not gonna excuse the SA, it's egregious and even if it is supposed to be a thematic thing w/rt Turbo Granny-possessed Okarun jumping through the phone to save Momo given Turbo Granny essentially being a wrathful spirit carrying out the rage of women who'd been SA'd and murdered, it's still very fucking tasteless and isn't handled well, nor is it CW'd at all properly. Relatively, Chainsaw Man handles the portrayal of sexual abuse infinitely better, and even then it's still a bit iffy by nature of it, but I digress. My recommendation of Dandadan is very much in spite of the first ep/chapter.

However, Okarun isn't really the nice guy archetype, if we're thinking the same thing w/rt what that consists? he's just kinda dorky and stilted, so it can read like that initially. It's not really the direction they take him at all. His whole characterization is more about self-isolation, if anything.

I've been meaning to write an analysis about how one of Dandadan's major running threads is the consistent and very intentional subversion of first impressions w/rt characters. I should probably get to it sometime.