Review of Teasing Master Takagi-san

Takagi-san is an anime that encourages you to revel in the fluttering hearts and flushed cheeks that accompany young love. It pushes you to root for our MC Nishikata, and to simultaneously have fun teasing him with Takagi. While Takagi-san is certainly repetitive, based on several teasing vignettes per episode interspersed with brief glimpses into the lives of some of their other classmates, the formula is effective. Takagi-san keeps both Nishikata and the viewer on their toes, and her mischievous smile and voice, provided by Rie Takahashi (Megumin in Konosuba and Emilia in Re:Zero), are as relentlessly disarming as her teasing is. Takagi-san is simple, pure,embarrassing and delightful. It's far from groundbreaking, the art leaves something to be desired aside from the character designs themselves, but it's a wonderful time none the less. Watch a few episodes and try to repress those embarrassing middle school memories that Nishikata's obliviousness will doubtlessly surface. You'll know pretty quickly if this is the show for you.