Teasing Master, Takagi Vol. 18

からかい上手の高木さん [Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san] #18

by Sōichirō Yamamoto

Takagi iseng, Nishikata kalah – ini seolah sudah jadi hukum alam tak tergoyahkan. tapi, di balik berbagai kemenangan Takagi, kadang ada rahasia kecil yang tidak disadari oleh Nishikata.

Genres: Manga, Romance, Humor, Slice Of Life

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 2022

About the author

Sōichirō Yamamoto (山本崇一朗, Yamamoto Sōichirō) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for writing and illustrating Teasing Master Takagi-san and Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru. Both series have been published in Monthly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine, respectively.

Reviews

[Jesus Flores]

Aunque es spoiler, pero me gusto la historia de al inicio de 20 años después, y me dio risa, que el pobre Nishikata aun así perdió.

Las otras historias son lo usual, pero como que Nishikata empieza a darse cuenta, me gusto sobre todo la del autobús y la de la fotografía (aunque luego salga el dibujito donde dice "quizá debería borrarla")

Siempre es agradable leer este manga.

4 stars

[Mark]

This time out, the future turns out to be perfect, but the present remains stuck in the past. Mostly it’s the usual stuff, in all the ways that implies.

The first chapter of this volume is so good, so enjoyable, and so fresh that if the whole volume had its energy this would be an easy review about how great it was; no notes.

Well, I have notes.

But let’s just savour this first chapter and the flash forward to Nishikata and Takagi as married adults with their child in tow. Their relationship is so strong and lively that it really feels like a brand new day dawning on the story. Nishikata is shockingly better as an adult.

I love that they dispensed with the earlier conceit that Nishikata remained unseen and unnamed - this is way better. The way this one has its foot in the past as well, culminating in a defeat years in the making? It just feels like a shot of nitrous in an engine running the same old same for ages.

But the series swiftly returns to baseline and even with the increasingly flirtatious nature of things, it cannot escape my notion that baseline Takagi deserves three stars more often than not. I’ve sat down for this meal a whole lot.

Honestly, it’s so long in the tooth by this point it would make Dracula jealous. Which isn’t to say it can’t be good, but it doesn’t hit the high notes with enough regularity for my liking.

There are good stories here and no mistake. The grocery challenge is pretty effective because Nishikita’s inherent niceness gets the best of him, plus he also gets played expertly by Takagi prior to that.

The running encounter also has a fun little denouement that shows a little of what’s under the bluster of our boy as well. The other chapters have their moments like this, make no mistake, but they don’t really stand out amidst the many, many times we’ve dipped into this well.

So, same old same. Last time was the rare moment where the series really felt like it pulled it all together. It doesn’t help that I have another book in this genre I just read that I liked a lot more either. It’s not that it’s bad, but I do feel that Yamamoto has a penchant for not knowing when to ease off a series.

3 stars - given the series’ wild success, I do think I am the outlier with this, but it’s not because it’s bad. No, it’s because it has shown, and does so again here, that it can be so much more and I wish we got that with some consistency.

[Ethelia]

3.5 / 5

[Shin Donghae]

Meski spoiler, tapi sungguh menyukai cerita di awal, dengan setting 20 tahun kemudian, dan sungguh membuat tertawa, bahwa Nishikata yang malang masih kalah.

Cerita lainnya biasa saja, tapi Nishikata mulai menyadarinya, sungguh suka chapter (yang juga jadi sampul depan jilid ini) tentang bus dan chapter terkait tugas sekolah, dimana Nishikata mengumpulkan foto-foto uniknya (walaupun kemudian muncul gambar kecil tangan yang memegang kerag, dan dibarengi dengan batin Nishikata "mungkin saya harus menghapusnya") LOL

Selalu menyenangkan membaca manga ini.

[Irham Nurrahman]

Interaksi manis dan lucu antara Nishikata dan Takagi berlanjut, banyak sekali kode-kode kecil yang diberikan Takagi, apakah Nisihikata akan menyadarinya? selalu menyenangkan ketika banyak chapter di volume ini yang menceritakan tentang memori sekolah, oke lanjut ke volume 19!

[Laura]

I think we are finally making some progress in their relationship yall! But then again I thought that as well with the last 5 volumes...

[Eressea]

看到消息說要完結了
以這套的人氣，應該不用擔心尖端斷尾吧
不過我更驚訝的是這部已經連載十年了...
我怎麼不覺得我追高木同學有這麼久呢Orz

[Diana H.]

This series cleaned my room, watered my flowers, and made me grow taller (probably) (hopefully)

[Thanh Dat]

2 đứa nào càng ngày càng để ý nhau, sắp đến lúc tình tò rùi😍

[Glasdow Teacosy]

“Shadow Puppets” – Simply brilliant.

Art: ★★★★☆
Story: ★★★★★

[Sheepy]

Cute as always