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Originally Posted by K_R
Most of the anime is straight conversion from the manga. So your, 'Seems like the writers were just told "take the most innocent characters you can come up with and run them through a physical and emotional meat grinder".' is somewhat invalidated, since its creator is one man, not a group of writers.
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Ok, so one guy decided to do it all on his lonesome - does that make it any less exploitative? It's a show where you wind up hating almost everybody - I can only hope the kids turn on their "benefactors" one of these days.
I know the show wants to make Henrietta's "handler" out to be a nice guy, but phooey I say. Despite playing up his regrets and the kindness he tries to show Henrietta, he's still as much of a bastard as the rest for using the girls to begin with. Making him out to be a good guy is kind of like being the "kind hearted serial rapist" - it just doesn't work.