lungs out about it being a matter of technique and not weight.
• The President turns out to be another judo black belt and offers to tutor Senpai for the upcoming tournament, but their sparring goes awry for him when it turns out she's characteristically wearing nothing under her uwagi, after which she gives Senpai a nonchalant Marshmallow Hell while pinning him. To finish things off, Nagatoro walks into them at this very moment.

Episode 9

• The judo tournament sees Nagatoro's friends destroyed in the first round. How do they lose?
  • Yoshi literally does nothing but run in circles around her bewildered opponent, which obviously gets her disqualified. Later (in an omake comic and an Eye Catch) Gamo asks Yoshi how she was expecting to win, and Yoshi reveals she was trying to create a tornado to blow her opponent away.
  • Sakura is so uncommitted to the whole thing that she flops by herself on her butt after a ouchi gari that seemed half-assed enough on her opponent's part to have been actually a feint. However, when she gets pinned under yoko shiho gatame, it unexpectedly gets her aroused from the contact, suggestive moans included, after which she looks to the camera and admit she does it much better when she "faces" boys.
  • Meanwhile, pitted against the fearsome Orihara, Gamo gains the first grip by pretending to be considering forfeiting the match, but her tsuri komi goshi attempt fails due to how good Orihara's posture is. Orihara easily escapes with a smug expression and throws her down with a basic deashi barai, leaving Gamo with a comically shocked face.
• Poor Senpai is terrified of being pitted against Sasai, who, despite being a fellow white belt, is obviously at least two weight classes heavier than him and sports the build of a pro bodybuilder. Everyone from Nagatoro’s clique to Senpai’s close friends says he’s toast.
  • Gamo and Yoshi commentate on Senpai’s match from the sidelines, while Nagatoro is increasingly annoyed by its course, but Sakura is just focused on the sexiness of Sasai and the spectacle of two boys hugging each other on the floor.

Episode 10

• After the new school year starts, Senpai and Nagatoro's cozy club status quo is shaken up by Nagatoro joining the judo club so she can't hang out with him as much as before, and by the arrival of a new art club member named Hana Sunomiya, a younger friend of Senpai back in middle school, who had him for her Senpai back then, and whom Senpai will be spending most of his after-class school time with instead. She upstages a clearly jealous Nagatoro at every turn without even trying, joining her in a wriggle-dance, and is on a Last-Name Basis with Senpai unlike her. Then she's revealed to be the (former) President's younger cousin who shares her affinity for stripping. And the real punchline is that after laying on all the "love rival" signals on thick when she's left alone with Senpai, she instantly deduces that Nagatoro's presence has improved Senpai's art and becomes a major cheerleader and wingman for them instead. She's just as or even more of a Large Ham as her cousin while telling Senpai to reach out and seize love/romance, in contrast to her demure behavior when Nagatoro is present.
  • When Sunomiya declares that the "goddess" Nagatoro has become Senpai's muse, he replies that Nagatoro is more like a demon, which gives rise to Sunomiya's Running Gag of calling Nagatoro and her friends as such.
  • Nagatoro tells Sunomiya that if she stays alone with Senpai, she's gonna "get infected by his creepy squiggly motions" while wiggling her body to illustrate her point. Sunomiya responds by imitating her moves and saying "Please proceed with your squiggliness" while keeping her neutral expression all the while. Then for good measure, the two start doing a squiggle dance in sync!
• On the first day at the judo club, Nagatoro feels uneasy about Senpai spending time with Sunomiya instead of her. This does not escape Gamo's notice, who proceeds to relentlessly tease Nagatoro about "her boyfriend" being snatched away when Orihara joins them, prompting multiple He's Not My Boyfriend denials.
  • During the conversation, Orihara casually remarks that Nagatoro is "a pure maiden" for worrying about her boyfriend like that, much to Nagatoro's embarrassment and Gamo's amusement.

