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he's so chibi, love him

I don't know if you guys know this, but in the second OVA, it is hinted that Haru's obesity and lack of self-confidence came more from his father's (?) parental abandonment than bullying, although I'm not saying bullying had nothing to do with it. I might be totally wrong with this, because I almost completely forgot what happened in that OVA besides Rin (<3) showing up. Ash Roller FTW.

As for his HUGE contrast with the character designs of others, I really have no idea what's up with that. The only things I can think of are to make him a character design foil with everyone else, trying to make it obvious just how different he is from everyone else or because Kawahara (am I supposed to put Reki or Kawahara? confusing cuz of the last name first name thing) wanted to make an exact opposite of Kirito, who Haru is way more interesting than. I'd rather not go into detail because of the risk of starting a flame war, but Kirito didn't even start to care about the consequences of his actions until GGO (i lub u ggo) whereas Haru cared from the start (although a bit too much). As well as, of course, the more obvious differences, such as tall and short, fat and skinny, and "badass" and "wimp" (arguable).

Anime is just another way to escape from reality and MC usually acts as a proxy, you sort of live in different world through him. That's a bit problematic, when MC is someone you deffinitely wouldn't want to be.
Also they wen't to far with it, his proportions are hardly believable, considering rest of the world, taht is fairly normal. Really, how many people in your high school were 1 meter tall and morbidly obese, with huge eyes and tiny pupils?
To top it of his romantic interest is hot as bonfire, and if you are not 12 you might have already noticed, that looks actually do matter.

They wanted to for once make MC that actually looks like a loser, good. But they pushed it too far.

Because something different/new is retarded.

It's an unspoken law in the animeverse that main protagonists are suppose to be slightly-above-average in good looks, while main antagonists are suppose to be sexy as fuck and/or ugly.
Support/minor/background characters is anything goes.
How else are non-spectacular people irl suppose to feel good about themselves?
People hating on Haruyuki are nothing but scum

I just hate him because he's fat. I have a trauma with fat people.

If we were to see a real life equivalent to him, he would be unhealthy and obese.

It's one thing to encourage being happy with who you are, but it's another to encourage a clearly unhealthy lifestyle.

By having a main character that's obviously not healthy, it encourages the audience that that sort of lifestyle is acceptable, when it's not. Being at an unhealthy weight (over or under-weight) is bad.

I'm not saying every fucking character has to be the epitome of human beauty, but it wouldn't have killed the creators to make a character who's at least healthy looking.

Really? Your favorite anime has people cutting each other up. I think that's way less healthy of a lifestyle than being a little chubby. You're favorite anime is encourage people to disregard the law and start cutting people up with a katana.

That is so dumb , I don't even...

The poster asked why people had a problem with him being fat. I stated my personal opinion on why I had a problem with the protagonist being fat. It was a problem dealing exclusively with his body image, not the show itself, nor the subject matters of the show (i.e., Violence).

If we're going to bring up other matters of the show into discussion, then I can bring up plenty of other good reasons that "cancel" out the bad parts, such as what the show primarily bases its moral compass around -- Loyalty, friendship, etc., even if it was a bit melodramatic at times.

But I'm not. It's pointless to say something that's worse then obesity like violence shadows it, and saying something good nullfies it also doesn't make sense, especially in the context of the question. We're not looking at a balance-scale here.

The question was why do people have a problem with the protagonist being fat. My reason? Because it encourages that an obese lifestyle is okay. Accel world is a action adventure sci-fi anime. Chances are, the people who watch it aren't going to care; I certainly didn't. But I was still answering a question with what I viewed as a problem.



Instead of coming up with a snarky, passive-aggressive condescending remark, at least have the decency to reply with something discussable. Posting a cheap one-liner just gives me the impression you're close-minded. You clearly disagree. I don't discourage discussion. However, let me preemptively write that if you're going to reply saying that my post was so dumb that it's a waste of your time to reply, than please don't reply at all, as it's a waste of my time as well, and spare us both a few minutes of our busy lives. Good day to you.