Yancha Gal no Anjō-san

In a high school in Kasugai, Seto is a serious student who lives a quiet and ordinary life. But when his mischievous classmate, Anna Anjō, begins teasing and hanging out with him on a regular basis, it starts an interesting relationship between them. The story follows the lives and antics of the two polar opposites, both in appearance and personality, as they develop into a romantic couple through their many playful—and sometimes erotic—interactions.

Anjō is accompanied by her friends, Toyoda and Chita, while Seto is accompanied by his friends, Inuyama and Tokio. As they all grow friendly with one another, each person becomes romantically linked to their respective partner within the group as the story progresses.

Most of the names of the characters are based on cities located in Aichi Prefecture.[2]

Seto (瀬戸)

Voiced by: Makoto Asakawa (voice comic)[3]

Seto is a bespectacled high school student in his second year, who is the president of his class. He is a plain and ordinary-looking boy who initially has no interest in girls and only cares about his grades. He struggles trying to improve the person that he is and is unsure about his future ambitions in life.^{Ch. 98} In their initial encounters, he sees Anjō as too erotic, he gets very lewd thoughts around her, and does not know anything about her or understand why she teases him.^{Ch. 1-10} After he defended her from harsh words by a classmate, and as the two started to hang out more, he has developed serious feelings for her.^{Ch. 113-114}

Anna Anjō (安城 アンナ, Anjō An'na)

Voiced by: Chiharu Seto (voice comic)[3]

Anjō is a gyaru who is in the same class as Seto. She is incredibly beautiful, flamboyant, athletic, and popular with a cheery personality and outgoing kindness. When the two first met, she took a liking to Seto because of his helpfulness and hard-working nature, then developed a deep crush for him after one of the boys in their class spoke nasty things about her behind her back that Seto refuted.^{Ch. 14} Ever since, she teases and flirts with him constantly, sometimes to lewd extents. She hopes to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a professional beautician, and will sometimes use Seto as styling practice.^{Ch. 6} Her name is similar to that of a real life Japanese adult film star.[4]

Toyoda (豊田)

Voiced by: Yukako Nihei (voice comic)[5]

Toyoda is one of Anjō's friends. Nicknamed "Toyo" (トヨ), she is a "cool beauty" who speaks in a Kansai dialect sports long jet-black hair, and is a cool and calm-type girl. She likes cute gacha-style toys,^{Ch. 27} although she is embarrassed by this as she feels having an affinity for such things does not fit her outward appearance and personality.^{Ch. 57} Her dream is to become the president of a company that creates fancy mascot characters.^{Ch. 47}

Chita (知多)

Voiced by: Yūri Akeshima (voice comic)[6]

Chita is another friend of Anjō's. Nicknamed "Chii" (チー, Chī), she is a mostly quiet girl with very short hair, thick eyebrows, and a petite figure. She is a foodie with a big appetite who can be seen eating large amounts of food. She dreams of traveling overseas after graduation.^{Ch. 122} Early on in the story, she appears jealous of Seto spending most of his time hanging out with Anjō, despite knowing nothing about her, as she hopes the least Seto can do is keep Anjō happy, or else she will not forgive him.^{Ch. 51}

Inuyama (犬山)

Inuyama is Seto's best friend since junior high.^{Ch. 98} He is an otaku who is exceptionally good at drawing and designing cosplay costumes. At first, he takes interest in Toyoda simply because she has a large chest,^{Ch. 7} but after learning that they share an interest in cute toys when the two met at a gacha machine, and as they both worked together in a mascot character contest,^{Ch. 57-59, 63} he starts developing deeper feelings for her. Later in the story, he has the desire to ask Toyoda out, but is scared from possible rejection and the sadness that would follow.^{Ch. 90}

Tokio (トキオ)

Tokio is Toyoda's brother.^{Ch. 71} He attends Anjō and Seto's high school and is very popular with the girls there because of his attractiveness. He becomes a big eater, like Chita, by going out with her on several food runs throughout the story.^{Ch. 75, 120-121} The two have known each other since childhood and appear to have feeling for one another.^{Ch. 120-122} He is good friends with Seto and Inuyama, as they all help each other with their school studies.^{Ch. 98}

Ms. Komaki (小牧先生, Komaki-sensei)

Komaki is the nurse at the high school. She is a free-spirited young woman with an eccentric personality who deeply cares about the students she looks after. Seto and her have a bond through the two exchanging similar tastes in manga.^{Ch. 4, 62} In the main series, as well as her spinoff series, she can be seen with her best friend and colleague, Tobishima (飛島), who is an art teacher.

Yancha Gal no Anjō-san has been compared to other "teasing" romantic comedy manga, specifically Teasing Master Takagi-san, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!, and Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, in that the four manga all share a similar story structure that revolves around a flirtatious schoolgirl and a meek schoolboy (although not the case in terms of personality with the male protagonist of Uzaki-chan) who start as friends that simply hang out together, then develop into a romantic couple as the story progresses with the girl teasing, or "bullying", the boy, who in turn has intimate feelings for the girl, but is too shy to admit them to her.[39][40][41][42]

In August 2019, the series was nominated for the 5th Next Manga Awards in the print category and finished 19th out of 50 nominees.[43] It was also nominated for AnimeJapan's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll that same year, but failed to place in the top 10.[44][45]

• ^ "Ch." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the Yancha Gal no Anjō-san manga.

• Yancha Gal no Anjō-san at Shōnen Gahōsha (in Japanese)