Hoshi is a real man. He's so much more so than Takamura, the latter would have to bow down in his presence. I haven't caught up on Henjo yet--only up to chapter 60--but even by then, he's still being a pansy. Hoshi is apparently the opposite of almost everything that makes you your average romcom protagonist, harem or not.
Speaking of which, I read--in one of the omake sections--that although Konogi-sensei wrote Eroko with an eye toward appealing to both men and women, it's written from a woman's perspective. So that makes me wonder: if a woman designs a male MC with the intent to appeal to both audiences of both sexes and he ends up like Hoshi, and male author after male author designs a male MC in a story with the all-too-apparent intent to appeal strictly to male audiences, giving readers someone to self-insert into--and almost all of those MCs end up weak, spineless pantywaists--what's that saying?