Episode 12

"Has Spring Come Even for You, the Unpopular Loner Louse Senpai?/Did You Hear Her Talk About Love, Senpai?" (非モテはぐフナセンパイにもついに春が到来っスか〜？/愛とか言われちゃってますよぉセンパーイ？) is the twelfth episode of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series.

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

Plot
After Senpai showed his paintings of Nagatoro's slice-of-life to Yoshi, Sakura and Gamo-chan, they were all impressed by them. The latter told him it was as if he looked at her as a lover, embarrassing both Nagatoro and Senpai. Then, Gamo-chan suggested sneaking a peek at the President's work, convincing all the gang to do it except for Senpai. However, after seeing it the girls came back shocked while Nagatoro fainted. Thus, Gamo-chan and Sakura planned to be as "cunning" as the President and began to make a plan to fight back against her new work. Senpai claimed they didn't need to do anything weird since it was a problem that concerned only Nagatoro and him. The girls threw him out of the room anyway, telling him they would do their best to ready her up.

Later, after decorating the panels for the entrance of the Cultural Festival together with the President, they talked about how their respective submissions were coming along. The President warned Senpai, saying she wouldn't hold back despite him being her underclassman and ordered him to "hit her with a soulful work of passion." Then Senpai noticed a strap on the President's bag and asked her about it, prompting her to tell him it was very popular in her class and that someone gave her their extra, revealing that it was a caricature of Nagatoro in her cat costume. Utterly puzzling the boy, he pondered anxiously what the girls were up to.

At the start of the Cultural Festival, the President had no problem talking smoothly in front of the cameras when the school journalist interviewed her. Senpai, on the other hand, felt uneasy and stammered. However, right before the troupe finished their service, Gamo-chan entered, presenting them "Toro-Cat" (Nagatoro in a cat costume) which became the talk of the school after they choreographed a dance featuring her together with Yoshi and Sakura wearing mascot costumes (the "I'll Bully You Dance") and uploaded it to YouTube. People who had seen the video began gathering all around the display to be willingly bullied by "Toro-Cat". A boy complimented the paintings and asked her out, making Senpai jealous; then, although she seemed not interested as always, under her friends' pressures she started to taunt the boy like she always did with Senpai, causing more and more people to come to be treated in the same way. As the hours passed, lots more people went to see the President's new nude self-portrait, as expected; however, Senpai's exhibition seemed to gather decent interest as well. Despite feeling thankful for the help he received from the girls, Senpai was visibly jealous at all the attention Nagatoro received; just like Nagatoro did after a pair of girls went to compliment Senpai for what an exceptional artist he was.

Then, Gamo-chan told Nagatoro and Senpai to go get some food so that they could spend some time together. When Nagatoro tried to make an excuse saying she couldn't just leave the exhibition and sulk at Senpai, Gamo-chan replied that Yoshi and Sakura could work harder to fill the void to let her have some rest. Suddenly Sakura, out of her costume, appeared and agreed with Gamo-chan and Yoshi. The two girls, startled by seeing Sakura out of costume, opened the front of the costume Sakura had been wearing to discover that she had switched places with her former stalker to sneak off and get some ice cream; upon angrily discovering this, Gamo-Chan and Yoshi promptly beat up her former stalker while he was still in the costume.

While going to get food with Senpai, Nagatoro tried to act cool and asked him if he was happy for having girls fawn over him; however, she ultimately couldn't continue the charade, showing how mad she was because of it. To cheer her up, Senpai told her that all the compliments he received were only due to her being his model; making her blush, smile again and sweeten up despite her attempt to stay mad at him. The two then shared a meal cheerfully and returned to the exhibition, discovering that the President's display had been shut down by the Public Morals Committee Chief as the student council had only given the President permission depending on what they would have seen on the actual day.

The President was then escorted into the disciplinary room due to her painting being deemed "too immoral for a school" by the student council. Senpai, Nagatoro and even Yoshi tried to defend the girl's work with the Public Morals Committee Chief, eventually convincing her to let the President continue her display. Thankfully the latter tore the disbandment form into pieces, admitting her defeat to the girls; however, to further humiliate the President, they forced her to wear a skimpy bunny suit and sell their straps all over the school. After selling them all, the girls allowed the President to go. Nagatoro told her friends she wanted to take a little walk around, although they all cheerfully realized she was planning to go to Senpai. Later, as the Cultural Festival was coming to an end, the President approached Senpai at his exhibition. Seeing her dressed like that, he told her it was better to change to avoid another problem with the student council. Nagatoro entered right as the shameless girl was about to strip in front of Senpai and quickly prevented her from doing it, prompting the President to lie saying she was just joking despite Nagatoro not believing her at all. Then, looking at Senpai's paintings of Nagatoro, the President told him that although the paintings were a bit rough, she could feel the passion he put into them, and especially that there was "love" in them; thus making both Nagatoro and Senpai blush. Right then, the speaker announced that the live concert would start at 4 p.m. and Senpai asked Nagatoro if she wanted to go with him. The girl accepted right as Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura stormed into the room as well; then they all went to the school's auditorium, with Nagatoro dragging Senpai by his arm, cueing the ending credits.

In a post-credits scene, Senpai sketched a half-asleep Nagatoro, who smiled at him heartily; then, after seeing it, she asked him to close his eyes and get ready for his reward. Senpai did as commanded, fearing the worst; but instead, she looked at him tenderly and kissed him on the cheek. She then cheerfully bounded out of the room, flashing an eyelid-pull taunt to a speechless Senpai.

