After Coincidentally Saving the New Transfer Student’s Little Sister, We Gradually Grew Closer Chapter 96 Discussion

All the characters in this story are nothing but tropes; none of them are compelling enough to stand on their own. Heck, you can almost say that it tries to be like a copy of Oregairu rip-off, but the plot progression is bland and too boring to keep your interest going.

We have the stereotypical young teacher, who's hot tempered and complains that no one wants to marry her. Except it turns out she cares for the MC and tries to help in other ways.

We have the stereotypical kouhai character, also the little sister of the teacher, that also likes the MC, but he's too dense to recognize it.

We have the stereotypical friend character, the more sociable one out of the duo, but the one who makes the most mistakes.

We have the stereotypical transfer student: blond, rich, foreign, and otaku. Everyone in the class, including the MC, falls "in love" with her at first sight.

Finally, we have the main character, who is a mix-match of tropes that the author forces down your throat to make you try and pity him, but ends up just making a totally unrealistic character. The author really wants his MC to be like Hachiman from Snafu. No one really talks to him; he's "scary looking", unapproachable, and as he starts off with the mindset that "it's better for people to hate me so everyone remains happy".

Except it's over issues where it's not even an issue whether or not "people would hate him for".

He goes on a monologue on how it's better for him to be hated so that the transfer student wouldn't be troubled by the class for inviting her to a welcome party. Seriously, why is there such a huge dramatization over this? They even have a valid reason to push the party until later, but nah, the MC has to be "the evil one who takes the blame".

The whole story starts off with the MC finding the transfer student's little sister who got lost trying to find her bigger sister. This is also where the author tries to throw in tasteless anime jokes and continues it far too long: he's immediately called a lo*icon when he brings the girl to school to contact her sister. And then it continues throughout the story and people insinuate that he's a pe*ophile. Seriously, why continue this tasteless joke?

Let's move on, MC meets transfer student, ends up finding that they're neighbors, and now she's interested in him. Now there's the unrealistic situation here: sure, it's not strange if the MC lives alone, but why is the transfer student and her little sister living alone WITHOUT ANYONE TAKING CARE OF THE SISTER WHEN SHE IS AT SCHOOL? The explanation we get is really dumb as we find out later that they also have a Spoiler

mother, but apparently she's "too busy" and would rather live in a hotel next to her work instead.

[collapse] What kind of child neglect is this?

Then comes my next complaint: after this introduction, the plot progression moves like a crawl: the majority of chapters (approximately about 40-50 chapters) become something like this: little sister gets attached to MC, MC can't help but spoil her, and the transfer student sulks because she wants him to pay attention to her too.

I can appreciate fluff, but it's just non-stop and doesn't develop the characters or progress the plot at all. You may call it "romantic", but I find nothing romantic when both of them only like each other superficially.

When we finally get some plot development, it reads like a bad neglect fic story. We find out that the MC is Spoiler

an orphan, but his foster family hates him. He apparently messed something up with his foster older sister, and now he had to "atone" for his sins. This is why he has the whole "it's better for everyone hates me" attitude.

[collapse] Okay, I can work with that.

Then it becomes even more unbelievable when we find out Spoiler

he's apparently some sort of soccer prodigy, capable of leading his team to victory against Brazil and Spain... while he's in middle school. But of course, he f*cked up in the past, quit playing soccer, and then you get non-stop nihilism from the MC

[collapse].

And then when you sum it together, this guy is just a walking gary stu power fantasy: he's modest, he's smart (#1 in the school ranking), he's a genius Spoiler

soccer player

[collapse], girls love him because he's nice. At least with Hachiman, he has a realistic background and more flaws than just "oh I f*cked up, so now I must atone" mentality.

Tl;dr: edgy gary-stu, every other characters are just tropes, Oregairu rip-off.