Manga nagatoro san
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Nanashi began their career by posting artwork on Pixiv, which is a online community platform for artists and members can provide feedback. Nanashi posted early versions of Nagatoro san which gained popularity with the fans and was picked up by online manga platform, Magazine Pocket (owned by Kodansha).
This isn’t that surprising once you consider the widely divergent backgrounds of the authors. Whereas Takagi-san’s Souichirou Yamamoto has been drawing fairly light-hearted romance manga for most of his professional career – his other stand-out work being Fudatsuki no Kyouko-chan, a love comedy centered around a vampire and her brother – Nagatoro-san’s 774 or Nanashi has made a name for themselves drawing some very hardcore erotic doujinshi. In any case, 774’s career in doujinshi has probably made them privy to more adult things than Yamamoto, meaning that even a safe-for-work series from them would be infused with the adult tone that they have probably become used to in the doujinshi circuit.
Moreover, one could argue that several dynamics to Nagatoro-san make it possibly stronger in the long run than Takagi-san from a reading perspective. Whereas Takagi-san’s Takagi and Nishikata stay mostly static over the course of the eight published volumes, Nagatoro-san’s characters have already seen some development that has piqued my interest as to where the series will go in the future. Senpai has started to stick up for himself more, and Nagatoro’s actions are more and more tell-tale of her love for Senpai. Compare this to Takagi-san’s formulaic-but-effective comedy, along with the foregone conclusion that Takeshita will end up marrying Takagi – as revealed by the sequel manga Karakai Jouzu no (Moto) Takagi-san (Skilled Teaser (Former) Takagi-san) – and it’s clear to see which one I’ll be excitedly anticipating future developments from in the future.
Nagatoro-san has not yet been picked up for English localization, but considering the success of the Takagi-san anime last season and Yen Press’ licensing of the original manga last year, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the future. Volume one was released in Japan in March of this year.
The collaboration 4-panel manga features the 3 characters, which are Catarina Claes from “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X”, Nagatoro-san from “Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro”, and Igarashi Futaba from “My Senpai Is Annoying”, and it will feature an original story. There will be a total of 6 chapters that will be released monthly starting from 6:00 PM, May 28.






