Main

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

Background

 * Sakura's stalker
 * Public Morals Committee Chief

Trivia

 * This episode is the adaptation of Chapter 43, 44, 45, 46 and the epilogue of Chapter 8, however there are a few differences:
 * In Chapter 43, the situation happens through a flashback after Senpai and the President decorated the panels for the entrance of the Cultural Festival together, while in the episode it all happens chronologically.
 * After the girls look at the President's painting that causes Nagatoro to faint, in the manga, she is propped up on a student chair, while in the anime, she is sitting on the green couch.
 * When Sakura explained her belief that "lewdness for lewdness will only bring sadness", in the manga is a simple quote, while in the anime she was briefly shown dressed as a monk, emitting holy light.
 * When Gamo-chan promises to produce something for Senpai and Nagatoro, in the manga, Yoshi is shown standing and staring at Nagatoro while Sakura and Gamo-chan are shown to be taller and looking down on them. Yoshi and Sakura are also shown looking rather happy while Senpai looks rather angry. In the anime, all three girls are shown to be taller and have rather menacing smiles on their faces while Senpai looks scared. Their body positions are also different, with Sakura holding her hands behind her back while leaning in, Yoshi putting her hand up as if she is going to fondle something and Gamo-chan is standing with her arms crossed.
 * In the manga Senpai has a flashback due to eavesdropping on the girls while walking in the corridor with the President and then saw a group of girl recognizing "Toro-Cat", thus getting perplexed. In the anime neither of this happen.
 * When the school newspaper interviews Senpai, in the anime, it takes place in the hallway as he stood next to the President. He simply says that he hopes to capture the essence of Nagatoro, before the interviewer wraps it up and the Toro-Cats arrive. In the manga, the interview takes place while Senpai shows the reporter inside the exhibit and he goes into more detail about his art as well as encourages the students to stop by before the Toro-Cats arrive.
 * In the anime, the Toro-Cats are introduced as Toro-Cat Two (Yoshi) and Toro-Cat Three (Sakura) with each of them doing a pose, before Toro-Cat One (Nagatoro) is introduced with the other two pointing to her. In the manga, they are not introduced by name, and are shown just standing their with their arms at their sides when they first appear.
 * The girls who complimented Senpai's work has completely different hairstyles compared to their manga counterparts.
 * Gamo-chan and Yoshi's positions when they beat up the stalker are inverted in respect to the manga's, as well as Nagatoro position when she gives a pat on Senpai's shoulder after he thank her.
 * When the girls kick the stalker, in the manga, Gamo-chan's roundhouse kick lands on the stalker's thigh and Yoshi's side kick appears to hit the side of his torso, while in the anime Gamo.chan's kick is closer to his lower abdominal section. Then, after the first kick, in the manga, he is still standing as they continue to strike him without saying a word, while in the anime, he fell to the ground off screen and the girls are then shown stomping on him repeatedly as Gamo-chan says "Damn it! You should have told me!". Also, the stalker's face is still covered when he is kicked in the manga, while is face is visible in the anime.
 * When Senpai thanks Nagatoro for helping him, there is a flashback to him sketching in the art room. In the manga, he is sketching a large flower vase with some bananas and apples. In the anime, he is sketching a much smaller flower pot with some apples and a wine bottle. Also the room layout is slight different, as there is a clock above the door leading to the next room and an additional student's desk near the entrance in the manga, both of which are missing in the anime. The main chalkboard is also smaller and the speaker is moved off center in the anime as well.
 * Nagatoro and Senpai's speeches when they have lunch together in the manga were removed as the scene was completely mute in the anime. Also, after they are shown sitting down with their yakisoba lunch, in the manga, it then shows their empty plates and chopsticks, while in the anime, it shows an additional image of Senpai looking scared as Nagatoro attempts to feed him some of her yakisoba.
 * After their lunch, Nagatoro is shown standing with one hand covering her fist and tries to encourage Senpai for the next half of the event. In the manga, this takes place outside in front of the yakisoba booth, as she then pulls him along as they run back inside to the exhibit. In the anime, it takes place in the hallway as they are shown casually walking back to the exhibit before they see the President and Public Morals Committee Chief.
 * In the anime the Public Morals Committee Chief's eyes were not shown, while in the manga she's the first character outside the main and supporting characters whose face was fully drawn.
 * In the anime, when the Public Morals Committee Chief confronts the President about her painting, the male committee member is shown putting a white cloth over it and does not remove the cover until the committee and the President arrive at the disciplinary room. In the manga, the male committee member carries the image off the wall without covering up and holds it up above his head for everyone to see as the committee chief and president talk in the hallway area.
 * In Chapter 46 the scene with the Public Morals Committee Chief was significantly shorter and didn't happened in the disciplinary room but in the corridor, also Senpai and the girls did not tried to defend the President's work.
 * In the anime Yoshi did an extremely articulate speech to defend the President's painting, something that doesn't happen in the manga as the scene was non-existent.
 * In the manga, Nagatoro already knew about the live concert and planned to ask Senpai to go with her, while in the anime she was surprised at the announcement. Also, in the manga they went to the concert alone instead than along with the rest of the girls.
 * The post-credit scene was actually the epilogue of Chapter 8.