Review of Teasing Master Takagi-san

I usually hate it when a character is invincible and has no chance of losing. But that's probably because those sorts of characters are always in shows like One Punch Man, where stakes are pretty high. When the main struggle of a story is a middle school boy trying to prank a middle school girl, yeah, having the middle school girl not only be impervious, but a perfect retaliator… It makes for a great, if at least somewhat predictable comedy. The other thing you should know going in is that a substantial amount of the pranking and teasing isn't necessarily the innocent, imaginative school material ofyour Tonari no Seki-kun. A lot of it is very much a flirty sort of teasing that is meant to tease *you*, the viewing audience, with a will-they-won't-they sort of romance.

Takagi and Nishikata aren't great characters (though they are exactly what they need to be for the teasing subplots to work at all), the story isn't groundbreaking, the foreheads are a little distracting, and a trio of side characters steal about three minutes per episode being a very generic school-style comedy bit far away from the teasing gimmick - but overall it's just a fun comedy that actually sucked me into the will-they-won't-they, despite my usual disdain for that style of romance.

Basically, I liked it more than I should have.