>>280783821You retards think you know it all, with your "Misaki evil" hate cynicism. Misaki was never going to help Sato by being actually helpful, that's just not what women do.
The real purpose of women is being helpless and pitiful is to give purpose for men's lives. Sato realizing how laughably useless and unreliable Misaki is, was what motivated him to act (even if just a little), and in the end, save her, despite him being apathetic about everything else. Same reason why he got wrapped in Hitomi's meeting, she wanted something and he wanted to help her.
In reality, girls are the unhinged ones that need to be saved and kept in check by men. You can see how in NHK, Sato was the one comfortably hanging out in his room, after which Misaki entered his life creating fuss out of nowhere by attacking his insecurities. Sato was the one who had to deflect Misaki's bs and take charge when she fucked everything up, which brought content into his life.
The "getting saved by Misaki" is obviously a lie, but people still like the fantasy. Why? Because she's cute and it's a convenient cover story for a relationship. Girls love living in pleasant delusions, and men love to playing into them. The girl being cute is everything. "Saving pathetic hikikomori man" is Misaki's shtick, so the natural reaction from a receptive male is "yeah plz save me Misaki!" It's just cosplay. Girls are a bit like children in that you shouldn't break their delusions too much, or you'll break them, like when Sato finally rejected her new contract, calling it hollow and not wanting to play along with it anymore. This shattered Misaki's entire raison d'etre and she had no backup one.
This may not be the intended message of the show, but as a realistic story from before 2010 with archetypically male and female characters, you can see the reflection of reality in it.