Review of Teasing Master Takagi-san

"Mwahahaha! Winds, blow harder and harder! Now, gale, I command--" "Morning, Nishikata." "uAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!1" Skilled Teaser Takagi-san, is a slice of school life type of comedy anime in recent years. There is no particular storyline expect for the little romantic development of the two main characters Nishikata, an average middle-schoolar shy boy, and Takagi-san, an unbeatable teaser girl who loves making fun of Nishikata more than anything. This is an anime where you will enjoy a small, little by little progress of their relationship changing from friends to somewhere above that. I thought at first that a full-time, I mean an anime that takes 30-minutes of the TV programs,is too much for this anime, because the major part of it is only the conversation between the two, or Nishikata's (inner) talking to himself. The starting few episodes made me unsure if the anime was worth watching to the end. But I learnt soon the situations varied effectively from inside school to shoping malls and then I was gradually getting interested in how the relationship of the two will progress. Of course I should not tell much about it, but now I am sure this anime is worth to watch for all sorts of people.

Also, I am kind of astonished how greatly the English dubbing work on this anime has been done. I found the Nishikata's English voice actor was awesome. Maybe it's the first time I liked a guy's voice in anime this much. He sounded always energetic/emotional that every time he spoke, or rather cried, I could'nt help smiling and laughing a lot. And Takagi-san's English voice is way better than Japanese, in my opinion. Totally she best acted throughout the show. When she pets a cat in episode 11, her tone of voice slowly changes into really funny, while Japanese tone doesn't much change. Beside of the two, the voices of the all side characters are very well done too. Voice acting is really something to bring anime characters to the lives. So, I think the dubbed version of it is better than the original.

I won't be so interested in anime with no story, recently. But for some reason I enjoyed this anime very much. If you ask me what is the point watching a slice of life anime that has no storyline, I will answer that a good slice of life anime certainly has 'some' story you can discover even though it looks not has at first. Takagi-san is an anime something like that.