Closet WeebHear me out on this: Omagoto can be thought of as a rebuttal to Shield Hero. Flum and Naofumi are both ostensibly heroes who are treated terribly and put through hell for no reason beyond cruelty. Both discover their own power and use it to claw their way back to a stable life. But Naofumi becomes an embittered, cynical jackass who trusts no one and treats every interaction outside his circle as transactional. He fights only for himself, and those he deems valuable to him. Sure, he fights to defeat the "waves" as a Hero, but that's also a self-interest thing. And he exacts vicious revenge on those who wronged him.
Flum meanwhile retains a positive and healthy outlook and basically overcomes through the POWER OF GAY. She doesn't openly seek revenge on the asshole who kicked her out of the party and sold her into slavery. Her one goal after escapaing slavery is to legitimately earn her way to a normal life. The only revenge she takes is on those who hurt her beloved Milkit, it's never a defining thing for her, and she doesn't relish it or draw it out to maximize the pain for the offender.
It's almost as if it's trying to say "Hey, Naofumi, you don't have to turn into a jackass just because some people hate you, and did horrible things to you. You don't have to sink to their level."
And that makes Omagoto infinitely better.
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