You see, when people suggest that one of your scenes was a bit too contrived, the correct move is generally not to then follow it up with a second, even more contrived scene.
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W-what? He's large and not conventionally attractive, but this conventionally attractive girl likes him?! That's so utterly impossible, no wonder the show just keeps pointing it out!

I get that this is the premise, but the whole exact same "Her? Him? No way!" joke has gotten really old. We get it by this point. Trust me, show. There's a number of things to like in this show but this bit isn't one of them. It can work occasionally, but it's been much too overused by this point (five episodes in). It just feels lazy. This show is clearly capable of more variety, so I don't know why they keep returning to this particular well.

(I know it's an adaptation of a manga and that this may very well just be a carryover from that source, so accept "show" as a lazy linguistic carryover that also includes that if necessary, okay?)
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These two things are intertwined, really. Takeo saving people from a steel beam, from a burning building, rescuing a baby from a river, yes, that quickly gets tiresome because come on. It's both repetitive and ridiculous. But it also underscores that this show just isn't that well written. When you need to find a way for Takeo to prove to Yamato's friends that maybe, just maybe he's an okay person that someone might love despite his appearance (gasp), that the show casually jumps to something as extreme as running into a burning building, rescuing two of Yamato's friends and nearly losing his life in the process isn't just contrived, it's lazy. When this was apparently the best way they could think of to arrive at that goal, it's a worrying sign that the writer(s) can't handle nuance or subtlety. It's a bombastic moment that's apparently wowed some viewers because of said bombasticness, but it's crap writing. Especially when you consider that so many of these contrived events are basically saying "Look at how big and strong Takeo is! That's his value!" which is kind of contrary to what's supposed to be the entire message of the show so far.

Like, "Look at this cute couple!" is fun and the show makes me giggle at times, but that gets really undermined by garbage like this. And while that might lead to me getting a chuckle when someone refers to this show as an "accident of the week" show, I'd much rather the show were just more competent.
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Goofily presented sexual assault is still sexual assault, you know.
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sleep is not a form of consent auuughhhh

By the way, how many more episodes until the main character stops briefly on his way to school to go back in time and stop Hitler? Just another day in the life of Takeo! Don't judge that guy by his appearances! (But also isn't he so big and strong?)

This show doesn't get any better. Yay~