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Quite a superficial dude not to say anything about personality/temperament, intelligence/school performance, sense of humour, or other such things. Just needs to be a blonde with boobage and that's all he needs. It's a marriage interview, not a one-night stand meeting, so it's about living with the person for a long time. After reading merely the description, I'm already feeling sorry for the girl, but I guess I'll need to check the chapters themselves.
 
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Quite a superficial dude not to say anything about personality/temperament, intelligence/school performance, sense of humour, or other such things. Just needs to be a blonde with boobage and that's all he needs. It's a marriage interview, not a one-night stand meeting, so it's about living with the person for a long time. After reading merely the description, I'm already feeling sorry for the girl, but I guess I'll need to check the chapters themselves.
Dude, his whole point was to not get a fiancée, that's why he set such, in his opinion, high standards and didn't put too much thought into it. He didn't expect for it to backfire on him, because I'm guessing his list was a spur of the moment type of thing.
 
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Dude, his whole point was to not get a fiancée, that's why he set such, in his opinion, high standards and didn't put too much thought into it. He didn't expect for it to backfire on him, because I'm guessing his list was a spur of the moment type of thing.
Yeah... But if you say a blond with big breasts, but also top of the class in academics, good sense of humour, jovial, not too prideful, it just makes things a whole lot more difficult than merely describing desired looks, don't you think?
 
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Quite a superficial dude not to say anything about personality/temperament, intelligence/school performance, sense of humour, or other such things. Just needs to be a blonde with boobage and that's all he needs. It's a marriage interview, not a one-night stand meeting, so it's about living with the person for a long time. After reading merely the description, I'm already feeling sorry for the girl, but I guess I'll need to check the chapters themselves.
you're reading too deep into it. He did not want to marry anyone at all in that age. If he seriously wanted to look for a partner then he would have searched for something less shallow than appearance alone. Besides, you know, it's a manga. Sometimes it does not want to explain itself or make sense, it wants to be absurd and stupid.
 
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you're reading too deep into it. He did not want to marry anyone at all in that age. If he seriously wanted to look for a partner then he would have searched for something less shallow than appearance alone. Besides, you know, it's a manga. Sometimes it does not want to explain itself or make sense, it wants to be absurd and stupid.

Read my second comment, right above yours. Like I said in it, if you add more to it, it becomes even more difficult to find a match, which was his real goal.
 
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Read my second comment, right above yours. Like I said in it, if you add more to it, it becomes even more difficult to find a match, which was his real goal.
I read it. But there are compromises to be made when you're writing a manga. You don't want to waste precious pages, disrupt the flow, break immersion. Most of the requirements were suggested by his friend, who wasn't taking it seriously as well, made in the heat of the moment. If someone asked you to quick give them an idea about something, would you write an essay describing everything step by step with plusses and minuses? Or would you give them a short answer, a general idea and they can figure out on their own. In the context of the story, would it be believable if he said "I want a blonde girl, blue eyes, same age as mine, huge boobs and ass, thick as fuck, the embodiment of lust, but must also have a cheerful and supportive personality, smart above average without being cocky, must know how to cook, be a perfect housewife, crack jokes that always land, give worldwide athletes a run for their money, be able to cheat in gambles, know how to ride a horse, have at least 3 buildings owned and registered in her name plus being richer than me and completely submit while being satisfied by being by my side". That's overextending, the reader already dropped trying to follow through, pages were wasted without progressing anything and it's not even part of the comic relief. I understand the disappointment when you see from the real-world perspective "that dude only care about looks" and the logic doesn't follow through because he didn't do everything in his power to make it impossible to find a suitable partner, but that's just getting in the way of you being able to immerse in the story.
 
