Not really; it's par for the course at this point. I knew right as soon as this guy was introduced to have a fairly major role here that there are going to be comments being overly cautious about him. They're not exactly unfounded due to the nature of this genre and how it uses male characters but obviously the comments are still ridiculous.
I mean, I've read some comments saying that, in this setting, a vampire's blood preference is linked to their sexual preference, and Slacker Vampire Mentor Dude outright says drinking blood feels like sexual pleasure for both parties... Sure, that means Irie is confirmed super gay, and that's great, that's what we're all here for, but it also means that Slacker Vampire targeted her because he was attracted to her, and basically got off on drinking her blood. So as much as I sympathise with people who are tired of folks whining whenever there's a trace of dudes in their yuri, I kinda feel like discomfort about Slacker Vampire is a little more warranted in this case?
I get that we're supposed to view him as harmless, and that the author is trying to encourage us to think of him as harmless by having Irie disregard him completely, but literally the first thing he did in the story was establish himself as not harmless at all? Like, if he really was harmless, then there wouldn't even be a story in the first place. It feels a bit weird to just forget about that when there really hasn't been any in-universe reason to do, and the only out-of-universe reason is just a vague sense that it's probably not that kind of story, which, I don't know, I've got two chapters and I haven't seen the raws, I don't know what kind of story it's supposed to be yet.
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