Part of me sees the appeal. It is definitely very tropey. I think the creator has an issue with women.
I had a friend in college who was into Naruto. Dude was super handsome, like model status. Girls would come up to him at parties to try and hit on him but he’d be so busy drunkenly talking to his friends about Naruto that he’d just shoo them away. Absolutely wild, but maybe a testament to the show being good?
I have a few friends like that. Funnily enough, one of them - before he got into anime - would essentially act the same way at parties in HS except it would be him raving about Batman being the best super hero. I used to love finding a seat across the room from him and wait until his drunk ass made eye contact with me, only to dead-pan “Spider-man would kick Batman’s ass in a fight, every day of the week” and watch him spill his beer all over himself & his girlfriend (who was a mutual friend) as he flipped the fuck out. Thanks for the memory lol.
