Inside the Mind of a Sadodere

Introduction

Hello world, it is I the one and only coma. This blog will be about a new meme in recent year that’s become very popular in meme culture which is the manga called Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san or the English title which is Please don’t bully me, Nagatoro, it may sort of random and not have any reason for it to exist like the rest of my blogs, but I guess that’s my style. This will be written in the view of someone who read the manga only.

What is a Sadodere?

Before we explain what a Sadodere I need explain what the heck “Dere” means. A Dere type usually refers to a female anime character but can be male; that is used in conjunction with another word, it explains the character personality or troupe like the Sado part of Sadodere is short for sadomasochistic which is combination of sadist and masochist so that’s how the word is made but what does it mean? Well, A Sadodere is that enjoy teasing and manipulating the love interest which they take pleasure in, also dere is short for deredere which means “lovey dovey” and that’s basically all to it.

Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san

When I first saw Nagatoro I thought the way she acts to male protagonist was very mean and spiteful as she constantly bullies the guy to point that he has PTSD of being near her to the point some scenes he even force him to cry then on the other hand she also teasing him in a way that says friendly way to show me something or tell him something or flirt. Then I realised that the interactions outside of the M.C she is surrounded around fake friends and popularity hungry students, Nagatoro being social inept outside other encounters she doesn’t talk much and gets bored of them, so when she around Senpai the only way she can communicate is by bullying him because she is just like him so Nagatoro bullying him isn’t being mean it’s her way of saying she likes that person.

To be fairly honest the male protagonist, Senpai is a very hyperbolic interpretation of a social awkward introverted person, in a reality even if someone in real life was the same as Senpai he would at least not be as pusillanimous and stand up for himself by not getting himself bullied as he can easily stop it by ignoring it but I guess his depiction is popular in Japan as a lot of people can relate to him and some people out there might fetishize being harass by sadist anime girl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but reviewing how realistic it is, is pointless as when has anime ever been realistic.

The male protagonist doesn’t have a name so I’ll guess I will refer to him “Senpai”) On the surface Nagatoro may be a bully or a horrible person but it’s more to what it seems, her actions may be mean, but her intentions are pure. Senpai is a very introverted person that has no friends so Nagatoro saw this and wanted to do change that and be friendly by trying to make friends with him but Nagatoro is also a socially awkward person so the only way she knew how to make friends is by bullying but Senpai even though he might not like it at time he still lets her do it as it’s the only company he gets so I guess it’s for the good.

This manga is also a comedy manga and how some of the comedy works in this Japanese manga is the scene sets up a situation something innocent, for example; one scene the two are eating ice pops and the usually happens like some teasing and then Nagatoro being Nagatoro will insert a conversation starter about offering something lewd after Senpai gets flustered, she then reveals that the lewd thing was something completely innocent and Nagatoro being all smug teases him even more and it amuses her. The juxtaposition of this type of comedy can be very enjoyable and funny when its show how innocent the previously inappropriate thing was if not funny it’s at least entertaining.

Nagatoro has became popular through all the memes of the manga that all focus on Nagatoro herself but why did it in the first place? Well well fellow user I will explain why, the otaku’s on the internet have an obsession with smug expression from anime females and Nagatoro has a lot of “memeable” expressions she makes, like the neko smile which looks like a 3 sideways and the sadist maniacal grin she makes to name a few; when the anime community saw this they were like putty in the manga’s hand also weebs have an obsession sadistic waifus and the rest was history

Conclusion

Nagatoro is unique take on the sadomasochistic anime girl that became popular through infamous reasons, Please don’t bully me, Nagatoro is worthy manga to read if you enjoy that sort of character troupe. The manga is a thoroughly entertaining manga for romance comedy lovers out there, my rating of this manga will be 8 out of ten rating score and enjoy the manga if you read it.

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