Onnanoko wa Otoko no Tame no Kisekae Ningyou ja Neenda yo - Vol. 1 Ch. 6.5 - Are You a Natural Airhead?

[OverZombified]

I think it's intended to appeal to a certain kind of otaku. Somewhere like a cross between making self-insertion easier and pandering to the kind of people who hate it when their idols have a boyfriend. The male lead is made so generic and self-effaced that (a) it's easy to imagine it as being you, or (b) he doesn't really count as a person at all so you don't have to be jealous while you're fixating on the female lead. I think it's pretty stupid.

Self-insertion? Self-insertion is meant for dating sims not story’s. The manga is made to tell a story, a romance. You might be right in some sense but I still think it’s just to make a story about a female MC and not focus on the male MC. You have to know that most of the community are males so people want to apeal to males. So they want to focus on the female mc and female mc only. This has a demographic but I think it’s a lazy demographic. It’s dumb.

 

[TwisterJR]

He is, indeed, a natural airhead

 

[Binguo]

It's not the fact that they're transparent that bothers me (though that is kind of silly because if you don't want the glasses to obscure his face then don't have him wearing them). It's that he clearly didn't draw them. They're a pre-made clip art sort of thing that he simply placed over the face and then edited to try and make them fit in. Likely from a pack of design assets the same way that screen tones of complex patterns like plaid come from. It's fine when he's facing perfectly sideways or looking at the "camera" but when his head is angled the glasses are tilted and pinched to try and create perspective, but it's just not right/natural so it looks like they're just floating in front of his face. If the artist wanted glasses then draw them. The advantage of Photoshop is that you can edit bits independently so he could draw them on their own layer and then adjust the transparency of he wished.

I see what you mean now, After drawing all that he indeed did just use a glasses asset and pasted it on top of it, and the scene when angled without reflections, so that's what you meant. I think the glasses are just to show the appeal from where he was wearing it and when his not and it does have a difference.

 

[LiaoDaPatagonia]

He's literally me fr fr, both autistic... The only difference is he's tall, handsome, and can tank with girls