cashew | Currently watching Beautiful Bones and absolutely cannot stand the male protagonist (Reply)

As it says in the title, I'm currently watching Beautiful Bones ~Sakurano's Investigation~ and it's honestly one of the better mystery series I've happened on for a long, long time. The main character is Kujō Sakurako, a mid-twenties osteologist from a well off family who is, for reasons unexplained, saddled with a teenage high school boy as she searches for bones and get dragged into solving mysteries, some of which involve murder, but most of which just involve trying to piece together the story of people's lives before their deaths. The story is a bit of classic Holmesian deduction meets Polar Bear Cafe absurdity, plus the occasional annoying fan service that Japanese anime industry can't seem to move away from.

Overall, I'm actually enjoying the show, but the male protagonist is absolutely grating on the nerves. He's a teenager who thinks it's perfectly acceptable for him to lecture an adult woman on her behavior, acts like he's her guardian, treats her like a child by constantly using her given name instead of the more respectful family name, shows zero respect for her different perspective on life, and the narrative only ever mildly points out that his assumptions are wrong, but never slaps him down for getting too full of himself. The male protagonist is such a whiny, incompetent, useless, obstructive little shit that I find myself wishing the anime would cut this little asshole out of the story already and change the story to Sakurako as the POV character. Fuck trying to appeal to the male viewers.

It's shows like these that make me revel in the female empowerment of shows like The Power, because sometimes you just want to say, "Fuck the nuance, burn the patriarchy down."