Well, yes, they use now such niche non politically correct themes for their own agenda but at the beginning, and even now, they were part of the genuine otaku subculture. Is about 30 years that i read manga and watch anime, from the vhs and betamax times, so i'm pretty sure about this.
Later, when anime and manga became popular even in the west, the globalist spoil and use the otaku culture to promote their personal agenda and for personal propaganda. They sanitize in part the japanese entertainment and redirect the narrative to match the western moral and use the otaku subsulture to split futher the community and polarize opinions. This is what they mainly are using the japapense media for, propaganda and polarization.
Anyway, a lot of authors do not agree with this, so for the most cases only the adaptions were affected and "sanitized" or changed to match the global tend. Fortunately we still have a choice, so even if the anime is "globalized" there is the source material, and in this case, the very good manga adaption.
Lolicon was indeed part of anime/manga, but by
no means did lolicon
characterize anime/manga as an entertainment medium--no more than did yaoi or yuri: lolicon was, just as those two were, subgenres aimed at specific audiences with certain fetishes. Over time, however, lolicon grew like a malignant tumor--and metastasized just as I described. I do not think it's a coincidence that at the same time, the LGBT mafia has been browbeating and otherwise coercing everyone into "tolerating" their ways. Now, just as you can't go a day without seeing homosexuality being advertised to you, you can't read a manga without having pedophilia pushed your way; as much as the usual suspects demand that you "think of the children", the people in charge of regulation are strangely silent on the spread of those two fetishes throughout entertainment.
As for authors not agreeing with this, I disagree. To avoid going into too much detail, you can only draw so much of what you don't like before your hand starts to rebel--and then you might in turn. As for having a choice, that's not reliably the case: it might not be in the context of anime and manga, but look at what happened to Homura and Hikari of Xenoblade 2. Their designs got censored for "global audiences" in Super Smash Bros Ultimate--in ways that make them look worse--and after, thanks to millions of people with no standards and warped aesthetics (if they have any in the first place), that censorship made its way back into the source game. It's only an option, but it's still there: an option for people to
choose censorship. This sort of thing is related what I was saying before: if enough people show tolerance of or indifference to creative destruction like what happened to Sylphy, the sheep will take it as
approval instead--and then they will ensure that it sticks.
The MC is more like a comic-relief side character, so far until the latest chapter (22) he seems pretty lame.
From what others have commented about the additions and tweaks with the manga adaptation, this stands out more.
It seems like the original WN and LN adaption come off as generic no. 415641...
There is stuff that's interesting here, but it seems to be mostly manga-only.
It seems like the manga is the author's attempt at truly making something interesting out of his story, and it's really working: the humor is good, the fights are entertaining, and time is taken to illustrate everything in the story--including the characters.
The biggest weakness, however, is Kaito--the MC; which probably wouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Though the humor in the writing makes even Kaito entertaining, he still exhibits the same character traits as your average manga male protagonist--and thus the humor can't carry him forever. Speaking of carrying, Sylphy's doing the heavy lifting in this story--but even she can't keep Kaito aloft. That being said, to liken him unto a side character's pretty on-the-mark--a guy like that really can't carry a story, so everything else must carry him; and a side character in the role of MC--without anything to make him worthy of the role--is quite the heavy load for the entire story.
But as you said, like I did elsewhere, that's the case so far.