It’s Critical You Do not Toy With My Points - Ep 60 - Don't Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro Books 1-4-ish

the, the actual point of this is the discussion of [laughs]So I know, like we've talked about this a bunch in a bunch of different settings, but one of the things with Miss Nagatoro was when it came out, a lot of people were like, "This is super-duper bullying, and it's awful, and I don't wanna read it." And I had that feeling too when I started reading it, and I think you did as well.

Mm-hmm.

And it's not, but it sure doesn't f- it sure doesn't make sense that it's a romantic comedy where someone is teasing the other p- person for a good while into it.

And what I wanna talk about is where is that point, which is-

Mm-hmm

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the basic idea of critical points, is where in the story does someone reading it go, "Oh, now I really get what this story is about."

Right.

So in Nagatoro, where does it go from a black bullying comedy to, oh, it's a romantic comedy, and she's just completely incapable of being nice-

Yeah

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while showing her affection.

So but before we get too deep into that, why don't we go over-

Yeah

... for anyone who doesn't know what this story is.

Sure.

So quick summary, Nagatoro stars Nagatoro, the main char- the character from the title, who is a first-year high school student who's athletic, loud, enjoys teasing her senpai, which is the Japanese name for, like, an upperclassman or someone-

Yeah

... above you in something.

Here it's generally used for upperclassman.

And yeah, that's pretty much a good summary of her.

Well, she-

Um-

Yeah.

She has a lot of cat-like qualities