Episode 8

"That Might Actually Be Fun, Senpai♥/Let's Play Rock-Paper-Scissors, Senpai!!" (意外と楽しいかもしれないっス/じゃんけんしましょう、センパイ！！) is the eighth episode of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series.

Plot
After they started to wear short-sleeved uniforms, Nagatoro noticed how thin Senpai's arms were, telling him that it now she get how he could be physically weaker than a girl and thus offering to be his coach in muscle training for a few months; however Senpai refused out of laziness telling her that he would accept doing muscle training only if there was a way to do it without moving. Nagatoro told him it was possible and ordered Senpai to get on all fours and began riding him like a horse for muscle training telling him to resist for at least 5 minutes, however when two girls passed by in the corridor and saw them through the open door of the art club room, Nagatoro became very nervous and self-aware, and Senpai collapsed to the ground.

Knowing the midterm test was close, Nagatoro asked Senpai if he was studying properly since in the last few days he had spent lots of time playing video games. She reminded him that he is at risk of repeating a year. Senpai firmly claimed that it won't happen and, even in that case, he would have one more year for his beloved club activity so it wouldn't be that bad. Hearing that, Nagatoro told him that if he would repeat a year, the next one would be in the same class with her, so she started to figure out all the possible scenarios of her tormenting him while being classmates and calling him "ex-Senpai", causing the boy himself to joke about not minding failing a grade to spend more time with her. Shocked, Nagatoro reacted badly telling him that she was just kidding and didn't want to see his face every day in class. Since then, the boy started to frantically study to pass the exam and Nagatoro told Gamo-chan and Yoshi how she scared him, causing the latter to amusingly point out that if he hadn't learned his lesson he would probably fail the grade anyway and, then, if he failed a second time, they would become "Paisen's senpai". At the idea, Senpai began to picture the worse scenarios over being enslaved by the three girls and forced to massage them and go shopping for them. Right at that moment, Sakura entered the room reassuring Senpai that it won't happen because other than Nagatoro both she and the other two girls will have to take supplementary lessons due to their low academic results. He then scolded the girls, saying they're the ones who should study harder in order not to repeat a year. Embarrassed, both Gamo-chan and Yoshi asked Senpai to tutor them, making Nagatoro jealous. Later, after Senpai does pass with very high scores on his midterm test, Nagatoro got slightly angry and asked him if he hated the idea of spending more time with her that much.

The following day, while passing by in the corridor, Nagatoro eavesdropped through the closed door, hearing her friends telling Senpai to relax as Sakura "takes care" of him "using her own hand" and promising to "be gentle", misunderstanding the situation, the girl got jealous and stormed into the room angered realizing her error after having seen her friends were simply helping him remove a splinter from his finger. Nagatoro frustrated yet too prideful to admit it, simply took the tweezers from Sakura and yanked off Senpai's splinter herself as her friends applauded.

Angered after learning he got in said situation for helping Sakura transport a pair of wooden chairs, Nagatoro teased Senpai while walking home that he got in said situation for helping a "pretty girl" while never offering to carry her bag; then she challenged him to a game of 'rock, paper, scissors' in which the loser would have to carry the winner's luggage until they reached the following crossroads. The scheme turned against her and, having lost, a sulking Nagatoro found herself forced to carry Senpai's bag. Despite believing she was reaping what she sowed, Senpai began to feel kind of guilty and midway told her that if she wanted he could take back his bag, however, the stubborn girl carried the bag pridefully up until the crossroads, where they had another game. This time Senpai let Nagatoro win and carried both of their bags while the girl cheerfully told him that carrying heavy things is good training and it was used also in many mangas. After arriving at the second crossroads, due to the following one being the last, after winning their third game, Nagatoro decided to be Senpai's luggage herself and jumped on his back asking him to give her a piggy ride. However while doing it, to prevent her from falling to the ground, Senpai grabbed Nagatoro's upper thigh, causing her to jump off and, with minimal explanation, run away with a nervous and terrified expression on her face.

Later that night, Nagatoro texted Senpai thanking him for having carried her bag and asking if he was doing something lewd, when he told her he was only doing his homework she asked him to guess what was she doing and, after he failed to guess saying she was watching TV, Nagatoro called him to tell that the right answer was bathing. Taken by surprise, Senpai fell from his chair and got mocked on the phone by Nagatoro who asked if even the thought of her naked body was too stimulating for his virgin mind; in doing so, she unintentionally activated a video call. Lying, Senpai denied even imagining Nagatoro's nudity, then tried to calm by taking a deep breath and, looking at the phone noticed that the girl was making a video call. After warning her about it, Nagatoro was mortified and turned the phone in the other direction. Senpai lied that he saw only from the shoulders up to make her feel better - despite having seen her almost entirely. Nagatoro, blushing vividly, told him he didn't have to be sorry since it was her fault.

Characters

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

Trivia

 * The episode is the adaptation of Chapter 15, 35, 28 and 29, as well as Side Story 5 and Bonus 2, however there are a few differences:
 * The events of Chapter 15 happened much earlier in the story, as the characters started to wear short-sleeved uniforms before summer break, actually returning to their regular ones shortly after coming back to school. Which is the contrary of what happened in the anime.
 * In the manga, after she was spotted riding Senpai by the two girls in the corridor, Nagatoro immediately jumped off while in the anime she froze, remaining on Senpai.
 * In the manga Yoshi clearly despises koala-shaped snacks, while in the anime after yelling at Senpai for having bought them instead of panda-shaped ones, she ate them eagerly anyway.
 * At the end of Side Story 5 Senpai already took the midterm exam, thus Chapter 35 was placed after he passed it, while in the anime the events happened before he took his exam as the end of Side Story 5 was split and placed after Chapter 35. Also, the events of Chapter 35 happened in the art club room instead of the library.
 * In the manga Chapter 28 was told from Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura's point of view, as they started to interact more with Senpai, while Nagatoro had an unspoken role; in the episode however, the viewer saw the whole scene from her prospective while the antefact that lead to said situation was simply implied the following segment.
 * In the manga, the splinter that hurt Senpai's finger came from a wooden box, not a chair.
 * In Chapter 29 Senpai's hands slip to Nagatoro's upper thigh due to their sweat instead to stop her fall.