On expectations. cliches, and The World God Only Knows

On the weekend, my friends introduced me to The World God Only Knows, which is a very unusual story, in that it's a) a harem anime, without the harem; b) it's an otaku-meets-real-world story where the otaku... well, I won't say he doesn't change in response to his forced collision with reality, but it's all on his terms and his beloved hobby (dating sims) remains intact; and, most unusually of all, it's a romantic story where, if I'm reading the signs right, the hero is asexual.

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