What's most telling to me is the fact that the MC never really becomes Rudeus, i.e. someone else. In the show He's always talking with the disembodied voice of his former self and then in the spirit/dream realm he's back to his old body. A good version would call that fact into question or do
headfallsoffbut there’s so much more where that came from. the essential premise is it makes it’s otaku protagonist as disgusting as possible to tell a story of ‘self improvement,’ but that self improvement is basically american psycho levels of grindset sociopathy. played completely straight