Review of Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

I hate how much I enjoyed this show. It's so damn lewd and raunchy at times, but damn it is surprisingly wholesome and had me grinning and laughing more often than not. I watched the first half dubbed and was surprised with how sexual the vocabulary was and I didn't expect it to be. Phrases like hard-on, sus, and jerking off nearly made me spit out my drink. Anime is not normally that forward so seeing a show like this was a surprise from a comedic standpoint and I think the dub was even more forward than the sub which I appreciated. However, the downsideof the show stems from the fact that it is hard to recommend it to most people because of how messed up the bullying is and it is hard to forget how bad it was at the start. Can you imagine how poorly this show would be received if you swapped the genders? Women really do have double standards. Or I guess guys who like anime do tend to be like Hachiouji (mainly referred to as senpai), loners that don't really go out of their way to interact with girls so one who bullies them into doing stuff is kind of a closet turn-on for them. Hey, I am not kink-shaming, but there comes a point when you have to man up a bit and stick up for yourself. And it was so rewarding when Senpai FINALLY does towards the end of the season. But the amount of sexual harassment Senpai had to endure from Nagatoro, Yoshi, Sakura, and Gamou before the show started becoming wholesome was absurd.

But once you get past the messed-up bullying, the teasing starts to become cute and it's nice to see Nagatoro start to slowly build Senpai's confidence and to get him to become a better artist. And some of the sexual innuendoes and scenarios that she and her friends place him in are so ridiculous that I couldn't help but facepalm and laugh. This show falls in the "don't watch in public", and in my "guilty pleasures" and the "never tell anyone who isn't a man of culture that I enjoyed this show" categories.