Review of Teasing Master Takagi-san

I can see why this anime would be amusing to some people, it does have a lot of teasing and a main character that isn't treated like a human being as he is mentally abused over and over again, some people can't get enough of doormat mcs. Now, I don't really care much about that since I couldn't care less about a mc like this, whether he is abused to death or not, that's not why my score is fairly low. The jokes were pretty witty at times, I'll have to give it that and this is why the score isn't lower. A lot ofkinda funny scenarios are added where she f*cks him silly mentally. Which honestly isn't hard with a mc like this.

However, while it's kinda interesting and amusing to see, this just DOESN'T work in anime format. I believe that it could be kinda good in manga format where you can read quickly. It honestly starts getting old after the first episode, I only made it through the rest because I watched one episode at a time spread out over a week, but even then I kind of felt like dropping it after 2-3 episodes.

This is a very monotone and quite boring anime that is pretty similar to anime such as "sakamoto desu ga" where we're served with the same type of stuff all the time but it's not the type of stuff that can be recycled and still be amusing, at least not in the way it's done here. There's no real point to it and I somehow don't really feel any spirit or personality from the characters. They don't feel even remotely "real" or "alive", they just feel like machines that exists purely to deliver jokes. Not sure how to best explain it, but normally you feel like the characters have a proper purpose and they're almost "alive" instead of dead and static. You feel that you actually like the characters and you want to see what they'll be up to next, that if they were real, you'd love to spend some time with those people, be it alone or in the "gang" they usually have.

Well, there's nothing like that here. I wouldn't say I hate them, but I don't like them either. They feel empty and I certainly can't get behind any of them. It actually feels cringeworthy at times to see the excessive overreactions and unrealistic situations in a setting that is supposed to be pretty realistic. This just wasn't a good anime in my opinion, at least for me it was a complete miss. The only thing it gets plus points for is that the jokes are witty/smart/well thought-out, but that's sadly the only thing this anime has going for it and it just isn't enough.