I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince Chapter 74 Discussion

I see a lot of reviews commenting about the obsession with v*rginity. It's all true. However, I want to correct some terms.

It's not incel behavior. MC doesn't hate women, or wallow in self-pity while he stalks and harasses them, or thinks he's not getting s*x because of a more successful male getting the girl. He's perfectly level-headed, understands right and wrong, and isn't delusional by treating his current situation like a game.

Again, MC isn't an involuntary celibate person, though he's considering to be voluntarily celibate as a result from turning to a female.

To be exact, MC is an Otaku (obsession of something), and in his case, obsessed with his pursued heroines' v*rginity. He spends more than 500 hours in the game to try and find a maiden route for the titular maid, Lilith. MC even describes himself as a unicorn, and if you know the lore you would know unicorns only like virg*ns, so he's highly self-aware. Plot shows that he was willing to go as far as killing the in-game boyfriends/male love interests to get a virg*n girl. Even when he transmigrated to be Lilith, the idea of him being a virg*n is more important than him being alive, especially when he has to get defiled by a sadistic fat slob, Ethan.

However, while he is highly influenced at the idea of losing his v*rginity, he ultimately didn't cross the line of killing Ethan when it comes down to the moment of truth. He understands real life =/= game world. At worst, I'll call his tastes vile for having such a fetish, but he's actually a pretty normal human being shown in the 70+ chapters and honestly virg*n heroines are actually a thing in adult games. An example of worse fetishes out there in adult games, like brown stuff coming out from behind you-know-where... Ahem, I digress.

Because there's so many flawed people everywhere in the game world, scheming female bit*h side characters, a loutish-turned-lovestruck male lead, snobby aristocrats, overly protective dad, etc, the story is interesting as the MC navigates through them the best he can. He perceives his situations reasonably well and makes pretty good guesses, and even bends others to his will by using logical arguments.

One of the more intriguing aspect to me is how the Korean original webpage has "Pure love" and "Romance" as the tags. It raises my expectations that MC as an obsessed Otaku with v*rginity, will somehow offers (laugh) his maidenhood. If that actually happens it's going to be a gender bender I've never seen before.

4.5 stars.