the
denseness is there for a reason.
otherwise, Ichika (or any other male-lead, for that matter) would probably turn into a Makoto 2.0, and 99% of harem-anime out there will go down the hentai way.
it's just that Ichika takes the meaning of
denseness to a whole new level. Still, I CAN bring myself to accept that.
Yes, I can stand his extreme
denseness, to some extent.
My personal and only major problem with Ichika is that, aside from him being
uber-dense, he also appears to be a complete
idiot most of the time...
Take for example, the scene in which the girls explain him how Laura's AIC works. After they finished their explanation, they ask him if he has understood... to which he answers with:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ichika
What I've seen is more than enough for me to understand.
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what the-
What kind of answer is that? moreover... is that even an answer?
-- OR, just think about his pathetic attempt at defending the boat in ep11 (nice boat?
)... Really, it's a miracle he didn't go:
"Houki, people die when they're killed." 
and I'll say it now, I was half-expecting him to burst out and say
that... but, much to my surprise, he didn't.
-- OR, simply remember the "best", the
crème de la crème of all his pearls of wisdom:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ichika
Thinking would be pointless.
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... yeah.
That alone says everything about him, I guess. Sums up his character and the whole series perfectly.
as you can see, those are all clear signs of
idiocy.
and
that's what bothered me the most with Ichika, not his
uber-unpenetrable-dense-shield [which only Chifuyu (or Houki, in mangatron's words) seems able to break through]... but his utter stupidity.