Episode 11

• The former President shows up to pick up her cousin after school, and while she's clothed her appearance is both still outrageous and wildly contrasting with her school uniform look, as she's riding a motorbike and wearing a skintight bodysuit left unzipped open with virtually her entire chest on display (in later manga chapters, open all the way down to her navel), and also a helmet with rabbit ears. In the episode's second eye-catch, Hana is shown excitedly receiving a gift from her cousin, which is a pink bunny-ear helmet of her own.
  • In the same scene, as a Funny Background Event, Hana is shown using a Ninja Run to rush over to her cousin.
• When Senpai finally has the chance 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.
  • As a follow-up to this scene, the episode's first eye-catch has Senpai having a nightmare in which he's being mauled by a lion.
• In the end, upon seeing a penguin on a construction sign, Senpai finally finds a suitable date spot: the aquarium. Just as Nagatoro walks away, Senpai musters his courage to ask her to hang out at the aquarium properly and directly, and this is all played seriously and sweetly... Then Gamo and Yoshi are revealed to be excitedly snooping on them.
  Yoshi: Holy shit!!
• Nagatoro is so excited about the upcoming aquarium date that she giddily sings her usual "Gross! Gross!" epithets at school, much to Gamo and Yoshi's concern. Then Nagatoro decides to improvise a dance based on that "song", roping Yoshi into it. Later that day, she's shown daydreaming to the point that her friends struggle to get her attention. Gamo resorts to shaking Nagatoro's head, shouting "Come back!" in English, to snap the latter out of it.
• Gamo and Yoshi later notice that Nagatoro has been avoiding Senpai on purpose. Gamo surmises that Nagatoro must be savoring the wait to thoroughly enjoy her "meal" later (illustrated by a shot of her leering at her dessert platter in anticipation while eating her main dish), leading to the conclusion that Senpai's virginity is in danger (accompanied by a shot of her leering at Senpai, with her eye line directly at his crotch). Throughout the sequence, Nagatoro is depicted making sly cat-like faces. At the end of their discussion, Nagatoro walks away, cheerily singing the "Gross" song again.
• Gamo and Yoshi decide to check on Senpai at the art club, only to find Hana there by herself. The two girls decide to break the ice with Hana by teasing her a bit, which only causes the latter to conclude that they are demons like Nagatoro. As Gamo and Yoshi discuss their plan to "keep an eye on Senpai" during his date within Hana’s earshot, the latter decides to take action to "protect Senpai's romance" and eventually seeks her cousin's help. The result is that Nagatoro and Senpai get two sets of stalkers on their first date.
  • Gamo, noticing Hana is wary when they meet in the club room, accuses Yoshi of all people of being "too intimidating."

Episode 12

• While Hana thinks Gamo and Yoshi are planning to ruin the date, they actually plan to spy on them and take pictures to mock them with later. They even visualize the notion of Senpai losing his virginity prematurely by imagining Senpai as the Giant Warrior from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, who instantly melts after firing his Breath Weapon just once.
• Nagatoro "grades" Senpai on how well he's doing throughout the date, giving him lots of demerits.
• Nagatoro imitates the animals like penguins and turtles, flapping her arms and headbutting Senpai in the process. There's a bit of Genius Bonus as turtles headbutting is courtship behavior.
• The date is ultimately interrupted by the "rabbits" chasing the "delinquents" around right in front of Nagatoro and Senpai. Gamo protests that they weren't going to do anything (but really it's because Yoshi stopped her from acting rashly and actually interrupting them) but the Sunomiya pair won't have any of it, with Sana running with her arms around her chest and Hana doing the Ninja Run. Everyone freezes in place once Nagatoro and Senpai notice them, and Gamo breaks the stunned silence by weakly telling them to carry on.
• Nagatoro is mad at Gamo and Yoshi for what happened on the date, with the two meekly following her, whining like sad dogs begging for attention. After a few words of reason from Sakura, she forgives them and they all happily run off singing "gross, gross, gross". Then they enter the clubroom and find the President's cousin feeding Senpai a bento, causing Nagatoro to scream "Gross!" As Nagatoro seethes and makes bitter remarks about "Senpai's wife", the younger girl says this is her apology to him for yesterday, so it had taken less than a day for Nagatoro to forgive her friends.

Later manga chapters

Later chapters

Makes Just as Much Sense in Context.

• Senpai finally meets Nagatoro's formerly unseen brother when he runs into them while on a walk, and in an inverse of the infamous pre-manga images, the other guy insinuates that he's going out with her using Exact Words. For instance, he says he knows her sleeping habits, so Senpai thinks they're in a relationship. A pissed-off Nagatoro then takes a swing at him which he effortlessly blocks, and this escalates into a noodly street brawl with Nagatoro getting her blows blocked or evaded all the time until Senpai gets in the way of a strike meant for her, which impresses her brother. On a meta-level, her brother's identity is pretty clear due to not only the pre-manga stuff that prefigured this, but also the resemblance to his sisters in his character design, expressions, and mannerisms such as the "noodle arms".
• "SUCK IT IN! SUCK YOUR ASS BACK IN!" "I can't."
  • Said chapter won a poll to be officially colorized.

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