Teasing Master Takagi-san

Source material

The series is based on the manga Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san (Japanese: からかい上手の高木さん; often rendered in English as Teasing Master Takagi-san).

Author

The manga is written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto.

What the manga is about

Middle-schooler Takagi constantly pulls playful, good-natured pranks on her classmate Nishikata. He repeatedly tries to get her back, but she’s almost always a step ahead—turning their daily back-and-forth into a gentle, episodic story where teasing doubles as a way of showing affection.

How closely the series follows the manga

• Tone and core premise: adaptations typically preserve the manga’s light comedy with a warm, romantic undercurrent, built around short “tease—counterattack—payoff” skits.
• Structure: the original is made of brief, episodic chapters; on screen these are often combined, reordered, or slightly reshaped to form complete episodes.
• Additions: it’s common for adaptations to add connective scenes to strengthen an episode’s arc, while keeping Takagi and Nishikata’s personalities and the spirit of their game faithful to the manga.