Teasing Master Takagi-San

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Dub Blu-ray Review

Published

2 years ago

February 28, 2023

Nir Regev

Here’s a full review of the Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie dub Blu-ray including high resolution photos & videos of what’s in the Sentai Filmworks release.

This Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray review contains marked spoilers for the film.

On the Disc:

Sentai’s ‘Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie‘ Blu-ray features Takagi and Nishikata overlooking their town at night time on the disc. Alluding to the film’s firefly search in the main plot and later epilogue scene.

‘Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie’ Blu-ray Front and Back Covers – Closeups

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Front Cover. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

The front cover shows the same artwork of Nishikata and Takagi that was featured on the film’s official website footer previously.

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Back Cover. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

The back cover shows Nishikata and Takagi enjoying time with Flower (or Hana in Japanese) the cat. Flower/Hana is voiced by Christina Kelly of Food Wars! (Alice Nakiri) and Golden Time (Kouko Kaga) in the English Dub.

After Inserting the Blu-ray Disc

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie English Dub Blu-ray Review. Main Screen Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

You’ll see a HIDIVE advertisement and Sentai’s logo before the disc launches. Yuiko Ohara’s song “Hajimari no Natsu” plays on the Blu-ray’s menu select screen. The on-screen art matches the Blu-ray cover.

There are five menu options: Play the main film, Switch between the English dub and the Japanese original for audio, Scene select (important to review future epilogue), a Japanese Promo ad for the movie, and Sentai’s disc credits.

Did you know? Yuiko Ohara also did the opening themes for Teasing Master Takagi-san Season 1 “Iwanai Kedo ne“, Season 2 “Zero Centimeter“, and Season 3 “Massugu” among other tracks for the series.

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Language Screen. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

-> You can watch the English dubbed Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie with some of Sarah Wiedenheft’s best voice work as Takagi or the Japanese original with English subtitles.

Spoilers below

Epilogue Scene

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Scene Select Screen. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

-> The first time you’ll complete the film’s credits you’ll be greeted with a future epilogue scene where Takagi and Nishikata are adults walking with their daughter Chi.

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Epilogue. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat® / Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

The film does the reveal slowly making you think it’s a past scene where Takagi is a child as the parents’ faces are shrouded in shadows, looking for fireflies. Literally, teasing its own audience before showing Takagi and Nishikata.

If you’re a long time fan of this series… You’ll definitely want the ease of replaying the epilogue and capture all the details you missed in the moment! All without needing to forward through the movie credits again.

Especially, to see Nishikata being teased by both his daughter Chi and Takagi together in the future.

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Epilogue. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat®. Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

Visual Quality: Technical Details

Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray Review. Visual Codec. Photo Credit: Nir Regev – The Natural Aristocrat®. Original Art by © 2022 Soichiro Yamamoto, Shogakukan/The Teasing Master Takagi-san Production Committee

The Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray video quality is superb. Truly crisp animation using the Blu-ray’s AVC Codec (H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10) in 1080p. As well as great audio quality with DTS-HD Master Audio / Surround Sound 5.1 Channels (48KHZ).

We watched Sentai’s Blu-ray on a Sony PlayStation 5 console.

/End Spoilers

Watch a video tour of the Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie. Blu-ray case, so you can see it live:

Conclusion: 5 out of 5 stars for the Blu-ray quality and the movie itself, which is fantastically written.

Sarah Wiedenheft’s excellent voice acting in the final scene pre-epilogue when Takagi cries and shivers and is comforted by Nishikata (Bryson Baugus) is worth seeing the dub on its own. We’ll have a full fledged separate review of the movie plot later this week.

If you want to avoid resellers you should head on over to Sentai and order the Blu-ray today on its very release date 2/28/23. The film’s runtime is 72 minutes.

Review Score: 5 out of 5 stars

>Disclosure: Section23 Films sent The Natural Aristocrat® an early, advance review copy for the English dubbed Teasing Master Takagi-San: The Movie Blu-ray.

– You can catch up on Season 3 on HIDIVE. The English dub is featured there. The Season 2 dub is available on Netflix