To clarify – the governing conceit is “look a this horrible, ugly person. If he can get mad pussy, then so can you.” This idea is reinforced by establishing a checklist of undesireable traits such as ugly, old, unwashed, unloved, mysoginistic, and without control in one’s own life. Real people are unlikely to exhibit all these traits, but stereotypes of the target audience means assuming at least one trait corrolates is a safe bet. This falsely builds up a belief that the character is relateable under the empowering fantasy of the “self-made-man.” However, this is porn; and it is animated Japanese porn at that. There are multiple fetishes and audiences that must be appealed to. This same time of empowerment fantasy within the same general ideology or metaphorical construction is old as philosophy, perhaps; however, as a primary example of contrast, let’s look at Bounderby from Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times.” The character of Bounderby is built up as a self-made man whose philosophy is that if he could do something, surely everyone could do the same. He is also the villain and an annoying character (and old, and so on). However, Bounderby is ultimately cut down, because his worth as a pillar of heroic triumph over industry and conventional “beauty” are a ruise he invented. Had we sided with Bounderby we should end up feeling disheartened, because the fantasy was conceived through a false premise of a fictional character’s delusion. And while it may seem peculiar to compare hentai to british literature, or to impose the generally capitalist ideal of manifest destiny and self-sufficiency, it is nothing new to see this metaphor being subtly used in pornography from all over the world. It just so happens to be more obviously jarring in hentai, because the ideal of a worthless person can be more extemely represented in direct contrast to the ideal of beauty that said worthless person is given control over. Tat is not to imply that Yua is literally the ideal beauty, but does serve as the proxy for completing the fantasy.