Episode 12/Season 2

"Wanna Do Something to Make It Not a Dry Run?" (じゃあ…本番にふさわしいことしちゃいます？) is the twelfth episode of the second season of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series and the twenty-fourth episode overall.

It's also the last episode of the anime's second season.

Plot
Nagatoro and Senpai went to the aquarium on a train, tailed by Gamo-chan and Yoshi, who are in turn tailed by the Sunomiya cousins. The boy is nervous, thus Nagatoro told him that that would have been just "practice" for him if he ever goes on a real date, and that she would have graded with points everything he would have done. Meanwhile Gamo-chan and Yoshi, convinced that it's too soon for them to take that step, started to take pictures of their "embarrassing scenes" in order to open their eyes. However, both them and the Sunomiya duo lost track of the couple after they entered the aquarium. After seeing the, , and , Nagatoro and Senpai took a selfie together; however after seeing all of the other couples holding hands, the girl started to ask Senpai if there wasn't something he should have done. While thinking, the boy noticed Gamo-chan, Yoshi and both the Sunomiya, so he took Nagatoro by the hand and dragged her away, making the girl both blush and smile. Gamo-chan and Yoshi tried to follow them but are stopped by the Sunomiya cousins.

After managing to escape their pursuers, Nagatoro and Senpai went to an ice-cream shop inside the aquarium, where the boy took a normal cream ice-cream, while Nagatoro took a flavored one. While eating their ice-cream, the girl offered Senpai a bite of her cone, causing him to become worried about the fact that it would be an indirect kiss and refusing to say as an excuse that he wasn't good with spicy food. However, after Nagatoro said that she would lick his cone, the boy panicked and moved his arm, causing their ice-cream toppings to come into contact, mixing. Thus, they sat back and proceeded licking their ice creams, very much aware that it's an indirect kiss.

Then, the couple went to see the dolphins show, where Senpai shielded Nagatoro from a splash of water. During the rest of their date, the girl teased him for all the minuses points he had got, then, while watching the sunset at the beach, Nagatoro told Senpai he got a final score of 50. Joyfully adding that she would love to tag along again with him on a practice date; hearing this Senpai asked her if it was "practice" for her as well, to which Nagatoro replied that for her it was a real date the whole time. Stunned, Senpai admitted that he didn't consider their date mere practice either, leading the girl to suggest he is doing something more "worthy of an actual date".

Meanwhile from a distance, Gamo-chan and Yoshi found them and prepared to intervene, however the latter stopped her friend and told her that to go any closer would be to get in their way. This prompted Gamo-chan to smile kindly and admit that it would be more fun to simply watch them and that she would have never expected to be scolded by Yoshi. In that exact moment the Sunomiya cousins found them.

In the meantime, Nagatoro gave him two options to make it more like "an actual date": hugging or kissing. Out of embarrassment the boy chose hugging. However, before they could even touch one another, the angered Sunomiya girls accidentally chased Gamo-chan and Yoshi onto the scene despite their protests, thus ruining the moment. Despite that all four of the intruders told them to continue like they weren't there, out of embarrassment Nagatoro lied saying she was merely practicing a judo move on the boy.

The following day Nagatoro sulked at both Gamo-chan and Yoshi out of anger for having gotten in the way of the date, ignoring them both at school while the two whimpered like lonely puppies. However Sakura acted as the peacemaker, explaining that the two girls didn't mean anything bad with their action. Sweetened, Nagatoro forgave her friends and the four of them went to have lunch at the art club room, happily singing together. After arriving at the place, the girls discovered that Sunomiya was feeding Senpai a she made by herself as a way to apologize for what happened on his date with Nagatoro yesterday. Upon hearing Sunomiya's plan to make bento for Senpai the whole week, Nagatoro got jealous and offered Senpai to prepare a bento for him tomorrow, however the boy refused stating that she would have morning training the following day and it would be too much trouble if she spent the evening cooking for him. Disheartened, Nagatoro agreed, while all of the girls watched Senpai coolly due to having "made a mess again"; then Gamo-chan convinced him not to be stubborn and accept Nagatoro's offer. Hearing this, Senpai told Nagatoro that he would love to have her bento if she would accept one from him, which she joyfully accepted.

Later that day, while walking home, Nagatoro asked Senpai if he wanted to "finish what they have started", hinting at their date, leading the two of them to finally share a hug.

