Episode 6/Season 2

"How Are Your Fortunes This Year, Senpai?" (さあセンパイの今年の運勢は～？) is the sixth episode of the second season of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series and the eighteenth episode overall.

Plot
Right before Christmas Eve, during snack time, Nagatoro meekly asked her sister for advice regarding what to buy for someone for Christmas. Delighted for the question, and guessing the reason, her older sister asked the girl if it was intended to be a present for "someone special", which Nagatoro denied embarrassed, causing her sister to tease her that if it wasn't a special person then consumables like snacks or bath salt would have been fine, since those things got used up and wouldn't get spoiled. Hearing that she should give something that would "be gone", Nagatoro got saddened, but her sister quickly cheers her up saying that she might give something that would last as a Christmas gift, suggesting her to take something "he" would use every day. Overjoyed, Nagatoro thanked her sister and the latter explained to her that she also would have liked to receive something that would last as a Christmas gift from her, right before joking about planning to give to her sister a life-size doll of herself for Christmas.

That night Senpai had a dream about being on a date with Nagatoro on Christmas and giving her a present, to which he woke up shocked due to having actually bought a present for her. The following morning, being Christmas Eve, right after the principal speech to the students, they all get ready to came back home and Nagatoro approached the boy asking him if he would have been alone on Christmas, before he could gave her either an answer or her present, the girl's friends interrupted them and drag them both into the library, where an argument had ensue: Gamo-chan was planning to invite everyone at the karaoke and is upset because Sakura and Rabi-chan had other plans (respectively with a casual date, the former, and her boyfriend, the latter); thus leaving only Yoshi and Nekoba to join her. As a fight ensued between the "girls with boys" and the "girls without boys" and they started bickering, Senpai noticed that Nagatoro had a present in her bag too, and in turn she noticed his, leading them to exchange an embarrassed glance. After a few minutes Gamo-chan asked Nagatoro if she would have come to the karaoke, leading Nekoba to ask her if she and Senpai were dating or not, which caused an embarrassed Nagatoro to quickly denying it, explaining she merely liked to toy with the boy; thus Gamo-chan told both her and Senpai to join them at the karaoke, yet the latter refused making up an excuse to remain alone with Nagatoro and saying he had to take something in the art club room; understanding what he was doing, the girl seize the opportunity and quickly joined him copying his excuse and dragging him out of the room saying she would have met with the gang later. Seeing this, Nekoba, Yoshi, Gamo-chan and Sakura (reconciled after their fight) commented gleefully on how obvious it was that they actually wanted to remain alone. Once arrived in the art club room, Senpai and Nagatoro pretend to take some objects to fuel their mutual lie while try to find the right words to exchange their respective gifts; however before they can do it the President enter the room completely naked as she wanted to "feel its atmosphere on her skin" one last time. After Nagatoro called her a "horny bunny" the girl asked if they were on a tryst, causing both of them to blush and storm out of the room right as the school's broadcast informed the students to leave the institute as quickly as possible. In order not to be caught by professor Yamaguchi - who's very strict about the rules - the duo hid in the nurse's office. Once again, they tried to exchange their gifts, but at the last minute freaked out due to hearing Sakura making out with her date on one of the beds. Having managed to sneak away remaining unnoticed by the two lovers, Senpai and Nagatoro went to the rooftop hoping to get some privacy, only to find dozens of other couples on it watching the sunset. Downcast by all those setbacks, the two decided to simply go home, however, after seeing Nagatoro shiver, Senpai found the courage to give her his Christmas gift, which is revealed to be a muffler. Overjoyed, the girl gave him her own gift in return: a scarf. Later, while they walked back home, Nagatoro jumped happily and joked about the fact that they got the same gift for each other.

That evening, after being dumped by their friends with boyfriends, Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nekoba, the self-proclaimed "boyless group", went to the karaoke as they planned. There, Gamo-chan performed a song while the extremely tone-deaf Yoshi tried to accompany her.

Few days later, on New Year's Eve, while looking at the traditional TV special with his parents, Senpai received a phone call from Nagatoro, who asked him if he planned on going on the shrine for the first day of the year and, after he replied that he didn't, she called him a lock-up worm that sleeps his day away, thus unnerving him and manipulating him into deciding to go. Before she hung up the call Nagatoro also suggested him to visit the Ishido Shrine. The following day, Senpai visited said shrine, discovering Nagatoro had picked up a part-time job there as a due to a desire to wear their traditional  and. Sulking due to not receiving compliments for her look from the boy, Nagatoro started to insult him as always, getting scolded by him from saying certain things while dressed in such a sacred attire. Then, Nagatoro accompanied him to wash his hand and rinse his mouth in order to purify his body as per rite, before taking him to take an and bragging about hers. After realizing she did all of that just to show off, since her fortune slip read "great fortune", Senpai opened his discovering it read "misfortune". Then more visitors came to the shrine, prompting Senpai to leave in order not to be in-between the slightly disappointed girl's job. Walking home, the boy looked more accurately at the omikuji's prediction discovering that in the "love" table it read: "just waiting will not get you anywhere"; thus, he decided to go back to the shrine and try to ask Nagatoro out. Meanwhile, saddened that the boy was gone, Nagatoro complained to a colleague that life never went the way someone wanted, just at that moment Senpai appeared, asked for an amulet and managed to say that he would have waited for her at the end of her shift. Although she made fun of the boy calling him a "stalker", Nagatoro was overjoyed and reached for him after twenty minutes asking him what he planned to do. Senpai managed to say that he wished to visit the shrine with her, realizing right at that moment that the place was a matchmaking shrine. Promptly Nagatoro began teasing him that he hoped the two of them would have made "a good couple", leading Senpai to deny it out of embarrassment and reply that if he would have "just hypothetically" wished to ask her out one day he shouldn't have prayed to a god but rather work at himself. Moved, the girl wished for him to work hard at it, then they went praying at the shrine together. While leaving the place together, Nagatoro asked Senpai what he wished for, to which he answered his family's health, leading the girl to reply her wish was to become his bride, right before adding she was "just kidding".

Main

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

Minor

 * Misaki Nagatoro

Background

 * Rabi-chan
 * Nekoba
 * Guy C
 * Yamaguchi
 * Mrs. Hachiouji
 * Mr. Hachiouji

Trivia

 * This episode is the adaptation of Chapter 69, 70, 71 and 72 as well as Bonus 16, 15 and 17, however there are a few differences:
 * In the manga, when Nagatoro and Senpai make up excuses in order not to join the girls at the karaoke, only Yoshi, Gamo-chan and Sakura commented on how obvious their real intentions actually were, while in the anime Nekoba was there too, albeit simply smiling in silence.
 * When President enters the art club room in the nude, in the manga, her breasts are partially obscured by her hair while her lower region is partially visible, while in the anime, her breasts and lower region are heavily obscured by beams of light coming from the classroom window.
 * When Nagatoro and Senpai storm out of the art club, the President was shown peeking out of the door to look where they were going, while in the manga she didn't and instead started wandering the school in the nude as shown in Bonus 17.
 * Said story is adapted in the episode's second eyecatch.
 * When Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nekoba go to karaoke, in the manga, Gamo-chan sings "" by, while in the anime, she sings a soundalike song with different lyrics: "Melon".
 * When Senpai and his parents are watching the New Year's Eve program on their television, in the manga, the program features a group of female dancers performing on stage, while in the anime, it shows a group of presenters standing in a line across the screen.