Teasing Master Takagi-san

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Teasing Master Takagi-san
File:Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san volume 1 cover.jpg
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Takagi (left) and Nishikata (right)
からかい上手の高木さん
(Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san)
Genre
Manga
Written by Sōichirō Yamamoto
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Imprint Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine
  • Monthly Shōnen Sunday Mini
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>(2013–2016)
  • Monthly Shōnen Sunday
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>(2016–present)
Original run June 12, 2013 – present
Volumes 19 (List of volumes)
Manga
Ashita wa Doyōbi
Written by Sōichirō Yamamoto
Published by Shogakukan
Magazine Yomiuri Chūkōsei Shimbun
Original run November 7, 2014 – November 2015
Volumes 2 (List of volumes)
Manga
Koi ni Koisuru Yukari-chan
Written by Sōichirō Yamamoto
Illustrated by Yūma Suzu
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shōnen
Imprint Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday
Original run July 12, 2017 – April 11, 2020
Volumes 5 (List of volumes)
Manga
Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san
Written by Sōichirō Yamamoto
Illustrated by Mifumi Inaba
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shōnen
Imprint Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine MangaONE
Original run July 15, 2017 – present
Volumes 18 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
Written by
Music by Hiroaki Tsutsumi
Studio Shin-Ei Animation
Licensed by
Network
English network
Original run January 8, 2018 – March 26, 2022
Episodes 36 + OVA (List of episodes)
Anime film
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Teasing Master Takagi-san (Japanese: からかい上手の高木さん Hepburn: Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san?, lit. "Good at Teasing, Miss Takagi") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series features the daily life of Takagi, who loves to tease her classmate Nishikata, and Nishikata's failed attempts to get back at her. In North America, the manga is licensed by Yen Press.

An anime television series by Shin-Ei Animation aired from January to March 2018. An original video animation (OVA) was released in July 2018. A second season aired from July to September 2019. A third season aired from January to March 2022, and an animated film premiered in June 2022.

By August 2023, the manga had over 11 million copies in circulation. In 2021, Teasing Master Takagi-san won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Plot

Middle school students Nishikata and Takagi sit next to each other in class. Takagi enjoys teasing Nishikata with embarrassing pranks and jokes. In response, Nishikata creates plans to get his revenge, but he fails when she identifies his weaknesses and capitalizes on them. In some rare instances where Takagi loses the challenge, Nishikata does not feel like he really won. The setting is based on the town of Tonoshō in the Kagawa Prefecture.[3]

Characters

Takagi (高木さん Takagi-san?)
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi[4] (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft[2][5] (seasons 1 and 3), Kayli Mills[6] (season 2) (English)
Takagi likes to pass time by teasing Nishikata; she enjoys his reactions to her pranks.Ch. 1 Early in the series, she tells Nishikata that she will reveal a secret: "I like you", but "that was a lie". However, it is revealed that the only part that was a lie was that it was a secret.Ch. 9 When asked by her classmates if she and Nishikata are a couple, she denies it.Vol. 1 bonus
Nishikata (西片くん Nishikata-kun?)
Voiced by: Yuki Kaji[4] (Japanese), Aaron Dismuke[2][5][lower-alpha 1] (seasons 1 and 3), Billy Kametz[6] (season 2) (English)
Nishikata is Takagi's seatmate and the target of her teasing.Ch. 1 He is constantly thinking of ways to get back at her, but Takagi always takes advantage of the situation and thwarts his schemes. Nishikata refused to acknowledge that he might like Takagi as more than friends until later on in the series when he realized his feelings for her.
Mina Hibino (日比野 ミナ Hibino Mina?)[7]
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara[8] (Japanese), Leah Clark[2] (season 1), Cassandra Lee Morris[6] (season 2), Maggie Flecknoe[5] (season 3) (English)
A childish girl with large eyebrows.
Yukari Tenkawa (天川 ユカリ Tenkawa Yukari?)[7]
Voiced by: M.A.O[8] (Japanese), Kristen McGuire[2][5] (season 1 and 3), Erika Harlacher[6] (season 2) (English)
Mina and Sanae's friend. She wears glasses. Although she tries to maintain a semblance of maturity as class president, she regularly lets her classmates copy her answers so no one would fail.
Sanae Tsukimoto (月本 サナエ Tsukimoto Sanae?)[7]
Voiced by: Yui Ogura[8] (Japanese), Kristi Rothrock[2][5] (seasons 1 and 3), Sarah Anne Williams[6] (season 2) (English)
Mina's best friend, unruffled and quietly amused by her antics. She, Mina, and Yukari hang out together as a trio. She has short dark hair.Ch. 54
Nakai (中井?)
Voiced by: Yuma Uchida[8] (Japanese), Chris Thurman[2] (season 1), Zach Aguilar[6] (season 2), James MarlerEp. 26 credits (season 3) (English)
Friend of Nishikata and classmate of both him and Takagi; he and Mano are a couple.
Mano (真野?)
Voiced by: Kotori Koiwai[8] (Japanese), Jad Saxton[2][5] (seasons 1 and 3), Christine Marie Cabanos[6] (season 2) (English)
Classmate of Nishikata and Takagi; she and Nakai are a couple. She has short dark hair with small pigtails.
Takao (高尾?)
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto[8] (Japanese), Blake Shepard[2][5] (seasons 1 and 3), Kyle McCarley[6] (season 2) (English)
One of Nishikata's close friends along with Kimura. He is a bespectacled boy with buck teeth.Ch. 2
Kimura (木村?)
Voiced by: Fukushi Ochiai[8] (Japanese), Jerry Jewell[2] (season 1), Bryce Papenbrook[6] (season 2), Joe Daniels[5] (season 3) (English)
One of Nishikata's friends along with Takao.Ch. 2 He is an overweight boy who dislikes running.
Mr. Tanabe (田辺先生 Tanabe-sensei?)
Voiced by: Hinata Tadokoro[8] (Japanese), Cris George[2][5] (seasons 1 and 3), Patrick Seitz[6] (season 2) (English)
Tanabe is Nishikata and Takagi's no-nonsense homeroom teacher.Ch. 3
Hamaguchi (浜口?)
Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama[9] (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch[6] (season 2), Scott GibbsEp. 28 credits (season 3) (English)
One of Nishikata's friends. He tries to act mature in order to get Houjou to become interested in him.Ch. 41
Houjou (北条さん Hōjō-san?)
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki[9] (Japanese), Abby Trott[6] (season 2), Kira Vincent-DavisEp. 28 credits (season 3) (English)
Houjou is a classmate who is reputed to like mature people.Ch. 41
Sumire Takagawa (鷹川すみれ Takagawa Sumire?)
Voiced by: Madoka Asahina[10] (Japanese), Olivia SwaseyEp. 28 credits (season 3) (English)
Sumire is a close friend of Takagi with a distinctive ponytail. She shares with Takagi an enjoyment for long walks.
Chi Nishikata (西片ちー Nishikata Chi?)
Voiced by: Yume MiyamotoEp. 30 credits (Japanese), Elissa CuellarEp. 30 credits (English)
Chi is the daughter of Takagi and Nishikata according to the flashforward chapters of the main series.Ch. 36 The spinoff series Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san features Chi as a main character. While Chi usually joins her mother in her pranks on her father, she fails to outsmart Takagi herself.