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I read it. But there are compromises to be made when you're writing a manga. You don't want to waste precious pages, disrupt the flow, break immersion. Most of the requirements were suggested by his friend, who wasn't taking it seriously as well, made in the heat of the moment. If someone asked you to quick give them an idea about something, would you write an essay describing everything step by step with plusses and minuses? Or would you give them a short answer, a general idea and they can figure out on their own. In the context of the story, would it be believable if he said "I want a blonde girl, blue eyes, same age as mine, huge boobs and ass, thick as fuck, the embodiment of lust, but must also have a cheerful and supportive personality, smart above average without being cocky, must know how to cook, be a perfect housewife, crack jokes that always land, give worldwide athletes a run for their money, be able to cheat in gambles, know how to ride a horse, have at least 3 buildings owned and registered in her name plus being richer than me and completely submit while being satisfied by being by my side". That's overextending, the reader already dropped trying to follow through, pages were wasted without progressing anything and it's not even part of the comic relief. I understand the disappointment when you see from the real-world perspective "that dude only care about looks" and the logic doesn't follow through because he didn't do everything in his power to make it impossible to find a suitable partner, but that's just getting in the way of you being able to immerse in the story.

Those are the only options? How about "Cute blonde with big boobs, but also smart, friendly, and have a good sense of humour". That's hardly a multi-page lecture, yet would already go a long way to make her a much nicer person to live with, but still obviously more difficult to find in Japan.
 
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Those are the only options? How about "Cute blonde with big boobs, but also smart, friendly, and have a good sense of humour". That's hardly a multi-page lecture, yet would already go a long way to make her a much nicer person to live with, but still obviously more difficult to find in Japan.
I mean, in the end it's the choice the author went with. They could have said "long eared elf" and still get it to work with a reverse isekai. But again, in this set it's someone who does NOT want to marry, don't think they will at all, and other which is the "pervert friend" who is at that age where hormones are going crazy and taking over. If you don't even consider failing, why care about the worst outcome? (Which would be to find someone whose looks are exactly as described but with a terrible personality because it wasn't mentioned).
 
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I mean, in the end it's the choice the author went with. They could have said "long eared elf" and still get it to work with a reverse isekai. But again, in this set it's someone who does NOT want to marry, don't think they will at all, and other which is the "pervert friend" who is at that age where hormones are going crazy and taking over. If you don't even consider failing, why care about the worst outcome? (Which would be to find someone whose looks are exactly as described but with a terrible personality because it wasn't mentioned).
The worst outcome here was obviously the grandpa actually finding someone matching his requirements, since the MC doesn't want to get married yet. He listed too simple requirements, so he got the worst outcome: a candidate was actually found.
 
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People comparing this to "The Angel Who Spoils Me Rotten" aren't entirely wrong, but this is a lot more aggressive about showing the heroine is possibly broken behind her facade. That series sort of hints that things aren't great for her in spite of being worshiped as the angel of their school and all that. This one is very explicit about Arisa's adoptive parents being selfish trash-beings using her as a meal ticket, people trying to get into the good graces of the MC because of his family name, and much more open and aggressively unlikable other guys who try to get close to Arisa with either "I'm spoiled and think I'm hot shit entitled to whatever I want" (soccer guy) or "I knew her longer and I'm a nice guy who deserves her" (middle school acquaintance who will probably come back into focus at some point down the line)

It's also much more direct with the two leads being dense idiots who continue to cling to their "no, this is just a fake relationship of convenience. I don't know of or want love or like the other person at all." excuses in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

When the core of every chapter is just the two of them enjoying their time together all that excess drama is totally unnecessary. Within the next 10 chapters they could easily admit their feelings, enter into a real relationship that they keep quiet and figure out a way to give her prick adoptive parents what they deserve for treating her like a tool and it would be basically the same series. The constant need to stop almost every chapter to have a loud and obvious "BUT THIS IS ALL FAKE AND NOT REAL AND I DON'T REALLY FEEL ANYTHING LIKE I FAKE THAT I'M FEELING!" monologues is kind of tiring.

It's still cute and relatively enjoyable but it wears its ripoff status on its sleeve and the mild twist put on to make it different actively makes it kind of worse.
 

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