It just reminds me of all the loser hikkikomori NEETs in real life and in fiction, especially those asshole self-insert fantasy male MCs who get transported to some fantasy RPG world to save it, and have a harem fall in their laps because otaku wish fulfillment.
How dare they dream of a better life where anxiety and/or depression wouldn't be plaguing their lives. It'd be like a world where girls who love girls could find others like them without being rejected non-stop because most of them are straights in real life.. oh wait :3.
Matter of perspective of course, I admit harem animes are annoying, I'm a bit more clement towards social rejects or loser, or wish fulfillment in general. Just like the MC, she clearly has confidence and anxiety issues and don't know how to deal with them because of Japan philosophy, I guess. That said, being depressed or a loser doesn't mean you won't be an asshole in the end, just watch Tomoko from Watamote.
Which allow me to do a transition towards the aforementioned story. Now, it's mostly yuribait or very close friendship - or the usual Tomoko experiencing/getting off female skinship. But as mentioned, there is one character that is going full yuri stalker that provides for sweet funny moments. The cringe level is low for a lot of chapters now, but always remember : it's only fiction.
If "dreaming of a better life where anxiety and/or depression wouldn't be plaguing their lives" = "a world where I can accidentally fall into some girl's titties and peak on her in the bath and she'll fall in love with me despite myself being a huge asshole, and then this same thing happens several times over", then they deserve to have insomnia. Racists dream of a world where they can abuse minorities, too, doesn't make their dreams any less palatable. Otakus aren't just social rejects for no reason, they have a tendency to spiral into a cycle of despising normies, women, whatever. Declining birthrates, stagnant economies, Japanese stoicism all might explain why it happens so much, but it hardly justifies the world of, say, idol obsession.
Not to mention that such wish fulfillment fiction psychologically does the opposite of what it should be saying since like the OP said, the message is usually "if you waste your life playing games and then get hit by a car, you'll end up the fated hero in an RPG world with tons of women fawning over you!" which is, uh, not quite how it goes in the real world, so far as we know, at least. My Hero Academia is also wish fulfillment but, despite some mixed messages, still tries to convey the much healthier notion that "it isn't what gifts you were born with, it's about using what you do have and trying to be better". Wish fulfillment like this completely downplays the agency of the poor social reject and instead makes it all about the very society that shunned them to just magically forgive them and start flipping the dynamic to serve them for no reason.
Oh, my God! Could you imbeciles shut the hell up and just enjoy the goddamn story? Take your existential bullshit someplace else, you idiots!
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