@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN
*blush*
I'm way over-educated, and an awful lot more thoughtful than I was thirty years ago, back when I first encountered anime & manga here in the US while in grad school (University of Arizona, Tucson, Masters in Library Science, 1987-1988 school year).
I wouldn't necessarily say that with age comes wisdom, but it's for sure that with age comes a heck of a lot more life experience to draw upon.
And...
I may be completely off base here, it all depends upon how the mangaka chose to develop it.
I see it as a plausible interpretation.
But I also know enough about lit crit to know that stuff can be imputed that the author never intended.
There are stories in the SF community here in the US of an author who took a lit crit class where one of his novels was critiqued, and heard the teacher reading an awful lot into it that they never thought of when they were writing it; when they disputed what the teacher was saying was the intent of the novel, the response was along the lines of, "What do you know about it, you're just the author"!?!
So just because I think I'm seeing this as what's going on doesn't mean that it actually bears any resemblance to what the author intended; the observer is always influenced by their own preconceptions.
That said, I'm looking forward to where this one ends up going.
Because I really do think the author has put a lot of thought into it.
And... successful humor is one of the hardest things to write.