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Originally Posted by hyperborealis
It's all wish fulfillment: boy has harem, boy is tough, boy tells off girl. Everything Kodaka did in the episode serves to produce the vicarious pleasure of a fantasy life precisely tuned to the young male viewer's insecurities and desires. In other words, the anime is manipulative. Since all of these fantasy elements have been repeated before, the anime is cliched, hackneyed.
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What....if that's the intention then it isn't working that way very well....Is anyone here being manipulated in that sense or are they watching this for the laughs?
What would you have it be then?