I'm imagining this author drawing this, thinking, "and then this super hot girl comes in and saves me and you fall to your knees and sob, you fucking bitch! Oh, but I'll forgive you, because I know I'm better than you."
This bullying arc, as satisfying as it was to read, was just... a little excessive. I get the impression that someone had some issues in high school, and drawing this manga is a form of therapy.
Don't take it the wrong way, but that was a really pointless comment.
You could say pretty much the same thing of every book, comic, manga, movie, cartoon or tv show where (to quote Nene) there are:
A cute, sweet, helpless heroine everybody likes. A villain with a heart black as pitch who torments her. A hero [...] who arrives just in time to save the damsel and mete out punishment to the miscreant.
By my guesstimate, that's more than 80% of the fictional works out there. You could say of each and every one of these works that they are just self-insertion fantasies, and that the author, if he's a boy, identifies himself with the hero, or, if a she's a girl, identifies herself with the damsel in distress. You could say it of all of them, and it would be equally pointless, because it has zero importance from a literary point of view.
Heck, you could say the same thing of every romantic story where there are no evil villains or violent conflict, only a plain, unremarkable MC and his/her love interest, who is a highly desirable person and who, somewhat unrealistically, falls head over heels for the MC. How many yuri manga in this reader fit that description? Would you call all of them masturbatory fantasies of an author who identifies herself with the plain Jane?
We should judge a work by its literary or entertainment values, not waste time in speculations about whether the authors picture themselves as this or that character and use the story as therapy or jerkoff material.
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