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He's attracted to the "fantasy" or "Idea" of a Gyaru the same way a lot of people are attracted to the idea of a Tomboy. An archetype rather than an actual person.
He knows what she's really like so he can't superimpose the fantasy onto her.
Or:
Imagine you have a female friend (Stay with me here, I know a lot of us manga nerds have no frame of reference like that
) who is extraordinarily girly. Like, only ever wears pink, constantly obsesses over her appearance, has a bubbly personality.Now imagine this friend is someone who have known for a notable amount of time, and have absolutely zero romantic inclinations towards whatsoever. She's just a friend. You can't fathom the idea of her ever being anything else.
One day she runs up to you dressed like an athlete, with her hair cut short and with a tan, and outright tells you she's become a tomboy for the sole purpose of getting with you. Then, as you spent more time around her in this faux-tomboy state, it becomes more and more and more obvious that it she isn't really a tomboy at all. She has no interest in boyish things or sports and can only go so far with her fitness because she doesn't like getting toned and losing her soft skin. It becomes painfully clear that she's just putting on a show (badly) to woo you. She's the exact same person you knew before, just pretending as hard as she can to be your ideal fantasy of a woman.
On the one hand, a lot of the #foreveralone folk in the otaku scene would probably be ecstatic regardless. However, a lot of people would also be just plain weirded out at best, and disturbed and repulsed at worst. MC clearly falls into the latter category, though on the less extreme end of it. He's got the hots for a specific type of woman and KNOWS she isn't one of them, and could never hope to be one of them. Granted, I'm sure as the story goes on we'll see how he figures out that isn't really a problem.
