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miss nakatoro is my most anticipated anime in the spring i've been waiting for this sadistic tan
skinned lolly for months now god i hate it i hate to hear so much i hate it every time a plane just
comes by i hate it now if you have never seen this anime before let me give you a summary don't told
me nagatorio is a slice of life comedy romance anime made by nanashi this is a japanese webcomic
series written and illustrated by nadashi it was published between august 15 2011 and december 25th
2015 on pixiv nanashi began their career by posting artwork on pixiv nanashi posted the
earlier versions of nagatori's design and artwork one pixiv and the artwork quickly gained some
popularity with fans and it was eventually picked up by kodansha now that's the backstory of it the
story summary follows natato which is senpai who goes to a library trying to do his homework in a
quiet place like he always does when he sees the school's guyrus or the bad girls if you will this
of course being the nightmare of any non-social preteen nayatol is shy and a non-confrontational
boy as he's nervously trying to do his homework while you know not trying to stand out anyway
he fumbles the bag his bag i had to do it out drops all his papers of his manga that he's making
and one of the girls decides to pick it up and they all start to read his manga and laugh at him
when they decide to leave alone one girl stays that being nakatoro nakatoro is a
first year in high school with a reputation for not being interested with the guys at the school
not the type to just you know date someone awful looks which of course makes her popular by default
nagatoro starts out teasing him slowly but very effectively and rudely that being what
fans most know about her she doesn't stop until she breaks you like i could feel the line that
most animes you know would stop at her cruelness but nakatoro is going to be playing hopscotch over
that line however cruel this sounds i couldn't stop laughing at some things right evil i know
at the beginning she is absolutely ruthless and sadistic which i guess answers the question
on google is nagatoro sadistic yes yes she is is nakatoro a tsundere yeah later on the story she is
yeah she's a blend of some people's two favorite things so does she go too far yes and no now this
general type of bullying is really too much and i can understand people being very mad on twitter
even though people are always mad and heavily opinionated on twitter but over the course of
watching the anime it really does die down and her entire approach demeanor towards him is very much
different than what the first interaction was or how she would treat other people in general the
thing is she's normally a bit more reserved and she really isn't going to be going out of her way
to talk to new people and to the guys that try and talk to her she's a bit more cold and harsh and
usually when she dishes out you know her insults or in this case her honest assessment of people
they usually just leave like you're not just going to just sit there and take this type of punishment
but naito is a bit different he stays he endures it i know you might not believe me but she really
doesn't want to hurt him with her teasing anyways nayuto doesn't have close friends she's the only
one he will actually talk to naito is used to not speaking to anyone he's been closed off for
a large portion of his life to people and nagatoro has no one she really likes to talk to that much
so both kids get a benefit out of this from this he opens up a bit more and is willing to hold
a conversation with people like before he didn't understand the basics of conversation like keeping
eye contact forming a complete sentence he used to just close his eyes keep his head down and not say
anything and wait for people to leave and to some extent he still does that from time to time right
and you'll notice that a lot of the way she teases him really does tone down across the series like
at first it seems like a very much personal attack on him to then later just be playful
banter of just calling him a pervert like a lot of other comedy animes even though she instigates
a lot of this interaction it's all in the hopes of seeing that will he actually get mad while he
actually gets upset which he i guess kinda does do he doesn't get mad but he does say
something back to her as far as a character growth she does a lot for senpai as much as
people want to try and cancel nakatori as a series you also see her being a very protective of senpai
like in the chapter where he's introduced to her friends and they actually sit down for lunch and
you know is a normal thing for you know schools across any country just talking
they start to tease him they start to i guess nowadays call rose but i feel like it's more
personal than that her inner yandere just kicks in and she's trying to protect him at any cost
if you want to see that battle of demons then don't worry the episode is coming to the anime
as far as a story it follows a lot more like how love's a war panel would go it feels like
an episodic kind of story structure it indicates more of a jerky plotline and changes that you know
you wouldn't see in a very consistent story you want plots and characters to fit very seamlessly
when you create a story like this you're making episodes rather than a full story and for some
this isn't you know too much of a bad thing like you said we're making episodes that fit
into a season and for a comedy setting like you know love is war that is a good thing
but if this was done in a more serious show like a naruto a bleach a my hero not just saying shonens
in general but shonens usually do follow this type of bigger hero's journey story a show that
has relatively high stakes in it where characters lives you know are on the line and you are rooting
for these characters come out and prevail to then only have a break for whatever reason
where the storyline is now just having them having a fun time as a carnival or just doing some random
thing that's what we know to call as fillers but those fillers follow more of an episodic structure
now for a writer this usually is not a compliment because that implies that there's no purpose in
your story which you don't want and back in the day that was very much true but nowadays that's
not true anymore in fact you can find a lot of success doing more episodic work and comedies
like for example adventure time regular show both use this type of story arc for a long time to then
