Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san

Name: Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san
Rating: 8.1

Teasing Master Takagi-san
からかい上手の高木さん
Skilled Teaser Takagi-san

Manga8.131432 votes20 volumes · 182 chaptersFinished

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Synopsis

With a smirk, the mischievous middle school boy Nishikata glances over at Takagi, the girl seated next to him in class. He has just devised a master plan to finally get back at her for all the merciless teasing inflicted upon him. As he is about to set his plan into motion, Takagi intervenes with a single comment that halts Nishikata right in his tracks. She had turned the tables on him yet again. "If you blush, you lose." That has been the unwritten rule set between the two ever since they encountered one another in middle school. Day after day, loss after loss, Nishikata strives to see Takagi red with embarrassment, but his futile attempts are only met by further ridicule. Beyond this vicious cycle of trying to outwit one another, will their relationship ever evolve? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Publication notes

Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san was nominated for the 10th Manga Taisho Award in 2017 and placed 10th in the final ranking. The manga won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 2021, along with Chainsaw Man. The series was published in English as Teasing Master Takagi-san by Yen Press from July 24, 2018, to March 25, 2025. It has also been released in Argentina by Panini Comics, and in Spain by Editorial Ivrea since April 2, 2019.

Published

Jun 12, 2013 to Oct 12, 2023

Authors

Yamamoto, Souichirou

External links

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MAL rank: #688
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Takagi6431 fan favorites
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Age: 12-14 Height: 150 cm (4'11") A middle schooler in class 1-2, she sits in the back of the classroom next to Nishikata. Academically talented and physically capable, she claims her only weaknesses are her ticklish armpits and her inability to stop teasing Nishikata. From when she first met him, during the first class of the day of the school's entrance ceremony, she has spent much of their time together pranking him, teasing him, and challenging him to unwinnable games. She seems entirely in control of her emotions in every situation she is in, contrasting starkly with Nishikata. Beyond her academic and teasing talents, she has the uncanny ability to guess exactly what Nishikata is thinking, so long as she doesn't try to embarrass him by suggesting that he was dreaming up something dirty, or by making a silly face which inspires instant laughter in everyone who has seen it.
Nishikata968 fan favorites
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Age: 12-14 Blood-type: O Height: 150 cm (4'11") Zodiac: Cancer A middle schooler in class 1-2, he sits in the back of the classroom next to Takagi-san. He can't handle bitter things like black coffee, secretly enjoys the romance series 100% 𝘜𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦, and gets frightened very easily. Does average academically. Naive and easily embarrassed, he quickly falls victim to Takagi-san's teasing, but his constant failure hasn't broken his drive to get back at her one day. Though he dedicates considerable effort to devising plans to beat Takagi-san, his training and scheming never seem to achieve anything, and Takagi-san always appears to be one step ahead of him in every challenge he presents her with.