Teasing Master Takagi-san

• Ja Kanji — からかい上手の高木さん • Ja Romaji — Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san • Genre — * Romantic comedy • Slice of life

• Type — manga • Author — Sōichirō Yamamoto • Publisher — Shogakukan • Imprint — Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics • Magazine — * Monthly Shōnen Sunday Mini • Monthly Shōnen Sunday • First — June 12, 2013 • Last — October 12, 2023 • Volumes — 20 • Volume List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes#Teasing Master Takagi-san

• Type — manga • Title — Ashita wa Doyōbi • Author — Sōichirō Yamamoto • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Yomiuri Chūkōsei Shimbun • First — November 7, 2014 • Last — November 2015 • Volumes — 2 • Volume List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes#Ashita wa Doyōbi

• Type — manga • Title — Koi ni Koisuru Yukari-chan • Author — Sōichirō Yamamoto • Illustrator — Yūma Suzu • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Monthly Shōnen Sunday • Imprint — Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics • First — July 12, 2017 • Last — April 11, 2020 • Volumes — 5 • Volume List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes#Koi ni Koisuru Yukari-chan

• Type — manga • Title — Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san • Author — Sōichirō Yamamoto • Illustrator — Mifumi Inaba • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — MangaONE • Imprint — Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics • First — July 15, 2017 • Last — July 24, 2024 • Volumes — 23 • Volume List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes#Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san

• Type — tv series • Director — Hiroaki Akagi • Writer — * Season 1: • Michiko Yokote • Tōko Machida • Fumi Tsubota • Seasons 2 and 3: • Hiroko Fukuda • Aki Itami • Kan'ichi Katō • Music — Hiroaki Tsutsumi • Studio — Shin-Ei Animation • Licensee — * Season 1: • Crunchyroll (streaming) • Season 2: Netflix (streaming) • Season 3: • Sentai Filmworks • Network — * Tokyo MX, ytv, BS11, AT-X, BS NTV, J:COM TV (S1–2 Season 1–2) • JNN (MBS, TBS) (S3 Season 3) • First — January 8, 2018 • Last — March 26, 2022 • Episodes — 36 + OVA • Episode List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san episodes

• Type — manga • Title — Karakai Jōzu (?) no Nishikata-san • Author — Sōichirō Yamamoto • Illustrator — Mifumi Inaba • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Monthly Shōnen Sunday • Imprint — Gessan Shōnen Sunday Comics • First — November 10, 2023 • Last — August 9, 2024 • Volumes — 1 • Volume List — List of Teasing Master Takagi-san volumes#Karakai Jōzu (?) no Nishikata-san

• Type — drama • Director — Rikiya Imaizumi • Writer — * Rikiya Imaizumi • Tomoki Kanazawa • Jun Hagimori • Licensee — Netflix • Network — TBS • First — April 2, 2024 • Last — May 21, 2024 • Episodes — 8

• Title — Film • Content — * Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) • Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie (2024)

• Portal — yes Teasing Master Takagi-san is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. It began serialization in Shogakukan's manga magazine supplement Monthly Shōnen Sunday Mini in June 2013, and later moved to the main magazine, Monthly Shōnen Sunday, in July 2016 and finished in October 2023. Its chapters were collected in twenty tankōbon volumes. The series follows the daily lives of two middle school students, one who enjoys teasing her crush, and the other who constantly fails to get back at her. In North America, the manga is licensed by Yen Press. An anime television series by Shin-Ei Animation aired from January to March 2018. An original video animation (OVA) was released in July 2018. A second season aired from July to September 2019. A third season aired from January to March 2022, and an animated film premiered in June 2022. A television drama adaptation aired from April to May 2024. A live-action film premiered in May 2024. In 2021, Teasing Master Takagi-san won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the category. By July 2025, the manga had over 13.5 million copies in circulation.

Middle school students Nishikata and Takagi sit next to each other in class. Takagi enjoys teasing Nishikata with embarrassing pranks and jokes, as she has a crush on him. In response, Nishikata constantly attempts to get back at her, but he fails when she identifies his weaknesses and capitalizes on them.

