(L) Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san Season 3

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Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san is getting a third season. Movie also confirmed, both coming in 2022.

Source

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09850692

https://twitter.com/animecorner_ac/s...43230935453696

[Guardian Enzo]

Premieres January. The film? Sometime.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/VrLbU-vYUDQ

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Airs January 7th next year. Trailer is up

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Sentai licensed Season 3

https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/a/ne...agi-san-series

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Spoiler:

It is pretty hilarious that this show now has three seasons, all on different streaming services, but still the same fun, adorable, Nishikata/Takagi antics .

The new Opening is pretty nice, showing Nishikata and Takagi basically out on a date and the rest of the supporting cast living their own lives...and Yukari spying on their date, because of course .

What starts out as a normal Takagi/Nishikata sequence turns into a dream as Nishikata is still stuck on the festival and when they held hands, and it then devolves into every male he knows becoming Takagi and some of the Takagi cosplays from the season 2 Op. It's a pretty surreal sequence, but it just goes to show how much Nishikata gets teased by Takgi and thinks about her even in his dreams .

I know it's a dream, but I thought it was funny how everyone but Nishikata and Takagi were sleeping during the self-study, even Tanabe .

Nishikata with that tan, but it can't hold a candle to Takagi's tan lines from her swimsuit .

When Takagi basically admits she half wanted to tease him, half wanted to just spend the last day of Summer Vacation with him, and Nishikata actually realizes it...but is too embarrassed to think too deeply about it .

Poor Nishikata's friends having no lives...the Yukari/Sanae/Mina trio at least have a lot of fun, even if Yukari is worried about her skin while her gal pals still get up to their same antics. Not sure that amateur facial mask would've worked though .

And if you thought just Nishikata had it bad, Takagi also dreams about Nishikata, wanting to finally see the fireworks with him and that he would finally confess to her...and in that respect, he "won" in a dream, not that she'll admit it to him. Of course said dream was also prophetic about what Takagi actually had planned on the first day of the new school term, so I'm half-wondering if that's part of why Takagi is always so on-top of Nishikata's plans .

Wouldn't be Takagi-san without a Rie Takahashi Ending .

[FlareKnight]

Well that confirms it. If Nishikata can find a way to fit a fireworks display into a jack in the box he'll totally be able to win!

Not sure how I feel about the first episode. It was pretty fun and cute to be sure. But starting and ending with dream sequences had a lot of "what the heck is happening" moments. Eventually with both the dream sequences become obvious. But it's hard to say for a while if they are just getting ridiculously over the top with the visuals for the sake of starting the season big or if it's actually a dream sequence.

It was a very solid first episode back. Didn't exactly love it but didn't hate it either. Characters are very much themselves and the relationship is steadily going forward. It is good to get into their heads a bit.

Although I will say that Takagi might deserve more trust...if she didn't actually slap Nishikata's sunburn twice. Part of the reason she's had such slow progress in building up this relationship is her inability to resist temptation. Nishikata is really easy to read and mess with. But got to draw the line somewhere...

[BWTraveller]

Yeah, made it a little hard to tell what was a dream and what was real. Overall cute though, a fun return of one of the most endearing romances around.

Either way, Nishikata's dream was just plain weird. Like, why did Takagi turn into a cow? A cat I think I could understand, but a cow?

[Kanon]

Nishikata can only win inside Takagi's dreams.

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

Yeah, made it a little hard to tell what was a dream and what was real. Overall cute though, a fun return of one of the most endearing romances around.

Either way, Nishikata's dream was just plain weird. Like, why did Takagi turn into a cow? A cat I think I could understand, but a cow?

You could tell Takagi's dream was one because Nishikata didn't have his tan. Of course, I initially just dismissed it as one of those things anime does.

And dreams can be weird like that.

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Originally Posted by Kanon

Nishikata can only win inside Takagi's dreams.

Which says a lot. I think last season she directly told him he never loses, because to her he's always winning by spending time with her and making her happy .

[Wandering Soul]

Congrats to Nishikata for his win. Sure it happened in a dream that he's not even aware of, but at least it's something.

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These types of overly-long, boring dream sequences are often anime-original. Not that I know for sure, since I don't read the manga, but probably is

Anyways, after all those fakes that are just bullies, we finally get the real Takagi-san back.
...Just no more boring anime-original dream sequences.

