Manga 'Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san' Gets TV Anime

by Vindstot
Jul 2, 2020 8:26 AM | 76 Comments

Kodansha opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of 774's (Nanashi) Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san (Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro) manga on Thursday, revealing the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured). Voice actress Sumire Uesaka (Musaigen no Phantom World) will star as the titular character Hayase Nagatoro.

Staff
Director: Hirokazu Hanai (Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru, Kami no Tou assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Taku Kishimoto (Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Hanebado!)
Character Design: Misaki Suzuki (Tari Tari sub-character design, Tsukumogami Kashimasu chief animation director)
Music: Gin (Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!, Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?)
Studio: Telecom Animation Film

Synopsis
High schooler Hayase Nagatoro loves to spend her free time doing one thing, and that is to bully her Senpai! After Nagatoro and her friends stumble upon the aspiring artist's drawings, they find enjoyment in mercilessly bullying the timid Senpai. Nagatoro resolves to continue her cruel game and visits him daily so that she can force Senpai into doing whatever interests her at the time, especially if it makes him uncomfortable.

Slightly aroused by and somewhat fearful of Nagatoro, Senpai is constantly roped into her antics as his interests, hobbies, appearance, and even personality are used against him as she entertains herself at his expense. As time goes on, Senpai realizes that he doesn't dislike Nagatoro's presence, and the two of them develop an uneasy friendship as one patiently puts up with the antics of the other. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

774 (Nanashi) posted a prototype of the titular character Nagatoro on Pixiv in August 2011. The comedy slice of life manga began serializing in Magazine Pocket application in November 2017. Kodansha will publish the eighth volume on July 9. Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san has a cumulative 1 million copies of its volumes in print.

Kodansha Comics licensed the manga in English in October 2018 for both digital and print release and shipped the second volume on February 18. The third volume is planned for an August 18 release.

Official site: http://www.nagatorosan.jp/
Official Twitter: @nagatoro_tv

Source: Comic Natalie

Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san on MAL

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People talking about the bullying in this manga aren't taking into account that while Nagatoro is unreasonably catty, Hachiouji is also unreasonably vulnerable. Neither of these characters would work off real people since you wouldn't have someone teasing a person like Hachiouji if he existed and you wouldn't have someone taking the bait from someone like Nagatoro so easily.

What I'm getting at is you need to take a step back and consider if Nagatoro is really that mega bad or if Hachiouji isn't just so unbelievably easy that he makes her seem bad.

Nov 22, 2020 7:01 AM by Ellert0

YAAAY can't wait for this, I love this manga so much <3

Nov 1, 2020 3:24 AM by removed-user

DUUUDEEE.. AMAZING!

Oct 31, 2020 8:27 AM by imprachim

DUUUDEEE WHA.. TV

Oct 31, 2020 8:26 AM by imprachim

Honestly, my hopes aren't high from the promotional image. There's just so many ways they could do it wrong. But I'll watch it, of course!

Oct 20, 2020 6:38 AM by Dip-

Dude, i can't wait for this.

Jul 21, 2020 1:42 PM by DBX

Finally, looks like it’s a good time to get to reading this series I’ve been pushing off for some reason. It’s been very popular so this was expected

Jul 13, 2020 4:53 PM by returntothenhk

Oh yeah! An adaptation of one of my favorite manga's!? I say yes 1000 over. If you like Skilled Teaser Takagi then you'll love this and if you never read the manga...well get too it because it's actually great. I really hope they do a 26 episodes or so because 12 episodes isn't enough for me to watch this anime...

Jul 13, 2020 4:47 PM by UnknownTwinkie

The studio did a great job with Orange as an anime adaption, and the director was good with Mirai Nikki as far as I know, so I'm somewhat confident it'll be a good adaption.

I think from somewhere in the pitch of Shalltear from Overlord but cuter and some flair of Dekomori from Chuunibyou for the teasing nature in some form would the best interpretation of Nagatoro that Sumire Uesaka can voice.

.... Does anybody know if the mangaka will be involved somehow in the anime?

Jul 6, 2020 3:45 PM by waalex11

Maou_heika said:
From the description looks like I'm going to hate this but since I've heard that it's similar to Takagi-san still going to give it a shot. Takagi-san is more of playful teasing this sounds like straight up bullying.

If you do watch the fist episode and find it to be way too much, maybe give it another episode before you give up on it. For the first couple chapters in the manga she goes way harder than the rest. They may tone down those first couple chapters in the anime though.

Jul 5, 2020 4:13 AM by DrHizzle

From the description looks like I'm going to hate this but since I've heard that it's similar to Takagi-san still going to give it a shot. Takagi-san is more of playful teasing this sounds like straight up bullying.

Jul 5, 2020 1:22 AM by Maou_heika

prolly gonna watch this only for Sumippe

Jul 5, 2020 1:17 AM by Edocchi

I just realized I only read the illustrations and not the actual manga... looking forward to reading the real thing now before I watch the anime when it comes out.

Jul 4, 2020 11:33 PM by waalex11

mwalimu said:

Atavistic said:

This has me curious actually, as I've personally never really seen Takagi's behaviour as being bullying (besides the fact that she refuses to stop on the infrequent occasions Nishikata asks), so I'd be interested in knowing what led you to that perspective.

Quoting from my review: "Is it teasing or bullying? My take on it is that teasing means keeping it within the bounds of the parties' sense of humor, limiting it to stuff they'd be able to laugh about after the fact. I don't see Takagi exercising any such restraint. She has little sense of when enough's enough. Furthermore, her actions have tangible consequences for Nishikata, such as getting extra cleaning duty as punishment, or failing a math test, and when things like that are the result, it's over the line from teasing into bullying."

Bit of an overreaction to call that out-right bullying imo, but you do you I guess.

Jul 4, 2020 8:38 PM by TsukuyomiREKT

Cevoy said:

MuscularBlackMan said:
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Jul 4, 2020 10:43 AM by MuscularBlackMan

MuscularBlackMan said:
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Jul 4, 2020 9:22 AM by Cevoy

Oh shit, this caught me off guard
Hopefully it's not gonna turn out to be garbage

Jul 4, 2020 8:35 AM by removed-user

Haven't read the manga, but from what I've seen it has some really nice art. Hopefully the anime manages to live up to it.

Jul 4, 2020 7:40 AM by Mirai

I just hope it is going to be good. It's one of my favorite series. nagatoro pls step on me uwu

Jul 4, 2020 7:26 AM by Jokuc

About time! I really hope that the anime does her justice! Not too much censorship and hopefully the same standard of art. Either way, I'm looking forward to this!!