YES.

All of it. In my face. I have been waiting for this for over a year. It’s almost here. July.

To anyone who doesn’t know much about this, it’s a girl flirting with a boy using harem tropes in one of the cutest and most real-feeling romance stories I have ever read. This is my straight-up favourite manga, and I am looking forward to the anime.

You said it was pushing minors and transgenderism, and you shy away from that as a christian. All too often, “pushing transgenderism” just means acknowledging the reality that they exist, and putting it in the same group as “pushing minors” creates a very disturbing equivelance. And I don’t know why you’d shy from trans representation as a christian, given how the bible doesn’t say a damn thing about trans people.

Why would you start reading something called Zombie Land Saga where the main character becomes a zombie almost instantly if you weren’t into zombification? You had plenty of warning signs.

And why did you lump transgenderism in with minors? They aren’t remotely similar, and it’s worrying you seem to think they are.

Nah, the genre is targeted towards teen boys. So the hero is a generically nice person with no skills or social experience. His “useless” ability is actually a super-powerful skill that makes him a hero. All the girls fall for him because he’s a nicer person than some other people in the setting, even if he does buy them as slaves. And any bullies enemies the protagonist has are easily defeated in a single move.

In some settings, the super-powerful ability is knowledge of the setting, so the hero has amazing powers due to being a nerd who likes fantasy stories. Like you, the reader!

And right at the start, the hero finds out there is an afterlife.

I don’t think Ichikawa is the kind of person to act that quickly, and Yamada was probably just blushing cause he was in the room and heard it all.

I knew it was coming, but it definitely caught me by surprise that it came out already. It’s a treat.

People come here because it’s big. It’s big because people come here.

What if we went over there? What if we made the one over there big? Big, and entirely under the control of actual fans of anime who don’t dismiss the entire medium as porn, I might add. Wouldn’t that be better?

I would disagree with that being a plot twist, though. You’re aware of both possibilities from very early on, and the idea that it’s real appears later than the idea that it’s not. It’s hard for it to be a twist when people keep directly telling you what the twist is going to be before it happens.

None. It’s not a good plot twist. Even the Truman Show didn’t use it as a plot twist, but as a premise. If the story was engaging without the twist, then it’s a gut punch to suddenly pull the rug and say “gotcha! The plot was meaningless!” If the story wasn’t engaging, then you didn’t get far enough to see the twist.