Given the sheer popularity of the character, I will be very shocked if this is actually the last we see of Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro in anime form. But for the time being, this is the end of our odd little journey with Nagatoro and her sufferin’ Senpai. Thing is, the characters felt like they reached the honest emotional climax of their arc in the previous episode, and it’s not like Miss Nagatoro has ever been a plot-heavy show otherwise, so with the art-club competition as more of a nominal framing device at this point, the anime instead simply takes the opportunity to revel in its purest expression of itself: Showing off all the appeal of Nagatoro that the team knows she has.
The series has understood awareness of particular audience appeal and how to tap into that from day one – it’s what the franchise was originally founded on, after all. But springboarding off…
