While you're right that male characters are generally allowed to be uglier than female characters, I think you universalize this point too much. In my view, Otagiri is pretty clearly drawn as "plainer" than the other girls, especially Shishido. And her being a loner nerd isn't just "explained" to us, it's explicitly shown by her actions.
I used explained my bad again eng is not a language I manage so my point was exactly that is explicitly show to us by her actions. Her design is more plain yes, but she is not especially plain either (the baggy eyes and long skirt are there to show she is Plain Girl, but without the baggy eyes she could just be a Girl) the other girls are gyaru so the comparision imo doesn’t work, Ruru is also the gyaru type. I agree she is obviously draw to look “plain” but my point is exactly that, even her “plain” design make her pleasant visually, she doesn’t deviate from moe/bishojo (because its the author artstyle, not problem with that, just to clarify I am not complaining about the author or fem chara designs in general) I am sure if she looked like Konishi Chiharu the reaction from this chapter or the whole manga would have been different.
I honestly think it's just really obvious that she's much closer to a female "lame loser nerd" NTR protag than she is to a female "alpha male badass" NTR cuckolder. And of course, perhaps even more to the point, Ruru in this chapter is extremely different from typical NTR protags. So it's much more than just the genders that makes this chapter different from usual NTR fare.
My point is that using their apareance doesn’t work not only because female and male design are not equivalent in apareance as women are hardly draw with the same variety of facial features, body shape, etc. but because a lot of times in NTR the women do not cheat with a more “badass” looking guy, in fact it’s with a more ugly/plain or useless/good for nothing guy that is simply better at sex than her capable bf/husband/guy she likes. Trope that ironically this chapter fit.
I think the problem is also that I understand beta and alpla male but these doesn’t work for the conversation either because NTR doesn’t have those rules to follow, apareance is not something related to NTR as a rule or anything, it depends on the author and I only used them to quote the other person.
I think you universalize this point too much.
I am generalizing, but I think is fair and mostly true. I am not saying there are not plain, ugly, etc. or that there isn’t a variety of how female characters look but that even those female characters try to be beautiful or pleasant visually (eg. plain male chara have the ugly route, pleasant route and the actually a hottie route, fem chara only have the beauty/pleasant one) even Tomoko from Watamote is “gross” but that has more to do with how she thinks or what she does than with her apareance (the joke of her brother being beautiful is that if she taked care of her sleep and hair she would also be, but that’s simply not her)
but it's still a lot less than typical het NTR.
That is what I said! Some have it more than others. I used incel to quote the other person but I myself don’t like to use that word, it encompass everything and nothing but I get what it means. My point about “incel particles” being part of NTR is that the idea that is inevitable for someone succumb to good sex as if it was part of our system fit what I would count as “incel”.
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