• Takagi-san: • Rui Tsukishima (drama), Mei Nagano (film) • Takagi is a middle school student who passes the time by teasing her seatmate, Nishikata; she enjoys his reactions to her pranks as she has a crush on him. When asked by their classmates if she and Nishikata are a couple, she denies it. • Nishikata-kun: • Sōya Kurokawa (drama), Fumiya Takahashi (film) • Nishikata is Takagi's seatmate and the target of her teasing. He is constantly thinking of ways to get back at her, but Takagi always takes advantage of the situation and thwarts his schemes. Nishikata refused to acknowledge that he might like Takagi as more than friends until later on in the series when he realized his feelings for her. • Mina Hibino: • Rin Serizawa (drama) • A childish girl with large eyebrows. • Yukari Tenkawa: • Merisa Kikawa (drama) • Mina and Sanae's friend. She wears glasses. Although she tries to maintain a semblance of maturity as class president, she regularly lets her classmates copy her answers so no one would fail. • Sanae Tsukimoto: • Rito Yoshizawa (drama) • Mina's best friend, unruffled and quietly amused by her antics. She, Mina, and Yukari hang out together as a trio. She has short dark hair. • Nakai: • Takuya Kawajiri (drama), Jin Suzuki (film) • Friend of Nishikata and classmate of both him and Takagi; he and Mano are a couple. • Mano: • Rea Morinaga (drama), Yuna Taira (film) • Classmate of Nishikata and Takagi; she and Nakai are a couple. She has short dark hair with small pigtails. • Takao: • Yuta Ichimura (drama) • One of Nishikata's close friends along with Kimura. He is a bespectacled boy with buck teeth. • Kimura: • Satoshi Mizuno (drama) • One of Nishikata's friends along with Takao. He is an overweight boy who dislikes running. • Tanabe-sensei: • Yosuke Eguchi (drama and film) • Tanabe is Nishikata and Takagi's no-nonsense homeroom teacher. • Hamaguchi: • Ryoto Nagahara (drama), Oshirō Maeda (film) • One of Nishikata's friends. He tries to act mature in order to get Houjou to become interested in him. • Hōjō-san • Abby Trott (season 2), Kira Vincent-Davis (season 3) • Ikoi Hayase (drama), Sara Shida (film) • Houjou is a classmate who is reputed to like mature people. • Sumire Takagawa: • Sumire is a close friend of Takagi with a distinctive ponytail. She shares with Takagi an enjoyment for long walks. • Chi Nishikata: • Chi is the daughter of Takagi and Nishikata according to the flashforward chapters of the main series. The spinoff series Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san features Chi as a main character. While Chi usually joins her mother in her pranks on her father, she fails to outsmart Takagi herself.

Written by Sōichirō Yamamoto, Teasing Master Takagi-san began serialization in Shogakukan's manga magazine supplement Monthly Shōnen Sunday Mini on June 12, 2013, and it moved to the main Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine on July 12, 2016. The series finished on October 12, 2023. Its chapters were collected in twenty tankōbon volumes. In November 2017, Yen Press announced the acquisition of the manga for an English release in North America.

A spin-off manga series by Yamamoto, titled "Tomorrow is Saturday", was serialized in the newspaper Yomiuri Chūkōsei Shimbun from November 7, 2014, to November 2015, and was collected into two tankōbon volumes. It was also adapted within the Teasing Master Takagi-san anime adaptation in 2018. A second spin-off manga series by Yūma Suzu, titled "Yukari-chan in Love with Love", was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday from July 12, 2017, to April 11, 2020, and was collected into five tankōbon volumes. A third spin-off by Mifumi Inaba, titled "Teasing Master (Former) Takagi-san", featuring an adult Takagi, now married to Nishikata, and their daughter, Chi, was serialized on the MangaONE app from July 15, 2017, to July 24, 2024. Its chapters have been collected into twenty-three tankōbon volumes. A fourth spin-off by Inaba, titled "Teasing Master (?) Nishikata-san", centered around Chi during her middle school years, was serialized for ten chapters in Monthly Shōnen Sunday from November 10, 2023, to August 9, 2024; the collected volume was released on October 11, 2024.

An anime television series adaptation was announced in the August 2017 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine. The series was directed by Hiroaki Akagi at Shin-Ei Animation, with scripts written by Michiko Yokote and character designs by Aya Takano. It aired from January 8 to March 26, 2018, on Tokyo MX and other channels. The series ran for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll simulcasted the series, while Funimation streamed the series with an English dub. On January 10, 2019, it was announced that the series would receive a second season; the staff and cast reprised their respective roles. It aired from July 7 to September 22, 2019, on Tokyo MX and other channels, with episodes being exclusively streamed on Netflix in Japan; a worldwide release on Netflix took place on December 6. The worldwide release was removed from Netflix on December 6, 2024. A third season and an animated film were officially announced in September 2021 after they were first teased with the release of the sixteenth volume of the manga. The third season aired on the Super Animeism block on MBS and TBS, and other networks from January 8 to March 26, 2022. The film features returning staff members from the third season of the anime series. It was released in Japan on June 10, 2022. On December 28, 2021, Sentai Filmworks announced it had acquired the rights to the third season and the film for worldwide distribution excluding Asia, and is streaming it on Hidive.

The mobile game Teasing Master Takagi-san: Kyunkyun Records was released on Android and iOS on June 8, 2022. The game ended its service on March 31, 2023, but Toho Games stated in January 2023 that they intended to release its offline version.

A live-action adaptation was announced in March 2023, with Rikiya Imaizumi serving as the director. In September 2023, Tomoki Kanazawa and Jun Hagimori were announced to be writing the live-action television drama series, with TBS producing it in cooperation with Fine Entertainment. Rui Tsukishima and Sōya Kurokawa portray Takagi and Nishikata, respectively. The series aired on the TBS channel block programming Drama Stream in Japan from April 2 to May 21, 2024. Aimer performed the theme song "Haruka". Netflix streamed the series worldwide. A live-action film was announced in November 2023, with Imaizumi set to direct and write it alongside Kanazawa and Hagimori. It is set a decade after the events of the manga, with Mei Nagano portraying Takagi, who works as a trainee teacher in her middle school alma mater, and Fumiya Takahashi portraying Nishikata, who works as a gym coach at the same school. The film premiered in Japan on May 31, 2024.