Media

Manga

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Main article: List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes

Teasing Master Takagi-san is written by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series began serialization in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine supplement Monthly Shōnen Sunday Mini on June 12, 2013,[11] and it moved to the main Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine on July 12, 2016.[12] The series is set to end on October 12, 2023.[13] As of March 2023, it has been collected in nineteen tankōbon volumes.[14] In November 2017, Yen Press announced the acquisition of the manga for an English release in North America.[15]

A spin-off manga series, titled Ashita wa Doyōbi (あしたは土曜日?, lit. "Tomorrow is Saturday"), was serialized in the newspaper Yomiuri Chūkōsei Shimbun from November 7, 2014 to November 2015, and was collected into two tankōbon volumes.[16][17] It was also adapted within the Teasing Master Takagi-san anime adaptation in 2018.[8]

A second spin-off manga series, titled Koi ni Koisuru Yukari-chan (恋に恋するユカリちゃん?, lit. "Yukari-chan in Love with Love"), was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday from July 12, 2017 to April 11, 2020, and was collected into five tankōbon volumes.[18][19][20][21]

A third spin-off, titled Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san (からかい上手の（元）高木さん?, lit. "Teasing Master (Former) Takagi-san"), featuring an adult Takagi, now married to Nishikata, and their daughter, Chi, started in MangaONE app on July 15, 2017.[18][19] It has been collected into eighteen tankōbon volumes.[22]

Anime

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An anime television series adaptation was announced in the August 2017 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine.[23] The series was directed by Hiroaki Akagi at Shin-Ei Animation, with scripts written by Michiko Yokote and character designs by Aya Takano. It aired from January 8 to March 26, 2018 on Tokyo MX and other channels.[4][24]

Crunchyroll simulcasted the series, while Funimation streamed the series with an English dub.[25][26] The first ran 12 episodes.[27] On January 10, 2019, it was announced that the series would receive a second season; the staff and cast reprised their respective roles.[28] It aired from July 7 to September 22, 2019 on Tokyo MX and other channels, with episodes being exclusively streamed on Netflix in Japan; a worldwide release on Netflix took place on December 6.[29][9][30] A third season and an animated film were officially announced in September 2021 after they were first teased with the release of the sixteenth volume of the manga.[31][32] The third season aired on the Super Animeism block on MBS and TBS, and other networks from January 8 to March 26, 2022..[33] On December 28, 2021, Sentai Filmworks announced it had acquired the rights to the third season and the film for worldwide distribution excluding Asia, and is streaming it on HIDIVE.[34]

The film features returning staff members from the third season of the anime series. It was released in Japan on June 10, 2022.[35]

Video game

The mobile game Teasing Master Takagi-san: Kyunkyun Records (からかい上手の高木さん キュンキュンレコーズ?) was released on Android and iOS on June 8, 2022.[36] The game ended its service on March 31, 2023, but Toho Games stated in January 2023 that they intended to release its offline version.[37]

Live-action film

A live-action film adaptation was announced in March 2023, with Rikiya Imaizumi serving as the director.[38]

Reception

By December 2016, the manga had over 1 million copies in circulation.[39] By February 2018, that number had increased to 4 million copies.[40] It had over 6 million copies in circulation by February 2019;[41] and over 11 million copies in circulation by August 2023.[42]

The manga was nominated for the 10th Manga Taishō awards in 2017.[43] In 2021, along with Chainsaw Man, Teasing Master Takagi-san won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[44][45][46]

Works cited

  • ^ "Ch." and Vol. is shortened form for chapter and volume, referring to a number of the Teasing Master Takagi-san manga.
  • ^ "Ep." is shortened form for episode and refers to an episode number of the Teasing Master Takagi-san anime series.

Notes

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