Senpai's manga

"***Senpai's manga***" (センパイの漫画, *Senpai no manga*) is a fictional work of the *Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro* manga series. It is an homemade manga written and illustrated by Senpai with several, albeit involuntary, self-inserts from his real life.

## Overwiev

### Plot

The story is set in a fantasy world and follow the adventures of Siegfried, a skilled swordman who's bad at getting on in the world; during his journeys, he met and became ally with a beautiful female knight of an enemy country, Elizabeth, and they fell in love. Together they managed to slay the Demon King but on their way home they are attacked by soldiers of Siegfried's own kingdom waiting in ambush, prompting him to start asking himself the reason he was fighting for.

Survived at the ambush, the two lovers has to part ways due to Elizabeth choosing to return to her country then, Siegfried is approached by Nekotoro a creature who proposed him to be his companion, not wanting to deal with her, he went away and was assaulted by a pair of rogues, being then saved by Nekotoro herself albeit they simply ask to form a party.

### Characters

* **Siegfried** (ジークフリート, *Jīkufurīto*), a skilled swordman and adventurer who's bad at getting on in the world. He is Senpai's self-insert.
* **Elizabeth** (エリザベス, *Erizabesu*), a beautiful female knight and Siegfried's main love interest. She's the President's counterpart.
* **Nekotoro** (ネコトロ, *Nekotoro*), Siegfried's unwanted new companion. She's Nagatoro's counterpart.
* The **bandit**, a whip-holding bandit that work on pair with the bunny girl. She's Gamo-chan's counterpart.
* The **bunny girl**, a bizzarre furry-like creature that work on pair with the bandit. She's Yoshi's counterpart.
	+ Yoshi's likeness were also used for the slimes.

## Mirrored events

* Siegfried and Elizabeth having to part way in the manga mirrors what happened at the end of Senpai's freshman year, when the President was forced to leave art club activities to go to cram school like all the second years, and entrusted it to him.
	+ Also as it was later revealed the President really possess tremendous swordsmanship skills as she train in her grandfather's kendo dōjō since childhood.
* After Nagatoro kissed him for the first time on the cheek Senpai has a dream on her set in his fantasy word where she was both his companion and the Great Demon King, mirroring her two sides - the caring and the teasing one - as well as the fact he was deeply affected by the kiss but eventually convinced himself she was only toying with him.
	+ The caring version of the character (Nekotoro) was later unconsciously insert on the manga.
* The two rogues with the appearances of Gamo-chan and Yoshi mirrors the mean-girls first impression Senpai had of them.
* When Senpai joined Kainan Art Preparation School and met the Triumvirate, he has a brief vision of Siegfried fighting a trio of monsters composed by a dragon, a minotaur and a cyclop when talking of them with Nagatoro.

## Appearances

### *Manga*

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 11 (mentioned)
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 27 (mentioned)
* Chapter 36 (mentioned)
* Chapter 128

### *Anime*

#### Season 1

* Episode 1
* Episode 2
* Episode 3 (mentioned)
* Episode 6
* Episode 7 (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Sakura is the only original supporting character not to having a counterpart in Senpai's manga.
	+ However in the anime adaptation of Chapter 9 and 14 she appeared too as an angelic priestess.
* It's strongly suggested that Yoshi is a huge fan of Senpai's manga, given that in Chapter 1 when the girls saw it she actually complimented it stating it was "cool" and "better than One Piece", also starting to call him "Sense" as an abbreviation for "Manga no Sensei", which is approximately translatable "grandmaster of manga".
* Nekotoro was the first character of Senpai's manga to be cosplayed, giving birth to Nagatoro's alter ego **Toro-Cat** (トロキャット, *Torokyatto*) later, on Halloween the girl also cosplayed the Great Demon King after finding some sketch of the character secretly done by Senpai.
* The setting of Senpai's manga inspired the 8 bit video game-styled version of the ending featured at the end of Episode 6, completed with an acustic cover of *Colorful Canvas* and the characters' design directly taken from that they have in the escape game *Escape from the Room with my Kōhai*.
* Due to the fantasy world's slimes being based on her likeness, Yoshi is the only character with more than a counterpart in the manga.

## References

 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 1, page 8.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 14, page 1-9.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 8.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 37, page 4-7.
5. ↑ Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Side Story 10, page 1-2.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 8, page 16.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 9, page 16.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 14, page 4.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 14, page 7.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 1, page 4.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 1, page 5.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 16, page 10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 36, page 10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 44, page 3.
15. ↑ Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Bonus 21, page 1.