>>280516731
>Who is even the target audience for anime like this? There's a whole fucking genre where the whole gimmick is the male protagonist behaving like a faggot while being surrounded by cute girls

IRL actual Japanese men. They are weak-kneed, autistic beta male herbivores terrified of bodily intimacy. Hiraga Saito in ZnT (almost 20 years ago at this point) was maybe the most recent example of an MC in a harem/romcom who had frequent moments where he would be all, "Okay, I guess today I will try being a chad" though he never went all the way.