maybe they want it to be properly shown to everyone even kids? with how they reduce the skin exposure in anime design and indeed manga artist is quite amazing, also i like the demon design too even the horn instead of the eye, it truly shows that she is a demon through and through
Check out seasonal anime lists, like livechart.me. On such sites you can see, for each season, at least a few shows that--in their art direction--make it painfully obvious that they're aimed specifically at kids. Then, you have those that aren't so obviously made for children, but they still are.
Not everything has to be made for kids; not everything must be
shown to kids in the first place. This mindset is how we ended up in the infantilized society of today, where "think of the kids" means by extension "everyone must be a kid". It's also funny how one absolutely has to "think of the kids" whenever a big-breasted pretty girl shows up--no matter the intended demographic; however, androgyny, effeminacy and homoerotic subtext, and pedophilia are
always okay--they're definitely thinking of the kids then, in more ways than you realize.
Wow.
I just read from chapter 4 to 21, and this MC is fucking stupid.
The very first thing he does, in every single situation is give up.
Any time he has to say "no" or say "stop" or do ANYTHING requiring a spine, he just quits as quickly as possible.
Causing this stupid DBZ scenario; how many more chapters will this single fight (3 seconds) and discussion (unknowable geologic amount of time) require?
He said "no," which means the servant didn't listen, which means FUCKING KILL HER, which means stop wasting fucking time and continue telling a story!
It's like the mangaka didn't have a story to tell, and just wanted to draw Batman from the 1960s...
At least for now, he's supposed to be the quintessential titular mob. The problem is that mobs aren't spineless by definition or convention; Japanese male MCs, on the other hand, certainly
are. The powers that be have an agenda to push, you know? Japanese birth rates are in the pits, and they want to make sure that Japanese society follows suit for sure.
That said, I'll admit that a reason I'm enjoying this fight is because Sylphy is (almost literally) putting the degenerate-bait devil through the meatgrinder. Hell, Sylphy is the reason I'm reading this manga--certainly isn't Mr. Garden-Variety Kaito, as he has done absolutely nothing to make himself interesting or likable, or otherwise distinguish himself even this many chapters in. The problem with him is that, even though he's ordinary (which is part of what mobs are by definition), he's
pathetic on top of that--and doesn't show much in the way of transcending such a loathsome state. For every one step he does take toward leaving his pathetic state behind, he takes two steps back: for example, instead of staying with his bug spray, Kaito gets a tungsten rod to fight with--which is good; but in most cases, he's found hiding behind Sylphy anyway and chucking things from there. Kaito undergoes training with that rod, for combat's sake; but--in keeping with how Japanese male MCs are apparently supposed to be delicate of body and androgynous of form--he does not take the muscular shopkeep's advice seriously, and avoids actually strengthening himself.
And then there's his approach to critical, high-stress situations, like with Lucelia burning Sylphy: become emotionally incontinent, bow, and beg for the source of the stress to stop being one.
Yes, Kaito is the titular "mob"--so the author is attempting to illustrate this in how pathetic he is. The problems are that his state right now is standard for your average MC, and that the author is pushing that image so hard that Kaito doesn't appear to be on track to improve at all. It's fine if your character's supposed to start as a zero, but he has to stop being one at some point--or else your story's just going to be about someone pathetic. His change has to start to some degree early on, especially if it's logically necessitated by his circumstances (in this case, Kaito would likely die if he remained weak--especially while
solo adventuring--in those dungeons...if Sylphy wasn't there).
That sort of thing is why you see tons of male MCs presented with inferior depiction (e.g., less noticeably) behind female leads. Kaito is the same, so far--Sylphy is carrying this story that's supposed to be about him.