Episode 7

"Senpai, Why Don't We Go to the Festival?/This Is Like a Date, Isn't It, Senpai? ♥/Let's Go Home, Senpai" (センパイ、お祭り行きませんか？/デートみたいっすね、センパイ♡/帰りましょう、センパイ) is the seventh episode of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series.

Plot
Walking home after shopping, Senpai noticed some girls wearing yukata and realized that night there was the summer festival. Secretly wanting to invite Nagatoro but lacking the courage to do it, he convinced himself that she would have probably forced him to go with her as she always did and that he could have accepted it saying it was out of annoyance. However as evening came, he didn't receive any call, disappointed he started to consider he should have the gut to invite her himself, but deemed it pointless since he believed Nagatoro was only interested in bullying him. Senpai ended up going to the festival alone, secretly hoping to meet Nagatoro there and eagerly looking for her into the crowd. However, he was approached by Gamo-chan and Yoshi, who correctly guessed that he came there holding to the hope to meet Nagatoro but also informed him that she couldn't come to the festival because she had club practice. The pair quickly caught him with a dog collar and sent Nagatoro a picture of all three of them together. After finishing club practice, Nagatoro was in the locker room with her club president, who apologized for having make her stay up until that late and asked if she planned to go at the festival with someone. Nagatoro blushed and thought to Senpai, then she received a notification at her smartphone, saw the picture sent by her friend and immediately ran from the swimming club's lockers to the temple where Senpai was held "prisoner" by her friends, lying that her club activity finished earlier than she expected thus allowing her to come since she was free. Wanting to tease her friend/rival about her feelings for Senpai, Gamo-chan told her that if Nagatoro wanted to free him she had to defeat them in some games at the festival. Competitive as always, Nagatoro accepted the challenge but not without insisting that she didn't care for Senpai at all. They began with a shooting game, splitting for a 2 vs 2 team battle in which the winner would have been the pair who managed to get the most decent prizes. Paired in the same team with Senpai, Nagatoro asked him why he was at the festival, to which he lied that he wanted a change of pace, Nagatoro replied asking if he was waiting for her to invite him at the festival, making him blush. The girl then pointed out that if there was a place he wanted to go with someone, he had to invite that person himself. The group ended up enjoying the festival and playing various games, then Nagatoro and Senpai managed to win a big Squiddy plush, "bribing" Yoshi, who collected them, and winning the contest. After Senpai was freed from the collar, Gamo-chan and Yoshi left so as to let the pair enjoy some time alone at the festival.

Nagatoro and Senpai decided to wander around the festival together, eating takoyaki and cotton candy, after a while Senpai has a feeling that it was kind of like a date, while Nagatoro expressed this thought out loud, before quickly correcting herself adding there was no way she could ever go on a date with him. Nagatoro suggested though that she could play pretending and asked if he wanted to try hold hands, before he could answer the fireworks started causing the girl to get anxious as she loved their town's fireworks, despite Senpai admitting he only saw them once in primary school. Since they found the fireworks contest on the beach too crowded, Senpai remembered that when he saw them last time it was on a spot in the nearby woods. However as the crowd started to move Nagatoro was caught between them, prompting Senpai to grab her by the hand in order to drag her to the spot he remembered, from which they had a great view on the fireworks. Feeling uncomfortable for the romantic situation, Nagatoro started teasing Senpai asking what was he thinking bringing a girl to a dark spot like that and calling him a "perverted virgin". Realizing from his past experience that Nagatoro got embarrassed pretty easily herself, Senpai decided to give her a taste of her own medicine asking her what she meant by "lewd stuff". Too ashamed to answer, Nagatoro started to stutter something regarding embracing and kissing, claiming that anyway there wasn't a chance he could do something like that, causing Senpai to ask her if she believe she could. Despite stating she totally could, after the fireworks lighten the place, showing lot of couples kissing all around them, they both got embarrassed and ran away to see the fireworks quietly in a more hidden place, then, walking back home, Nagatoro stated she felt a little sorry since she didn't manage to come wearing her yukata. Imagining the girl in said attire, Senpai tried to cheer her up saying they could come again following year, causing Nagatoro to tenderly smile telling that he was right and should have worn a yukata too for that occasion, suggesting one that matches hers.

On the first day of the new semester, while walking home Senpai passed close to the park and noticed Nagatoro under a gazebo with Yoshi, Gamo-chan and Sakura, a girl he didn't knew. Watching them from a distance he felt them as very hard to approach and reasoned that although he and Nagatoro had spent a lot of time together, they lived in completely different worlds. While they were chatting, the four girls were approached by a couple of boys who started to hit on them, making Senpai jealous as he was unable to approach girls so smoothly even after knowing them. After the boys spotted Senpai gawking at them, causing Gamo-chan to greet him and ask him to sit with them, this gave Senpai enough confidence to propose Nagatoro to walk home with him. The girl accepted and was soon joined by her friends, who then left the two guys behind; after Senpai asked if it was okay for the girls not staying with them, they told him those two were "annoying" and started to jokingly tease him. Walking home with the four girls, Senpai reflected on how out of place he felt, however all five of them smiled heartily.

Main

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

Background

 * Guy A and Guy B

Trivia

 * The episode is the adaptation of Chapter 24, 25, 26 and 27 as well as Bonus 7, however there are a few differences:
 * When imagining Nagatoro refusing his invitation and calling him a "creep", in the manga Senpai only saw an image of her face, while in the anime he imagined the both of them as the characters with whom he was playing in "Jas Gear".
 * In Chapter 26, the firework that lightened the place where Senpai and Nagatoro were wasn't heart-shaped.
 * In the episode Senpai was spotted by both Nagatoro's friends and the boys due to stepping on a twig, while in the manga he was simply seen.
 * When Senpai imagines himself as a mole harassed by Nagatoro and friends as jaguars, their animal designs have their respective hairstyles unlike in the manga.
 * In the manga Senpai was jokingly called "Eromanga Senpai" by the girls, while in the episode they called him "Eromanga Sensei", both nicknames referenced the  series, albeit the latter more directly.
 * Coincidentally, the Japanese voice actress for Gamo-chan,, also voices Ayame Kagurazaka in the Eromanga Sensei anime.