Please Put Them On, Takamine-san

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuichi Hiiragi. in Square Enix's manga magazine Monthly Gangan Joker since January 2019. The series has been collected in eleven volumes as of February 2026. In North America, it is licensed by Yen Press. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films aired from April to June 2025.

Premise

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 a 98 on her test result, she removes her panties, and he sees her receiving the result again, but this time with a perfect score. Takamine soon confronts Shirota 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" by replacing her underwear with fresh ones wherever she uses the power, and to keep it all a secret from others.

Characters

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. It is later revealed she has harbored feelings for Shirota since they were young and were at a park taking care of a stray cat, which Takamine eventually adopted. Although she tends to be demanding at school, she acts more jokingly and flirtatiously with him whenever the two are alone, stating that Shirota 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 Takamine as her "closet", where he has to replace her underwear whenever she removes it. He is the only one who has seen Takamine 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 Takamine. He soon takes his task seriously to protect her from embarrassment and later reveals that he was unaware of her romantic intentions back then.

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Shirota's childhood friend. She has blonde hair and works as an amateur model. They were friends in elementary school but went to different middle and high schools. She later joins Shirota at the same cram school. She likes hanging out with Shirota, which makes Takamine jealous, but she is actually a lesbian who has a girlfriend. She has a small attraction to Takamine because of the latter's big breasts. She immediately notices that Takamine likes Shirota, so she tries to help her along.

Erie's girlfriend. She works part-time at a family restaurant.

Media

Manga

Please Put Them On, Takamine-san is written and illustrated by Yuichi Hiiragi. The series has been serialized in Square Enix's manga magazine Monthly Gangan Joker since its February 2019 issue, which was released on January 22, 2019. Square Enix has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was published on September 21, 2019. As of February 20, 2026, eleven volumes have been published.

Yen Press began publishing it in English on April 6, 2021, after announcing that they had acquired the license at their New York Comic Con panel in 2020.

Volumes

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 2, 2024. It was 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. The series aired from April 2 to June 18, 2025, on AT-X and other networks. The opening theme song is "Baby Baby Baby", performed by Masami Okui with Bonjour Suzuki, while the ending theme song is "Hightail it", performed by Makoto Furukawa. Crunchyroll streamed the series.

Episodes

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". She acknowledged that she initially appreciated the silly and comedic aspects of the story until the false rape allegation occurred, stating "I can get sexy lady fanservice of all stripes without the loaded baggage of this shit".

In June 2021, Please Put Them On, Takamine-san was nominated for the seventh Next Manga Award in the Best Printed Manga category.

Notes

• "Ch." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the manga.

References

External links

• at Square Enix