Nanashi

"Nanashi" (ナナシ) is the pen name of the author and artist of Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. In Japanese, the name means "seven-four"; online the author is also known as "774". Every detail regarding Nanashi, however, is unknown to the public, including their gender or - for some time - if they are a single person or rather a group of artists, albeit it was later revealed through Q&A and interviews that they are one individual.

In Nanashi's career, they have published many hentai manga, whether under the doujin circle "774 House" (774 ハウス) or on and elsewhere, as well as more work-safe webcomics like the original Nagatoro stories,  before beginning to serialize the Nagatoro manga for.

In the past, instead of ナナシ, Nanashi used the homophonic characters na nashi (ななし), a phrase that literally means "no name" in Japanese. But it was used together with "774", indicating a pun on "seven" (七) and "four" (四).

Biography
The individual known as "Nanashi" was born in the central-eastern area of Japan. Their parents forbid them to read manga as a kid, prompting the future author to hid it from them. Growing up they were influenced expecially by 's "" due to it's violent, erotic and comedy-drama sides. Despite manga always been among their hobbies - to the point of drawing some while in high school - they never aimed to be a mangaka and after graduating started to work for a game company. In 2012 they leave the company and started to draw erotic for over five years under the doujin circle "774 House" while also starting to publish webcomics on, one of which being Nagatoro prototype, who was later serialized by  from November 1, 2017, becoming an hit and being later adapted into an anime series.

Trivia

 * Nanashi prefer to work and draw at family restaurants rather than at their office or at home.