Dex-chan lover
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- Jun 23, 2023
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oh yeah, I completely forgot that asspull, but my point is still valid though, nobody knows about that, so they don't count with it.
Even if he looks bad doesn't change the fact he's not, he didn't do anything out of malice, you guys can twist yourself into a pretzel all you want, but the story never tried to paint him as evil, much less a ntr protagonist, the worse you can really say about Daru is that he was patronizing with Est, didn't take the situation seriously enough and acted like Est would just understand it by himself in time.
Just like it happens in real life with many people, don't assume malice when it's just stupidity.
I think I can count on one hand where Daru was really described as pure NTR evil, but I think the consensus is that Daru and Est were wasted by bad writing and poor plot contrivances. Athena was written off rather early, and the nobody in general really cares about elf mage and dragon girl, for good reason.
Like you said, the light novel goes into detail about Daru's motivations. But for the majority of readers, they won't just look at the manga, see the dumpster fire, and decide to go to the light novel section to see if there was any justification for his actions. They will take the manga as an accurate description of what the light novel would provide should they be interested in it, which is unlikely.
It really just shows the poor execution of the writer, and whether the proofreaders actually did their job to point out plot holes and inconsistencies.