Not sure if that would be easier or harder to explain if his father happened to find it in Shouta's room. They're not nearly sized for Lucoa's figure, so they'd have to be from somebody else.
I get what you're saying, but to go to the other extreme you have shows where the food porn is the point and it somehow works out. My personal favorite of that genre is Isekai Shokudou, though I've only watched the anime.
Nah, Influencers are without a doubt a social poison. They're either misguided dupes who are shilling for something, or obfuscated advertisers shilling for something. Either way, they're in it for notoriety or money, almost never for altruistic reasons.
I mean, from what we've seen the "holy" knights are pretty clearly lawful evil, what with the attempted genocide of the beastfolk we've seen. OTOH, what we've seen of the heretics is creating lovecraftian horrors, but that may just be desperation to survive.
Sorry, I was largely joking when I said it. PoliSci is, from my (an outsider's) perspective, the study of how to manipulate people, but manipulating somebody isn't always bad. Manipulating an addict to seek treatment, for example.
There's something everyone who's survived being on the wrong end of Diablo has in common, but it's hard to think about what it is with all this yelling going on.