Characters

 * Hayase Nagatoro
 * Senpai
 * Gamo-chan
 * Yoshi
 * Sakura
 * President
 * Sunomiya

Trivia

 * This episode is the adaptation of Chapter 88, 55, 89, 90 and 91, however there are a few differences:
 * The top portion of Nagatoro's outfit is slightly different. In the manga, the collar of her sweater is wider and shows more of the black shirt underneath, while the anime version is shrunk down to a smaller V-neck with only a small part of the black shirt visible.
 * When Gamo-chan points out the look of Nagatoro's eyes during the train ride, in the manga, both Gamo-chan and Yoshi are shown with their backs to the reader and looking over their shoulders with a menacing look, while in the anime, only Gamo-chan is looking over her shoulder, as Yoshi now has her back on the train window and has a less menacing look on her face.
 * As Gamo-chan and Yoshi pull out their phones to take pictures of Senpai and Nagatoro, in the manga, the back of their phones is blank, while in the anime, Gamo-chan's phone is pink with tiger stripes and Yoshi's appears to have an image of her dog.
 * However, this is due to a graphical error made by Nanashi in the manga as the girl's phones had always been shown with said patterns on their case in previous and subsequent chapters.
 * In the manga, most of the first scenes of the visit to the aquarium are silent, and only Senpai's thoughts could be seen by the readers, while in the anime, Nagatoro's spoken interventions are more frequent.
 * When Nagatoro tried to push Senpai to hold her hand, telling him he was "losing points", leading the boy to try to guess what he was doing wrong, in the manga his guess were just thoughts, while in the anime he said them out loud to an annoyed Nagatoro.
 * The ice-cream sequence was way earlier in the manga, and happened a few weeks after the protagonists zoo date; also in the manga while trying to lick Senpai's cone, Nagatoro caused Senpai to admit he was actually afraid of an indirect kiss and, while starting to mess with him, the girl stumbled prompting Senpai to catch her before she fell to the ground, thus causing their ice-cream toppings to mix in the heat of the gesture. In the anime, their ice-creams mix due to Senpai panicking and trying to move his ice cream cone away from Nagatoro as she was leaning in to taste his, unaware that her ice cream was in the same path to where he moved it to.
 * Due to this addition, later in the episode, after Nagatoro and Senpai went to see otters and tortoise, it was removed the moment in which they had lunch, skipping directly to Nagatoro getting her prized penguin plush.
 * When Gamo-chan and Yoshi find Senpai and Nagatoro at the beach, in the manga, it takes place after Nagatoro told Senpai that she believed that it was an actual date, while in the anime, they appear after Nagatoro shoves the penguin in Senpai's face and suggest that he should keep improving. Additionally, in the manga, Gamo-chan and Yoshi spot them from what looks like an alleyway that leads to the top of the stairs, while in the manga, they are standing in an open area on the top of the staircase.
 * As President and Sunomiya confront Yoshi and Gamo-chan at the beach, the image of President standing with her arms folded is slightly altered, as the manga shows her breasts actually overlapping her forearms, while the anime made her breasts smaller, so her arms are fully visible and cover up the bottom portion of her chest.
 * When Sakura and Nagatoro are walking from the cafeteria to the classroom with their food, in the manga, there is no dialogue until Nagatoro senses Gamo-chan and Yoshi spying on them, and Sakura suggests forgiveness. In the anime, the girls discuss the food that they bought before sensing Gamo-chan and Yoshi.
 * After Nagatoro sees Sunomiya feeding Senpai, Gamo-chan smiles and tells the younger girl that she likes what she's doing while Yoshi chews on her sandwich and Sakura stares at them. In the manga, this takes place after the trio already sat down at the table with Senpai and Nagatoro has already taken a seat on the couch. In the anime, this takes place while the trio are still standing outside of the classroom while Nagatoro is making her way to the couch.
 * As Sunomiya starts to feed Senpai and mentions that she put her soul into it, in the manga, Nagatoro puts on a strange face, with her fangs prominently showing and mockingly asking him how the food is, before he praises Sunomiya for her talent in cooking and painting. The anime omitted that scene and instead, jumps to Nagatoro becoming upset and sarcastically praising him for getting to eat good food. Additionally, when Nagatoro sarcastically praises Senpai, in the manga, she says this while being up close in Senpai's face, while in the anime, she says it while sitting on the couch.
 * When Nagatoro declares that she will make a bento for Senpai, in the anime, Sunomiya is sitting close to Nagatoro and Senpai is sitting to her right, while in the manga, their positions are switched.
 * In the anime, when Gamo-chan told Senpai not to be stubborn and accept Nagatoro's bento, the boy cut her off mid-sentence, leaving her surprised as he declares that he will make the bento for the both of them. In the manga, Gamo-chan says it in a more friendly tone while suggesting that he should let Nagatoro make the bento for him. After listening to her suggestions, he then thinks of Nagatoro and her bento for a moment, before finally declaring his intention.
 * The final scene of the episode is made up especially for the anime.