switch it up when the climax of the show arrives when a character shifts is needed and i highlight
these shows because an episodic structure you can get two episodes worth of content in 30 minutes
which is very much the case in don't touch me miss nagatoro this episodic structure is usually looked
down upon in north america but it seems to have found a home with a lot more of the slice of life
animes i think in part because that's what people want to see from their slice of life animes they
don't need some big grand story arc all they need is really the characters being themselves
and just doing funny things at fun moments with other characters and that's really all they need
and shows that follow more of this episodical structure can still find long-term success
because they don't really have to change too much of their formula but i don't want to give the
impression that it's like lazy writing because it very much can be very hard to do because
you can lose interest in your characters and in your story in general still what really brought
me into this anime to start with was nagatoro mainly her eyes naktoro's eyes pierced through
every character's soul this is the best buff they could have given her from manga to anime keeping
that structure of like just eye animation like her being so animated in the show really does
sell the show and is going to have to so is please don't bully me nagatoro good yeah
i'd say so as far as a score i usually would say it's early to make one but given the manga is out
and has about two seasons worth of content in it i think i have a good gauge on how good it is for me
it's a three out of five there's a good lane it fits into but the role is very tag single nagatoro
to carry the show and that is a lot to ask for that's even more than uzaki-chan has to do
and the community somehow gave it a mediocre score and i trust me i don't agree with that
i know it has to do with like this whole stupidity of twitter in general and how they scored the show
i don't even know how they got that i don't i don't know a lot of things that twitter said about
zagretron i just don't understand my brain can't gauge how they came to some of these conclusions
usually in general for twitter they don't look up things past in a tweet you know but whatever
at the peak of this show i think it could be a 3.5 out of 5. nagatoro is coming in at a
great time sometimes i've talked about in other previous videos that it really does sometimes
depend on what year you decide to launch your anime and what is your competition in that year
and as far as this year is concerned nagatoro is a top female protagonist right now in spring
she's just a top protagonist she could very much be the most popular protagonist of the spring
i don't think she will finish that way i think she'll stay around though the top three
which is important for your scoring because like i said she's the main reason you watch the show
she's the main character doing things in the show she has to be carrying the show for the show to
do well it's just that simple so if she's not in the top three or in the top category
of even the female you know protagonist then that's not a good showing for your show
long term and if you're looking for similar animes that kind of remind you of nagatoro
i came up with a couple like you know the obvious one is uzaki-chan very much a lot of ways similar
they're getting the same backlash kind of things on twitter even though it's for different reasons
a lot of the actual episode structure is very similar to izakichan the whole big personality
of the two female protagonists very much some of uzaki-chan there's a lot of similarities between
the two that's just one of them the next one is 3d girl 3d girl is a more um i guess plot-oriented
um uzaki-chan or doing toy for me um the characters are going to have you know
changes in them along the way i feel that with nagatoro the characters aren't going to really
be changing all too much i mean the biggest one to get a change will be senpai in the end but
still it's not that big of a change but then again when nagatoro isn't focusing on adding
and bringing in all these different new characters like 3d girl is trying to do and make you really
care about them you know they can get away with doing so they can get away with not having
a big character shift or change because they don't have that many characters to bring into the story
and that's one of the reasons why i think 3d girl fell flat in season two and why they didn't
really get traction to begin with but that's another video magician senpai very similar in
a way to nagatoro it's very similar to zakichan i think the problem with them is they really over
sexualize the character to the point people just got really just tired of it and just bored with it
and it was like i don't want to see that anymore and it had nothing to really go off of anymore
it just really wasn't fun even though a lot of the characters are very similar it just fell flat and
the last one being dragon maid it's it's around that range but dragon maid is probably the best
one out of this list of similar animes so that would probably be the height of where nagatory
could be at dragon maid and i couldn't really tell you what he needed to do to get to that point
but if you steer clear of some of the pitfalls of these other previous pretty good animes nagatoro
can be a top anime at a time where snafu is done bunny girl senpai is not around anymore
re zero is coming to their final end and what is it like where's the last one i was thinking
of free zero snafu oh and love is war is on a little bit of a hiatus this is a really good time
to sneak in there because if it came out during the times of those bigger romance comedy animes
it would definitely fall beside the waistline now as far as the season two it's hard for me
to believe that this anime wouldn't get a season two and say a year and a half time i think they're
just going to sell pretty well in blu-rays in general crunchyroll streaming is always going to
be high up for nakutor i feel like it's currently right now with 2 million there but that's just my
opinion where do you rate nagatoro as an anime hey do you think it's going to be a two out of five
b do you think it's gonna be a three out of five or c do you think it's gonna be a four out of
five or if you're just really a big fan for dog toro d the rate is gonna be a five out of five
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