Review of Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

When it comes to love comedy series, there's always signs that show whether character A is slowly falling in love with character B. In some signs it can be obvious, while in others it uses a buildup setting overtime in order to allow development to be made in the process. "Please don't tease me, Nagatoro-san!" way to promote this is obvious by the name, but within the time I've viewed every episode, I slowly became disgusted within the plot itself. In short, the anime is about a lonely, isolated second-year student called Naoto, who typically spends his day in the art room or drawing mangain other places. Until, he meets a tanned first-year named Hayase Nagatoro, who, within moments after meeting, starts teasing and annoying him. As the show progresses, he meets Nagatoro's other friends in this slice-of-life type of development, while also including building points between Naoto and Nagatoro with how they feel as friends despite Nagatoro always teasing him at any moment.

Now, when I mean "teasing", I mean that they always do either the same lewd jokes or the same bully-like insults such as calling Naoto gross and being called out as a closet pervert who has lewd thoughts about her and others. Note: This happens every episode, but as I progressed throughout the series I actually started to feel bad for Naoto. I completely understood what the concept was in a way, but they should have done a better effort with adding more making new perverted jokes or insults that could at least add some spice to the series.

Art, on the other hand was nothing interesting by any means. It's nothing to be praiseworthy about nor it's anything that would be considered to be unpleasant for the eyes. The animators did their best in order to captivate how the scenery plays out for each episode. As for sound, the OST and Ending is nothing out of the ordinary, but I highly dislike the opening theme (though that's my general opinion, I like the ending, although...)

The only thing that I personally found great in this series was that all together the series took a slow approach for a buildup that can help both sides of our main characters, they're open with their thoughts about each other and the main situations they are placed in, while also maturing slowly within each segment.

All in all, Nagatoro-san tried it's best to become a good adaptation, but in the end, the anime seemed more of a honest disappointment that I may never re-watch in my life. When I first started the anime, I did not expect the best out there, but on the other hand I expected degeneracy all around the entire production, aka: This anime needs to be thrown in the recycling bin, ASAP.

Final Overall Score: 3/10.