series is Hajimete no Gal. it's mediocre because it's a 200 chapter long ecchi romcom about a guy almost but not quite scoring over and over and I'm not going to stick with that

the two bits that stuck with me are the heroine's main concept hook and one individual bit

basic premise is that a horny otaku boy is coerced into confessing to a trendy gyaru but then she accepts the confession, hilarity ensues

the heroine hook is that the protagonist is doing all these over the top horny virgin machinations and constantly terrified that she'll discover how cringe he is and mock him and dump him and make fun of his tiny penis or whatever

but instead she's just, genuinely a really likable chill person without a judgmental bone in her body so she no sells all of it

the one bit is, a friend gives the hero a pair of movie tickets to try and get him to invite her to the movies

and whether or not he does becomes a big stupid asinine drama, but eventually he does it

except, the tickets were in a little envelope, and he had never opened it to check, what the movie was

and the movie is

a spinoff movie for a magical girl anime aimed at third graders

obviously she immediately counters his meltdown about it by going "sure is sunday cool"

and the punchline is, while he's worried about his inevitable humiliation

she gets so into it that she's crying and yelling at the screen along with the seven year olds

sometimes precure just be like that

not gonna lie, that's at the very least my ideal kind of person. Someone who can enjoy whatever life throws their way.

Honestly I feel like gyaru are often portrayed like that as a feature of the subculture

At least these days

there's an older expectation of like, mean bully girls who make fun of you for being an otaku

but yeah gyaru have gotten kind of an optics shift

Right yeah

Marin Kitagawa is definitely part of the newer gyaru portrayal, I think the girl in See You Tomorrow at the Food Court is in a similar vein

and at least the early parts of this are sort of playing on that shift

where the otaku loser lead expects the old style and instead he got the new style