Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Nanashi, also known as 774. The web manga began running in "Magazine Pocket", an online and app based web manga magazine published by Kodansha, in November 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Telecom Animation Film aired from April to June 2021. A second season by OLM premiered in January 2023.
Plot.
Naoto Hachioji, an introverted second-year student at Kazehaya High School, prefers to avoid social interactions and draw manga in his spare time. However, first-year girl Hayase Nagatoro, inadvertently discovers the manga, calls him "Senpai", and teases him to the point of crying. She frequents the Art Club room where he hangs out, and continues to bully him for his timid personality and "otaku" interests, sometimes in a sexually suggestive fashion, calling him lewd. As she continues to push him to become more assertive, Senpai develops a crush on Nagatoro in return, and gradually comes out of his shell and involves himself in her life.
Senpai meets Nagatoro's friends, Gamo, Yosshii and Sakura, who at first appear to be cruel and shallow high school girls who only seek to torment Senpai, but they catch on to Senpai and Nagatoro's oblivious mutual crush and they become supportive friends who scheme to bring the two closer together. The Art Club's semi-retired president appears and tries to shut down the club, but after a contest challenge during the culture festival, allows it to continue. The next school year, the president's younger cousin enrolls in the high school and joins the Art Club.
Media.
Webcomic.
Nanashi first started posting early prototypes of what would become Don't Toy with Me Nagatoro on Pixiv between August 2011 and December 2015, there are five total issues during this period.
Manga.
"Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro" has been serialized through "Magazine Pocket", published by Kodansha, since November 1, 2017. The first volume of the manga was released as a print version through Kodansha's "Shonen Magazine Comics" imprint and as a digital version on March 9, 2018. The second volume was released on June 8, 2018. Fifteen volumes have been released as of January 2023. In addition to the standard edition, there is also a special edition containing works by several other artists. A comic anthology featuring special chapters by various artists was released on April 24, 2021.
The manga has been licensed by Vertical in North America and the first volume was released in November 2019.
Anime.
An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 2, 2020. The series was directed by Hirokazu Hanai at Telecom Animation Film, with Taku Kishimoto supervising scripts, Misaki Suzuki designing the characters, and Gin composing the music. It aired from April 11 to June 27, 2021, on Tokyo MX and other channels. Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Southeast Asia. Medialink has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and streamed it on iQIYI, Amazon Prime Video and Ani-One Asia YouTube Channel. Sumire Uesaka performed the opening theme "Easy Love", while Uesaka along with Mikako Komatsu, Aina Suzuki, and Shiori Izawa performed the ending theme . The series ran for 12 episodes.
A second season was announced during an event on October 23, 2021. Titled "Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack", the season is directed by Shinji Ushiro and produced by OLM, replacing Hanai and Telecom Animation Film. The rest of the main staff returned from the first season. It premiered on January 8, 2023, with ABEMA streaming each episode one week in advance of its televised broadcast. Uesaka performed the opening theme "Love Crazy", while Uesaka along with Komatsu, Suzuki, and Izawa performed the ending theme "My Sadistic Adolescence".
On October 28, 2021, Crunchyroll announced the series would receive an English dub, which premiered on January 11, 2022. English dub voice actress Kimberley Anne Campbell recalled in an interview that she redid her audition to make Nagatoro sound more mean, and "turned on the brattiness and gremlin". English slang phrases were also added to the localized script.
Reception.
"Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro" has received mixed reviews. The first few chapters have been criticized for Nagatoro's teasing, with reviewers comparing it to bullying. However, the art and character development has been well received, with Nagatoro showing a softer side as the series progresses.
"Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro" has also been compared to other works in the "teasing" genre, such as "Teasing Master Takagi-san" and "Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!"
In November 2019, the manga had over one million copies in circulation in Japan, and surpassed 1.2 million in mid-July 2020. As of October 2022, the manga had over 3.3 million copies in circulation.
The series' protagonists were featured in a cameo in "Kaguya-sama: Love Is War - Dōjin Edition". Nanashi has also drawn a collaboration manga with Azu's "Magical Sempai".