Someone Who Believes They Can Live Normally in a World Where C*astity Is Reversed (Did You Think You Could Live Normally in a World With a Male-To-Female Ratio of 1:5?) Chapter 36 Discussion

After reading this I checked out a couple of stories with similar premises and I have to say the others are terrible by comparison.

What this novel does is to

actually reverse the roles, and not just make the whole world h**ny and / or subservient to the MC. Each of the romances would work as their own story in a regular novel if the genders were reversed (or rather "normal").

The following contains

minor spoilers, but I'm trying to exclude as much plot as possible as well as how the relationships develop, but I thought it would be best to list the relationships and what they might be normally:

Spoiler

• • To the owner of a boys (girls) bar, he's a poor orphan that she (he) picked up from the street to give him (her) shelter until he (she) can support himself (herself). Significant age-gap, but more of a familial relationship and no ulterior motives (for now), but might be seen as concerning from the outside.

• • To an office lady (salaryman) who gets dragged to said bar by her friends, he's the "innocent" host who just got caught up in that sort of business and genuine instead of flashy and purely flattering like the other ones working there, and she develops a slightly unhealthy attachment and desire to monopolise him.

• • To a sports fanatic middle schooler who isn't interested in romance with her peers he's the mature guy who's also surprisingly good at sports for his gender and even takes up a bit of a mentor role.

• • To the "normal" college student, he's the long lost childhood friend who came back into her life, having become quite attractive in both personality and looks after puberty, even if not in an overly flashy way.

• • To her friend who is essentially the equivalent of the "male best friend" character from regular male MC romance novels who is fast to fall in love and confess but gets brutally rejected, he's the first guy to treat her well and not getting arrogant based on the romantic privilege of his gender towards someone "average".

• • To the nerdy and secretly h**ny highschool girl with glasses who mostly reads fantasy romance and erot*c novels, he's the attractive university student tutoring her, including occasionally being "unguarded" or getting too close physically without realising how stimulating that is for someone inexperienced.

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For each of those heroines, I've read at least one manga or novel (most likely several) with a male MC in a similar situation.

The MC in this novel doesn't always understand their behaviour, but if you actually reversed the gender roles it would be easy to see why some of the situations are flustering or concerning for the other characters in that world who have "common sense".

Other than that, the characters themselves are fairly well-written and the story is enjoyable and funny overall. The novel does go through a bunch of cliches, but that's part of the point to show them from the opposite perspective.

Depending on your preferences, the pace might be slow, but I personally don't mind it, I would just like to be able to read more of it, so I'm looking forward to that in the future.