Review of Teasing Master Takagi-san
Love comes in many different forms such as romanticly, eroticly, platonicly, parental,familial, love among friends, and a whole lot more. Sometimes we are oblivious to our own feelings, other time we are aware but don’t act in them or sometimes we do. Karaki is basically playful love between two middle school students, Takagi and Nishikata, via teasing. Karakai is structured in snippets of the daily occurrences in the lives of these two characters and the teasing that occurs during these occasions, usually initiated by takagi. The teasing for the most part is okay as it’s usually playful, and never end up being just downright bad eventhough Takagi is usually the one that comes out winning in each occurance. It also really doesn’t come off as a bad thing that Nishikata always gets the short end of the stick since it’s always his own personality that let’s hime get teased so easily. He always try to think things through and guess the ahead of takagi, but it usually tends for him to overthink it causing him to doubt his own thoughts and dupe himself in the end. He’s also very expressive about his emotions that he has to turn his face so that he can literally hide his emotions from Takagi even though that in itself is very telling of his emotions. It’s also because of this he is no longer able to make eye contact with her so he’s unable to tell what she’s might be thinking making him more susceptible to teasing. So while the teasing is fine, but it does wear thin after a while and the creators may have taken note of that. So instead of having a short length time, the show sometimes intermittently intercuts with the life of three other girl students who are schoolmates of the duo, and their stories are usually parallel with the main story and it’s just fine and not much else.
Everything else about this show is just fine across the board. The show has a bright generic colour pallet that suits the show fine. The background art is very close to a japanese countryside town as a sign of innocence which this show basically is. The character designs are alright, but the noticeable large foreheads may put some people off but i think it’s cute on some characters. There’s no real issue with the animation because for the most part it’s kept to a minimum in shows like this, and that’s alright The voice acting in the show could have been better with different voice actors as the ones voice acting them make them sound older than they actually look which does come off as odd, although it takes a little bit of time to get used too. The soundtrack also sounds fine even though there’s not really much worth noting about it.
The show is a fine watch. It not a full fledge romance and it’s not a off the wall comedy. It’s just a cute show about two children who like each other having fun together while they are still young.