Why do these series keep trying to push normality so much?
Can't there be a single weirdo anywhere in the full span of manga who is okay with being weird? Who is proud to be weird? Who rejects normality?
I can't even imagine wanting to be normal. It just seems unrealistic and stupid to me. Normality is that sickly middle ground where absolute ineptitude meets unwarranted confidence. Where people assume that their failures can't be flaws because they share them with so many others. That a fuck-up somehow ceases to be a fuck-up if "everyone does it"... which just feeds into becoming more inept and useless the more said flaw is simply overlooked. It is the ad populum fallacy plus entropy taken to its most horrifying conclusion.