Even out of context this is a terrible, cliched “joke” but in context it doesn’t even make sense:
Because this is a player in a virtual reality MMO game! She designed this character herself! Why would she be bothered by the fact she doesn’t have breasts when she choose not to? (Heck, why assume she’s actually the same gender as her character?)
It’s the perfect example of how lazy this series is and how little it and its original creator ever thought about its videogame setting. I’ve read the manga version of this until I got bored of it and never ever got the sense that this was indeed a game you could play. Let alone have fun playing it. Playing a VRMMO casually with a focus on crafting rather than combat is not inherently a bad idea for a series, but you have to have some energy and thought behind it to make it worthwhile. Reading a manga where every other chapter is the protagonist inventing another new crafting method is one thing. As an anime series it’s just dull.
In nothing of what Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki does is there any hint that the author thought about what it would be like to play a game this way. Why would our hero be the only one to play this way? Why would anybody else care that he does, or even know how he plays? Why is this world so underpopulated in the first place? It all feels ripped off from other, better stories. If you want a series about virtual reality gaming with some actual impact, go watch Shangri-La Frontier instead.
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