[Frontier]

I never thought I'd see a voiceless, Takagi-san segment, but it worked surprisingly well! The music, visuals, and the facial expressions of Takagi and Nishikata really sold it! It really felt like a segment, just without actually hearing what any of them are saying. Also, Nishikata's Takagi-senses going up and down was priceless .

Nothing shows off how Takagi is a schoolgirl in love at heart more than her expression when she first sees Nishikata and then tries to hide from him, and then basically just following her crush and watching what he does in the morning. Then she runs all the way ahead of him so she could greet him like normal. It was so adorable .

We even got a voiceless Yukari/Mina segment where Yukari's trying to surprise Mina for a fun friend teasing moment only to have to constantly hide because Mina finds cute stuff to play with...and then Mina realizes Yukari was totally there the whole time. But the real master of stealth watching her friends is Sanae .

Look at Takagi daring Nishikata to go through her gym clothes for a fake desk check that wasn't even necessary...all so she could return his manga to him. Also them pretending to be sensei's was pretty fun, and kind of reminded me of Rie Takahshi in Tawawa .

Takagi and Nishikata get library duty, and Takagi is an avid reader, but Nishikata is still a kid that loves to read about dinosaurs, and of course our teasing master is aware of that .

I think that's the 3rd time Takagi has directly confessed but tried to play it off, only this time she had to completely make up a line in a book she was reading. At this point I wonder if Nishikata would ever believe her directly confessing, although she's probably just waiting for him .

Just a reminder that Nishikata is extremely fit and surprisingly athletic, and a dare from Takagi is enough for him to push himself to run to the beach to prove to her that he can...but the real treat is that Takagi followed him on her bike to give him water and enjoy the sunset with him .

[Kanon]

That 10 minutes voiceless cartoon segment didn't do it for me. Mainly because it meant going that long without hearing Rie Takahashi's voice.

After they were done with the whole desk inspection thing and Takagi gave the manga back to Nishikata, I thought there was going to be a surprise inspection and he would get busted and go "Takagi-san MEEEEEEEE!! She set me up!"
The fact there ended up being no twist was better.

Originally Posted by Frontier

I think that's the 3rd time Takagi has directly confessed but tried to play it off, only this time she had to completely make up a line in a book she was reading. At this point I wonder if Nishikata would ever believe her directly confessing, although she's probably just waiting for him .

Alternate title: Takaki-san wants to be confessed to.

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I'm not gonna say the Tom and Jerry thing was necessarily bad itself, but you realize that you already wasted an entire episode last time on a dream sequence. You shouldn't put these two back-to-back.
We just want to watch Takagi-san picking on the kid! STOP!

[FlareKnight]

I do wonder about this season so far. It's a bit awkward to start with one episode that was almost entirely a dream sequence and then starting this one with the silent treatment. Come on guys. We want some legitimate Takagi and Nishikata interactions and maybe seeing this awkward romance build up from where season 2 left off. Let's get the show started for real!

Also a bit awkward having this episode after the first episode of Kenja no Deshi where I thought the long silent chunk of that show was also rather distracting. Over 8 minutes without dialogue and almost 9 before Takagi herself said anything was a bit too much.

Maybe they just wanted to get really creative this season.

[Frontier]

I like that they're getting a little creative with it, and honestly Nishikata's shifting Takagi sensor and schoolgirl in love Takagi following her crush and trying to run ahead of him were great .

[BWTraveller]

I wonder how many times Takagi's said "I love you" to Nishikata so far. I know it's at least three times. She really doesn't care if it stays a secret.

I really hope this manga just keeps going. I don't care that it's a foregone conclusion with another series about their future, I want to see these two as high school students and witness Nishikata finally ask Takagi to be his girlfriend. Not to mention their first kiss. I want all those scenes. But I don't want the teasing to stop. Just slip it in from time to time as time goes by and they slowly grow up.

[Wandering Soul]

I guess I'm the only one that didn't mind the silent segment as it gave me an old-school time Tom and Jerry vibes. I didn't even find that it dragged on too long.

[Guardian Enzo]

I can't believe the reaction to the silent chapter (which is right out of the manga except the Mina part at the end, BTW) was so negative. Silent comedy has a long and glorious history in animation and beyond. And anime rarely tries it - the Mitsudomoe oilcan sequence being the best I can remember. I say bravo to the anime - which is doing everything right AFAIC - for adapting that chapter as-is.