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 go on a real date, and that she would have graded with point 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 drag 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 became worried about the fact that it would be an indirect kiss and refusing saying as an excuse that he wasn't good with spicy food. However, after Nagatoro said that she would have licked his cone, the boy panicked and moved his arm, causing their ice-cream toppings come into contact, mixing. Thus they sat back and proceed 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 minus point 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 him 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 embarassment 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 to the place, the girls discovered that Sunomiya was feeding Senpai a she made by herself as a way to apologize for what happened at 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 cooly 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 an 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:
 * In the manga, most of the first scenes of the visit at 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 tried to guess what he was doing wrong, in the manga his guess were just thoughs, while in the anime he said 'em out loud to an annoyed Nagatoro.
 * The ice-cream sequence was way erlier in the manga, and happened 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 startin 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.
 * Due to this addition, later in the episode, after Nagatoro and Senpai went to see otters and turtoise, it was removed the moment in which they had lunch, skipping directly to Nagatoro getting her prized penguin plush.
 * In the anime, when Gamo-chan told Senpai not to be stubborn and accept Nagatoro's bento, the boy cut her mid-sentence, while in the mange he was convinced and made his own proposal only after hearing what she said.
 * The final scene of the episode is made up especially for the anime.