Please Put Them On, Takamine-san (Japanese: 履いてください、鷹峰さん, Hepburn: Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san) is a romantic comedyscience fictionmanga series written and illustrated by Yuichi Hiiragi. It has been serialized by Square Enix in Monthly Gangan Joker since January 2019. The series is also published in collected tankōbon volumes, which have been released in English by Yen Press since April 2021. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films is set to premiere in April 2025.
One day, high school student Koushi Shirota catches the student council president and school madonna, Takane Takamine, changing her clothes. Later, when he notices that she received her test result of a 98%, she removes her panties, and he sees her receiving the exam result again, but this time with a perfect score. She soon confronts him and tells him that she has the ability to rewind time by taking off her underwear which then disappears. However, because he saw her naked, he is able to go back in time with her. She then forces him to be her "closet", that is, to replace her panties with fresh ones wherever she goes and uses the power, and to keep it all a secret from others.
The titular heroine who is the student council president and madonna who is highly admired by her peers. She seems to be the perfect student, but this is because she has the ability to rewind time by removing an article of underwear so she can undo any mistakes she has made. She acquired the ability from a time in her childhood when she was so embarrassed that she wet herself. Vol. 1 It is later revealed she has harboured feelings for Koushi since they were young and were at a park taking care of a stray cat, which Takane eventually adopted. Ch. 6, 12 Although she tends to be demanding at school, she acts more jokingly and flirtatiously with him whenever the two are alone, stating that Koushi is a perverted virgin who fantasizes about all sorts of sexual situations concerning her.
The main protagonist who is a high school student who becomes involved with Takane as her "closet", where he has to replace her underwear whenever she removes it. He is the only one who has seen Takane naked and is thus able to go back in time whenever she has a do-over. At first, he did it because he did not want to be criminalized for appearing to have sexually assaulted Takane. Ch. 1 He soon takes his task seriously to protect her from embarrassment and later tells the reader that he was unaware of her romantic intentions back then. Ch. 25
Eri (エリ)
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Please Put Them On, Takamine-san is written and illustrated by Yuichi Hiiragi.[4] The series has been serialized by Square Enix in their magazine Gangan Joker since its February 2019 issue, which was released on January 22, 2019.[2] They also released the series in collected tankōbon volumes since September 21, 2019.[5]Yen Press began releasing these in English on April 6, 2021,[6] after announcing that they had acquired the license at their New York Comic Con panel in 2020.[7]
"Be my closet" (私のクローゼットになって, Watashi no kurōzetto ni natte)
"Let me do it over until I'm Satisfied" (満足するまでやり直させて, Shinro no mitsutsuji sono go)
"Do you want to look or not?" (進路の三ツ辻 其の六, Manzoku suru made yarinaosa sete)
"I want you to say it out loud" (声に出して言ってほしい, Koenidashite itte hoshī)
"Thank you" (ありがとう, Arigatō)
"Don't be dull-be sensitive" (鈍感にならないで、敏感になれ, Donkan ni naranaide, binkan ni nare)
High school student Koushi Shirota catches Takane Takamine, a model student in beauty and brains, changing her clothes. Later, when he notices that she received a test score of 98, he sees her take off her underwear and then notices she is receiving the paper back with a perfect score. Afterwards Takane confronts him and tells him that she has the ability to rewind time by taking off her underwear which then disappears. However, because he had seen her bare breasts, he is able to go back in time with her. She then demands him to be her "closet", that is, to replace her panties with fresh ones whenever she uses her power. He refuses at first, but when she screams for help that she was sexually assaulted, and the police arrive to arrest him, Koushi is forced to accept the terms.
The next day, Koushi struggles to replace Takane's panties while she is reciting something in class. Takane gets Koushi to observe her more carefully so he can anticipate when she will activate her ability. Takane uses her ability to do over a swimming race. When Koushi forgets to return her underwear bag, he scrambles to look for her when she tells him she is going out jogging. Takane visits Koushi's house when the latter has a cold.
"Give me something irreplaceable" (かけがえのないものをください, Kakegae no nai mono o kudasai)
"A taste of first place" (1位の味, 1-I no aji)
"Start again, and when we get there..." (もう一度始めて、そこに着いたら..., Mōichido hajimete, soko ni tsuitara...)
"I don't want to do this over" (もう一度やり直したくない, Mōichido yarinaoshitakunai)
"I want you to make me go meow, meow" (ニャーニャー言わせて欲しい, Nyānyā iwa sete hoshī)
"Tell me your memories" (あなたの思い出を教えてください, Anata no omoide o oshietekudasai)
Takane takes Koushi underwear shopping. When Koushi has to do a school run with a better time, Takane motivates him to try harder. Takane takes Koushi around a festival while she's dressed in a yukata. When Koushi is on the verge of failing his classes, Takane tries to withhold using her power for the day. Takane invites Koushi to her place to study, but she puts on cat ears and flirtatiously acts like one. When it starts raining, Takane has him stay the night and crawls in with him in the bed. In the side manga, Takane and Koushi talk about men wearing skirts.
Continuing the stayover, Takane wants to roleplay with Koushi as a newlywed couple, dressing herself in a naked apron, and later joining him in the bathroom to wash his back and hair. She later video calls him while showing off some daring lingerie. They visit a prospective college. Koushi observes Takane having an off day where she makes a number of mistakes. Koushi reunites with his childhood friend Eri, who has turned into a really attractive model. Takane finds the two at the park and confronts them about the relationship until Eri recognizes Takane from childhood as well.
Eri invites Takane and Koushi to a family restaurant. Takane shares how Koushi was flirting with her, but Eri realizes it's probably the other way around, and after Koushi leaves, she apologizes to Takane for appearing to flirt with Koushi, revealing that she already has a lover. Later Takane wants Koushi to play with water balloons like he had done with Eri. Takane and Koushi have a date at the park. The class wants to do a Cinderella play with Takane as the title character. She tries to get Koushi to volunteer himself to be the prince, but he loses to a popular guy named Seiya Oji. After Koushi is sent out on an errand during their study session, Eri asks Takane on how her relationship with Koushi is progressing; Takane denies it and talks about her "friend" instead. Takane and Koshi prepare for the play.
An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 2, 2024.[23] The series is produced by Liden Films and directed by Tomoe Makino, with Yū Sato overseeing and writing scripts, Ryō Yamauchi and Maya Itō designing the characters and serving as chief animation directors, and Takeshi Nakatsuka composing the music. It is set to premiere in April 2025.[3]
Reception
Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network gave the first manga volume 2 out of 5 stars, criticizing the writing for at times being mean-spirited, but otherwise enjoyed the ludicrous factor and the fan service artwork. Lynzee Loveridge rated it a "No thanks", especially with the extortion condition "I can get sexy lady fanservice of all stripes without the loaded baggage of this shit."[4]
In June 2021, Please Put Them On, Takamine-san was nominated for the seventh Next Manga Award in the Best Printed Manga category.[24]
Explanatory notes
^ "Ch." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the manga.