>>38758The manga is clearly aimed at scrotes. Pickme authors are a dime a dozen. I guess the Kodomo no Jikan author being female means that manga isn't for male pedophiles, huh?
>Gojo is very popular among female fans.He's
just cute enough to get women to simp for him, but not enough to upset the scrotes who are meant to self-insert as him. A male character from a work of fiction getting female fans doesn't mean shit. It happens all the time even when said character wasn't meant to be appealing to real women.
It's very likely that this series is kind of like a fantasy of the author's. She might have incredibly low standards for males and imagine herself as a sexy Stacy with a shy, loser moid fetish because she thinks they're better than a non-loser one (as is often the case with women with low self-esteem). Or she might've consumed so much anime and manga for males that she became attracted to those loser self-inserts, then made her own loser male protagonist who is slightly cuter than average. Those are the likely possibilities, but regardless, the target audience is still male.
Another, more hopeful possibility is that she wanted to make a manga for women where the male is cute and submissive (nothing wrong with fantasizing about your ideal shy guy), but manga editors/publishers, being the sexist pieces of shit that they are, didn't allow her to release it on a female-oriented (shoujo/josei) magazine due to it having a dominant/assertive female lead and a submissive/passive male lead (this is a real thing that happens btw; these days they want shoujo/josei to be as stereotypical as possible), so she was forced to publish it on a magazine for men (seinen), which of course meant that she had to change her manga to make it more appealing to a moid audience (another actual thing that happens in the manga industry), hence the protagonist being the guy, him being more "relatable" to scrotes, and all the ecchi shit.
