Episode 7/Season 2

"**I Figured That's How You'd Ski, Senpai**" (センパイの滑りってやっぱそんな感じなんスね, *Senpai no suberi tte yappa son'na kanjina n su ne*) is the seventh episode of the second season of the *Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san* anime series and the nineteenth episode overall.

## Plot

One morning, Senpai tried to figure out how to put on contact lenses, to no avail. Later at the art club room, Nagatoro saw the lenses' box and began teasing a mortified Senpai, asking if he intended to "change his four eyes look in order to look hot". After the boy replied that he simply wanted to give contact lenses a try, Nagatoro dared him to wear them right at that moment, prompting him to admit he was too scared to put them in his eyes. Due to having previously helped her brother putting his, Nagatoro offered to help Senpai put the lenses and, albeit a little skeptical at first, the boy eventually accepted and sat at her side while the girl crawled on his lap to place the lenses inside his eyes. Nevertheless, to Senpai's embarrassment, Nagatoro put both lenses in, and after he asked her how he looked, the latter replied that he was fine but without his glasses couldn't do "his trick". Then she put on Senpai's glasses and mimicked his signature gesture of adjusting them by the bridge while embarrassed. Seeing Nagatoro with his glasses, Senpai blushed, causing the girl to ask him if he thought that she looked cute in glasses.

Few days later, during a ski trip with their school, Senpai and his classmates Takao and Hino remain impressed by Nagatoro, Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura's talent as they managed to effortlessly ski down the pro course, leading the boy to daydream about skiing with her down that slope. After she spotted him in the crowd, Nagatoro invited Senpai to ski with her, leading Takao and Hino to assume they were dating. Due to Senpai's clumsiness, the girl offered to give him some training, however he didn't manage to gain any results, which lead to him getting sad about weighing her down. That night at the hotel, Senpai and his classmates saw Nagatoro and Sakura in the night skiing group; once again, she invited him to ski with her, however he refused saying he was tired. Seeing that, Gamo-chan asked him the real reason he refused, prompting Senpai to admit his feelings regarding his poor skiing ability compared to Nagatoro's pro skills. Hearing that, Gamo-chan walked away, sweetly replying that the gap in skills between them was not the real issue, which led Senpai to reach for Nagatoro while Takao and Hino mocked him, telling him that he was turning into a "normie".

Later that night, the boy went training in the beginner course in order to improve his skiing skills, but to no avail. However, he is so willing to get better, so he can manage to ski at Nagatoro's side, that he doesn't give up and keeps trying, even managing to descend a slide in order to save a child. Afterwards, a guy brags with his friend, having him take a video while skiing on one leg and entering collision course with Senpai, who is saved at the last minute by Nagatoro. After furiously scolding both the boy and his friend, the girl compliments Senpai for how he skied to save the child, leading him to ask her for additional tutoring. Nagatoro sweetly smiled and told him to stop looking at his own feet and instead, try looking at her. The next morning, Senpai's classmates asked him to show what he learned from "his private instructor” while Nagatoro bragged about her teaching skills with her friend. However, after the boy tried skiing, all he managed to do was fall on the snow causing Nagatoro to watch astonished while both hers and Senpai's friends burst out laughing.

After coming back to school, Senpai complimented he President for having passed her entrance exam at the Tokyo University of the Arts on her first try, however the latter explained that was merely the first step informing him that he would be next and asking him if he had decided his own path, to which the boy replied that he wanted to enter a fine art university too, prompting the President to smile gleefully, saying she didn't expect such a clear and direct answer from him and asking if it was because of the "Cat-Girl" influence. Senpai debunked said statement, however he later reflected on how much Nagatoro influenced him in the last year and how little he knows about what she wanted to achieve in her life.

## Characters

### Main

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

### Background

* Takao
* Hino
* Mrs. Hachiouji (voice only)

## Trivia

* This episode is the adaptation of Chapter 73, 74, 75 and half of 76 however there are a few differences:
	+ The episode begins with Senpai trying to put on contact lenses at his home, while the manga chapter started when Nagatoro noticed his attempts in the art club room.
	+ In the anime, when Nagatoro explained to Senpai that everyone is good at something, it's clearly shown the silhouette of Nobita Nobi from *Doraemon*, while in the manga, the character is slightly more visible.
	+ As Gamo-chan and Yoshi say goodbye to Senpai after trying to convince him to go skiing at night with Nagatoro, in the manga, as they walk to the exit, Yoshi is on the left and Gamo-chan is on the right, while in the anime their positions are switched. Additionally, in the manga, Yoshi says, "Au Revoir" (French for "Goodbye") while in the anime she says "Goodbye" in English.
	+ In the manga the boy who enters a collision course with Senpai was being filmed by his girlfriend instead of a friend.
	+ In the manga Nagatoro didn't brag with her friends about how good she was at teaching at Senpai and Gamo-chan did not ask her how their private lessons have gone, the girls were simply there as Takao and Hino asked Senpai to show them what he have learned.
	+ In the anime the President was shown wearing a red knot tie in her uniform, however in the manga she didn't.
	+ When Senpai walks down the hallway and realizes that it had been a year since he first met Nagatoro, several past scenes are shown. In the manga, the scenes feature Nagatoro stepping on Senpai's back during their beach trip, Nagaotoro washing her hands next to Senpai, Senpai trying to ski and Senpai jogging at night before injuring his ankle. In the anime, the past scenes shown feature Nagatoro running with Senpai in the school hallway, Nagaotoro sitting and posing in front of him, Nagatoro stepping on his back while at the beach from Episode 6, Nagatoro carrying Senpai on her back after injuring his ankle in the season's third episode, Senpai and Nagatoro walking home with the scarfs that they gave each other in the previous episode, and Nagatoro telling Senpai to watch her as she skis at night from earlier in the episode.
	+ The episode's final scene is only the beginning of Chapter 76, as the rest of it will be adapted in the following one.

## External Links

* Episode # 7 of 2nd Season on the Anime Homepage