Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35434444-20180428215930

One way or the other, some of the most attractive girls at Akademi High wind up falling for the humdrum boy known as Taro Yamada, including the notorious Megami Saikou, a girl so perfect she appears incapable of losing at anything.

How?

Is this just a mindless anime trope, or could absolute genericness have it's charm?

I have a hypothesis. It's a long shot, but who knows.

Being nice to a girl generally doesn't get her attention. This isn't because women want to be abused and only date nasty men because they think they're exotic and dangerous (although that does sound exciting.) It's because they want a suitable partner and niceness on it's own doesn't tell them that this is the case with you.

Niceness and being too overt about one's desre for a woman convey to her on a subliminal level that you've had difficulty entering into a relationship in the past and therefore there must be something undesierable about you.

If, however, you act aloof and as though you can afford to be disinterested, the opposite happens. The other person recognises that you must be a prize who's hard to get; that against any external sign that may suggest otherwise, there is something interesting about you that they must have.

It's like leaving a toy in a baby's playpen.

The child might have thought nothing of it and ignored it for hours on end -- but as soon as you threaten to take it away, they want it.

As such, a classic romance starts with each side advertising thier suitability by pretending they don't like the other person (whilst dropping subtle hints that they do.)

Women are very good at this game. They are three times better at reading facial cues than men, are much more aware of thier emotions, and know to play things close to the breast.

Men don't understand the love game. If they do, it's almost always instinctual.

Ask a promiscuous man about his conquests and he'll probably shrug and put it down to confidence -- but really it is the same lack of awareness about his own feelings that allows him to gain the advantage.

As far as he was concerned, he found something genuinly diagreeable about this otherwise enticing woman that he couldn't quite place, and then before he knew it, that dislike turned to desire and just like that they were going at it. If he had known that that disliking was love in disguise, he would have given the game away.

The woman has no defense against such a force. She cannot read him because there are no thoughts of love inside him to be read.

Your body already knows how to attract a mate because Reproduction is one of it's primary functions. You just have to learn how to let it do it's thing.

What I'm getting at is, besides his banality, the only distinguishing characteristic of Sempai is how oblivious he is to his own and other people's romantic feelings.

I believe that this is his strength! He makes all of the right moves without meaning to! When a girl likes him and gives him a signal, he completely no-sells it on a conscious level, but his body is completely unimpeded by any anxiety and responds with the correct subliminal gesture. A kind of romantic ultra instinct.

He is average through and through, and because of it he is able to produce and aura of inner worth and irresistability more powerful than anything any living man is capable of.

So how's that? Sound plausible? I wouldn't take it too seriosuly one way or the other. 